Today in the roundup: Dallas Opera has a big announcement, the DMA hands out some awards and Amphibian Stage Productions stages a controversial piece.

Outside recognition appears at last.

It’s Downtown Artsy, the video spoof created by the Dallas Museum of Art for its Arts Ball. DMA director Maxwell Anderson plays Lord Grantham – in this case, a traitor to his class for letting all the Cockney servants attend the museum for free.

Today in the roundup: David Lowery to direct Robert Redford, the Perot Museum earns an environmental distinction and the DMA offers an incentive.

Today in the roundup: The DMA adds a French painting, Dallas Children’s Theater announces its new season and The Playroom returns.

Today in the roundup: Theatre Arlington picks a leader, Ted Kincaid talks about truth in images and words with the organizer of the DMA’s Cindy Sherman show.

For this special Thursday roundup just for you, we’ve got big money at the DMA, a little money raising hackles with Klyde Warren Park and a flying reporter, among other things.

Today in the roundup: Dispatches from the DSO, plans for Main St. Fort Worth Arts Fest, plus the local museums that popped up in The New York Times’ special museum section.

Today in the roundup: Second Thought’s star turn, Disney hires David Lowery and visual arts notes.

MOMA’s acclaimed retrospective, Cindy Sherman, makes its final stop at the DMA, and it’s a landmark show of disguises and female identity, of brilliant photographic fakery and caricature.