L’amour, l’amour: We all love Carmen. The Fort Worth Opera’s production of the Bizet classic got excited reviews from Scott Cantrell and Wayne Lee Gay, especially for SMU grad Beth Clayton in the title role. Cantrell goes out of his way to make this point, however: The Carmen that Fort Worth Opera opened Saturday night [...]
The Dallas Museum of Art recently announced a new summer exhibition of works by noted Irish photographer and video artist Willie Doherty, short-listed twice for England’s Turner Prize. The show, Willie Doherty: Requisite Distance premieres May 24 and runs through August 16, and it includes eleven landscape photos of Northern Ireland, plus his 15-minute Ghost [...]
The Hotel Joule rooftop pool The New York Times has visited Big D and lived to tell the tale for its Sunday Travel section. Not many surprises. Glitz, sports bars, Mexican food. High-end boutiques. Skip the reading and just go to the slideshow, you’ll pretty much get the story. And we’ve rarely looked so good [...]
… about the lack of a downside to George Steel’s choice of the New York City Opera over the Dallas Opera: The New York Times actually hailed him in an editorial today: “Welcome, Mr. Steel.” The words “careerism,” “dump,” “contract,” “deny,” “betray” or “calculated” never appear in it. But then, the Dallas Opera is never [...]
So argues Henry Fogel in his Artsjournal blog, On the Record. Fogel is senior advisor to the League of American Orchestras. He got ticked off by a recent Nicholas Kristoff column in the NYTimes about how, contrary to what might be popular expectations, liberals actually don’t give as much to charities as conservatives do (not [...]
Portia and Brutus, Ercole de Roberti, 1486-90, tempera (detail) A collaboration between the Kimbell and the Met in New York, the exhibition Art and Love in Renaissance Italy gets reviewed in the New York Times by Roberta Smith. The show runs at the Met through February and then comes to the Kimbell in March. The [...]
On p. 90 of today’s The New York Times Magazine — and in a slide show on the Times’ website — Willard Spiegelman, SMU English professor and editor of The Southwest Review, appears as a male model. The issue is dedicated to teaching, and Dr. Spiegelman is an exemplum of a “Class Act,” one of [...]
Anthony Tommasini, the classical music critic of the New York Times, has written a bittersweet profile of George Steel, the new general director of the Dallas Opera. Sweet, because Tommasini clearly values Steel highly as an innovative New York musical theater presenter and producer (he has turned Columbia University’s Miller Theater into “a hotbed of [...]
The Undermain Theater’s production of Greendale, Neil Young’s concept-album-turned-film-turned-rock opera, got an advance feature in the Sunday New York Times. The Dallas theater company is presenting it for four performances as part of the Ice Factory Festival at New York’s Ohio Theater. You can listen to the Art&Seek feature on Greendale here (better than the [...]
Sunday’s New York Times had a lengthy article about supporting the Arts: “Arts Patrons, The Next Gerneration.” Kathryn Shattuck wrote an informative article about the philanthropic legacy of arts-supporting families. She wrote of the 20-30 year olds who are “not merely passing through, writing a check and dressing up for a night in order to [...]
