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

Taking Some Time Out With Annette Lawrence

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…

“Carol” opens at Barry Whistler Gallery on Saturday.

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

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…

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

A new exhibition at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts raises questions about how black artists explore identity and how their work is received in the art world. It features installations, video and drawings from three artists: Amir George and Anansi Knowbody, both based in Chicago, and Erika Defreitas, of Toronto. In this week's State of the Arts conversation, I sat down with artist and curator Christopher Blay to discuss the show, called "Black Borders: Artists of Color, Reframing Culture." You can click above to listen to our chat, which aired on KERA FM. Or read the excerpts, below. Imaginings From the Negative Space, by Anansi Knowbody So for the exhibition, you wrote that black artists often see their work labeled as either too black, meaning too insular, or not black enough, somehow ignoring existing social or political conditions. Yeah , it's like a false binary argument. It suggests it has to be one or the other. I have a problem with that. So the prism throug h which the work

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

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…

You might notice things look and sound a little different today around KERA. KERA FM, KXT and KERA TV all have new logos. And they aren’t just graphic. We have a new signature sound, called a mnemonic, and it has been modified to reflect the personalities of each KERA station. KERA 90.1 FM KERA News: KXT Live Sessions: North Texas singer and pianist Kaela Sinclair composed a track called “Vincent and Theo” from which the six-note signature was created. Kaela Sinclair. “There’s an element of seri…

Erin Cluley. Photo: Jenifer McNeil Baker Erin Cluley Gallery’s next show, Jimmy Joe Roche, “Crimcraw,” opens with a reception Saturday from 6-8 p.m. Baltimore in Dallas, a zine curated by Jimmy Joe Roche, will be placed in rooms and public areas at The Belmont and at Zoomos pop-up shop in Bishop Arts Listen to the radio interview that aired on KERA FM Trinity Groves is probably best known for its restaurants at the foot of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. But the developers involved with that proj…

Watch award-winning shorts from David Lowery on Frame of Mind at 11 Thursday on KERA TV Read a longer interview with Lowery by Art&Seek's Mashal Noor. Listen to The Big Screen, which aired on KERA FM David Lowery I got to sit in for Stephen Becker on "The Big Screen" this week. (Don't worry, he'll be back next week.) Dallas Morning News critic Chris Vognar and I spoke with David Lowery, whose work will be featured Thursday on Frame of Mind. Lowery told us he's on his way to New Zealand to shoot Pete's Dragon for Disney. And after that, he's hoping to shoot Old Man and the Gun here in Dallas. (Watch out for Robert Redford sightings!) Lowery also chats about his shorts, like Pioneer and My Daily Routine, which we'll air on Frame of Mind Thursday.

Sarah Jaffe in the KXT studio. Credit: Dane Walters Sarah Jaffe got her start strumming and singing in the clubs of Denton and Deep Ellum. Her third album, "Don't Disconnect," was released Tuesday and fans from the old days may not recognize her. The 28-year-old embraces a lush electronic dance sound. She and her band stopped by KXT yesterday for a powerful in-studio performance. (We'll post the video soon!) Afterward, I chatted with her about the switch-up. Listen to the story from KERA FM: Sarah Jaffe performs at The Majestic Theater Saturday. Robert Wilonsky profiles Sarah for The Dallas Morning News. Dallas Observer cover story New video from Sarah Jaffe On the path from "Clementine" to "Lover Girl".... To me it's just been a natural progression. I can look at it from an aerial view and see there's some obvious differences: there's more instrumentation, it's a little bit more lush. But lyrics for me have always

Nancy Whitenack stands in front of “bete, March 20, 2003” by Annabel Daou, at Conduit Gallery. Nancy Whitenack has taken Conduit Gallery from a scrappy storefront in Deep Ellum to a sleek space in the Dallas Design District - and kept it going for 30 years. She talks to KERA’s Anne Bothwell about nurturing artists, selling their work and teaching Dallas how to look at art. “Life Under the Trees,” by Steven Miller, 2014 Conduit opened on Elm Street in 1984, then moved to 3200 Main Street, the cur…

“Blues” All paintings, Archibald J. Motley Jr. (1891-1981) Archibald J. Motley Jr. was a famous African American artist in the 1920s. His work captured the spirit of the jazz age and continued into the R&B era of the ’60s. Yet, as his work fell into private hands, he was slowly forgotten. The Amon Carter Museum of American Art is helping to change that with Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist. Maggie Adler Motley died in 1981, and this is the first major showing of his work in at least 20 years…

Nicole Stewart Would you talk about your most embarrassing, poignant or funny moments in front of an audience? Nicole Stewart is the creator of Oral Fixation, a live story-telling show in Dallas. She talks to KERA's Anne Bothwell about the reasons she shared her most personal story, and why you might want to consider telling yours. The next Oral Fixation is June 20 at 9 p.m. at Horchow Auditorium at the DMA. Free, but a limited number of tickets are left. Find out how to tell your story at Oral Fixation. (Next season's themes will be posted soon.) Listen to the interview that aired on KERA FM: And here's Nicole, talking about what to expect during the editing process. More highlights from our conversation: On why folks with no writing or performing experience take the stage at Oral Fixation... I think it's a human need to express ourselves. Most of us don't get the opportunity in our daily lives to share. And I think people recognize two things: that through sharing

Montgomery Sutton plays John Wilkes Booth in "Booth" by Second Thought Theatre. Photo: Ellen Appel. Booth continues through June 14 at Second Thought Theatre Art&Seek's review of Booth Listen to the conversation that aired on KERA FM: What motivated the man who killed Abraham Lincoln? Dallas actor Steven Walters was fascinated by the question. His new play, Booth, examines the conspiracy to assassinate the president and the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth. In the Friday Conversation, he tells KERA's Anne Bothwell that there are plenty of parallels to our post 9/11 world. Walters is a co-founder of Second Thought Theatre. He's also a member of the Dallas Theater Center's resident acting company. You can see him next in the DTC's production of Les Miserables, which opens June 27. Here are some highlights from the conversation: Steven Walters On why Booth caught his attention.....Well there was so much I didn't know about John Wilkes Booth. But as my story partner and research

Jane Smiley. Photo: Jack Canning Best-selling author Jane Smiley will join hosts Catherine Cuellar and Randy Gordon on The Writers Studio this Saturday. Tune in at 9pm to KERA FM to hear the conversation. Smiley is the best-selling author of 13 works of fiction and three books of nonfiction, including The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Ordinary Love and Good Will, Horse Heaven, and the 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winning A Thousand Acres, which was made into a major motion picture starring Michelle Pfe…

The Writers Studio starts up tonight at 9 p.m. on KERA FM. Art&Seek is pleased to present the six week series of interviews with great authors, all produced by The Writer's Garret. Tonight's guest is Jay McInerney. Your hosts are Catherine Cuellar and Randy Gordon. Listen to the episode below: Or download it. (Click File, then Save Page As and save as an .mp3) Jay McInerney. Photo: C Marion Ettlinger. McInerney is best known for the ground-breaking Bright Lights, Big City, which established his reputation as part of "The Brat Pack," a new generation of writers that included Bret Easton Ellis, Tama Janowitz, and others chronicling urban life for young people during the Reagan era. A versatile writer, he also penned the screenplays for the film adaptation of Bright Lights, Big City, and for "Gia," known as Angelina Jolie's breakout role. McInerney also edited The Penguin Book of New American Voices and is the author of Ransom, Story of My Life, Brightness Falls, and The