Today in the roundup: George Washington in Fort Worth, getting prepped for Lucia Di Lammermoor and Chuck Palahniuk explains himself.
Art&Seek Sponsor:
Posts Tagged 'fort worth museum of science and history'
Today in the roundup: Onstage chemistry at WaterTower, art meets science in Fort Worth and Adele backs out again.
A 1931 portrait of Texas folklorist J. Frank Dobie took a hit from an off-balance child on the opening day of the exhibition, ‘Alexander Hogue – An American Visionary.’
Get your blue suede shoes on, grab three friends and head over the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History. We’ve got tix for four to this weekend’s adults-only after hours party celebrating Elvis, the Beatles and more.
A membership that offers free admission to exhibits for 5 folks for a year, and lots of discounts and special opportunities. Plus a goodie bag from the museum with a DVD, mug, baseball hat, and more…including Astronaut Ice Cream!
Slant 45 is a project of the Super Bowl Host Committee and arts-education specialists Big Thought — it’s gotten more than 35,000 North Texas kids picking up trash and planting trees for the Big Game. But it’s more than just making everything look nice for Jerry. There are volunteering lessons involved. And, yes, children’s artwork.
Enter to win a pair of tickets to check out the laser show inside the Noble Planetarium.
In the Saturday Spotlight, things are looking up in Fort Worth.
It’s hard to imagine children interested in any toy without a video screen. But KERA’s Jerome Weeks reports a new exhibition at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History features nothing but handmade toys. No batteries required. It’s a collection of 600 dolls, masks, puppets and games from Mexico City’s Papalote Museo del Nino, designed to show the country’s folk traditions expressed in wood, tin, string and paper.
OVER THE ATLANTIC: In November, the Dallas Museum of Art announced a few details about an upcoming exhibition of 40 pieces of French sculpture called “The Mourners.” The 16-inch-tall pieces date to 1457 and normally reside at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon, France. Now more information about what we can expect to see is out, courtesy [...]