If you like your art against the grain, tricked-out and oozing with local tonality, you’ll want to lose yourself in the visual fragments of 13 Spectrums, a new group show taking over the White Space Gallery (2001 N. Lamar St., Suite 500) on Thursday evening. Here you’ll see a pack…

The Fort Worth Opera has decided to be a bad influence Monday. Just as you’re starting a new work week, planning a civilized evening at home with your Netflix, they beckon you out with the promise of booze and classical music. It’s an aria-in-your-face program called Opera Shots, where professional…

He has an unassuming delivery, so you don’t expect Los Angeles comedian Tom Segura to bring the belly laughs. Then, while you’re waiting for him to build up, he blindsides you with a jab about the cannibalistic curse of face tattoos. His punch lands, right in the gut. A self-professed…

While other kids played house you drifted off, dreaming of a xeriscape yard, minimalist furniture and an angular home built brilliantly into a rocky hill. There, your toys would hide in tucked-away wall cubbies with click-open, fingertip technology. Your dog would be hypoallergenic and match the rug positioned underneath your…

Hauntingly beautiful and layered behind a scrim of hazy melancholy, Ted Kincaid’s images seem to capture a distant, mystical world. But what actually composes that “reality” is the debatable question. His famous Thunderhead Clouds begin as actual photos which are hyper-altered, manipulated and distorted. His newer pieces, which resurrect possibly…

I run only when chased. I make an exception to that rule, but it involves a limited number of doughnuts, a large group of cubical workers and a short jaunt to the communal kitchen. Otherwise, inertia and I are best bros. Lifemates, really. So no, I do not understand the…

At last night’s Dallas Chamber Symphony performance a film screen illuminated the front of City Performance Hall. One of cinema’s first haunts — The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, came alive again on its 93rd birthday. Below it, a tidy cluster of classical musicians plucked their strings, building suspense. It was…

In effort to keep Tex in our hearts and minds, the State Fair of Texas just released this freaky video. They’re rebuilding our iconic corn dog guardian, and this is meant to be a first look at Tex’s new hand. I dunno guys, is the hand weird enough? I really…

All photos by Maegan Puetz As Dallas’ artists explore the city’s more transitional areas, we see the lovely visual byproducts created by their friction. Just in the last year, patchy spots on each side of the bridge were commandeered for quick exhibitions — In Cooperation With Muscle Nation and Art…

Considering Dallas’ bustling burlesque schedule, it takes a lot to surprise us. Tarantino-themed productions? Been done. All male revue? Happened last week. Variety shows with disrobing chainsaw jugglers and fire swallowing? The Kessler, two Saturdays ago. And still, the niche market of Nerdlesque remained untapped until Thursday evening. What transpired…

GIF by Shebuscus HOMECOMING! Committee, Fort Worth’s most playful art collective, is staging an online arena. There, artists will do combat via the ancient art (1987) of manipulated looped stills. They’ve begun accepting submissions for GIF THE FUCK OUT, the group’s first animated GIF competition, which further narrows its mission,…

Yes, that’s a Monster Truck school bus named Higher Education. Yes, I think that you should mute it, and play this song instead. What do you want, Dallas? Samurai silent films with live experimental music? Done. Amazing fashion shows with booze served from fire trucks? Alright. How about sword swallowing,…

It’s difficult not to channel Portlandia when thinking of the phrase “Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” but if anything can corral sketches of pushy mailmen, it’s Tuesday’s piece of original work being performed and commissioned by the Dallas Chamber Symphony. Only in its first year of programming, the DCS has kept…

Sword swallowing is one of those talents that I’ve never understood. Namely, how does one suspect that they’ve got the calling? Moreover, if you’re a youth with no sword-swallowing role models, how do you enter the field? Are there internships available? If so, what exactly is involved, administratively? How many…

I imagine a photo shoot with iconic pin-up photographer Bunny Yeager being a bit like a slumber party, where pretty girls trade beauty tips and adjust each other’s updos as they lazily begin to slump. By all accounts, that’s a fairly accurate depiction, and that camaraderie formed gave Yeager a…

We’re fortunate to live in a community saturated with art. From visual to dance, symphony to stage, there are a few groups we always keep in our sights, despite the heavy competition, and one of those companies is Kitchen Dog Theatre. Never afraid to push an unconventional production into the…

It’s Dallas’ biggest fashion show, and for 2013 The Pin Show’s organizers decided to whip a stitch in reverse and stage the event in a West Dallas warehouse. So while last year’s Pin brought dripping chandeliers and luxe lobbies, this installment becomes even more interesting with a stripped-down, deconstructed focus…

The Nasher Sculpture Center announced its grand 10-year celebration plan this afternoon, and it comes at an interesting time for the Dallas art community. They’ve already raised $1 million of the required funds for a program called Nasher Xchange, which will commission 10 site-specific works of public art by 10…

Reading the testimonial section of EASL’s website makes you want to scream. It’s filled with stories that shouldn’t exist: A menacing lump. A flood or fire dissolving someone’s life’s work. An emergency surgery is required, but not afforded. Yeah, these fears haunt us all, but for visual artists they carry…

When Montopolis brought its last experimental score to Texas Theatre, they performed a custom soundtrack to Man With A Movie Camera. The show was, hands down, the best date night happening in Dallas that evening. They’re back on Saturday with an all new musical composition to another classic, though less…