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In celebration of Youth Art Month, the Museum will be displaying works by Arlington Independent School District Students, Grades 1-12 from February 25 to March 25, with a grand opening reception planned for March 3.

On February 23, 2006, The Modern Art Museum invites you to join Dallas Morning News photographers Michael Ainsworth, Melanie Buford, Barbara Davidson, Tom Fox, Mona Reeder, and Irwin Thompson as they discuss Eyes of the Storm, a retrospective from the front lines of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

The Kimbell Art Museum announced today the acquisition of two works of Japanese art – an extremely rare eighth century lacquer mask and a charming scroll painting from the 1700s. They will be on view immediately in the Museum’s galleries.

Pier 1 has awarded a $1,000 grant to Theatre Arlington to support ACT UPS, the theater’s outreach program for at-risk fifth-graders in Arlington. This is the second year for Pier 1 to show their support for Theatre Arlington’s outreach efforts.

Amon Carter Museum hosts sculptor and printmaker Melvin Edwards for a special lecture entitled Inside the Blackburn Studio with Artist Melvin Edwards on Thursday, February 9, at 6 p.m.

Forget “desperate”! Theatre Arlington is looking for a few angry housewives, who can also sing and act, for their April production of Angry Housewives.

The Board of Trustees of the Amon Carter Museum announced that it has appointed Dr. Tyler, currently a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, as director of the museum.

Playwright Wendy Wasserstein, who chronicled the feminist struggles and successes of the baby-boomer generation in such wryly observant works as “The Heidi Chronicles” and “The Sisters Rosensweig,” has died of lymphoma at the age of 55.

The third annual event is being held on March 31, 2006, and will raise funds to retire old debt before Hip Pocket Theatre’s 30th anniversary summer season presenting new works and adaptations under the stars.

The Arlington Museum of Art proudly presents SHINE 2006, the museum’s annual exhibition, auction and gala. This year’s theme is Fire and Ice, (think elemental contrasts, pleasing extremes) with art works donated by more than 120 Texas artists, some created specifically for the exhibition.