Kimbell's Bernini Show, To Open in 2013, Gets Reviewed in NYC
Bernini: Sculpting in Clay, a survey of 39 works by the 17th-century Baroque master, opens Feb. 3 in Fort Worth. But its first stop is at the Met in New York City, where it opened Wednesday. The show...
View Article‘Superman’ Cast for NYC
The New York Times reports that Broadway star Brian Watts has been cast in the lead role in the Lee Adams-Charles Strouse musical, It’s a Bird … It’s a Plane … It’s Superman for a seven-performance...
View ArticleMajor Dallas Art Collector Howard Rachofsky Used to Buy in New York Galleries …
… and now he does his art-collecting at fairs in Basel, London and New York. Who cares? The leading New York galleries do. In a front-page story in the New York Times, reporter Graham Bowley detects a...
View Article‘Fly By Night’ Doesn’t Fly By NYTimes Critic
Damon Daunno (front) and music director Zak Sandler (back) in Fly By Night at the DTC. Photo credit: Karen Almond. Fly By Night, the quirky, charming musical the Dallas Theater Center staged last year,...
View ArticleFormer SMU Arts Dean Going For Video College Applications
And yes, there’s an app for that. Jose Bowen, who announced his departure as dean of SMU’s Meadows College of the Arts only back in March, has already gotten some national attention (from NPR and the...
View ArticleAmon Carter’s ‘Navigating The West’ Continues To Get Some Love
The exhibition, Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham and the River, debuted and ran at the Amon Carter late last year before moving on to St. Louis and is now at the Met in New York. The show of...
View ArticleDallas’ Only Pulitzer Winner (In The Arts) Is Back On Broadway
James Earl Jone and Cicely Tyson in ‘The Gin Game’ on Broadway. Photo: Joan Marcus D. L. Coburn won the Pulitzer Prize in 1978 for the Broadway premiere of his play, ‘The Gin Game.’ More than 35 years...
View ArticleThe NYTimes Catches Up With Former DSO Conductor Andrew Litton —
— who is in his first season as the music director of the New York City Ballet Orchestra. The paper gave him a favorable review for conducting ‘The Nutcracker’ in November at Lincoln Center (“all the...
View ArticleNYTimes Names DSO’s Jaap Van Zweden A Top Contender To Lead NYPhilharmonic
In an article about London’s Philharmonia Orchestra conductor and Finnish composer Esa Pekka-Salonen declining to be the next music director of the New York Philharmonic, The New York Times names...
View ArticleNew York Catching Up With North Texas
Choreographer Camille Brown (left) with ‘Stagger Lee’ director Patricia McGregor. Photo: Jerome Weeks The Denton-born group Snarky Puppy won a Grammy two years ago for best R&B performance, and...
View ArticleRemember that New 'Advanced Auto-tune' We Told You About?
For TEDxSMU last year, SMU electrical engineering professor Scott Douglas talked about how the next step in digital vocal processing was coming soon: instant vocal perfection, vocal perfection while...
View ArticleGet a Preview of Gail Collins' New Book on Texas …
In addition to her regular — and amusing — New York Times political columns, Collins has written a history of recent feminism (When Everything Changed) and a history of political gossip (Scorpion...
View ArticleThursday Morning Roundup
THE BEST OF 817: On Sunday, the Fort Wort Weekly Music Awards Festival will be held at eight venues in the West 7th Street corridor. A whopping 48 bands will take the various stages – some you’ve heard...
View ArticleFWOpera's Darren Woods to Wed Makeup Designer Steven Bryant
Just checking out the New York Times‘ Sunday wedding announcements, when I’m stopped by a face and a name I recognize: Darren Woods. The announcement states that FWOpera general director Woods will be...
View ArticleTaking Opera's Temperature
The cover story of the August issue of Opera News is the one about “Opera’s Next Wave” — the one that features FWOpera’s Darren Woods riding that wave — and NPR uses that as a springboard for a...
View ArticleUncle Barky Makes The New York Times
UPDATE: Folks from The Human Rights Initiative of North Texas were among those in the audience at a special preview screening and panel discussion of Half the Sky at KERA yesterday. Ed Bark, former...
View ArticleNew York Times Puts Symphony Strikes In Perspective
In the classical music world, they looked like falling dominos. First, the Fort Worth Symphony musicians went on strike on Sept. 8 — and have remained that way ever since, with management canceling...
View ArticleFort Worth Symphony May Be The New Normal For Orchestras Today
‘The New York Times’ reports that the League of American Orchestras has released an eight-year study that finds — the good news — classical orchestras’ contributed income, which had dropped during the...
View ArticleNew York Times Lauds Resourcefulness Of North Texas Theaters
Freelance critic Elisabeth Vincentelli (the former drama critic for the New York Post) writes in The New York Times about the many North Texas stage companies — from MainStage Irving-Las Colinas to...
View ArticleUPDATED: ‘Salvator Mundi,’ That Da Vinci Painting The DMA Wanted To Buy?
The Art Newspaper has a story about a new French film, The Savior for Sale by director Antoine Vitkine, which delves into why the Louvre’s 2019 blockbuster exhibition of Leonardo’s works ultimately...
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