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Once again, our hearts and prayers go out to the folks across Southeast Texas – many of whom are artists and supporters of arts institutions. This week, we’ve included a few stories on the effects that the weather has had on the region’s arts scene and how people are trying to help:

Rockport Center for the Arts sustained damage from Hurricane Harvey in Aug 2017

• Checking In On Art Museums Since Harvey Hit (Art&Seek)
• Houston’s Jazz Envoys Describe A Vibrant Scene Deluged, And Worry For Its Future (NPR)
• Houston’s Theater District Hard Hit (Glasstire)
• Here’s a List of Emergency Resources for Artists (Glasstire)
• This Is How Museums In And Around Houston Prepared For Tropical Storm Harvey (Huffington Post)
• Waterlogged Texas Museums Assess the Damage Caused by Hurricane Harvey (ArtNet News)
• National Endowment for the Humanities Pledges $1 Million to Arts Organizations Hurt by Hurricane Harvey (ArtNet News)
• As Harvey Dissipates, Texas Architectural Community Takes Stock of Storm’s Impact on Cultural Projects (Architectural Record)
• This Texas Museum Was Devastated by Ike. Here’s How It Prepared For Harvey (Smithsonianmag.com)
• Here’s What We Know Now About Texas Art Spaces and Harvey (Glasstire)
• Emergency Salvage of Family Treasures Tips (University of Texas – School of Information)
• Concerts, Benefits – Even Free Chocolate – To Help Harvey Victims (Art&Seek)

A Quick Look At Art&Seek’s Reporting

Pamela Johnson, Laura Hartman and Keara Teeter stretching a Steichen

• Painting conservationists sometimes have to restore an artwork pigment by pigment, brushstroke by brushstroke. In this week’s Artist Spotlight, Art&Seek’s Jerome Weeks visited with Laura Eva Hartman – the Dallas Museum of Art’s associate paintings conservator. Hartman’s been working on a series of paintings that haven’t been seen in 100 years.

• For 25 years, the TV show “Frame of Mind” has served up documentaries, drama and animation, all made in Texas. The show’s new season starts Thursday on KERA TV. For State of the Arts this week, Art&Seek’s Anne Bothwell  sat down with Bart Weiss, producer of “Frame of Mind” for almost two decades. He’s also a co-founder of Dallas VideoFest. They discussed the retrospective on “Frame of Mind”‘s 25 years that Weiss produced. Come watch it with us Wednesday night at Texas Theatre. It’s free.

This fall, a pair of high-profile Texas directors – David Gordon Green and Richard Linklater – release new films that could get Oscar attention.  “The Big Screen” team previewed both and took a sneak peek at the upcoming Venice Film Festival, which team member Chris Vognar is attending.

What Else You’ve Got To Know

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• Auditor Warns that Arts Patrons May Need a Bailout Again After One Year (Dallas Observer)
• Downtown Dallas’ Museum of Street Culture Opens With Groundbreaking Show (Culture Map)
• Designing Women: Dallas Gallerists Shape the Design District’s Contemporary Art Scene (Arts+Culture)
• Con Gran Poder: Dallas Is an Epicenter of Latino Indie Comic Artists (Dallas Observer)
• How Dallas ISD Can Grow Working Humans Through Arts, Socio-Emotional Skills (D Magazine)
• Reshaping The Arts In Dallas: TACA, Turning 50, Is Raising Its Profile (Dallas Morning News)
• Irving Music Factory Opening Delayed (D Magazine)
• Dallas Cowboys Delay Unveiling Of New Sculpture By Internationally Acclaimed Artist (Dallas Morning News)

What We’re Reading

In modern times this would be cities standing against the Fed’s for Sanctuary Cities.

A post shared by Debbie Song (@federalwitness) on Sep 5, 2017 at 1:56am PDT

• Art History, Artist’s Intent, Must Be Considered In Fate Of Confederate Statue In Dallas’ Lee Park (Dallas Morning News)
• Freedman’s Cemetery Sculptor On Dallas Confederate Statue: Let The Community Decide (Dallas Morning News)
• Making A New Dallas Way: Artist Carol Zou’s Parting Words (D Magazine)
• How the Defenders Are Saving New York (The Village Voice)
• From Chris Burden to ORLAN, How 8 Artists Took Their Work to the Extreme (Artsy)
• Review: Circle Theatre’s ‘Ripcord’ (Art&Seek)

What We’re Listening To

• Charley Crockett Reignite Country Classics on His “Honky Tonk Jubilee” (SavingCountryMusic.com)

• Songs of the Week (Central Track)

• September Concerts In North Texas (KXT)

What We’re Looking At

• Relive Your Childhood at the ‘Museum of Play’ (Great Big Story)

• The Opening Lines of Romeo and Juliet Recited in the Original Accent of Shakespeare’s Time (Laughing Squid)

• Kimbell’s ‘Casanova’ Follows The Seducer’s Trail Through Europe (Star-Telegram)

• Long On Storytelling And Deep In Insight, The Jewish Film Festival Of Dallas Begins (Dallas Morning News)

Photo Of The Week

Congratulations to Lorna Hamblin the winner of the Flickr Photo of the Week contest for her photo “Aluminum Overcast.” To learn how to enter the contest and to see past winners visit artandseek org.

A post shared by art&seek (@artandseektx) on Aug 31, 2017 at 7:56am PDT