STOP SITTING ON YOUR HANDS: When to applaud? Theatergoers freely clap when a star first walks onstage, at the end of acts or even after musical numbers. And people at pop music concerts are free to hoot and holler whenever the spirit moves them. But classical music concerts are a whole different affair. And Alex [...]

Getting some calls already on this one  because of the promos that have aired.
You can see the story listed in our front-page “NPR Arts headlines.”  But you won’t be able to hear the story by John Burnett and Wade Goodwyn until — well, now — during All Things Considered.
So here’s the summary from NPR: “There’s [...]

. . .  it means an art organization might be able to get a good deal on a new home. After 25 years in the same office/rehearsal space in Fort Worth at 6845 Green Oaks, Texas Ballet Theater is moving to a new home at 1600 Green Oaks Road, right alongside Ridgmar Mall near I-30 [...]

The Wall Street Journal reports that in tough times, Americans head to museums — children’s, science, history or art museums. One good reason for that you won’t find until the bottom of the article:  “Many museums’ admissions fees remain free or are relatively inexpensive. … The average price of admission was $7, the same as [...]

GRANTING WISHES IN FORT WORTH: The Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County handed out more than $1 million in grants Wednesday to 43 arts groups. That’s about half a million less that the council distributed last year. The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra received about a quarter of this year’s money with a $243,600 [...]

On January 12, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti. On January 14, Arlington photographer Lawrence Jenkins was on a plane on his way to document the destruction.
“I document black history – whether it’s African-American, or Haitian or African – I document black history. So it just fell in line with what I do,” Jenkins said [...]

Guest Blogger Tina Aguilar teaches Humanities and Cultural Studies at Brookhaven College School of the Arts.
If you don’t know the corner of Young Street and Park Avenue, it is part of the heartbeat of Downtown Dallas. That is where The Stewpot Art Program is located. The day I went to The Stewpot, it had [...]

Having successfully — finally — brought Dallas Contemporary into its large new warehouse-industrial space, executive director Joan Davidow will retire from her position at the end of May.  A bit of a surprise, to say the least — but that delay may have been the last straw, as it were.
The former head of the Arlington [...]

Business Council for the Arts (a.k.a., the organization formerly known as North Texas Business for Culture and the Arts) is looking for nominations for the 2010 Obelisk Awards. The Obelisks “honor business volunteers and businesses in North Texas whose support has had significant impact on the region’s arts and cultural environment in 2009.”
If you [...]

The news came in late last night — while I was still finishing the story about SMU’s new drama department chair — that former Dallas Public Library director Lillian Moore Bradshaw had died at 95. Robert Wilonsky provides a good obit at Unfair Park for the woman who more or less made the downtown library [...]