We love Texas artists, especially when they are as “Texas” as Bill Haveron, but don’t think for a second that he is a one-trick-Lone-Star-pony. While the Bryan, Texas native’s work has featured honkytonks and plowboys, the most critical element always remains that of narrative and storytelling. His newest exhibition, Optic…
The old saying suggests that bad things come in threes, but that couldn’t be less true at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary this week. The MAC invites you to join them at 3120 McKinney Ave. for an opening reception 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday to celebrate the opening of three exhibits…
So, the narrator of Rupert Holmes’ 1979 hit, “Escape (the Piña Colada Song),” finally heads over to O’Malleys to meet up with the mystery chick he’s been groovin’ on from a personal ad. But, wouldn’t you know it – when she arrives, it’s his own “lady,” of whom he’d “grown…
A couple weeks ago, I’d expressed some anxiety about attending JourneyDance with Katie Toohil at SYNC Yoga and Wellbeing in Oak Cliff. Dancing, huh? My own my mom has likened my moves to Elaine from Seinfeld; but, they might be described more accurately as Woody Allen: the Broadway Musical. Further…
Man, I still get the same old tired line: Oh, you write for the Culture section? In Dallas? What Culture. Yes, yes. We know. Dallas is no New York. Or, Paris. Or, hell, even Austin. I was just the same when I left here in back in 2006 with both…
Remember that kid in school who made you look bad by going the extra mile, incorporating lustrous glitter or even computer printouts into his poster project? Yeah, that kid is back in the form of Michael A. Morris, dazzling the arts scene with his mixed-media solo installation, It’s Just Meant…
Well, not a chicken, so much as a “Chicken Boy,” the protagonist of Gregory G. Allen’s new kids’ book of the same name. When we last spoke to Allen, he was still living the champagne dreams and caviar wishes (well, emotionally, if not literally) of an independent author’s first big…
1996 just called. It misses you, wants to hang out again. It’s been awhile, but why wouldn’t you want to go another round with the year that brought you Dolly, the cloned sheep; the first female secretary of State; Sean Connery in The Rock; and the LORD of all that…
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 unintentional, nod to the…
Not to get all Alex P. Keaton on you, but there’s something intensely gratifying when an investment pays off. Last December, the Observer put down some seed money for two artists and a non-profit, with an aim to reward the already-incalculable contribution that they had made to our community and…
Imagine that Cervantes’ quixotic hero weren’t so deluded after all, and that he truly saw fantastic adventures of derring-do that the rest of us Sancho Panzas can hardly conceive. Well, Dallas artist Liz London has just such a vision and would-be Knights Templar will love her exhibition Seeking Infinity, which…
Oh, the weather outside is … mildly unpleasant, necessitating neither a heavy woolen coat nor thermal undies, and while we can understand your confusion during this January relative “heat wave,” the best way to cope is to take it off (your coat, that is) and visit Unadorned: Drawings of the…
If you want to hear about Michelle Rawlings’ dad, you should head over to Unfair Park. The Dallas blogosphere went into a four-alarm, screaming alert last week at the announcement that the “Mayor’s Daughter” had been chosen for a solo show at Oliver Francis Gallery that, it would seem, contains…
Remember Frank Lopez? That’s right, the Collodion photographer who took the excruciatingly good, vintage-style photos around Fair Park. He’s shot other remarkable international sites, too, that garnered for him a 2011 MasterMind award. Ever wonder what Frank’s up to? When I last spoke to him back in November, Frank had…
When Augustus Gloop was fatefully inhaled into the bowels of Willy Wonka’s factory, kids around the world learned their favorite decadent sweet had a dark side, and not just the semisweet variety. This month, Garland Civic Theatre invites you to further explore the pernicious confection via their performance of Death…
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There’s been a lot of talk about tassels around here, so it stands to reason that your own nips might feel a little neglected. Well, fortune favors the bold (and the voluptuous, wink wink) and you too can show off that bad bod, and all the miraculous things it can…
We still have an hangover, art and otherwise, from Saturday night’s gallery hopping marathon, but luckily we were still upright and mostly cognizant by the time we made it to 500X where whiffs of Chris Tennen and Scott Hilton’s collaborative installation, “The Society for Olfactory Preservation,” wafted among the gallery’s…
Oh. My. God. Becky, look at this art. It’s just so big and so small. It’s just, like, opposites, like, a study in “differences in scale and color.” A vocab word you may have missed on the GRE, “Dimorphism” is a biology term referring to dual variations within a species…
Charles Cramer says that the first time he held an Ansel Adams print in his hands the colors were so vibrant that he felt as though he needed shades. It was a revelatory moment for the pianist-turned-photographer who shoots his own resplendent landscapes, and you can get a taste of…
Though its title suggests that which is mediocre and expected, Another Dog and Pony Show at 500X Gallery promises instead all the intrigue and allure of … well, a donkey show, without, of course, the zoophilia. An eclectic collaboration of four diverse artists, the exhibition features darkly comical found-art depictions…
The Bridge is lit, so now you should see it from the other side, especially if you haven’t ventured recently across the Trinity into rapidly-cultrifying West Dallas. Boasting one of the best vantage points to appreciate the skyline, period, the Belmont invites you tonight to an opening reception for an…
