The morning after NX35 opened in Denton, the music conference's founder, Chris Flemmons, spoke to Art & Seek about the larger purpose behind the festival, about the fading 'wisdom' of choosing to present a free concert and about how he hopes to have enough rent money left over to keep NX35's office open — and what that means for next year.

'Andy Warhol looks a scream,' sang David Bowie. 'Hang him on my wall.' Warhol takes a pitiless look at himself in the new show at Fort Worth's Modern Art Museum. Andy Warhol: The Last Decade includes 50 works from a time when Warhol's work exploded in style and scope — while still looking like Andy. Love him or hate him, the show's likely to be a blockbuster.

Give It Up! is the bawdy, boisterous, college-basketball adaptation of the classic anti-war comedy, Lysistrata. The Dallas Theater Center's brand-new musical is slick, kinetic, very funny and very up-to-date. It's also too long and too disposable. That's pop entertainment, kids. Jerome Weeks reviews.

Douglas 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.

Westerners 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.

Dallas Contemporary was going to launch its ambitious new home this past weekend with a gala opening but it got delayed. We talk to director Joan Davidow about why, about that premiere show, about why she chose this sprawling new space near the Design District and about how it will shape the Contemporary's future directions.

A holiday tradition. KERA executive producer Rob Tranchin's Emmy Award-winning short tells the story of the imposing 145-year-old pecan tree that stands at one of the entrances to Highland Park. The video traces the tree's history back to the cornfields that once lined Preston Trail, how it escaped destruction as a city grew around it, how it lives through the seasons and has become a beautiful landmark. Enjoy.

The late '60s saw a tidal wave of student protests — anti-war protests, civil rights protests. So what made a now-mostly-forgotten walkout of Mexican-American high schoolers in a small Texas town 40 years ago so significant? David Lozano is director and co-author of the play, Crystal City 1969, currently presented by Cara Mia Theatre. He talks to us about researching a protest he'd never heard of, about a walkout sparked by deep discrimination, a walkout that led to a change in Mexican-American aspirations.

The new Legorreta + Legorreta-designed Fort Museum of Science and History is open — a major upgrade in the Cultural District. It features a new planetarium, dinosaur exhibitions and mini-museums devoted to cattle, Fort Worth history, energy (basically, the oil and gas industry) and even the science of CSI. We talk with vice president of development Carl Hamm about balancing education with entertainment.

Inspired by cellist Yo-Yo Ma's popular Silk Road recordings, Fort Worth Symphony music director Miguel Harth-Bedoya has begun a series of concerts and CDs, Caminos del Inka — "Trails of the Incas." They showcase three centuries of orchestral music from the Pacific Coast South American countries once part of the Incan Empire. The FWSO brings the project back for concerts in Bass Hall this week — after talking to us on Think.