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A Quick Look At Art&Seek’s Reporting

• North Texas choreographer Catherine Turocy has been knighted by the French government and she runs the New York Baroque Dance Company, but she lives in Dallas. In the Art&Seek Artist Spotlight, Jerome Weeks explained how she makes the 18th century come to life onstage.
• The Dallas Museum of Art houses one of the great private collections of Islamic art – The Keir Collection. Now the DMA is dedicating a new gallery to the collection and Art&Seek’s Jerome Weeks and Anne Bothwell checked it out.
• KERA’s Stephen Becker was in Washington D.C. last week, so he took a break producing “The Big Screen” and instead focused his attention on music. Becker met up with the de facto composer-in-residence for public radio talk shows – BJ Leiderman – to talk about producing the music for “Morning Edition” and “All Things Considered.”
• EG Hamilton – the man best known as the designer of North Park Center – died on May 8th. So we thought it was time to revisit our 2014 profile of the architect.

What You’ve Got To Know

• The Dallas Symphony’s SOLUNA Music & Arts Festival begins today (Monday May 15th), so we whipped up a guide that features events we think you ought to check out. (Art&Seek)
• Five graduates of Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts are headed to New York City to attend the Juilliard School. (“Dallas Morning News”)
• The lineup for the Oak Cliff Film Festival has been announced and the roster is “impressive and impressively unconventional.” (“D Magazine”)

What We’re Reading

• How The Arts Give Dallas An Economic Boost (Dallas Morning News)
• Dallas Black Dance Theatre Names New Artistic Director And She Shares Her Thoughts (Theater Jones)
• Venice Notebook: A Feast at the Biennale and Beyond (New York Times)
• Jeremy Biggers Is Dallas’ Hardest Working Multi-Hyphenate (D Magazine)
• Leigh Arnold on Women Artists, Land Art, and Representation (Glasstire)
• How Gen Fukunaga Turned an Interest Into a $100M Venture (D Magazine)
• Immersive Instigations: Holy Bone at Dead White Zombies (Arts & Culture)

What We’re Listening To

• New Texas Latino Group Plans Mural, Rally To Activate Civic Engagement (Texas Standard)
• Folks in ‘S-Town’ have some words of their own for podcast (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
• Chicano Art Wields A Sharper Political Edge In Post-Election California (KQED)

What We’re Looking At

Artist Spotlight – Catherine Turocy – Dancer/Choreographer

The Nasher Editorial – Behind The Scenes from Exploredinary on Vimeo.

Signed, Sealed, Delivered From Wild Detectives (Art&Seek)

9 Most Unusual Ranches in Texas (Dallas Observer)

‘Fargo’ Is A Series About The ‘Things People Do For Money’ (NPR)

Photo Of The Week

Photo: Michael Kebede of Garland

Congratulations to Michael Kebede of Garland, the winner of the Flickr Photo of the Week contest.

The Encore is written and compiled by Arts Reporter/Digital Editor and Calendar Wizard, Hady Mawajdeh. If you have feedback or questions, please email [email protected].