Cultural History

Revising and Re-imaging History

Preview: Greg Ginn & the Royal We at Pastime Tavern

Friday, May 4, at Pastime Tavern

Oak Lawn's Artsiest Whip

​ We can infer a few things about this car's mystery driver: an appreciation for elegant, if mature, BMWs; the desire to snarf some Chipotle, as evidenced through this sweet ride's location last night on Lemmon; and an ambition toward counter-cultural paint jobs with a gentle, perhaps unintentiona ... More >>

The Right Stuff, But Whose Stuff? NASA, Astronauts Tussle Over Items Sold by Heritage.

​Back on November 30, our cross-the-street neighbors at Heritage Auctions dispatched a celebratory missive headlined: "Apollo 13 checklist brings $388,375 at Heritage Auctions in Dallas." (Note to self: Time to clean out in-box.) But if you check Heritage's website, the listing for the historic ar ... More >>

Pop Go the Artists

​Back on November 30, our cross-the-street neighbors at Heritage Auctions dispatched a celebratory missive headlined: "Apollo 13 checklist brings $388,375 at Heritage Auctions in Dallas." (Note to self: Time to clean out in-box.) But if you check Heritage's website, the listing for the historic ar ... More >>

Trespassing Allowed

​Back on November 30, our cross-the-street neighbors at Heritage Auctions dispatched a celebratory missive headlined: "Apollo 13 checklist brings $388,375 at Heritage Auctions in Dallas." (Note to self: Time to clean out in-box.) But if you check Heritage's website, the listing for the historic ar ... More >>

Transformers: Baying at the Moon

Chicago destroyed, along with viewers' brain cells.

If You're Looking for Something Concrete...

Chicago destroyed, along with viewers' brain cells.

Experience the Dynamic Duo

Chicago destroyed, along with viewers' brain cells.

High-Octane Road Ruscha

Chicago destroyed, along with viewers' brain cells.

Our House

Chicago destroyed, along with viewers' brain cells.

Up With People

Chicago destroyed, along with viewers' brain cells.

The Artist Behind The Ads

Chicago destroyed, along with viewers' brain cells.

At Dallas Walmarts, No PC Game Left Behind

​First off: Happy birthday, Kirk Cameron. Hope you got something nice for your birthday -- maybe a copy of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species? Or, perhaps, a video game based on a movie in which you appeared. How about ... let's see ... Left Behind: Tribulation Forces. I know where you can ... More >>

Star Power

​First off: Happy birthday, Kirk Cameron. Hope you got something nice for your birthday -- maybe a copy of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species? Or, perhaps, a video game based on a movie in which you appeared. How about ... let's see ... Left Behind: Tribulation Forces. I know where you can ... More >>

Gleaming the Cubism

​First off: Happy birthday, Kirk Cameron. Hope you got something nice for your birthday -- maybe a copy of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species? Or, perhaps, a video game based on a movie in which you appeared. How about ... let's see ... Left Behind: Tribulation Forces. I know where you can ... More >>

Today In Music News: The Knife Covers Darwin, Lil Wayne Hits The Road and Usher Files For Divorce

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, June 16, 2009... Swedish electronic duo The Knife has unveiled a three-minute trailer for its opera based on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. This could test the notion that everything the Swedes do musically is awesome. Weezy is taking ... More >>

I Love L.A.

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, June 16, 2009... Swedish electronic duo The Knife has unveiled a three-minute trailer for its opera based on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. This could test the notion that everything the Swedes do musically is awesome. Weezy is taking ... More >>

Lowest of the Low

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, June 16, 2009... Swedish electronic duo The Knife has unveiled a three-minute trailer for its opera based on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. This could test the notion that everything the Swedes do musically is awesome. Weezy is taking ... More >>

Evolutianity

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, June 16, 2009... Swedish electronic duo The Knife has unveiled a three-minute trailer for its opera based on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. This could test the notion that everything the Swedes do musically is awesome. Weezy is taking ... More >>

The Impressionists I Get

See Van Goghs and Monets in Fort Worth

Blast Off

See the relics of the Space Age

Blast Off

See the relics of the Space Age

Blast Off

See the relics of the Space Age

Bacon Face

See the relics of the Space Age

God in the Details

For a quarter-century Roy Abraham Varghese has been assembling God proofs. Along the way he won over the world's most influential atheist.

Wild Bill

Our tornado-chasin' hero returns to Fort Worth

Passing Strange

Arthur Schott's points of view

Happy Campers

Summer lovin' with Wet Hot American Summer

Capsule Reviews

Our critics survey the local art scene

Take Off

Visit the wild Frontiers

Ghouls Club

CATS offers twice the fright

Best Lowbrow Museum

American Airlines C.R. Smith Aviation Museum

So Manet Colors

The Kimbell's got this mastered

Renoir the Pinhead

DMA shakes off the curse of Wendy Reves and mounts an impressive Renoir show

What's Da MADI?

The MADI Art Museum and Gallery explores a colorful mystery

Canon Fodder

The DMA's Mexican folk art exhibit is all about political correctness

Hair Trigger

A strong, solitary voice needs accompaniment in An Almost Holy Picture

Face Value

The Kimbell's portrait-filled retrospective offers little beyond biography

Go for Baroque

Fort Worth's Modern Art Museum separates the pearls from the swine in a stunning new Latin American show

No show

If you want to see Dallas artist Lynn Rushton's work, you'll have to go to Austin

Balls on the walls

Sure, David Hockney's work is nice, but that doesn't make it easy

The Lorax's trees

Pierce's and Harnden's take on landscape painting pulls it from a mire of tradition and gives it a shove toward the dark side

Not art?

The Arlington museum stokes the timeless debate over the artistry of abstract painting

Portrait of the artist as a sexual man

John Maybury brings home the Francis Bacon in Love Is the Devil

Portrait of the artist as a sexual man

John Maybury brings home the Francis Bacon in Love Is the Devil

Chic Lalique

John Maybury brings home the Francis Bacon in Love Is the Devil

Empty Beach

The Modern's Diebenkorn exhibit makes it OK to hate abstract art

Renoir,Shmenoir

It's not exactly Dogs Playing Poker, but Christine Biederman says the Kimbell Art Museum's new Renoir exhibit panders to the masses

Moonstruck

Alternately corny and inspiring, Apollo 13 is about more than just a space mission