Sunday’s New York Times had a lengthy article about supporting the Arts: “Arts Patrons, The Next Gerneration.”
Kathryn Shattuck wrote an informative article about the philanthropic legacy of arts-supporting families. She wrote of the 20-30 year olds who are “not merely passing through, writing a check and dressing up for a night in order to [...]

Cooke County Master Gardner Melitta Taylor at North Haven Gardens’ Basic Canning Class.
Yes we can can, and it’s easier than I thought! This past weekend as part of their Salsa Sunday celebration, North Haven Gardens presented a Basics of Canning class that was helpful and informative for a beginning gardener and canner, such as myself. [...]

Casting was definitely a strong point in the Santa Fe Opera’s opening weekend. A well sung and strongly acted Falstaff was followed on Saturday night by an equally effective Marriage of Figaro. The weekend was dedicated to outgoing general director Richard Gaddes. This salute was quite a compliment and a memorable part of his legacy.
As [...]

It is rare for me to be so captivated by a movie that I forget what I’m actually watching is a Disney flick. Nothing against Disney, but thank God for Pixar! Many of my most cherished movies are Pixar creations. Not that extraordinary unless you consider the fact that I am a 40 year old [...]

That endearing old rogue Falstaff blustered his way through opening night of the Santa Fe Opera’s season Friday. Led by a baritone who seemed born for the part (that is, if anyone could be born Falstaff), the cast gave a lively and witty performance of Verdi’s final opera.
The star of the show was decisively French [...]

Paper Nerds Tish Brewer (middle) and Shannon Driscoll Phillips (right)  help Jackie Chaiken (left) as she pieces together her Jacob’s ladder Structure.
Guest blogger Lydia Regalado is an arts educator and blogger who writes for Art&Seek about people who gather to make things.

“It’s all in the wrist!” That was one of the many things I [...]

El Coloso, the famous painting of a naked giant striding past a caravan of terrified people — supposedly an allegory of the brutal Napoleonic war in Spain — is not by Francesco de Goya, a Prado museum specialist says. After some 20 years of study, the Prado’s senior Goya specialist determined the painting was by [...]

Edgar Degas, Yellow Dancers … Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait
Images courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
Invited guests and members of the press who attended today’s preview of the Kimbell Art Museum’s Impressionist exhibition, opening Sunday, were rewarded with a remarkable tour. Malcolm Warner, acting director of the Kimbell, led the group past the 92 works [...]

Young jazz lovers take note: Malcolm Mayhew from Bass Performance Hall sends word that students and faculty with ID can get 25 percent discounts on tickets to the July 14th performance of Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Call 817.212.4280 or order online.

Never much liked Dallas, the TV show. Not because of any sense that it was a false representation of the city. It was just a primetime soap about the oil rich and not to my taste, even as a camp in-joke. I watched one of the first episodes (barely) and never sat through another.
So [...]