Today in the Art&Seek Spotlight we feature Ready to Write at the Denton Public Library North Branch. For more on the event:
FIND: For directions to the library, visit the branch's organization profile or the library's Web site. And for more information on the library's second annual writing contest, click here.
REACT: If you had to pick [...]

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During the first half of the 20th Century, schools were the most famously segregated of our public places. But movie theaters were also divided, with black theaters showing movies now called race films.
Made by black filmmakers with black casts, race films were the independent films of their time. The [...]

The winning design for Make Space for Artists: Design a Studio.

Amy Wynne and Mark Leveno began their adulthoods in engineering and advertising, respectively. But they ultimately found a united calling as a duo in architecture. After spending time in the smog of Los Angeles, they now belong to Dallas. As the creative team behind the winning design of Make [...]

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.

Congratulations to Kari Kinney of Fort Worth, the winner of our Flickr Photo of the Week contest! Kari follows last week's winner Robert H. Nunnally, Jr.
If you would like to participate, all you need to do is upload your photo to to our Flickr group page. It's fine to submit a photo you took previous [...]

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Artist Brad Ford Smith was preparing for an opening at Mighty Fine Arts when I visited his studio to shoot the video above. Rather than a grouping of several works, Brad did a single installation using "a stack of old watercolor paper, a pair [...]

How does The Daily Show's "senior black correspondent" view the Obama election and other significant events of the New Year? Humorist Larry Wilmore joined Think for a recent episode to discuss those topics along with his new book, I'd Rather We Got Casinos, and Other Black Thoughts (Hyperion, 2009).

In this weekend's Art&Seek spotlight, classical meets jazz with Branford Marsalis joining the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for concerts Saturday and Sunday. For more on the show:
FIND: For all the details on tonight's concert, visit the event listing on Art&Seek.com.
REACT: Branford Marsalis took part in a documentary a few years back called Before the Music Dies, [...]

Which of your favorite films and actors will win Oscars this year? Will Slumdog Millionaire (above) be the night's big winner? We'll find out when the 81st Annual Academy Awards are held on Sunday. To preview the ceremony, Arnold Wayne Jones of the Dallas Voice, Stephen Becker of Art&Seek and Christopher Kelly of the Fort [...]

Photo credit: Tapias Tejano Pics
College students entering the workforce are always in need of something to make their resumes pop. For University of North Texas student Duane Hargis, that item will be the Grammy Award that he won earlier this month. Hargis is a graduate student in the jazz studies program at UNT and plays [...]