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…
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…
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…
A couple weeks ago, we reported on a panel discussion at CentralTrak, “1.2 Million Stories: State of the Emerging Arts,” conceived by Green Bandana Group founder, Darryl Ratcliff, and featuring such prominent young voices as Kevin Rubén Jacobs, Danielle Georgiou, Jerod Davies and Bryan Embry. Lasting more than 90 minutes,…
I’ll have to break somebody’s legs up in payroll before I make another trip over to Dolly Python, because that place has everything I want, but nothing I (particularly) need. *Not a real threat, payroll; I’m a writer, not a fighter.* Whenever I step through those doors, my staying on…
You’re not a lone pervert: I initially read Fleshlight, too, when I saw that the progressive collective, Dead White Zombies, was up to another one of their “experimental theatre performance installation[s]” called Flesh World. As it turns out, that misinterpretation wasn’t so far off, as there was in fact a…
You know how in Portland, if you want to spruce something up you put a bird on it? Well in Dallas, a gas mask will suffice. 500X’s unjuried open show opened Saturday night with enough art to make your head spin. Some of it was insanely good. Some was, well,…
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…
Update: 6/8/2012 – Per Rising Gallery, Mr. Garcia has been located and is with his family. Thank you to the community for pulling together for one of our own. As Pegasus News and Glasstire have reported, Rising Gallery partner Frankie Garcia, III has been missing since around 10:00 p.m. on…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Dispatch from Cedar Springs, where one community organizer is setting up a red-hot first week of June. Razzle Dazzle Dallas is a volunteer organization with a mission to better the LGBT in any and every way imaginable, and RDD is gearing up for its second annual June Pride extravaganza. Razzle…
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…
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…
One of the most beautiful aspects of art is the avenue it opens for the very young and the very willing. Freddie Jones’ horn has sent him around the world – from Paris to Rotterdam – and back, and the UNT-educated trumpeter has since paid it forward, providing young musicians…
Now that television has, for the most part, settled into blessed respite for the next three months, the onset of summer designates an ideal moment to step away from that noise and to recharge one’s sluggish mind with some cerebral health food. Making that ambition all the more attainable, The…
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…
We’ll hand it to anybody who puts “kick ass” in the title of his workshop. We are, after all, living in a world that would define marriage in a way exclusionary to a mutant and his adorbs long-term boyfriend, so it takes a fair bit of chutzpah to dive into…
Being an election year, you’d be right to expect that more than a few politicos will be crawling out of the woodwork to invigorate their respective bases and jostle the American public from its Twinkie coma to pull down some votes. And that’s exactly what we suspect MSNBC analyst Chris…
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…
