Back in September, a video and architectural renderings of the new Perot Museum of Nature & Science were released. Groundbreaking on the $185 million building happens later this year with construction scheduled to be completed in 2013.
But a recent visit to the website of the design firm Morphosis – prompted by lead architect Thom Mayne [...]

This Friday, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra will hold a major press conference, but so far, it has not revealed even the topic of discussion. At the same time, the DSO has been enticing (or taunting) us — we, the officially jaded skeptics in the media — with tidbits such as: The announcement will be “the [...]

I’ve never much liked this color. To tell you the truth, I never even liked it on Art&Seek. But who listens to me?
Turns out that all the people who didn’t listen to me at Upper Managment KERA were smart. In Dallas, this green has become Our Trendy New Shade of Light Summery Slime.
First, it [...]

– it’s now online as one of Gary Cogill’s WFAA videos, all 20 breathless minutes of it (” “magnificent!” is pretty much how the prose starts). Mighty cool visuals, though. A first look at that rooftop logo, for instance, with a big aerial reverse zoom that makes Cogill look like a tiny bridegroom figure topping [...]

I’ve already seen all the images of the Winspear Opera House that have appeared over the past three weeks — and I’ve seen ‘em a half-dozen times in several different formats. I’ve been to the ‘attic’ (the lighting grid), I’ve been backstage, under the stage, in the offices.
You think you’re tired of  the bloody thing?
But [...]

SMU professor Willard Spiegelman is usually busy talking about what makes him happy (as he did this spring on Think TV). So it’s a bit of a switch that he writes in today’s Wall Street Journal about what he’s currently unhappy with – namely, life in downtown Dallas.

Of course, you’ve probably read (or heard about) Edwin Heathcote’s takedown of the entire Arts District in the Financial Times. A tad overstated, perhaps, because Heathcote sees no viable model for a city except the classic European one: Dallas’ downtown, he writes, “is a melange of defunct US tropes: mirror-glazed blank-slab offices, massive multi-storey carparks, [...]

THERE WAS A TON OF COVERAGE ABOUT DALLAS ARTS THIS WEEKEND – locally, nationally — so rather than having you chew through it all at once, Art & Seek has decided to break it down into manageable, bite-size pieces. A two-course meal this morning.
FIRST, A LATE ADDITION/EDITION: You can read Olin Chism’s review of [...]

TOP OF THE LINE OR END OF THE LINE? NYTimes architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff writes that Dallas’ Arts District may mark a new beginning around these parts but it’s actually the last such major downtown renovation project currently in the American pipeline. (Well, there’s Miami’s, but Ouroussoff counts that one as “finished” because the money’s [...]

RIDGLEA ON THE EDGE: Preston Jones reports that Fort Worth’s Ridglea Theater — for a decade the kind of club that booked acts like Willie Nelson or Stereolab — is in serious straits, seeing only a smattering of music fans even on Friday nights. What happened? he asks. The economy, of course. But –
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