Over in the feature content section, you can listen to Krys Boyd interview biographer Amanda Vail on Gerald and Sara Murphy, the subjects of the DMA exhibition, Making It New:

Natasha Naquin reveals her masterpiece at the DMA’s jewelry class. Guest blogger Lydia Regalado writes about people who gather to make things. As part of Thursday Night Live programming at the Dallas Museum of Art, classes are occasionally held in Center for Creative Connections studios. Last night I attended Remaking Retro: A Flapper’s Jewelry Class, [...]

Guest blogger Walton Muyumba is a writer, critic and professor at UNT. The 5th Annual Hecho en Dallas, an excellent, well-organized, free exhibition, opened Thursday evening at the Latino Cultural Center. Thirteen area photographers, painters, and sculptors display works in this juried show. The collection is punctuated by large exuberant works by Eric Chavera, María [...]

Drawing Restraint 13 by Matthew Barney Video art is about to get what may be its most serious and thorough treatment ever in North Texas. Beginning Saturday, the Video Association of Dallas, best known for putting on the annual Dallas Video Festival, hosts a five-week series of video programs, installations and performances at Conduit Gallery. [...]

Guest blogger Gail Sachson  owns Ask Me About Art, she is Vice-Chair of the Cultural Affairs Commission and a member of the Public Art Committee in Dallas. She is a former New Yorker, but misses only the great bagels and egg creams. THE AUDIENCE EFFECT: TWO NEW YORK EXPERIENCES 1. Audiences can annoy A weekend in the [...]

They haven’t so far in Southern California, says the Los Angeles Times: The Pacific Symphony in Irvine had its highest-grossing July Fourth fireworks concert ever, drawing more than 10,000 people to its summer home, the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre — a venue that does not list any mass transit options on its website…. Officials at other [...]

DISD board of trustees member Ron Price on school bands as a measure of lackluster arts education: Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm on the political and economic benefits of better arts education: Superintendent Ron Price on the need for after-school arts programs in South Dallas: Gigi Antoni, president of Big Thought, on the name change [...]

A new exhibition in Florence, Italy, showcases some of the few portraits that exist of Michelangelo Buonarroti. Art historians have long known that the famous sculptor, architect and painter of the Sistine Chapel wasn’t drop-dead gorgeous: At 17, he had his nose smashed by a fellow student. Also, his personal hygiene left a fair amount [...]

Lydia Regalado, Marianne Newsom and Shannon Karol model their “bazaar” find: vintage sunglasses with attached earrings, circa 1976. Guest blogger Lydia Regalado writes about people who gather to make things. From treasure to trash, Buchanan’s Market had it all. Collectables, vintage clothing, sewing notions, books, vintage postcards, fabric, furniture, house accessories and yes, a large [...]

YouDo (detail), Kara Walker, cut paper, 1993-94 Artist Kara Walker uses an old-fashioned art form – the black paper silhouette – in controversial ways to explore issues of power, politics and racism. Commentator Matthew Bourbon, a Denton artist, art critic and associate professor at The University of North Texas, has this review of a retrospective [...]