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A Quick Look At Art&Seek’s Reporting

• Nowadays, it seems there’s a podcast for just about everything. Despite the variety, not everyone feels served. In this week’s Art&Seek Artist Spotlight, I connect with an arts collective hoping to represent for North Texas Latinos through parties, art shows and podcasting.

Tom Clancy’s “Power and Empire” (A Jack Ryan Novel) by Marc Cameron

• Tom Clancy, author of blockbusters like “The Hunt for Red October,” died in 2013. Yet thrillers keep coming out under his name. The latest book is called “Power and Empire” and it’s written by Fort Worth native Marc Cameron. Art&Seek’s Anne Bothwell talks with him about taking on Clancy’s legendary characters.

• When the Kimbell Art Museum opened its current exhibition, ‘Casanova: The Seduction of Europe,’we had a chance to talk with co-curator, Frederich Ilchman of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, about the show’s elaborate, immersive nature and the many gilt-edged artworks chosen for it. But with the recent visit to the Kimbell by Ian Kelly, author of ‘Casanova: Actor, Lover, Priest, Spy,’ his acclaimed biography from 2008, we had a chance to talk about the man himself, his life in the 18th century (1725-1798) – and his infamous reputation.

What Else You’ve Got To Know

• North Texas Theaters Will Convene To Discuss Sexual Harassment (Art&Seek)
• Dallas Black Dance Theatre Steps Up (D Magazine)
• Bass Family Van Gogh Nearly Sets Record At Auction (Star-Telegram)
• Newly Discovered Andy Warhol Art Up For Auction (WBUR)
• Memorial Set For Meadows Museum Curator Nicole Atzbach (Art&Seek)
• The Popular Deep Ellum Hangout Has A Cowtown Location: Twilite Lounge 2 (FW Weekly)
• No More Smoking In Denton Bars Come 2018 (Central Track)
• AT&T PAC Announces Lineup For 2018 Speaker Series (Art&Seek)

What We’re Reading

Americans are more curious about different cuisines than ever before. But who gets to write about these cuisines, and which ones get covered?
Image: LA Johnson/NPR

• Breaking The Bubble Of Food Writing: Cultivating Diverse Stories (NPR)
• The Whisper Network, Part 2 (Theater Jones)
• The Real Meaning of the Robert E. Lee Statue (D Magazine)
• Close to the Ground: Lily Cabatu Weiss Leads the Dallas Arts District Forward (Arts + Culture)
• Survey Of Top Architecture Firms Reveals “Quite Shocking” Lack Of Gender Diversity At Senior Levels (DE ZEEN)
• Katherine Bradford at the Modern (Arts + Culture)
• Solstice At Theatre Three Is An Uneven New Holiday Experience (Culture Map)
• How a Bay Area Filmmaker Chose Fort Worth for His First Feature (D Magazine)
• The Languages of All-Women Exhibitions (Contemporary Art Review)
• 7 Dallas Artists to Watch in 2018 (Dallas Observer)

What We’re Listening To

• “Honey” – Jessie Frye

• “Terribility” – Oil Boom

•  “Will He (remix)” – Medasin (Central Track)

• “[Un]known Remains” – Jomei {Nature Savvy} (Central Track)

• “All My Days” – Mountain Song (We Denton Do It)

What We’re Looking At

• “My Father’s Tools” from Wapikoni mobile (Vimeo)

• How Harvey Weinstein’s Sexual Abuse Cover Up Fell Apart (The New Yorker)

• How Technicolor Changed Movies (Vox)

• ‘The Disaster Artist’ Is The Best Movie About A Bad Movie (NPR)

• The Internet is under attack. This is the Battle for the Net. from Louis Wesolowsky  (Vimeo)

Photo Of The Week

Congratulations to @lyncaudle of Dallas, winner of the Flickr Photo of the Week contest for his photo, ‘Rhapsody.’ To learn how to enter the contest and to see past winners visit artandseek.org.

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