Thursday Morning Roundup
THE BEST OF THE BEST: The Dallas Observer has released its annual “Best Of” awards. The awards are given for a lot of topics, but this being an arts blog, we’ll stick with the arts and entertainment...
View ArticleTonight, the Dallas VideoFest Takes Over Part of the Skyline
The Dallas VideoFest will mark its 25th anniversary Wednesday in a very big way. It’ll use the 20-story lighting display on the outside of the Omni Hotel to project videos. They’ll be seen for miles....
View ArticlePunk-Rock Chocolate and Moonshine. Yes, This is Art: More Pecha Kucha Videos
The second round of videos from Pecha Kucha last Wednesday at City Performance Hall are up and live on Art&Seek’s YouTube channel. Our first batch of videos went up Wednesday. We’ve got your...
View ArticleWhere Will Art Conspiracy Be This Year?
Art Conspiracy 8 moves from the West Dallas warehouse where it’s been held the last couple years to new digs in the Design District. So mark your calendars for Nov. 10 and get ready for the party at...
View Article5 Artists to Catch At CentralTrak's New Series, Next Topic
Not So Indifferent, photo courtesy of the artists. CentralTrak, UT Dallas’ artists residency in Deep Ellum, is launching an annual art talk series that includes regular meetings between artists, art...
View ArticleGot A Story Worth Telling Strangers? Submit To Oral Fixation
The cast of last night's "Oral Fixation" Do friends depend on you for compelling true-life monologues at dinner parties? Are you an essayist crunching on a personal story? Do you want to share a...
View ArticleTen Years On, the FTW Modern’s Architect Returns
INTRO: It’s been ten years since the Japanese architect, Tadao Ando, visited his design, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. KERA’s Jerome Weeks spoke with him. KERA radio story: Expanded online story:...
View ArticleBut What Will Happen to Project X?
Image from Google Robert Wilonsky reported over the weekend in the News’ City Hall blog that Dallas philanthropist and McKinney Avenue Contemporary (MAC) creator Claude Albritton III is planning on...
View ArticleTuesday Morning Roundup
THE CREAM OF THE CROP: Texas Ballet Theater’s Nutcracker - which has undergone a major overhaul by artistic director Ben Stevenson – is getting raves. “The production, with gorgeous sets and costumes...
View ArticleVIDEO: Art&Seek Jr: Have Yourself a Quirky Little Christmas
Art&Seek Jr. is one mom‘s quest to find activities to end the seemingly endless chorus of the “I’m Bored Blues” while having fun herself. Impossible you say? Check back on Tuesdays for...
View ArticleDMA Goes Hot Off the Presses This Year
The Dallas Museum of Art has had a long relationship with the prestigious Yale University Press, going back at least to the 1990s with director Richard Brettell and his studies of French...
View ArticleFlying Canadians Give a Friendly, Snowy Wave to North Texas Culture
Giuseppe Zanotti high heels holding up Fort Worth’s Modern Art Museum. Photo by De Juco from enRoute Air Canada’s travel magazine, enRoute, has a feature, “Deep in the Art of Texas,” about how...
View ArticleMonday Morning Roundup
ROAD TRIPPING: The Dallas Symphony Orchestra continued its barnstorming tour of Europe over the weekend with a pair of concerts. Scott Cantrell has been keeping tabs for The Dallas Morning News, and he...
View ArticleHave You Listened to this Doorknob Today?
Guest blogger Danielle Marie Georgiou is the artistic director and choreographer of DGDG: Danielle Georgiou Dance Group. She also serves as the Assistant Director of the UT Arlington’s Dance Ensemble....
View ArticleMAP: A New Public Art Festival in Dallas This Fall
Janeil Engelstad in residence last summer at Art Mill in the Czech Republic. Photo credit: Alex Katis This fall, the Nasher Sculpture Center will present new artworks at different sites all around...
View ArticleVideo: Nick Cave’s Heard at Grand Central Station
Nick Cave’s Heard performance has taken over New York’s Grand Central Station and will be performed twice daily through the end of March at 11am, and 2pm. The New York Times has posted a video...
View ArticleLove Field Artists Talk About the Airport as Artspace
On Tuesday afternoon, Love Field held a reception for some of the artists whose pieces are part of the Love Field Modernization Program. The pieces all involve travel, North Texas or both and are part...
View ArticleAt Love Field, $3.5 Million Worth of New Public Art
Sky, but Brower Hatcher and Marly Rogers. Photo: Stephen Becker As passengers head to the new gates at Love Field, they’ll be greeted by another addition to the airport. Seven new pieces of public art...
View ArticleMonday Morning Roundup
Creative Time: Creative Time won the Meadows Prize at SMU a few years back and analyzed the state of the visual arts community in town, providing recommendations to strengthen it. What are they up...
View ArticleMonday Morning Roundup
THE SOCIAL SCULPTURE: The second sculpture in the Nasher Sculpture Center’s city-wide exhibition “Nasher XChange“ isn’t really a sculpture at all. Instead, it’s what the center’s calling a “social...
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