Jerome Weeks
Senior Arts Reporter/Producer, Art&SeekJerome Weeks is the Art&Seek producer-reporter for KERA. A professional critic for more than two decades, he was the book columnist for The Dallas Morning News for ten years and the paper’s theater critic for ten years before that. His writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, American Theatre and Men’s Vogue magazines.
Mr. Weeks was an entertainment reporter for the Houston Post and an associate editor for Third Coast magazine. He has won five Katie Awards from the Dallas Press Club, a graduate journalism fellowship from Columbia University and a Knight Digital Media Fellowship to the University of California-Berkeley. He has appeared on Studio 360, C-SPAN’s Booknotes and the PBS documentary Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater. Mr. Weeks is a member of both the National Book Critics Circle and the American Theatre Critics Association, and was recently named a fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture.
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A group of University of Texas at Dallas students made headlines in 2013 by establishing the first Muslim fraternity in America. Now two Dallasites have released a documentary that follows them from their first rush week. -
In only three years, Don Tortellini has taught himself photography and become the first Black photographer to have his work displayed at the Dallas Arboretum.
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The singer sat in this week with the band for "The Late Show."
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The late sculptor Claes Oldenburg created a monumental installation, "Stake Hitch," for the central hall in the Dallas Museum of Art for its 1984 opening.
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Broadway Dallas and Live Nation sign multi-year contract to present events at the Music Hall at Fair Park
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Michelle Gibson's speciality is New Orleans' "second line" dancing and she's taking it to the renowned Massachusetts home of modern dance.
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A fundraiser for artist Antonio "Tony" Lechuga will be held at Love Texas Art gallery in Fort Worth on Saturday.
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The "Neighborhood Leap" art tour uses augmented reality to bring songs and stories to life.
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Ted Gioia is better known for his books, but a tune he composed decades ago as a musician found new life on the popular TV drama.
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It looks like it'll be an international cliffhanger. The Fort Worth competition has drawn worldwide attention this year because of the Russian-Ukranian war — and the decision of the Cliburn to permit young Russians to compete.
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The TCU Music Center just opened, and the university's $53 million facility will be the Cliburn's new home. The early rounds are in the center's wood-paneled and appropriately named Van Cliburn Concert Hall.
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Women Painting Women, the new exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, features 46 artists from the past 50 years.
