Will Power, that is, the hip-hop playwright and performer who already was a Meadows Prize-winner at SMU. He’s got a new job now.

Congratulations to Ian Aberle from Allen, the winner of the Flickr Photo of the Week contest!

Learn how you can win a pair of tickets to see one of TWO great concerts as part of the Allegro Guitar Series.

Congratulations to Ian Aberle from Allen, the winner of the Flickr Photo of the Week contest! Click through to see the full version of his image of SMU mailboxes.

The past two years, a dozen North Texas arts groups — including some of the biggest — have scrambled to hire a new managing director or CEO. Why have they become so hard to find? And why do the arts need them, anyway?

At TEDxSMU, audio professor Scott Douglas will talk about how new software makes lip-synching old hat. Is this a wonderful new bag of tricks or another music biz gimmick? It may depend on what you see as the performer’s job.

The painter and printmaker talks about her current show at SMU and how she draws inspiration from around the world.

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.

Today in the roundup: The 2011-12 Lexus Broadway Series, talking about Creative Time and DIFF award winners.

‘The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz’ was a landmark box set when it came out – 38 years ago. Now, Meadows Dean Jose Bowen has helped craft a major new CD collection called ‘The Smithsonian Anthology of Jazz.’ It presents a different take on the history of an American art form.