Putting up a 38-foot tall sculpture will get you some attention. So the press on the Traveling Man installation at DART’s Deep Ellum station has focused on “Walking Tall” — which is actually only one of three metal figures going up. Art & Seek’s video report for Think is the first to feature footage of all three, plus a flock of rather adorable steel birds — and a previously un-reported, internal safety feature.
Philip Haas, the director of the Oscar-nominated film, Angels & Insects, approached the Kimbell Art Museum about adapting five paintings into elaborate film installations in which the paintings “come to life.” The astonishing results have taken over the entire museum: We walk into a room-sized skull to view painter James Ensor’s life or immerse ourselves in a Baroque hall of living gods. Jerome Weeks talks to Haas about taking that trip from 2-D to 3-D.
My daughter used to have a night shirt that said, over and over, “Can’t sleep, clowns might eat me, can’t sleep, clowns might me.” In the great, time-honored tradition of truly scary clowns (including this guy, the opening robbery of The Dark Knight, all of Shakespeare’s jesters, and, of course, that sweaty guy at my [...]
Something uplifting for your Friday: The fine folks behind the Playing for Change documentary – a project chronicling street musicians around the globe – released an amazing mashup of the Ben E. King classic ‘Stand By Me’ in which they recorded buskers across multiple cities and continents, and synched together their performances into a stirring [...]
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 [...]
From a distance, the Wyly Theater can look like a modern, metal box – just another medium-rise office tower. But upon inspection, the surface of the Wyly turns out to be rippled – covered with 466 aluminum tubes.
We’ve debated this baby and I reported on it last fall, but for those who didn’t follow the links over to the Dallas Museum of Art’s site to see it or who still don’t understand what an Arts Network is, here’s the helpful, explanatory video. All you have to do is follow the jump The [...]
Surely you remember that Art & Seek feature story from last fall, the one about how museums are exploring different ways online to present themselves, their public image and their individual holdings? Memorable, right? Well, it was a tough story to report, he barked, slamming down his cup of java. He ticked the items off [...]
Maybe you think the Artistic Director of an established theater company should spend her chilly downtime discovering dusty German plays from the 1920s and quoting Ionesco to fellow Master Thespians. That’s how I always envisioned things, until I saw this. Amphibian Productions’ Kathleen Anderson Culebro wrote an autobiographical (?!) short about her Life In The [...]
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