Bad timing? Mark Lamster’s moving from New York to Dallas – just when the downtown/Arts District building boom seems to have leveled off. So what in the world’s the new architecture critic going to write about?

Today in the roundup: Previews of a couple of musical experiences tonight, plus more on Ken Price at the Nasher.

They’ve commissioned artworks for 10 public sites around Dallas — with artists from LA, New York, the Netherlands — and Texas. Plus, a video introducing the artists.

Today in the roundup: Reviewing ‘Memphis the Musical,’ condemning the glare and congratulations to a local community design center.

Ken Price’s sculptures look like radioactive alien life forms. Wild, whimsical yet wickedly precise. The show is the first full-career retrospective at the Nasher – and it ran into that little sunlight problem they’ve been having.

KERA reporter BJ Austin caught up with Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings today for an update on the Nasher/Museum Tower negotiations.

Today in the roundup: How the Nasher is making adjustments to protect its Ken Price show, a Dallas arts patron is honored and debating the merits of ‘Downton Abbey.’

How does a composer tackle a topic like the JFK assassination? In this video, Steven Mackey explains his thinking behind “One Red Rose,” co-commissioned by the Nasher.

Next November, Dallas will hear two new classical works marking the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination – one by an 18-year-old Chinese-American prodigy, the other from a Grammy-winning composer.

Today in the roundup: Local holiday music, the show that’s overrun the Nasher and Constantine Maroulis on Jekyll & Hyde.