Nasher Welcomes Noted Design Critic
The Nasher Sculpture Center and Dallas Architecture Forum have announced that the chief architecture critic of The New...
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The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra announced this week their 2013-2014 concert season, a musical exploration of classical favorites, new works, and intriguing symphonic selections from other cultures. Major highlights include Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, the Dvořák Violin Concerto, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 [...]
Who Will Win at Cliburn?
The Cliburn announces today the 30 competitors selected to participate in the Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition,...
Public Art
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 [...]
Meadows Honors Texas Artist
The Meadows Museum recently announced that Stephen Lapthisophon is the recipient of the 2012 Moss/Chumley Artist Award. The...
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
On Friday night, October 19, 2012, something amazing will happen in downtown Dallas: buildings will become projection screens; streets and courtyards will morph into art galleries; and steel, glass, and concrete will pulse and reverberate, transforming The Dallas Arts District’s 19-square blocks into a mega-surround-sound system [...]