Jerome Weeks | November 3, 2011
Outside of New York, Dallas ISD is the only school district in the country with a direct, live, hi-def satellite feed of the Met Opera’s performances. Oh no. We’re exposing fourth-graders to Don Giovanni.
Jerome Weeks | October 26, 2011
Sure, Sotheby’s and Christie’s are in the business of selling artworks through public auction. But not only through public auction, not any more. They’re cutting private deals — like the one that got the Kimbell that Poussin.
Jerome Weeks | October 25, 2011
Battle of the high kicks. Three videos for the price of one. Watch the ‘making of’ video first for the 360 Project, a Canadian effort with the same “bullet time,” still-photo/video technique of The Matrix. Then watch the results with ballet dancers and krumpers.
Jerome Weeks | October 25, 2011
Longtime Theatre 3 mainstay Laurence O’Dwyer has become a familiar figure at Baltimore’s Centerstage. But now he just made an acclaimed appearance at Washington’s Arena Stage.
Jerome Weeks | October 20, 2011
It’s the first survey of Mark Bradford’s meteoric career. In only 10 years, he’s had a solo show at the Whitney in New York and won the ‘genius’ grant. Bradford scavenges his LA neighborhood for scraps of paper — and turns them into archeological maps, abstract expressionist swirls, murals as ephemeral as newspapers, as corroded as Roman wall paintings.
Jerome Weeks | October 11, 2011
Mark Weinstein is starting his first full season running the AT&T Performing Arts Center, which itself hasn’t even been open for two full years. So he’s asking all of us impatient North Texans to let him have just a little more time to turn it into Lincoln Center.
Jerome Weeks | October 5, 2011
Three new sculptures were installed there this morning — as place markers for new multi-use buildings going up between Central and McKinney Avenue. One is even a black marble ‘water table’ by well-known Dallas stone sculptor Brad Goldberg.
Jerome Weeks | October 3, 2011
A virtual survey of 60 artists, critics, gallery owners and others lead to the magazine’s bucket list of must-sees in Texas art museums — Caravaggio! Rembrandt! Donald Judd! — plus another list of Lone Star movers and shakers in the art scene. Now, on that list, Dallas has a revealing entry.
Jerome Weeks | September 30, 2011
The current production of To Kill a Mockingbird at Casa Manana is the first collaboration between the Fort Worth company and the Dallas Theater Center — in 53 years. How’s that for a novel with a message of tolerance? But there are other forms Mockingbird will be appearing here.
Jerome Weeks | September 27, 2011
Dull Dallas art? Fun with Fluxus! A parade with a giant balloon cone bra — coming soon? And now, with extra Fort Worth! All in the Tuesday Roundup.