Venues in the Dallas Arts District will light up in red lights, drawing attention to the effects of COVID-19 on local and national arts communities.
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The losses include layoffs or furloughs of 649 artists and staff from 57 Dallas-based nonprofit arts and cultural organizations.
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Years ago developers started talking about an ambitious project called Flora Lofts, in the Dallas Arts District, that would provide affordable live/work space for dozens of artists (visual artists, musicians, actors, dancers, writers) as…
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The Dallas Arts District recently announced an open call for their 2017 granting process. The program is open to non-profit organizations and individuals that are sponsored by non-profits, but unfortunately, artists alone…
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The Dallas Arts District announced yesterday that Dallas arts leader and educator Lily Cabatu Weiss has been named as the organization’s new executive director. Weiss, who is currently artistic director…
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Renowned British land artist Richard Long was in Dallas over the weekend to install a massive wall piece in the lobby of the new building that anchors Hall Arts, developer…
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The Dallas Arts District is throwing a Summer Block Party on Friday, June 19 from 6 p.m. to midnight; Flora and Harwood will be given over to pedestrians, and it…
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The art aficionados over at USA Today are holding a “Reader’s Choice” contest for “America’s Best Art District.” They’ve narrowed it down to 20 nominees with many usual suspects in…
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Dallas Arts District Continues to Expand with Restaurants, a Grant Foundation and Public Sculpture
The five-acre area behind the AT&T Performing Arts Center in the Dallas Arts District is being developed by Craig Hall, a DFW-based developer who is married to Kathryn Hall, the…
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The power pair that is Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and Dallas Museum of Art Director Max Anderson are gearing up to host the New Cities Foundation Summit and launch the…
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The recession brought to the city a concentration of young, energetic, like-minded creatives. Now, how do we keep them here?
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Anderson and Rawlings Costar Again! Dallas to Host Global Cultural Districts Network
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonMaxwell Anderson, the director of the Dallas Museum of Art, and Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings have announced that Dallas will be the site of the 2014 New Cities Summit,…
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The Dallas Arts District has announced a few details of GLIMPSE 2012; a night of light, video, sound, installation and free public art intended as a preview of AURORA 2013,…
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The Dallas Observer reports on a report that the arts generate $322 million in jobs and revenue in Dallas, according to a study by arts advocacy group Americans for the…
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Jeff West, ubiquitous Dallas Arts consultant and advocate, has died suddenly at age 54. West served as Executive Director of the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas, Managing Director of the Dallas…
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There’s nothing like dirty laundry to attract publicity, or as Dallas Observer columnist Jim Schutze put it, “nothing takes our minds off this misery we call middle-class survival in America…
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“Doga,” yoga with your dog, a “Pawcasso Photo Shoot”, and the “Dog Day Afternoon” guide to the DMA’s Collections are just three of the activities at the upcoming Dallas Arts…