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Arts & Letters Live Spring 2020 Brochure 0.Pdf 29TH SEASON | JANUARY–MAY 2020 LITERARY & PERFORMING ARTS SERIES DMA.org/ALL 1 HOW TO ORDER TICKETS DMA.org/ALL This is the FASTEST way to get your tickets! 214-922-1818 Purchase at the Guest Services Desk anytime during Museum hours. Give the gift of Arts & Letters Live tickets to your family and friends! "Love this series, so many BOOKS AND SIGNINGS wonderful authors!" All purchases made in the DMA Store support the Museum. DMA Members and —Arts & Letters Live attendee Arts & Letters Live Season Supporters receive discounts on book purchases. Book signings follow most events. DMA MEMBERS DMA Members get more. More benefits. More access. More fun! Join or renew today and get • FREE parking • FREE special exhibition tickets • Discounts in the DMA Store and DMA Cafe and on select programming, including Arts & Letters Live! DMA.org/members All programs, participants, pricing, and venues are subject to change. Tickets are nonrefundable. Ticket holders receive half-price parking in the DMA's garage. For information on venues, parking, dining, services for the hearing impaired, and the DMA Store, visit DMA.org. “I love the Arts & Letters Check DMA.org/ALL for more details and newly added events. Live experience! The interviewers are well STAFF Director of Arts & Letters Live: Carolyn Bess; Program Manager: Michelle informed and intelligent Witcher; Audience Relations Coordinator: Jennifer Krogsdale; Administrative and speakers are "Brilliant in every way, thank you!" Coordinator: Carolyn Hartley; Volunteer Coordinator: Andi Orkin; McDermott Intern: fascinating and often —Arts & Letters Live attendee Lillie Burrow COVER IMAGE: Hans Hofmann, Untitled (Yellow Table on Green) (detail), 1936, oil on board, Dallas Museum of Art, fractional gift inspiring. I always enjoy my of The Rachofsky Collection in honor of Dr. Dorothy Kosinski, the Barbara Thomas Lemmon Curator of European Art, 2001.344, evenings at these events.” Clockwise from top: Krys Boyd and Margaret Atwood; © Estate of Hans Hofmann/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 2 DMA.org/ALL Volunteer Anne Goodner and students with Kate DMA.org/ALL 3 —Arts & Letters Live attendee DiCamillo; Casey Gerald BOOK CLUB MODERATORS Dr. Randi Tanglen is Associate Professor of English, Director of the Gender Studies program, and Director of the Robert and Joyce Johnson Center for Faculty Development and Excellence in Teaching at Austin College in Sherman. She teaches classes on women and minority writers, protest and social justice literature, and 19th-century American literature. In 2012 she was named one of the Princeton BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH CONVERSATION Review’s “Top 300 Professors.” 11:45 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Each session: $35 Public; $30 DMA Member/Educator/Student (includes lunch) Dr. Jaina Sanga is the author of three works of fiction: a novel Join fellow book lovers for lunch in the DMA’s Founders Room as you enjoy titled Silk Fish Opium; a book of short stories, Train to Bombay; and thoughtful dialogue about a featured book. By reading and sharing insights a book of novellas, Tourist Season. She is also a literary scholar before or after hearing the author speak, you will have an even richer and more and has published a book on Salman Rushdie. Sanga serves on meaningful experience. Please note that these are book discussions, the Board of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture and is also a Fellow of the Institute. She is currently working not author events. on her fourth book of fiction, a detective novel set in India. Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Night Watchman The Story of Little by Louise Erdrich Women and Why It Still Thursday, April 2 Rabbi David Stern is Senior Rabbi of Temple Emanu-El in Dal- Matters las and President of the Central Conference of American Rab- bis, and heads the international rabbinic organization of the by Anne Boyd Rioux Conversation facilitated by Reform Movement. Stern is a social justice advocate on local, Friday, February 28 Dr. Jaina Sanga national, and international issues. His commentaries have Conversation appeared in the Huffington Post and Haaretz. He has published facilitated by poetry in the CCAR Journal, as well as essays on Jewish High Dr. Randi Tanglen Holiday liturgy. Apeirogon The Book of Longings Kathleen Kent is the author of three bestselling and award- by Colum McCann by Sue Monk Kidd winning historical novels—The Heretic’s Daughter, The Traitor’s Wife, and The Outcasts. Her fourth book, titled The Dime, is a Thursday, April 16 Wednesday, May 20 contemporary crime novel set in Dallas. It has been nominated for “Best Novel" by both the Edgar Awards and the Nero Conversation Conversation Awards, and the New York Times picked The Dime as one of their facilitated by facilitated by Rabbi