Today in the roundup: 8.0 closing to benefit Modern, assessing The Bacchae at the Nasher and CADD’s creative dinner.

… which doesn’t really lead to a punchline because Thursday’s roundtable, sponsored by Art & Seek and the Dallas Museum of Art, actually led to a wide-ranging, intelligent conversation about the local contemporary arts scene.

Today in the roundup: Kristin Chenoweth speaks, the Amon Carter’s Andrew Walker travels, plus other odds and ends.

Kristen Chenoweth can’t make her sold-out Nasher Salon evening November 15. It’s kinda ironic why.

Turner Prize-winning British artist Tony Cragg calls himself a materialist – for the ways he’s expanded sculpture’s vocabulary with modern materials and turned those materials inside-out. The Nasher exhibition is a sinuous swirl of stone, wood, metal and plastic.

THINK host Krys Boyd talks with Turner Prize-winning sculptor Tony Cragg about his new show at the Nasher Sculpture Center — the first American exhibition of his work in the US in almost 20 years. They discuss ‘art history’ and ‘personal history,’ as he says — Pop Art to biochemistry to rubbish dumps.

Today in the Saturday Spotlight, we’re checking out a few major exhibitions before the close.

Have you ever been to a museum and been allowed to take home a piece of art? Visitors to the Nasher Sculpture Center on Sunday will have that opportunity.

A Nasher Sculpture Center intern and his band “play” the Martin Creed-designed stairs.

Dissident Chinese artist Ai WeiWei was released from arrest two weeks ago, and now TEDxSMU announces its next salon — about artistic expression and repression in China.