st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} The KERA radio story: The expanded online story and video: The Amon Carter Museum in Fort worth has opened its very first video installation. It takes up an [...]

I’ve often thought that few people could improve on Dallas Morning News photographer David Woo’s classic shots of the Museum of Modern Art Fort Worth. He quickly latched on to the reflecting pool, letting Tadao Ando’s design shimmer like hammered gold at night or emphasizing its perfect geographic order in the day. But now MAMFW [...]

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If you’re going to the Texas Ballet Theater’s season-opening gala tonight, you will probably see protesting musicians holding pickets and handing out flyers at the Majestic Theatre. The Dallas-Fort Worth Professional Musicians Association (local 27-147 of the American Federated Musicians) is protesting the decision by the TBT to cancel its contracts with the Fort Worth [...]

The 40 dancers of the Texas Ballet Theater have started their own fundraising drive for the financially troubled company, which needs $2 million in pledges and at least $500,000 of that in cash by mid-September. Get Behind Your Ballet will hold a day-long fundraising sale this Saturday, Sept. 6, beginning at 8 p.m. at the [...]

The statue of Charles Tandy, the Fort Worth businessman and philanthropist, stands just north of the Tarrant County Courthouse in downtown Fort Worth. Because it’s surrounded primarily by cars and trucks going past, the Downtown Public Art Master Plan is recommending the statue be moved to the TCU Campus in front of Tandy Hall — [...]

The McClatchy Company, the newspaper chain that owns the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, announced hefty layoffs last week — 1,400 jobs nationwide — which led to 130 jobs getting cut at the Star-Telegram, about 10 percent of the workforce. What I’ve yet to see anywhere, even a week later, is whether these job losses will directly [...]

Five men in basketball shorts, b&w photo by Bill Wood, 1960s. __________________________________________________ UPDATE: Studio 360 interviews Diane Keaton tomorrow for an on-air feature on Bill Wood., Jr. and his photos. It’s been written up in The New York Times, by Larry McMurtry in the New York Review of Books and now by VSL (Very Short [...]