Today in the roundup: DMA extends Gaultier hours, SXSW announces film lineup and Fort Worth gets a recording studio.

… which doesn’t really lead to a punchline because Thursday’s roundtable, sponsored by Art & Seek and the Dallas Museum of Art, actually led to a wide-ranging, intelligent conversation about the local contemporary arts scene.

Join KERA’s Jeff Whittington tonight at the DMA for State of the Arts, with Jeremy Strick, Jeffrey Grove, Peter Doroshenko and Michael Corris.

Today in the roundup: Gaultier speaks, Booker T’s big field trip and local theater bits.

Today in the roundup: Flipping on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge lights, a Texas opera company in trouble, visual art bits.

The first in a series: At year’s end, Art&Seek looks forward to people in the North Texas arts community — some of the ones who’ll be doing work in 2012 that you’ll want to keep an eye out for. We start with the Dallas Museum of Art’s new director.

Today in the roundup: Assessing Les Misérables at the AT&T Performing Arts Center, 12 days of Christmas at the DMA and the top local albums of 2011.

Today in the roundup: Assessing Theatre Three’s La Bete, it’s snowing at the DMA, and where you should buy your books.

Today in the roundup: Assessing DTC’s Christmas Carol, the City Performance Hall needs performers and a free day at the DMA.

Today in the roundup: A worthwhile ‘White Christmas,’ a DMA lawsuit gets dismissed and parking threatens to hold up Ridglea’s reopening.