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5:12 pm
Wed December 12, 2012

A $200 Million Da Vinci At The DMA? It Could Happen

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"The Salvator Mundi" has been attributed to Leonardo Da Vinci and may be worth as much as $200 million.
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The Dallas Museum of Art has put in a bid to buy a painting -- and not just any painting. This one's recently been attributed to Leonardo Da Vinci.

The museum won’t say how much it has bid, but the masterpiece's value has been estimated as high as $200 million. It’s currently at the museum but not on display.

Da Vinci painted the work, known as the Salvator Mundi, in the late 15th century.

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4:17 pm
Wed December 12, 2012

Remembering JFK In Music: Two Composers Take On The 50th

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The Nasher Sculpture Center announced today that it, too, is commissioning a piece of music to mark the assassination anniversary, joining the Dallas Symphony. David Mackey (below) is writing the Nasher's piece; 18-year-old Conrad Tao is working for the DSO.
Image from Shutterstock Plans for marking the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination next year have turned to music. First, it was the Dallas Symphony commissioning a new work. Now, the Nasher Sculpture Center has announced it'll present a new piece as well. KERA's Jerome Weeks talked with both composers.
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5:26 pm
Tue December 11, 2012

Lyle Lovett Rides Into A Tiny Desk Concert

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NPR Music's strangely, spectacularly intimate concert series gets a visit from the Texas troubadour. Where else are you going to see Lyle Lovett pick up a cup of coffee midset and launch into a monologue about Iris Dement? And then deliver a haunting guitar-and-fiddle version of "If You Were To Wake Up?"
Lovett gives a loose, engaging performance that feels like both an introduction and a victory lap. With a fresh-faced accompanist in fiddler and backup singer Luke Bulla, Lovett digs way back into his early archives here: All three of these songs are from his beginnings in the late '80s.
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12:20 pm
Mon December 10, 2012

Design District's 'Lost Highway' Will Fold In Tiny Theater

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Claude Albritton III, the man behind the MAC, is planning an outdoor venue he’ll call “Lost Highway.” Art and Seek's Jerome Weeks explains how the lone building on the 1.7 acres claimed for the project has always played a role in Albritton’s larger idea.
Project X theater company was a small part of a larger Design District project by developer-philanthropist Claude Albritton III, the man behind the McKinney Avenue Contemporary. But with those plans evolving and even coming under public criticism, the question is: What about X?
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11:55 am
Fri December 7, 2012

Big Win For Perot Museum Architect Thom Mayne

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The guy who dreamed up that big funky cube next to Woodall Rodgers Freeway in downtown Dallas has added another trophy to his case: Thom Mayne is the 2013 Gold Medal winner from the American Institute of Architects. Art&Seek's Stephen Becker has the story.
How do you like the new Perot Museum of Nature and Science? If you find yourself gazing out the window at it as you sit in traffic on Woodall Rodgers, you've got Thom Mayne to thank. And you're not the only one impressed with his work of late.
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3:51 pm
Wed December 5, 2012

The Unexplored Key To 'Free' At The DMA

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The headlines since last week's announcement have focused on how the Dallas Museum of Art is offering free admission starting next month. But KERA's Jerome Weeks zooms in on the parts of the plan -- free membership and sophisticated geographic data mining -- that could prove to be long-term game changers for museums.
The Dallas Museum of Art's decision to start admitting visitors for free has been extolled by everyone - from an art critic in the London Guardian to Jackie Floyd, the Morning News columnist and self-described ' art dunce.'
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