It’s Granbury Gallery Night in downtown Granbury, it’s Texas Ballet Theater’s Dracula at the Music Hall in Fair Park and it’s singer Diane Reeves at McFarlin Auditorium. And it’s Gini with more.[Audio clip: view full post to listen]

Girl poets are jamming at Fort Worth’s downtown public library for Girls Inc., Tenacious Root is gigging at Poor David’s Pub and in Carrollton, “The Color of Loss,” photos of post-Katrina New Orleans, is at the Sun to Moon Gallery. For more, here’s Gini.
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The Dirtbombs are at the House of Blues, contemporary Dallas-Fort Worth photographers are at the African-American Museum and Aladdin Jr. is at UT-Arlington, courtesy of Theatre Arlington. Check out the rest in the Deep in the Arts calendar.[Audio clip: view full post to listen]

… would have leveled the old city as surely as any Allied bombing. A new exhibition displays the Fuehrer’s ideas, which he developed with his chief architect, Albert Speer. To give some idea of the grandiose scale: The Volkshalle (People’s Hall), above, was designed to hold 180,000 people. In comparison, the Cowboys’ new stadium in Arlington [...]

A retired Michigan construction worker shows how Stonehenge (or the Easter Island statues or the giant blocks in the pyramids) could have been moved and raised — and he does it by himself. Rotating an entire barn single-handedly is just the start of what he can do. It’s not magic. It’s just leverage and pebbles [...]

Tuna Does Vegas at Bass Hall in Fort Worth, the Women’s Museum celebrates Women’s History Month at the downtown Dallas Public Library and the Festival of Color is at the Images Gallery in Denison. Wait, you want more? Well, listen to Gini.
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Renzo Piano, architect of the Nasher Sculpture Center, is taking on a derelict area of London called Center St. Giles, brick buildings that had been secret service offices.
In fact, the area was once the “Gin Lane” depicted in William Hogarth’s prints.

Fifteen years ago, if you wanted to write about the Victorian governess — all of those formidable females from Mary Wollstonecraft to the steamy romantic heroine to Anna in The King and I — you really had to dig for primary sources, says Kathyrn Hughes. Not many people felt the thoughts and memories of nannies [...]

It’s Captain Dependable and the Procastinite at the Artisan Center Theater in Hurst and the Wool Magic exhibition at the Janette Kennedy Gallery in South Side on Lamar, plus a lot of jazz, blues and electronica from Gini and her calendar.[Audio clip: view full post to listen]

Self, 1978, red cedar and mahogany Old Mole, 1985, red cedar
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More about Martin Puryear on KERA:

Biography, interviews and video clips of Martin Puryear from Art:21
Installing the Puryear exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
More images and biography from Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
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