The Who perform “Pinball Wizard” fromTommy, live on the Isle of Wight.
Guest blogger Gail Sachson owns Ask Me About Art. She is vice-chair of the Cultural Affairs Commission, a Public Art Committee member and the Office of Cultural Affairs Liaison to the Dallas Theater Center Board of Directors.
The best theater in town this week was [...]

Art isn’t just what hangs in museums and galleries or what sells for millions in international auctions. As that art has become literally bigger in size and pricier, Internet-age counter-movements of small, affordable, personalized (and sometimes mass-produced) works have cropped up. The line between artist and appreciator has blurred in the process.
Etsy Dallas, an online [...]

It’s not possible to see how much Dallas-Fort Worth appears in the film — if at all.  It was shot mostly in Louisiana: Shreveport’s Independence Bowl, for instance, stands in for Arlington Park. Written by Oliver Stone (briefly a Yale classmate of President Bush) and Stanley Weiser (Wall Street), W. has been described by Stone [...]

Speaking of real estate news (see “SCADs” below) …
Late last year — after 16 years of wandering around to different performance spaces in Fort Worth — Stage West came back to its long-time home at 821 W. Vickery. The company left the old warehouse because the reconstruction of I-30 had made it perilous for theatergoers [...]

The bottom item in Steve Brown’s business column in the Dallas Morning News on July 18 announced that “the Savannah College of Art and Design has considered the vacant West End Marketplace and an adjoining building for the site of a new downtown Dallas campus.”
Here’s hoping it happens. It could be a huge addition to [...]

As Manny mentioned, this weekend marked the first of five presentations in a series of video and new media art presented by the Video Association of Dallas at Conduit Gallery. The good news: If you missed Saturday’s opening reception at Conduit Gallery, you can still catch the installations, which will be on display this week. [...]

In the New York Times Book Review, Rachel Donadio’s column on author tours confirmed something I’ve argued for several years — that the rise of literary series such as Arts & Letters Live has been, in part, due to the lack of sufficient (and sufficiently big-name) promotional visits in other venues, particularly bookstore chains. In [...]

With the Amazon Wish List, I was vaguely aware that one can store the data for varioius desired items at the online retailer. But I was fuzzy on the fact that the list can be public. Anyone can log in and find out your heart’s desires.
So imagine my surprise in learning that Archinect has compiled [...]

Alexandra and Robert Switala, a brother and sister violin-viola duo from Grapevine, will appear Sunday on From the Top, the NPR/PBS program about young musicians performing at Carnegia Hall. They’ll play Johan Halvorsen’s jumpin’ Passacaglia on a theme from Handel for violin and viola. Their playing the final variation, back to back — so they [...]

Over in the feature content section, you can listen to Krys Boyd interview biographer Amanda Vail on Gerald and Sara Murphy, the subjects of the DMA exhibition, Making It New: