The extensive music library and memorabilia collection of the late jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson has been purchased by an anonymous donor — and given to the University of North Texas, where it joins the collection of bandleader Stan Kenton. Image from www.petererskine.com
Tom Sime’s My Favorite Animal runs through the weekend, and I finally caught it last night. Reminded me how enjoyable it is to follow the work of a single playwright. Sime’s last effort at Teatro Dallas, Bloodletters, was dark and complex, a little gory – hey, there were vampires – and the actors were telling [...]
Get the Flash Player to see this content. Fifty years ago, Casa Mañana introduced Fort Worth to theater-in-the-round. But the history of Tarrant County’s largest performing arts group predates that. Watch Casa’s President and Executive Producer Denton Yockey and Krys Boyd discuss theater back then, and what to expect this season in this Scene segment [...]
Tickets remain for tonight’s Toadies show at the Palladium Ballroom south of downtown D but only at the door. The recently-reformed Fort Worth post-punk hard rock band has just released its first album in seven years. The group headlines a four-act bill. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Read a positive review of the record here [...]
As usual, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra is leading the way into a new season. For the past few years it has held a brief August festival devoted to the music of a single composer. Now it’s Mahler, whose symphonic output is too huge — in length of compositions, not number of works — to [...]
By now, you’ve heard that the Dallas Opera has a new general director. George Steel is in town this week, and he took time out from looking for a new place to meet up with the local media. First impressions: he’s personable, unpretentious and seems serious about welcoming new audiences to opera. Some highlights: How [...]
Small artwork affordable to the masses, some of it factory-produced and some handmade. We’ve written about this phenomenon before and love stumbling on to new examples. The latest? Art-o-mat, a cigarette vending machine converted to dispense cigarette-box-size art for $4 to $7. Actually, the Art-o-mat has been around for a decade, the product of a [...]
Square Corner Artwork in Clarksville I took a great road trip this weekend to Clarksville for a meeting of the Arts RoundTable, a new group of organizations and artists from East Texas. These folks are getting together every few months to trade ideas and look for ways to collaborate. Their issues are common to non-profits [...]
Get the Flash Player to see this content. Degas, Renoir, Van Gogh, Monet — Ninety two Impressionist and Post-Impressionist pieces from The Chicago Art Institute have found a temporary home at the Kimbell Art Museum. It’s the first time the Chicago museum has allowed so many masterworks to take a road trip. The Kimbell’s Malcolm [...]
Still from A Family Finds Entertainment (2004) by Ryan Trecartin, courtesy Elizabeth Dee Gallery “The Program,” the video-art series at Conduit Gallery, raises interesting questions about the economics, aesthetics and distribution channels of a form that falls somewhere between film and visual art. Are these artists, who are generally represented by galleries, working in the [...]