David Stern Kathleen Kent “Latest and Greatest” in crime fiction. The sequel to The Dime, titled The Burn, will be published in February 2020. "When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humor and ships at sea by night—there’s all heaven and earth in a book." Visit DMA.org/ALL for updates and additional community conversations. —Christopher Morley 4 DMA.org/ALL DMA.org/ALL 5 SEASON LAUNCH EVENT WIT & WISDOM ERIN MORGENSTERN MO ROCCA Promotional Partner: tuesday, january 14, 7:30 pm horchow auditorium wednesday, january 22, 7:30 pm moody performance hall Erin Morgenstern is the author of the New York Times–bestselling and Alex Award–winning The Beloved humorist and CBS Sunday Morning Night Circus, which has sold over three million correspondent Mo Rocca delivers Mobituaries: copies worldwide, been translated into 37 Great Lives Worth Retelling, an entertaining and languages, and is currently in development with rigorously researched celebration of the dead Lionsgate as both a feature film and a stage play. people (and things) of the past who have long fascinated him. Inspired by his #1 hit podcast Morgenstern creates a magical, timeless, of the same name, the book includes all new and wholly original love story set in a secret essays on artists, entertainers, sports stars, underground world in her new novel The Starless political pioneers, founding fathers, and more, Sea. Kirkus Reviews hailed it as “a love letter to providing an insightful and unconventional readers.” Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate account of the people who made life worth living student in Vermont when he discovers a for the rest of us. strange book hidden in the library stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn Mo Rocca is host of the CBS series The Henry Ford’s prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, Innovation Nation, and he created and hosted the TICKET PRICES TICKET PRICES he reads something strange: a story from his Cooking Channel’s My Grandmother’s Ravioli, in Public: $40 VIP Experience (limited quantity): which he learned to cook from grandparents Member: $30 own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable Includes a hardcover copy of Student: $20 book and desperate to make sense of how his Mobituaries, reserved front section across America. He is a frequent panelist on NPR’s seating, and a priority pass for the hit show Wait, Wait . Don’t Tell Me!, and spent own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers book signing 6:30 p.m. a series of clues that lead him to a masquerade Public: $75 four seasons as a correspondent on both Comedy Explore art that resonates DMA/KERA Member: $70 with themes and symbols in party in New York, to a secret club, and through Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Morgenstern's novel on a pre- a doorway to a subterranean library. Zachary Public: $40 Tonight Show with Jay Leno. In 2015 Mo Rocca’s shows event tour led by Lillie Burrow, travels this magical world, discovering his DMA/KERA Member: $30 earned a total of five daytime Emmy nominations, McDermott Intern in Adult Students: $20 Programming at the DMA. purpose—in both the mysterious book and in with CBS Sunday Morning and Innovation Nation each his own life. winning for excellence in programming. He is the author of All the Presidents’ Pets, a historical “Comparisons to the likes of Tolkien, Carroll, and C. S. Lewis abound. novel about White House pets and their role in The Starless Sea poses big questions about stories—the ones we read, presidential decision-making. the ones we live, and the ones we tell ourselves. And at the heart of her “Mo Rocca has given us a candy bowl of tasty morsels: tales of fascinating work lies the themes that have provoked those comparisons: redemption, folks that we don’t know enough about. It’s a joy for curious minds, and sacrifice, date, time.” addictive reading.” —Entertainment Weekly —Walter Isaacson, New York Times‒bestselling author of Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci 6 DMA.org/ALL DMA.org/ALL 7 WIT & WISDOM SELECTED SHORTS ROZ CHAST SELECTED SHORTS Promotional Partner: & PATRICIA MARX saturday, february 1, 7:30 pm horchow auditorium saturday, january 25, 7:30 pm horchow auditorium Your favorite actors bringing short stories to life Iconic New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast and New One of the premier reading series in New York City, Yorker writer Patricia Marx join creative forces Selected Shorts comes to the Dallas Museum of Art in You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: with an evening of O. Henry Prize–winning stories. Rules for Couples. A hilarious illustrated collection The prestigious anthology recently celebrated its of love and relationship advice, the book makes 100th anniversary and continues to publish short a perfect Valentine’s Day or anniversary gift.
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