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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Printmaker Jose Guadalupe Posada's work is one of two shows at the Arlington Museum of Art. They are the last before the museum moves to a new location next year.
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The World Doctors Orchestra has played in more than 20 countries and has 1,800 member-musicians around the world. The North Texas members worked to bring it here this week.
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The late "Bucks" Burnett was a record store owner with a reputation for ardent enthusiasms - and celebrity friendships.
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"From the Top" follows the 2023 Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition in June in Fort Worth — with backstage interviews
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The new Deep Ellum Community Center opens with three exhibitions. And coming up are Deep Ellum shows at the African American Museum as well.
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This year, Deep Ellum became a national historic landmark — with its decades of music and live theater. Now there's an archivist working to save that history.
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Texas Ballet Theater has a new leader, but opens its season with a work by its longtime director. We look back on Ben Stevenson's career.
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"Wild DFW" author and naturalist Amy Martin's new book is a guide to the rich biodiversity of the area: "The urban ecosystem is where the future lies."
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The downtown neighborhood is celebrating its 150th anniversary. Two new exhibitions were also announced Wednesday.
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In our series on the arts and the economy, we take a look at how hit shows like "Yellowstone" and "1883" are a major reason behind the $200 million incentive.
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In our series on the arts and the economy, we examine why Texas media incentives have been raised higher than ever.