One-Way Color Tunnel, Olafur Eliasson, 2007 Many viewers will have a blast pondering some of Olafur Eliasson’s exhibition Take Your Time at the Dallas Museum of Art — and some will be bored by part of it. An easy enough prediction; one could say it about any exhibition. But I also predict that, afterwards, there [...]
Philip Seymour Hoffman (left) with Synecdoche, New York writer and director Charlie Kaufman Charlie Kaufman, the writer of such mind-bending classics as Adaptation, Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, adds director to his list of credits with his upcoming film, Synecdoche, New York. The movie received a rave from New York [...]
Click on the logo to watch the video: Get the Flash Player to see this content. In this episode of Think, Diane Sikes, artist and education coordinator for the Dallas Contemporary discusses the organization’s new youth program, “artthink.” You can read more about artthink here. Think airs on Friday at 7:30 p.m. on KERA (Channel [...]
Click on the logo to watch the video: Get the Flash Player to see this content. In this episode of Think, Nancy Nasher and Jed Morse, acting director of the Nasher Sculpture Center, discuss how the museum’s collection came together. Then later in the program, Booker T. Washington band leader Roger Boykin discusses the South [...]
Click on the logo to watch the video: Get the Flash Player to see this content. In this Scene segment from Think, Krys Boyd talks to Roger Boykin, who, with Wendell Sneed, created the South Dallas Pop Festival in the early ’70s. Think airs Friday nights at 7:30 on KERA (Channel 13) and repeats Sunday [...]
Get the Flash Player to see this content. Krys Boyd talks to Darryl E. Real, vice president for agriculture/livestock for the State Fair, about the kids breeding and raising prizewinning livestock — and how those competitions work.
Get the Flash Player to see this content. Kevin Moriarty, the new artistic director at the Dallas Theater Center, makes a loud and energetic debut with The Who’s Tommy, which runs through Sept. 28. Moriarty talks to Krys Boyd of Think about the new season, and how he hopes to keep the conversation about theater [...]
Get the Flash Player to see this content. Fifty years ago, Casa Mañana introduced Fort Worth to theater-in-the-round. But the history of Tarrant County’s largest performing arts group predates that. Watch Casa’s President and Executive Producer Denton Yockey and Krys Boyd discuss theater back then, and what to expect this season in this Scene segment [...]
Get the Flash Player to see this content. Degas, Renoir, Van Gogh, Monet — Ninety two Impressionist and Post-Impressionist pieces from The Chicago Art Institute have found a temporary home at the Kimbell Art Museum. It’s the first time the Chicago museum has allowed so many masterworks to take a road trip. The Kimbell’s Malcolm [...]
What defines a city like Dallas? Scholar Harvey Graff scrutinizes the town known throughout the world for its big business, big thinking, and even bigger self image in his new book “The Dallas Myth: The Making and Unmaking of an American City.” Click above to listen to Graff’s conversation with Think host Krys Boyd. The [...]
