That’s right, Crispin Glover wants to be your Valentine. Your favorite cinematic oddball spends two nights at Texas Theatre this weekend. Want more? Fine. How about a massive burlesque festival starring international talent? There’s also art, a robot opera, live flamenco, a silent film set to live music, comedy and…
Laurie Anderson is known best for her chart-topping song “O Superman,” an avant garde phenomenon that oddly crossed-over into popular consumption in 1981. It even scored her a seven-album recording deal with Warner Brothers, back when those kinds of offers mattered. But she’s far more than a one-hit wonder. Anderson’s…
If Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel hadn’t choked Salvador Dalí’s ladyfriend at that dinner party, film history would have played out differently. But hey, these things happen. The throttling was, quite literally, the sign of tension coming to a head between the two artists. The violence caused Dalí to walk away…
James Franco’s hourlong sort-of documentary Interior. Leather Bar. hit 2013’s festival circuit around the same time Oz The Great and Powerful released worldwide. Stew on that for a minute. Franco and co-collaborator Travis Mathews bill the lower-budget project as an examination/recreation of the 40 minutes of gay S&M footage the…
You’ve spent months knitting the perfect Dr. Who scarf, and this weekend you’ll finally flex your cosplay prowess at Comic Con Sci-fi Expo. Running Saturday and Sunday, the fest returns to the Irving Convention Center (500 W. Las Colinas Blvd.) with a star-studded lineup, headlined by a Saturday visit from…
Keeping a gallery space alive and vibrant for a decade isn’t a small feat. Doing that as an artist-operated space is nearly unheard of. Kettle Art Gallery (2650-B Main St.) has been an integral piece of the city’s art scene since it was built by hand 10 years ago, operating…
For Xchange, the Nasher’s citywide public art project, only two locals were selected to create work. One was solo artist, activist and Observer Mastermind winner Vicki Meek. The other was Good/Bad Art Collective, a group of wonderfully peculiar souls. Their work/play attitude and hyperactive creativity led to some of Denton’s…
When artist/magician Edward Ruiz — who goes by Confetti Eddie on stage — announced a parlor-style performance at his studio space, I instinctively clicked “Join.” Nobody’s ever offered me a night of magic before, and I was curious. Curious about all of it, really. Who else would pay to spend…
In January, SXSW announced that supernova heartthrob/astrophysicist/author/educator Neil deGrasse Tyson is a confirmed keynote interview for this year’s Interactive. Well Dallas, if you didn’t buy a laminate, get excited. The AT&T Center has announced that Tyson will speak at the Winspear in May. He’s the author of 10 — count…
FOREVER Trailer from Jason Reimer on Vimeo. Xchange, Nasher’s citywide public art initiative, wraps on February 16, and they’ve saved a little something special for the end. Or rather, dual-time zone art collective Good/Bad has. The group has constructed a short film designed to sell an existential secret, redeemable on…
She’s a beautifully dark force in the world of contemporary art, and North Texas gets easy access to Kiki Smith’s latest exhibition, currently on view at UNT Gallery on the Square (109 N. Elm St., Denton). Transformations shows both the artist’s process and final output through a series of five…
Whether you follow football or not is pretty inconsequential when the Big Game rolls around. It’s as much an excuse to drink beer and eat party subs (is that still a thing?) as predicting the outcome in New Jersey. Some of you will use it to show off your heirloom…
Saturday is a great day to visit the Arts District. Whether you go alone, with friends or bring along your familial gaggle, you get free admission at two different museums and grab a complimentary cultural festival at a third. The DMA is always free, so pop in and see what’s…
There’s a tenderness to Yen Tan’s 2013 feature Pit Stop that rarely surfaces in contemporary film. At its most basic, Pit Stop is a look at two gay men in dusty, small-town Texas — where serious Southerners live lonely lives and hold their secrets close. When you feel the film’s…
Comic Con announced yesterday that Close Encounters and Jaws star, Richard Dreyfuss, will headline February’s Dallas Sci-Fi expo, happening at the Irving Convention Center. He’s an uncommon “get” for one of these gigs, which typically cull television celebs and other non-Academy Award winners for their meet-and-greets. Dreyfuss is different. He…
Contemporary Belgian artist Michaël Borremans’ only U.S. solo museum exhibition ran at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2005. Titled Hallucination and Reality, it focused on his small paintings and sketches on cardboard. His only solo U.S. gallery show was at New York’s David Zwirner in 2009 and featured a…
With so many Academy Award nominees currently in theaters, it’s natural for your competitive side to activate. But there’s still a month before you don an old prom dress, eat a shrimp ring and watch the Oscars — that’s plenty of time. Be decadent this week: Treat yourself to eight…
Not only will Eddie Izzard bring his newest sell-out tour, Force Majeure, to Dallas this summer, he’ll do it the most stylish way possible. Rather than filling a soulless stadium for one night, where screams of “Cake or Death” would ricochet off a thousand distant walls, Izzard will hover at…
Rangers fans piled into the ballpark Saturday to get a little facetime with their favorite players. Autograph sessions, Q&As, tours of the dugout and a chance to run the bases rounded out the afternoon’s events. We sent photographer Rachel Parker to weave through the masses and find our favorites. While…
Being nervous about sketch comedy is natural. One bad experience and you’re convinced the medium disagrees with you. Like that time you drank all of the melon-flavored whiskey and said, “Nope. Never again.” But maybe you just drank the wrong shit, right? Nobody should drink melon-flavored whiskey, especially when the…
STAG! Comedy, our favorite Austin sketch troupe, slays punchlines like malnourished dinosaurs. (See Saturday.) Break out the paper cocktail umbrellas, Dallas. Do it. I’ll wait. [Whistles. Stares vacantly out window.] Got ’em? Good. Stick one in your coffee, ‘cuz this weekend is loaded up with life’s best stuff. Free pie?…
Jeff Gibbons is a tinkerer. An inventor. A renovator. An artist. And whether you catch the CentralTrak artist-in-residence unveiling a whirling collection of projections at Oliver Francis Gallery; experimenting with rotting citrus, ice blocks and late-model electronics at the MAC; or teasing out impermanence through foodstuffs, like in El Centro’s…
