Anne Bothwell

In Samantha Mabry’s new novel, a young couple struggles to survive as itinerant farm workers in a post-apocalyptic Texas. Mabry’s an English instructor at El Centro College. “All The Wind in the World” is her second novel and it was longlisted for a National Book Award in the category of Literature for Young People. For this week’s State of the Arts conversation, I sat down with Mabry to talk about writing for young adults. You can click above to listen to our conversation. The book is set on a…

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. Today in State of the Arts, I 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. You can click above to listen to our conversation, which aired on KERA FM, or read it below. The Kalita Humphreys was designed by a great architect, but what makes it worth restoring? Not just any great architect. It was built by Frank Lloyd Wright, who was the defining American architect of the 20th century. And it's really a beautiful example of his late work. This project came at the very end of his career, when he had turned to sort of a monumental architecture of bold forms. People are familiar with the

March is Women's History Month and next week about 300 North Texas women will celebrate by singing. Melinda Imthurn is the Artistic Director of the Women's Chorus of Dallas, which is organizing the fifth annual Voices of Women Concert. It will also feature choruses from Texas Woman's University, UNT and the Dallas and Flower Mound school districts. In State of the Arts, Imthurn talked to me about the power of raising your voice. There are over 100 women in the chorus. Why do your members join? It's a very fulfilling experience. It is a way to express things that are important. It's a sisterhood, a way to connect with other people who share something that they love. One of my members described it as her church. Monday nights are her church, which I thought was very profound and I feel that way in a lot of ways. There are going to be three female conductors during the program. Explain the significance of that. It's important that we have three women conductors on the stage. It's

It’s International Women’s Day, and The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth is celebrating by unveiling a new acquisition. It’s a still life by an 18th Century French painter named Anne Vallayer-Coster. And it’s only the third work by a woman in the museum. The painting is called Still Life with Mackerel, and the overflowing table suggests a delicious dinner to come. Two fat fish lie on a linen cloth. There’s glassware, an orange blossom, lemon, and bread. “There’s a luxuriousness about it,” says E…

Enjoy a FREE concert and film screening at the Nasher Sculpture Center, plus free admission to the museum!

“Carol” opens at Barry Whistler Gallery on Saturday.

Annette Lawrence keeps time - but not like anyone else. You can find the Denton visual artist’s work at New York’s Whitney Museum and inside the Dallas Cowboys’ stadium. Those pieces mark time in Lawrence’s own inventive ways. In the Art&Seek Spotlight, KERA’s Anne Bothwell talks with Jerome Weeks, who’ll interview Lawrence next week at Art&Seek’s State of the Arts event in Denton. Anne Bothwell: Jerome, the issue of time is a real central theme in Annette Lawrence’s work. Why is that? That conc…

Taking Some Time Out With Annette Lawrence

KXT 91.7 Presents The War on Drugs at The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory on Friday, January 21, 2022.

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