Hello, one and all.
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New to me this week: Rob Dougan, Above and Beyond, Inara George and Robin Trower.
The setlist:
Ella Fitzgerald, “Solitude,” Ella [...]

Fort Worth’s Telegraph Canyon is among a handful of additional acts that have been added to the NX35 Conferette lineup. Keep reading for the news release:

Pop Up 310, opening Feb. 13, is an independent side project of Goss-Michael Foundation associate curator James Cope and the Public Trust’s Brian Gibb (also known as founder of Art Prostitute). As its name implies, it’s a completely temporary arrangement — now you see it, now you don’t. And that’s what Cope likes about it.
“I [...]

In the Telegraph, acclaimed classical pianist Stephen Hough contemplates a famous quip by Vladimir Horowitz that there are three kinds of pianists: Jewish, gay and bad. Hough, who is gay, wonders if we actually can tell just by listening to, say, Horowitz, Sviatoslav Richter and Shura Cherkassky? Or Artur Rubinstein, Emil Gilels and Rudolf Serkin? [...]

FOR THE LITTLE SWASHBUCKLERS: Dallas Children’s Theater recently launched the Southwest premiere of How I Became a Pirate. The musical follows a youngster who joins up with a pirate ship in search of treasure. Will he learn that there are More Important Things In Life? I predict yes, but ya never know I guess. Anyway, [...]

Probably the most acclaimed local stage production of last year, the Undermain’s Port Twilight is finally shutting down this weekend — after having its run extended for three weeks.  You can read (or listen to) my review here or watch our Think TV interview with artistic director Katherine Owens  here.
Because my daughter hadn’t seen this [...]

You may recall that the new artspace, the Dallas Contemporary, was all set to open last month to a lot of attention. But then it didn’t. Talk about anticlimactic. When we spoke with Joan Davidow on Think TV, she explained that it was the last-minute delays in getting the building ready for inspection and certification [...]

Guest Blogger Tina Aguilar teaches Humanities and Cultural Studies at Brookhaven College School of the Arts.
How does design create memory?
Landscape architect Anne Whiston Spirn says she considers, “landscape as an association of people and place,” and the Lochwood Branch Library in Dallas embodies such an opportunity. Recently, I was captured by a luminescence of [...]

J.D. Salinger has died at 91.  Begin high school English class flashback now…

Tyler Green over at the Modern Art Notes blog, has deviously managed to insert fine arts news into the massive media obsession and extravaganza over the Super Bowl: He’s goaded the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art to wager the loan of some major paintings on the game’s outcome. The [...]