Loose Ends: April 2013
Stray Tidbits, Blind Items and Unsolicited Advice Welcome to Loose Ends, a new monthly visual-arts column in which...
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To commence a yearlong 10-year anniversary, the Nasher Sculpture Center will present Nasher XChange, a dynamic art exhibition consisting of 10 newly – commissioned public sculptures by contemporary artists at sites throughout the city of Dallas from October 19, 2013 to February 16, 2014. Covering a diverse range of sites and approaches [...]
ARTifacts: February 2013
The Dallas Opera has announced that Broadway legend and Drama Desk and Tony Award-winning director, producer, playwright, and lyricist Jack O’Brien has been engaged to direct the company’s world premiere production of Great Scott, a new, full-length opera by acclaimed American composer Jake Heggie (Moby-Dick) [...]
artiFACTS: February 2013
Houston Symphony President Robert A. Peiser and Executive Director and CEO Mark C. Hanson announced that the Orchestra has selected Colombian-born, Vienna-trained conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada as its next [...]
ARTifacts: December 2012
ACTOR HAGMAN’S FINAL ACT The late actor Larry Hagman visited the Dallas Children’s Theater two weeks prior to...
artiFACTS: December 2012
Several Houston dancers appeared in the book Dancers Among Us, including Houston Ballet’s Connor Walsh, Charles Charles-Louis Yoshiyama, Melody Mennite and Noble Motion Dance Company members Jesus Acosta [...]
ARTifacts: November 2012
PREMIERE EXHIBIT In October 2013, Dallas Museum of Art will premiere a major traveling exhibition and the first comprehensive survey to be organized in the U.S. on the work of contemporary American artist Jim Hodges. Co-organized by the DMA and the Walker Art Center, Jim Hodges: sometimes beauty explores the trajectory [...]
artiFACTS: November 2012
Theater LaB Houston bids farewell to its Alamo venue on December 2, 2012. Bayou City Concert Musicals will present the 2012 Kim Hupp Award to Gerald Blaise LaBita, founder and producing director of Theater LaB Houston [...]
artiFACTS: October 2012
Glen Bailey is the new director for FotoFest’s Student Education Program, an in-school student visual literacy program now in its 22nd year in Houston’s schools. Bailey came to Houston from the John F. Kennedy Center [...]
artiFACTS: September 2012
DiverseWorks ArtSpace will relocate to Midtown at 4102 Fannin Street on September 7, 2012. Rachel Cook has been appointed to the newly created post of Assistant Curator. DW also announces two new programs: DWoW [...]
artiFACTS: July/August 2012
Houston Art Dealers Association announces the ArtHouston 2012 summer event with 35 participating fine art galleries, opening on July 14th in a day-long event. Participating galleries include those along Colquitt, in the Museum [...]
ARTifacts: June 2012
A new exhibit sponsored by Dallas Architecture Forum, Our Architecture: Arts & Humanities DFW 2012, is now on display at NorthPark Center through June 17. The exhibition features 12 of Dallas and Fort Worth’s landmark museums and performing arts buildings photographed by renowned [...]