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.

KERA is re-broadcasting the documentary, Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater, tonight at 10 p.m. in honor of the theater legend’s 100th birthday. If you’ve not seen it, you need to catch up with one of the great women in theater — who died tragically before the movement she espoused really came into being.

Ever visit a ‘mystery spot’ roadside attraction? The ones where water runs uphill? Artist Julian Hoeber has created an installation based on how they work. Prepare to be amazed!

Enda Walsh and Michael Keegan-Dolan: You probably haven’t heard of either one. They’re Irish and they’re daringly unconventional artists. Kudos to the Meadows School of the Arts for bringing them to Dallas.

Fort Worth Contemporary Arts held a panel on artists’ do-it-yourself collective efforts (which seem to be cropping up more, lately). How do they work? But more importantly perhaps — why?

It involves some 200 area artists from groups such as the Turtle Creek Chorale, the Texas Ballet Theatre and the Dallas Theater Center. They had only four months to bring A Gathering together, but deciding what this gala benefit should say about 30 years of AIDS history was the hurdle.

At TEDxSMU, audio professor Scott Douglas will talk about how new software makes lip-synching old hat. Is this a wonderful new bag of tricks or another music biz gimmick? It may depend on what you see as the performer’s job.

They were the funky,funky high school band that left a legacy for DJs and professional bands to sample — and became the subjects of a documentary and NPR story. Now they’re on a ‘best-of’ list.

The Kitchen Doggers’ terrific actors hit the road with a mother and her estranged daughter doing the cross-country, voyage-of-self-discovery thing. But in this regional premiere, the road wins.

What other gallery has some 6,700 works by area artists for sale — displayed in 1,001 rooms? What’s more, the Omni acts like an agent for the painters and photographers.