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Books and bookstores are supposed to be dying. But despite the internet and the dire economy, new bookstores have just opened in Plano and Oak Cliff.  The new shops are not your typical booksellers, though. Not in North Texas.
For one thing, Legacy Books in Plano is big. Located [...]

It's hard to miss the red glass going up on the Winspear Opera House, but now the building has sprouted wings: the solar canopy.

The Visual Arts Building at UT-Dallas contains two exhibition spaces, a large downstairs space for group shows and a tiny upstairs mezzanine for discoveries. Running concurrently with ON_game in the main gallery below is between, a one-man show in the mezzanine gallery from multimedia artist Tony Vincenti. We asked this up-and-coming local talent about his [...]

Congratulations to Melissa Frank, the winner of our Flickr Photo of the Week contest! Melissa has contributed many of her photos to the Art&Seek Flickr group page and has been in the running for this contest just about every week. This week, she breaks through with Stiff Box #10. She follows last week's winner, Sam [...]

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 Times [...]

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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 [...]

J. Bernard Calloway and Billy Eugene Jones in The Good Negro

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In the ’50s and ‘60s in Birmingham, Alabama, there were so many Ku Klux Klan bombings that one black neighborhood was dubbed Dynamite Hill.

Yet in 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. came to this fortress of segregation. Birmingham was a [...]

On Golden Pond, which closes this weekend at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas, is a naturalistic play so it needs a believable set. Set designer Rodney Dobbs has done a commendable job, creating a lived-in look for the summerhouse of an elderly couple spending their 48th year on the lake. We asked Dobbs about the set [...]

Congratulations to Sam Brown the winner of our Flickr Photo of the Week contest! Not only is Sam a talented photographer, he's also a painter of striking images, which he posts on his Web site. He follows last week's winner, Wade Griffith. More from Sam in a bit.
If you would like to participate, all you [...]

Painting, photography, dance, music, animation – whatever kind of art you enjoy, you need a place to make it happen. And we at Art&Seek want to see that space. We're creating a gallery of art spaces in North Texas, a virtual studio crawl. To get things started, we've asked several area artists to show [...]