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The cast of “Stand-Up Tragedy.” A play put on collaboratively between Dallas Cultural Centers.

• Actors Ruben Carrazana and Stephanie Cleghorn Jasso have performed with companies like The Undermain or Cara Mia, but when they read the script for “Stand-Up Tragedy,” they decided to stage the show themselves. In this week’s State of the Arts discussion, Art&Seek’s Anne Bothwell talked to North Texas actors turned producers about working with teen actors and uniting the city’s cultural centers for this performance.

Allegations of ‘inappropriate behavior’ has shaken institutions in Dallas Arts District.

• Sexual harassment allegations are rocking the world of arts, entertainment and media. Not just headline celebrities in Hollywood and New York. In Dallas, in the last month, a curator from the Dallas Museum of Art resigned and the director of new play development at The Dallas Theater Center was fired. Art&Seek’s Jerome Weeks looked at the factors that make the problem pervasive – and how the arts look compared to other industries.

• “The Shape of Water” – the latest from visionary director Guillermo del Toro – features a monster who’s good and humans who’re the bad guys. In the latest edition of “The Big Screen,” the team talks about the history of sympathetic monsters – everyone from Frankenstein to the Creature from the Black Lagoon – with SMU film professor Rick Worland.

What Else You’ve Got To Know

The MAC in Dallas has teamed up with h Promise of Peace Gardens (POP) and art collaborative Tierra Firme to build a garden.
Photo: The MAC

• The Cedars Is Getting A Little Greener (Art&Seek)
• Circuit12 Contemporary to Close its Current Space (Glasstire)
• The Door Can Move, But Its Spirit Will Never Leave (Central Track)
• 2 New Bars Opening In Fort Worth, Including One That Sells Vinyl (Guide Live)
• Yes, Classical Music Has A Harassment Problem – And Now’s The Time For Change (The Guardian)

What We’re Reading

Katherine Bradford, “Waterfall,” 2017
Photo: Courtesy of the Artist and CANADA, New York

• The Most Important Non-Superhero Comic You’ve Never Heard Of (Hyperallergic)
• Texas Prisons Ban 10,000 Books. No ‘Charlie Brown Christmas’ for Inmates (New York Times)
• Katherine Bradford at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Glasstire)
• Jail Is Corrosive to a Young Man’s Mind (Pacific Standard)
• Pushing Back Against the Sensational Image of Chicago as “Chi-raq” (Hyperallergic)
• What Happened to ‘LA Weekly’? (City Lab)
• Q&A: David Carl [‘Trump Lear’ at Kitchen Dog Theater] (Theater Jones)
• Theatre Producer ‘Punched’ After Asking Audience Member To Stop Using Phone (The Stage)
• Holy Laughs (Theater Jones)

What We’re Listening To

Time for End of Year music lists.
Illustration: Alex Gamsu Jenkins

• The 100 Best Albums of 2017 (Noisey)
• The 100 Best Songs of 2017 (Noisey)

• Pedigo’s Magic Pilsner – “Orion” (Central Track)

• Mitchell Ferguson – “Go, Kid, Go” (Central Track)

Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures

• Director Guillermo Del Toro Says ‘Shape Of Water’ Centers On ‘Love Beyond Words’ (NPR)

‘All The Nightmares Came Today,’ by Mike and Doug Starn.
Photo: Courtesy of Cristina Grajales Gallery

• At Design Miami, The Future Isn’t So Bright (NPR)

What We’re Looking At

• How This Legendary Hip-Hop Producer Humanized A Machine (Vox)

• Tiny Desk – Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile (NPR Music)

• How To Design A Comic Book Page (Nerdwriter 1)

Photo Of The Week

Congratulations to Daniel Paasch of Fort Worth, the winner of the Flickr Photo of the Week contest for his photo “Sundown Downtown Cowtown.” To learn how to enter the contest and to see past winners visit artandseek.org

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