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Video: Poetry Night at South Dallas Cultural Center

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Poetry has a home at the South Dallas Cultural Center. Fort Worth poetry slam champ Michael Guinn, was the master of ceremonies at this evening of spoken word on June 19. David Alvarado shot and edited the overview you can watch above, and [...]

Webcast: 'Conversation with Bill Lively'

Lee Cullum interviews Bill Lively, CEO and Founding President of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. Lively has led the campaign to raise more than $300 million to build the facility. At Art&Seek, we're happy to bring you the full program, which first aired Monday night on KERA Television:

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The Performing Arts Center's Glass Skins

Although the red glass that will cover much of the Winspear Opera House will be one of its most distinguishing features, both the Winspear and the Wyly Theatre break with Dallas' tradition by prominently using clear glass on their exteriors — not mirrored or tinted or smoked glass. But performance halls wrap their arts in darkness. What will they do with all that murderous Texas sunlight?

Music review: Centro-Matic's Split Personality

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Last month's New York Times feature on the Denton music scene boasted only a passing mention of Centro-Matic, the low-fi, high-octane brainchild of singer-songwriter Will Johnson that has spent a decade proving melodic, moving rock music can sound glorious without sounding pretty.
The Times treatment could have been a slight, an oversight, [...]

Teaching Arts Outside the Classroom

Victor Goines

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Audio excerpts from the interview with Victor Goines: Why he teaches/ What students get out of it/ Building an audience
Audio: Paschal student Travis Taback on taking Goines' master classes
Victor Goines, first director of Jazz Studies at Juilliard
Tavis Smiley interview on NPR with Victor Goines

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Destinee: "I have seen [...]

NorthPark gets Bookmarked

B. J. Austin of KERA Radio reports on the opening
Nancy Nasher and Kim Cocklin (Atmos Energy) speaking at NorthPark
Artist Suzanne O'Brien speaking about her oil paintings at the library
Earlier blog post about Bookmarks

Applause greeted the ribbon-cutting for Bookmarks, a 2,000-square foot library on level one of NorthPark. Nancy Nasher, NorthPark owner and manager, says it's [...]

Webcast: "Recapturing Cuba: An Artist's Journey"

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Norah, Edie and More at Arts Magnet Homecoming

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Norah Jones
Homecoming Concert, Booker T. Washington Arts Magnet High School
June 7, 2008:

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Edie Brickell and Kenny Withrow
Homecoming Concert, Booker T. Washington Arts Magnet High School
June 7, 2008:

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'Keywords': Brad Kuhl

Brad Kuhl
Brad Kuhl collects his imagery form television and movies, switching from channel to channel and movie to movie hunting for specific types of images. Kuhl is interested in "looking at television, not watching it". Kuhl compiles his images into both printed and animated grids of images. Each moving image or [...]

Visual Literacy: The Generation Gap

What are the consequences of a world where so many personal and collective mindsets are shaped by the interpretation and decoding of imagery?
A generational disconnect has come to exist between people who have grown up using imagery as a means to send and receive essential messages and those who have not.
This is glaringly [...]

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