It’s a year today since the strange and untimely death of Dallas musician Carter Albrecht, and his friends are holding a memorial show in his honor tonight at Club Dada. The 8 p.m. gathering also remembers the late Anju Gill, with proceeds going to a fund in her name. Cover is $10. Albrecht was a [...]
Once upon a time, Rick Riordan was a San Antonio author known for his Tres Navarre detective thrillers (like The Last King of Texas and Big Red Tequila) before he hit it big with his Percy Jackson and the Olympians series of children’s books, involving the re-telling of classic myths. The best known one remains [...]
As I’ve mentioned, area film festivals have agreed to blog for Art&Seek to give us a behind-the-scenes look at how these events come together, to introduce us to filmmakers, and to bring us news and fun stories from the North Texas film community. Last month, Alec Jhangiani of the Lonestar Film Festival kicked things off. [...]
Working together at the Creative Arts Center in Dallas. Students Sherri King (left)and Lori Whitlow (center) stand with Mosaic artist and instructor Sonia King. Guest blogger Lydia Regalado is an arts educator and blogger who writes for Art&Seek about people who gather to make things. School’s back in session, which means there are plenty of [...]
Don LaFontaine, the mellifluous voice of over 5,000 movie trailers, commercials, television promos and even a self-parody or two, died Monday at 68 from complications resulting from a collapsed lung. As a child fascinated by radio and the movies, I wanted to be “that movie voiceover guy” before I even knew who he was. Since [...]
Late last week, Andrew Marton and Pete Alfano of the Fort Worth Star Telegram wrote a story after Texas Ballet Theater artistic director Ben Stevenson and two of his dancers met with the newspaper’s editorial board. The surprise announcement that both Stevenson and chairwoman Robin Arena would agree to step down, if that would help [...]
The Wagner Festival at Bayreuth, Germany, has two new CEOs. The foundation that controls the festival announced on Monday that it was handing the directorship to half-sisters Eva Wagner-Pasquier and Katharina Wagner. Their father, 89-year-old Wolfgang Wagner, is retiring. The decision went against their cousin Nike Wagner and Gerard Mortier, the general director of the [...]
The Who’s Tommy at the Dallas Theater Center with Nehal Joshi and Heath Williams II. Photo by Brandon Thibodeaux. Guest Blogger Gail Sachson owns Ask Me About Art, is Vice-Chair of the Cultural Affairs Commission and a member of the Public Art Committee. She is an auxiliary member of the Dallas Theater Center Board of [...]
Catfish Moon by David Bates, 1986, oil on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art and the Barrett Collection Nona and Richard Barrett’s latest donation to Dallas Museum of Art: 180 works by contemporary Texas artists. Acquired in January, the collection is on display in the museum’s Tower Gallery through Sept. 14. Lone Star Legacy II: The [...]
The Aug. 25 issue of New York magazine features its “Approval Matrix” on p. 184 — a rather Spy magazine-like device in which recent cultural events are mapped out on a grid according to how “highbrow” or “lowbrow” they are and how “despicable” or “brilliant.” In the “brilliant” but “lowbrow” quadrant, for instance, New York [...]
