A little over a week ago, we reported that local artist and activist Karen Blessen was one of fifteen national finalists for a Marigold Big Ideas for Good Grant. With your votes, she’s done it. Blessen is bringing back $5,000 to change the face of Dallas arts. Her vision is…
A&E’s Storage Wars: Texas is adding two new faces during this season’s premier on Wednesday at 8, both of whom are local businesswomen. Mary Padian of Mary’s Finds on Market Center Boulevard and Jenny Grumbles of Uptown Country Home on Milton Avenue join RiverRegency proprietor and colorful Storage Wars veteran…
Ari Richter, a New York artist who’s living at UT Dallas’ CentralTrak artist residency, uses skin — actual, human skin — for his upcoming exhibition, The Skin I Live In. It’s culled from a “limited, daily supply” of skin chewed from the insides of his own cheeks, before being processed…
Find more of DFW’s best in our Best Of app, available for the iPhone and Droid. Vote for the Best Of Dallas in our 2012 poll. Chances are, if you grew up in the area, you’ve already seen some of the best history Dallas has to offer. After all, they…
When Larry McMurtry began writing his memoirs, the first volume of which was published in 2008, he saw it necessary to divide his life into three distinct sections: Books, Literary Life, and Hollywood. It is no coincidence that Books, the recounting of his life as a “rare bookman,” came first,…
Bronze Star Medal recipient and esteemed comparative literature scholar Guy Stern will speak at the Dallas Holocaust Museum Center on Thursday, part of the museum’s summer exhibition “The Ritchie Boys.” Stern, 90, was born in Germany in 1922 before emigrating to America just before the onset of World War II…
Don’t worry if you happened to miss the MAC’s initial Spin Off panel back in June — there’s more where that came from (and it can be viewed in full online). In partnership with The Writer’s Garret, the McKinney Avenue Contemporary brings you the second of four multidisciplinary panel discussions…
Mama always said that nothing good happens after dark, but she became a mama somehow, so we’re assuming that was just a line she dropped to keep us out of the Pocket Sandwich Theatre’s “R-Rated” Late Night Shows. These are of course the bawdy melodramas and comedies that give the…
While it might be hard to top Ed Helms’ farcical rendition of “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd” on The Office, we’re stoked to see a local theater “get away with murder” by pulling off the Broadway smash in a big way. As part of its Main Stage Series, Level Ground…
Flying in the face of the constant noise and debate over the Separation of Church and State, UNT printmaking graduate student Adam Rowlett has found a way to forge beauty from the chaotic warring between religion and science. Partnered with the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (MAC), Mercantile Coffee House presents the…
Known for its unexpected music/film mashups, it seems all-too-fitting that the Texas Theatre would round out the summer with its just-announced “Dark Side of the Rainbow” screening on August 24. If you somehow missed this party in college, here’s your chance. We’re assuming that everyone discovered the alleged phenomenon when…
Last year, Dallas’ own Goss-Michael Foundation — the Turtle Creek 501(c)(3) founded by Kenny Goss and George Michael (yes, the Wham! one; no, not the Michael Cera one) — hosted a benefit for MTV’s Staying Alive Foundation that banked more than $700,000 toward “empowering young people engaged in fighting the…
Art and Seek reported this morning that DSO Pops conductor Marvin Hamlisch died yesterday, reportedly after a brief, undisclosed illness. He was 68 years old. Hamlisch was one of only 11 people to have won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards. He was one of only two EGOT artists to…
See also: Jennifer Moreman, a Tyler Artist Who Made Her Name Painting Longhorns, Has Gone Global Leonard Volk’s upcoming exhibition at Samuel Lynne Galleries is not his first — in fact, he’s shown publicly in one other solo exhibition at Brookhaven College back in 2005 — but it is a…
West Village, man. It’s all Brooks Brothers and Cru Wine Bar, right? We were about to drive over for lunch but remembered that it’s all “No Corolla Parking” by city ordinance. But revolution is afoot — at least for a couple of days this fall — when local artists and…
What do you get if you mix rainbows and sprinkles, unicorns and starbursts, with a little country-and-western Texas realism? Well, Jennifer Moreman is the woman to ask. Now living in Tyler, Moreman grew up in Dallas, where she graduated from Trinity Christian Academy before taking a BFA from Baylor. She…
Somehow Cris Worley Fine Arts’ impending move a few streets across the Design District totally slipped under our radar. Formerly in a space next to Galleri Urbane on Monitor Street, Cris Worley will be taking up residence a bit closer to the action, at 1415 Slocum St., #104. I’ve always…
New York Times best-selling romance novelist Jodi Thomas sets a lot of her torrid historical tales in Fort Worth, and her latest release — set to drop on August 7 — is no exception. The multiple RITA Award winner’s 35th book and 6th in her “Whispering Mountain” series, Wild Texas…
2010 MasterMind Award Winners, Karen Blessen, submitted an idea back in June for one of six monthly Marigold Ideas for Good grants, which funds ideas to improve communities through art. And now she’s a finalist. Blesen made it through the initial judging period to become one of 15 “June” finalists…
Artspace111 tipped us off to something we didn’t even know we wanted. The Modern Museum of Fort Worth’s Cafe Modern boasts a menu of 13 lucky summer cocktails, each inspired by works from the museum’s permanent collection. As you may recall, the Modern brought you this great Lucian Freud exhibition,…
Prefixes are the gold medal winners of linguistic affixes — they always come in first. But when it comes to the MAC’s Annual Membership Exhibition, Trans-, everyone wins. A juried exhibition featuring work submitted by the MAC’s faithful supporters, Trans- features works in all media from visual to performance art…
Don’t sweat that there are three must-see gallery openings this weekend — it’s a marathon, not a foot race, after all. In the Design District, pop into Craighead Green for New Texas Talent XIX, an annual juried show promoting emerging visual artists, judged this year by Lollie Tompkins, Visual Arts…
