Philip Roth by David Levine, 2004 ____________________________________________ David Levine, the great caricaturist for The New York Review of Books and the New York Times, is going blind. Image from nybooks.com/gallery

Click on the image to see the video tour: Get the Flash Player to see this content. The KERA radio story: The expanded online story: Cicadas drone, and a crow calls from the distant trees. A white egret, with stately care, steps into the pond. It’s hard to believe we’re in Dallas. Yet we’re closer [...]

Congratulations to Jaime Fowler, the second winner of our Flickr Photo of the Week contest! He follows in the footsteps of last week’s inaugural winner, J.R. Ball. More from Jaime in a bit. If you would like to participate, all you need to do is upload your photo to to our Flickr group page. It’s [...]

Sandy French (background) hooking away on her bracelet, and my finished product (foreground). Guest blogger Lydia Regalado is an arts educator, crafter and blogger who writes about people who gather to make things. My experiement continues… Second Stop: Beading Dreams Beading Dreams, another beading boutique in Dallas, offers some of the most interesting classes beyond [...]

Fashion knitwear designer Wenlan Chia at The Woolie Ewe in Plano. Guest blogger Lydia Regalado is an arts educator and blogger who writes for Art&Seek about people who gather to make things. Inspired by the ReadyMade lecture at the Dallas Museum of Art a couple of weeks ago, I decided to explore the use of [...]

A quick roundup of news items about the economic meltdown and the arts: The Telegraph (London): Bad for British theater Hollywood Reporter: Bad for media companies Bloomberg: Bad for art auction houses Bloomberg: Bad for art galleries Bloomberg: Bad for the whole entire art market Washington Post: Bad for high fashion The New York Times: [...]

Part of any major museum exhibition is the array of collectibles tied to it in the gift shop. You can bet that the Kimbell is selling plenty of pretty Manet posters and Van Gogh mouse pads tied to “The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago.” So it should come as no surprise [...]

I’ve often thought that few people could improve on Dallas Morning News photographer David Woo’s classic shots of the Museum of Modern Art Fort Worth. He quickly latched on to the reflecting pool, letting Tadao Ando’s design shimmer like hammered gold at night or emphasizing its perfect geographic order in the day. But now MAMFW [...]

Marjorie Garber, author of the superb Vested Interests:Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety as well as Patronizing the Arts,  writes in the Boston Globe: This is an era of what could be called the “visual intellectual.” Students on college campuses and members of the general public flock to hear – and see – addresses by filmmakers, artists, [...]

Following Wednesday’s press preview of “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs,” the Art&Seek bloggers participated in an e-mail round-table discussion on all things Tut: JEROME WEEKS: Setting aside, for the moment, the content of “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” at the DMA, what struck me immediately about the exhibition was [...]