AT&T PAC Reports to the City CouncilAT&T PAC CEO Mark Nerenhausen told the Dallas City Council that, so far, the city's new performing arts complex is doing very well -- in ticket sales, audience reach, even in cooperating with other arts groups. All this, despite a bad economy. B. J. Austin reports.
January 26, 2010
Art&Seek on Think TV: Playwright Douglas Carter BeaneDouglas Carter Beane has been nominated for two Tony Awards for some very funny writing: his satire of closeted celebs, The Little Dog Laughed, and his musical spoof of the wretched roller-disco film, Xanadu. Now his musical adaptation of the classic Greek sex-and-war comedy, Lysistrata, is debuting at the Dallas Theater Center as Give It Up! Put down the spears: This time, it's all about college basketball and cheerleaders.
January 22, 2010
Art&Seek on Think TV: The Arts of Africa at the DMAWesterners often see African art as 'folk crafts' -- anyone made them. But according to Roslyn Adele Walker, the DMA's senior curator of African art, that's because early explorers weren't interested in individual artists. There actually have been celebrated artists in Africa, and the DMA has one of our country's leading collections of their work. The museum has just released a new, sumptuous book by Dr. Walker, showcasing the collection's riches.
January 15, 2010
Galway A No-Show for the DSO, Teenage Violinist InCelebrated flutist Sir James Galway, 70, has cancelled his March 18-21 appearances with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for unspecified medical reasons. Galway has played as recently as November in Madison, Wisconsin. In a leap across gender, musical instruments and probably four or five generations, the DSO has replaced him with Grammy-nominated, 17-year-old violinist Caroline Goulding. [...]
February 9, 2010
Now in San Francisco, Soon at the DMAThe first U.S. retrospective of the major Belgian artist Luc Tuymans that is coming to the Dallas Museum of Art in June just opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The New York Times has a profile of Tuymans talking about his shock as a child learning that two of his uncles had [...]
February 8, 2010
Coming to the Nasher, Now at the HammerThe retrospective of drawings by British sculptor-and-Turner-Prize-winner Rachel Whiteread that’s coming to the Nasher later this year is now at the Hammer Museum in LA. She’s the artist famous for her giant plaster casts of the insides of rooms and entire houses. Her drawings are less well-known, but given the hefty nature of her sculptural [...]
February 8, 2010
Annette Strauss Artist Square
Crow Collection of Asian Art
Dallas Center for Architecture
