Arts News You Can Use: Sad Little Houses, Saving The Kalita & More!
ArtandSeek.net January 8, 2018 6Happy Tuesday! Thanks for checking out Art&Seek’s weekly look back at the biggest and most important stories in the North Texas arts scene. If you or your friends want to know more about what’s happening in the North Texas arts world, check out our weekly newsletter. Click here to sign up.
A Quick Look At Art&Seek’s Reporting
- For the past few weeks, houses have been popping up all over Oak Cliff. These aren’t the luxury apartment complexes you might’ve seen in Bishop Arts though. In fact, you won’t even see construction crews working on these houses, because they pop up so fast. In this week’s Art&Seek Artist Spotlight, I meet up with artist Giovanni Valderas as he responds to Oak Cliff’s gentrification.
Kalita Humphreys Theater
Photo: franklloydwright.org
- The Kalita Humphreys theater is the only free-standing theater by renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright that was ever built. Nestled next to Turtle Creek in Dallas, it opened to national acclaim in 1959 and housed the Dallas Theater Center for 50 years. Now it’s fallen into neglect and disrepair. In ‘State of the Arts,’ Art&Seek’s Anne Bothwell sat down with Mark Lamster, architecture critic at “The Dallas Morning News” to learn about a plan to save the theater — and why that plan has stalled.
- In “The Post,” Tom Hanks plays legendary Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee. He’s desperately trying to convince the paper’s publisher – played by Meryl Streep – to print The Pentagon Papers, which detail how the government lied about the Vietnam War. ‘The Big Screen’team talks with the editor of The Dallas Morning News about the many journalistic questions explored in the film.
What Else You’ve Got To Know
Diners sample dishes at Big Claw, which opened in Plano in April with the goal of serving authentic Chinese dishes to Asian-American millennials.
Photo: Kathy Tran
- How Did Plano Become One of Texas’ Fastest-Growing Asian Food Destinations? (Dallas Observer)
- Moody Grant Applications Announced (Theater Jones)
- Dallas’ Next Great Plan. Maybe. (D Magazine)
- ‘SuperLatina’ To Talk About Her Fort Worth Opera Journey (Star-Telegram)
- Trump’s Border Wall Inspires Art, Now it IS Art (Glasstire)
- January Concerts in North Texas (KXT 91.7)
- Symphony Board Reverses Course, Rescinds Suspension Of Orchestra Season (Express-News)
What We’re Reading
The High Museum of Art in Atlanta has worked to make diversity a priority. In recent years, the museum has seen an increase in the percentage of nonwhite visitors.
Photo: John Bazemore/AP
- How An Art Museum Is Reaching A More Diverse Audience (NPR)
- Jean-Michel Jarre to Rendez-vous in Houston and Dallas (Glasstire)
- These Are The 12 Can’t-Miss Shows In Dallas-Fort Worth Theater For January (Culture Map)
- Mr. Gaga Is Coming to Dallas (Theater Jones)
- Plano Teen Becomes Off-Broadway Producer (Dallas Morning News)
- Local Music for 2018 (Fort Worth Weekly)
- Art And Yoga Are My Defense Against The Daily Grind (Dallas Morning News)
- Cassette Tape Sales Had Their Best Year Since 2012 (Verge)
What We’re Listening To
A lineup of JR East Shinkansen trains in October 2012.
Photo: RSA>/a>(CC BY-SA 3.0)
- Biomimicry: How Designers Are Learning from the Natural World (99% Invisible)
- “The Soft Kind” – Hey Cowboy! (Central Track)
- “Vintage Ferrari Coupe” – GuitarEmoji (Central Track)
A rosca de reyes cake on display at a bakery in Mexico City. The cake is the signature dish of Three Kings Day celebrations in many parts of Latin America.
Photo: Jam Media/CON/LatinContent/Getty Images
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What We’re Looking At
- The Link Between Japanese Samurai and Real Indigo (Great Big Story)
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