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VIDEO: The Winspear’s Wings

Categorized Under: Dallas Arts District, History or Science, Music, Visual Arts No Comments

It’s hard to miss the red glass going up on the Winspear Opera House, but now the building has sprouted wings: the solar canopy.

Art&Seek Q&A: Visual Artist Tony Vincenti

Categorized Under: Local Events, Uncategorized, Visual Arts 3 Comments

The Visual Arts Building at UT-Dallas contains two exhibition spaces, a large downstairs space for group shows and a tiny upstairs mezzanine for discoveries. Running concurrently with ON_game in the main gallery below is between, a one-man show in the mezzanine gallery from multimedia artist Tony Vincenti. We asked this up-and-coming local talent about his [...]

Flickr Photo of the Week

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Congratulations to Melissa Frank, the winner of our Flickr Photo of the Week contest! Melissa has contributed many of her photos to the Art&Seek Flickr group page and has been in the running for this contest just about every week. This week, she breaks through with Stiff Box #10. She follows last week’s winner, Sam [...]

Make Space for Artists: Design-a-Studio

Categorized Under: Architecture, Local Events, Visual Arts 1 Comment

Guest blogger Sarah Jane Semrad is Executive Director of La Reunion TX. Collaboration. It’s not just a way to generate ideas and maximize resources… For La Reunion TX, it’s a way to create focus group! Please join us Thursday, Nov. 6 at 7 p.m. in the Center for Creative Connections as we present to North [...]

Architecture For The Birds

Categorized Under: Architecture, Culture, Local Events, Uncategorized, Visual Arts No Comments

Guest blogger GAIL SACHSON challenged you to identify this detail of the facade of an architectural delight last week. And the answer is … THE TRINITY RIVER AUDUBON CENTER, just 8 minutes South of Downtown Dallas. The new building, which seems to fly in the air and whose windows could be the eyes of a [...]

A New Addition to Artist Spaces

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Cal Slayton, a comic book author, graphic designer and illustrator, has added his work space to our growing collection of North Texas artist studio tours. if you haven’t checked out this page yet, it’s a cool opportunity to see the spaces that local artists work in and hear about their experiences there. If you’d like [...]

Think Video: Diane Sikes

Categorized Under: Arts Education, KERA Programming, Visual Arts No Comments

Click on the logo to watch the video: Get the Flash Player to see this content. In this episode of Think, Diane Sikes, artist and education coordinator for the Dallas Contemporary discusses the organization’s new youth program, “artthink.” You can read more about artthink here. Think airs on Friday at 7:30 p.m. on KERA (Channel [...]

Where Are These Windows Which Offer A Bird's Eye View?

Guest blogger GAIL SACHSON challenges you to identify this detail of the facade of an architectural delight. Where is it? The answer on Monday:

Kitty Alice Snead and the Fiesta Guadalupana

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Guest blogger Brad Ford Smith is a Dallas artist and arts conservationist. If you are into photography or anthropology, you really should see the photographs of Kitty Alice Snead. She is presently exhibiting a body of work at the Janette Kennedy Gallery. The closing event is this Thursday, Oct. 23 from 6 – 8 p.m. [...]

Art&Seek Q&A: Set Designer Rodney Dobbs

Categorized Under: Local Events, Theater, Visual Arts 3 Comments

On Golden Pond, which closes this weekend at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas, is a naturalistic play so it needs a believable set. Set designer Rodney Dobbs has done a commendable job, creating a lived-in look for the summerhouse of an elderly couple spending their 48th year on the lake. We asked Dobbs about the set [...]

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