Taking Small Breaths

Schrödinger’s cat is neither here nor there, but the Greater Denton Arts Council’s Cat Snapp likes to think both inside and out of the box. Snapp’s new exhibition, Small Breaths, uses box and book structures that beckon for a viewer’s touch, manipulation and exploration. In fact, Snapp’s artistic ideation is…

So Much Art, So Little Time

Somebody’s going to be tuckered out Friday night, but we’re unsure if it will be your little ones or you. Making insomnia classy again — as if it had ever gone out of style — the Arts District celebrates its Annual Summer Block Party on June 15, coinciding with normal…

Worst of Craigslist: What Makes Good Christian Bitches Go Bad?

First of all, we’re not crazy about tossing around the term “bitch” – at least not outside the context of safe words and “yes ma’ams” – but some asshat writer popularized the phrase in order to capitalize on one of Dallas’ most overwrought stereotypes, and it has unfortunately just kind…

Olympics Bound, Dallas Black Dance Theatre Sets its Sights on London 2012

It’s not the first prestigious invitation that Dallas Black Dance Theatre has received, simply the most recent. The oldest, continuously operated professional dance company in Dallas, DBDT has built an extensive résumé of elite performances, representing the city everywhere from Washington state to New York to Austria. Since its founding…

Teen Artist Makes Every Adult in the Entire World Look Bad

Terms like “wunderkind” and “prodigy” are perhaps thrown about too casually, but when you see an emerging artist like Esme O’Brien, few other words seem to suffice. O’Brien recently graduated from Booker T. Washington and will be leaving us for the University of Pennsylvania where she’ll undertake a BFA, in…

I Like Big Art and I Can’t Deny

We always knew the “X” stood for something other than the address when it comes to the long-established, artist-run cooperative gallery on 500 Exposition Ave., and this summer 500X wants to push it good to the max. Their annual unjuried show, Hot-n-Sweaty, kicks off on with an opening reception from…

Five New Cologne Ideas Appropriate for Dallas

This little gem has been circulating the intertubes the last few days, repulsing even the most avid of book lovers. Hey you, do you have a home library with full walls of bookshelves? Oxblood red sofas with brass tacks and a ladder with which to scale your erudite collection? Keep…

Venus on Our Minds: Our Top 5 Sexiest Astrophysicists

We get all hot-n-bothered when it comes to clam shells and hefty scopes, so you’re safe to assume that a date tonight to the Museum of Nature and Science would result in some serious lens steaming. As you may have heard, Venus is getting between us and our sun one…

Galleries Open Wide, Get In Them This Weekend

The front, the back, it doesn’t matter which entrance you take when it comes to some QT with your favorite host of local galleries this weekend. These sweet thangs are good-looking, and even prettier on the inside – which is where it counts, mind you – and they’re not the…

Vehicular Assault at Tonight’s FrontRow Live

Among some other rad shit going down tonight at the Dallas Contemporary for D-Mag’s FrontRow Live, we just got word that Oliver Francis Gallery is giving “[con]texting while driving” a whole new meaning. OFG’s owner and artistic polymath, Kevin Rubén Jacobs, has curated a show featuring three “sound/video/fART installations” by…

Space Exploration

Space is not the final frontier. In fact, it’s just the beginning, at least in the Large Gallery at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary this month. Hosting seven current artists-in-residence at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Core program, the MAC presents Of Other Spaces, a collaborative exhibition featuring new and…

On Criticism: Fostering a Constructive Dialogue for Dallas Arts

As an artists residency explicitly tied to a university system, CentralTrak provides opportunities that surpass in both quality and gusto much of the city’s relatively comparable arts programming. It makes sense, of course, that many, if not all, of the panelists and moderators at any given CentralTrak event are not…