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The Metropolitan Opera Comes to Dallas ISD

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.

The Kimbell’s Poussin Deal? That’s How Auction Houses Roll These Days

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.

Afternoon Delight: Krump Meets Ballet Meets ‘The Matrix’

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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.

Where Are They Now, Department: Laurence O’Dwyer

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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.

Mark Bradford at the DMA: Pop. Abstract. Scavenged. Mediated. Personalized and Politicized.

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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.

Mark Weinstein Just Needs Some Swagger, Some Time – And Some Tacos

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.

Cityplace Looking More Like a Place for Art

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.

Texas Monthly Gets Around to Surveying the Texas Art Scene

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.

‘Mockingbird’ Lands in N. Texas – in Different Ways

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.

It’s the Tuesday Roundup!

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.

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