Today in the roundup: Assessing Norah Jones’ side project, local music bits plus the Crow Collection’s current show.

In the Saturday Spotlight, we’re playing it by the book.

The Crow Collection of Asian Art is taking over the the sculpture garden that currently surrounds the Trammell tower. It will replace the current statuary with new Asian art acquisitions and re-landscape the area as a Japanese garden.

As part of its celebration of the Mexican Bicentennial, The Trammell Crow Collection of Asian Art is staging an exhibition called “Black Current: Mexican Responses to Japanese Art, 17th to 19th Centuries.” KERA’s Rob Tranchin reports that the show also has a lot to say about politics, religion and international trade.

The best day the AT&T Performing Arts Center has had was its first day — when it held an open house and 45,000 people showed up for tours and freebies. Now the Dallas Arts District organization is aiming to replicate some of that excitement — for a whole month.

Guest blogger Lydia Regalado is an arts educator, crafter and blogger who writes about people who gather to make things.
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