Separated at Birth?
The Morning News ran a story today about how the Hotel Congress inTucson has for years held a ’30s-styled event called Dillinger Days — a way of commemorating the fact that gangster John Dillinger and several cohorts were arrested there in 1934. It happens to be a prominent scene in director Michael Mann’s [...]

What’s interesting about SUPER DYNAMIC ACTION GO!, the current exhibition at the Fort Worth Contemporary Arts gallery — interesting, that is, to us media-cubicle-zombie types with our shameless need for fresh online content — is that the curator involved, Joel Kiser, is a grad student in Texas Christian University’s art department.

Andrew Sie was half of the Light & Sie Gallery, the chic contemporary space off Industrial Boulevard that specialized in smart new works. According to Scott Hilton, assistant director of the gallery, Sie passed away last Thursday. Although no immediate cause of death is know, Hilton said Sie suffered from “long-term health problems.”

Here at Art&Seek HQ, we are throwing confetti and congratulations at reporter/producer Jerome Weeks and videographer/producer Ivey Suber.  They won first place for Feature Story, Internet-Based News, from the Houston Press Club.  The award recognizes their reports on the red glass and the canopy at the Winspear Opera House.
More huzzahs for Jerome: He also nabbed [...]

Photographer Christi Nielsen, a UT-Dallas alum, has just wrapped up curating SecondHand, a new media exhibition online,  in preparation for a second show later this summer at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art.  Using the social media sites Twitter, Facebook and 12 Seconds,  Nielsen selects a “prompt” - a short, unusual phrase found on a social media site - [...]

For the next few days, more than 100 arts researchers from around the globe are gathering at SMU for the 10th International Association of Arts and Cultural Management Conference. The conference alternates between a location in Europe and a location in the rest of the world and gives the researchers a chance to present their [...]

Guest blogger Lydia Regalado is an arts educator, crafter and blogger who writes about people who gather to make things.
High temperatures, conservative spending habits and the need to stay cool is prompting a Stay-cation Summer! This summer I am staying close to home, exploring parts of my city, some of them for the first time. This [...]

The extreme heat of the Granada Theater didn’t prevent a thick crowd from forming near the stage Friday night as Texas native Ben Kweller played the penultimate show of his yearlong tour. I was accompanied by a rather aggressive group of concertgoers, so I found myself in the front row with the perfect view of [...]

Having just returned from a week and a half in Berkeley and Seattle, I’m catching up on my reading. It turns out that the July 2 edition of The New York Review of Books has two essays of interest to Texas readers (yes, I see your little group, standing alone in the back. Hi there!).
The [...]

Over in the feature section of Art&Seek, we posted a video that Holly Fetter did for our ongoing Artist Studio Tour featuring dancer Maeve Drablos. Holly asked Maeve about her space at KJ Studio, where the 17-year-old has practiced for 14 years. Here’s what she had to say:
What do you enjoy most about working here? [...]