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A Quick Look At Art&Seek’s Reporting

• When Jeff Colangelo slashes someone with a sword, it looks shockingly real – yet no one gets hurt. Colangelo is a fight director and he’s very much in-demand among North Texas theaters. In the most recent Artist Spotlight Art & Seek’s Jerome Weeks finds Colangelo’ in rehearsal for the Dallas Theater Center’s new musical about Robin Hood.
• Almost any state can boast about the music it’s given the world. Still, long-time music critic Michael Corcoran says Texas stands out. He’s written a book about the state’s musical heroes. Art&Seek’s Hady Mawajdeh talks with him about and was surprised to learn that Willie Nelson isn’t one of them.
• In January this year, Cry Havoc Theater presented ‘Shots Fired,’  a student-generated, documentary play about the shooting of five police officers last year on July 7th. High school students interviewed witnesses, a police officer, even a doctor on call that night – they assembled the interviews, edited them and enacted them. State of the Art interviewed Havoc’s director Mara Richards Bim in January. We re-post that interview because ‘Shots Fired’ is being revived this weekend as a co-production with Kitchen Dog Theater, followed by a new play, ‘The Great American Sideshow.’
  • A year after five police officers were killed during an otherwise peaceful protest, the doctor who treated many of the injured reflects on his role as a healer and an African-American man. (Texas Standard)
• Dallas director David Lowery broke big last summer with his remake of the Disney classic “Pete’s Dragon.” For his new film, he returns to his indie roots to tell a story of a ghost revisiting his former life. “The Big Screen” team talked with him about that film, “A Ghost Story,” which opens Friday, July 21.
  • Grief Hangs Around At Home In ‘A Ghost Story’ (NPR)
• Hundreds of women, men and children dressed as Frida Kahlo swarmed into the Dallas Museum of Art last Thursday. Art&Seek’s Miguel Perez says they were there to celebrate the Mexican artist’s 110th birthday – and to set a Guinness World Record.

Tonight at the Dallas Museum of Art they set the record for the most people dressed like Frida Kahlo! I got to help out and make sure everyone was in compliance. Supposedly my name will be in the Guiness Book of World Records now! Everyone looked so awesome! #fridakahlo #dma #art #dallas #guinessbookofworldrecords

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What Else You’ve Got To Know

Photo: Placido Domingo

• Plácido Domingo Joins Fort Worth Opera (Theater Jones)
• Dallas’ Aurora 2018 Looks Ahead With Fresh Focus And Bigger Footprint (Culture Map Dallas)
• TBAAL’s Riverfront Jazz Festival to Debut This Labor Day Weekend (D Magazine)
• Texas Thriller Writer’s New Novel Was Almost Called ‘The Girl Who Doesn’t Remember’ (Dallas Morning News)

What We’re Reading

NICK BAILEY, AUSTIN SCOTT. Photo by Karen Almond.

• Monthly Places! July 2017 (Theater Jones)
• This Brilliant Dallas Artist Is All But Forgotten (D Magazine)
• SFMOMA Wants to Text You Art (Glasstire)
• Visions of America: Three Centuries of Prints at the Dallas Museum of Art (Arts+Culture)
• Modern Dance Festival Makes Most Of Its Modern Environs (Star-Telegram)
• Stride Into A Dystopian Fashion Future at Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas Morning News)

What We’re Listening To

Haim’s latest album, “Something To Tell You,” is out on Columbia Records. Photo: Courtesy of the artist

• Haim Explains The Heartache And Joy Of Its New Album, Track By Track (NPR Music)
• First Listen: Waxahatchee, ‘Out In The Storm’ (NPR Music)
• First Listen: Shabazz Palaces, ‘Quazarz: Born On A Gangster Star’ (NPR Music)

• Daniel Hart – “Safe Safe Safe” (from A Ghost Story OST)

What We’re Looking At

• Tripping Daisy – “Sonic Bloom” – KXT Live Sessions

• ‘GLOW’ Co-Creators Explain Why Wrestling Is Like Greek Theater (NPR)

• Prince’s Music Videos Are Back Online (NPR)

YA FAV INSTAGRANDMA WROTE A BOOK ALL ABOUT MY LIFE, TIPS, FASHION EVERYTHING!!! NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER EVERYWHERE ⚡️MY FAV PHOTOS THAT ARE UNSEEN LINK IN BIO #Baddiebook

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• Instagrandma Baddiewinkle Says She’s ‘Always Been A Rebel‘ (NPR)

Behold the Manga: Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy. Photo: Dark Horse Manga

• Nothing Was Ever The Same: 10 Comics That Changed The Game (NPR)

Photo Of The Week

Congrats to our latest winner of the Flickr Photo of the Week contest, Evan Waygood, with his striking shot of “Monahans Sand Hills.” For info on how to submit your photos, visit artandseek.org.

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