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A Quick Look At Art&Seek’s Reporting

• A few months ago, the ‘Fort Worth Star-Telegram’ laid off its last full-time arts critic. The same thing has happened across the nation. Art&Seek’s Jerome Weeks chatted with several area arts leaders who are concerned. In this week’s State of the Arts, Weeks and I discuss how the arts media landscape is being disrupted. Or transformed.

• Bloody hatchets, roaring chainsaws and demonic clowns are some of the terrifying things that could get you hyperventilating at a haunted house. In the latest Art & Seek Artist Spotlight, I explore the idea of “fear as entertainment” with Richardson native Misty Keasler. Keasler spent two years photographing the scariest haunts in North America.

• Hollywood always releases a slew of new horror films around Halloween, but the “Big Screen” team – Chris Vognar, culture critic for ‘The Dallas Morning News’ and Art & Seek’s Jerome Weeks (filling in for Stephen Becker) – opted for digging up a pair of old scares, particularly because they’re getting special treatment from the Texas Theatre next week: the 1922 silent-film classic, ‘Nosferatu,’ which will play at the Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff, with the Austin band, the Invincible Czars, providing their own live score.

What Else You’ve Got To Know

The Allen-based game studio BonusXP turned Netflix’s wildly popular horror hit Stranger Things into a mobile game.

• How an Allen Studio Won the Contract to Make the Top-Secret Stranger Things Game (Dallas Observer)
• 4 Reasons You Should Help Create Dallas’ New Cultural Plan (Dallas Morning News) $
• Three Dallas Art Events to Support Puerto Rico (Glasstire)
• Why You Should Attend The Next Public Hearing On Confederate Monuments — If There Is One (D Magazine)
• Women in the Arts Are Fed Up! (Glasstire)
• Jane Austen, Trailer Park Boys & a Rhinoceros: Holiday Stages in Texas (Arts+Culture)
• Dallas Actors Are Adding Fort Worth To Their Go-To Stages; Theatergoers Should, Too (Dallas Morning News) $

What We’re Reading

Museum curator Teddy Reeves demonstrates a method of salvaging damaged photos at a workshop in Beaumont, Texas.
Photo: Allison Lee/Houston Public Media

• ‘All Is Not Lost’: These Experts Help Save Hurricane-Soaked Heirlooms (NPR Arts & Life)
• Día de los Muertos Takes Over Texas (Glasstire)
• Ironbound Is a Frustrating But Honest Portrait of Immigrant Life in America (Dallas Observer)
• The Lorenzo Hotel Is the Ultimate Instagram Backdrop (D Magazine)
• Adam Fung at Ro2 Art (Glasstire)
• Dallas Opera’s ‘La Traviata’ Is Musically Fine, But Dramatically Problematic (Dallas Morning News) $
• Pants Down at Uptown (Theater Jones)
• Something Will Come of Nothing: On Staging Shakespeare Without Words (D Magazine)
• Communicating In The Texas Music Scene: Persistent, But Not Pushy (Texas Music Pickers)
• The Artist as Citizen (Theater Jones)

What We’re Listening To

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• The Story Behind ‘Thank You For Your Service’ (KERA’s Think w/ Krys Boyd)

• Zyah – “I’ve Been In Love” (Central Track)

• Andy Pickett – “Floral” (Central Track)

• Daniella Mason – Daniella Mason

• Why This Awful Sounding Album Is A Masterpiece (Vox)

What We’re Looking At

• She Watched Bootleg Episodes Of Seinfeld, Now The Indonesian Comic Performs Stand-Up (NPR Arts & Life)

On it’s surface, The Lion King “has nothing to do with racism,” says director Julie Taymor. But what moved her is, “for African-American audiences, it was all about race in a very proud, beautiful way — connecting to Africa without being directly a pickup.”
Photo: Joan Marcus

• Bold Experiment Turned Broadway Hit, ‘Lion King’ Continues To Thrill — And Heal (NPR Arts & Life)

• In Season Two, ‘Stranger Things’ Offers More Scares And The Same Quirky Quartet Of Nerds (NPR Arts & Life)

• Amanda Palmer’s Powerful New Song And Video On The Global Refugee Crisis (NPR Music)

• The Dollhouses Of Death That Changed Forensic Science (Vox)

Photo Of The Week

Congratulations to John Crisp of Mesquite, the winner of the Flickr Photo of the Week contest for his photo, ‘Into the Light.’ To learn how to enter the contest and to see past winners visit artandseek.org.

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