Last Saturday night was a wild one for the arts in Dallas. Fundraisers, collectives taking over venues, art walks and big gallery openings had us pulled a dozen directions — from East Dallas to Uptown, over to the Design District and back to Expo Park. Just removed from the hubbub,…

You’ve waited a month for “Expanded Cinema,” the Omni light hijacking project happening this Wednesday night, September 26. Fourteen Dallas video artists will replace the flashy building’s normal visual programming with their own mad scientist inventions, starting at 8 p.m. You should see the show in the best available location…

The annual Plano Balloon Festival drew folks in by the thousands last weekend, all seeking a gander at those kaleidoscopic feats of floating serenity. Photographer Mike Mezeul II captured it all. Then, between spontaneous bouts of meditation, we picked our ten favorites. Have a look. The final two pictures resemble…

Commissioned by The Joule Hotel as part of the MTV:REDEFINE fundraiser and auction, this newly completed piece of public art is also a temporary one. Impossible to photograph, the mural runs on the narrow length of the pedestrian walkway bridging Elm and Main, across the street from Neiman’s front entrance…

This is Eric Trich’s “Augmented Reality” and you’ll play with it on Saturday night at W.A.A.S. gallery. If you’ve ever fancied yourself an artsy type, this is your weekend. Saturday night is a full-on assault of creative activity: there’s Eric Trich’s iPhone interactive experiment, “Augmented Reality” at W.A.A.S.. An immersion…

Here in Dallas we like to fiddle with things, which is why we’re known globally as a hub for art and technology. The largest possible convergence of both happens Wednesday when the Dallas VideoFest kicks off its 25th year with a program called “Expanded Cinema,” where local video artists will…

Sometimes the best way to approach romance is through complete denial, or at least that’s what Benedick and Beatrice would have you believe in Much Ado About Nothing, Ol’ Shake’s comedic tale of criss-crossed love. Of course that avenue of rejection never holds out: most people break down eventually when…

The DADA Gallery Walk and bike swarm is the SXSW of Dallas arts. Here, you’ll have an entire day (well, 2 to 8 p.m. anyway) to explore 40 of DADA’s participating art nooks, big and small, throughout the area. DADA has so many members that whether you’re in Uptown, Downtown,…

The role of fashion in art is an interesting one. While certainly a medium all its own, the industry of fashion is also a bit insidious. We seek it out for inspiration, but if told the wrong way it can be a source of misguidance for many. Local-turned-Brooklyn artist K8…

The Fort Worth Avenue Development Group might actually be a pack of superheros. They combine over a love of West Dallas, improving the pedestrian conditions through beautification, public works programs and increasing the general surface area of the sidewalks and, sigh, someday bike lanes. What we forget about superheros is…

Texas Theatre and Dallas VideoFest are both holding cinematic wakes for Chris Marker. The filmmaker passed away in July, but left the world a more peculiar and interesting place thanks to his fiddling. His still-frame saga of memory exploration, time travel and post-apocalyptic nastiness, La Jetée, has become required art…

You only have a few days remaining to see Lexus Broadway Series’ latest offering at the AT&T Performing Arts Center, War Horse — although ticket availability might be an issue. It was just announced that the production is a record breaker, holding the title of the top grossing non-musical ever…

Looking ahead, this Saturday is another remarkable one for Dallas art. Everyone’s organizing fundraisers, new shows and a little late summer experimentation before our holiday schedules fill. You might call up Celine Dion and ask who does her holograms. You’ll need one to get to everything. But push all of…

See also: Our 16 Favorite Soapbox Derby Teams, In Profiles. Watching Red Bull’s Soapbox Derby Race on Saturday made us all wish that we’d built a cart and participated. But since only 40 teams actually did step up to launch, here’s some hat cam footage from The Come and Takers…

Red Bull chose Dallas to host its famous soapbox derby race last Saturday, leaving 67 thousand folks asking Siri where this Austin Ranch place actually is. But they found it, and crowds invaded the suburb to see forty teams compete in two categories: crowd favorite and fastest time. Some were…

Not that long ago there was a road filled with expensive places full of expensive things. In the summers, its inhabitants would fly away to cooler lands where they would air kiss one another but never actually touch. (You know, germs.) Then some new neighbors moved in. Neon shined through…

Life In Deep Ellum was packed with collectable toys and the humans who love them last night as Vinyl Thoughts launched into its third installment. For the uninitiated, the event is a celebration of customizable figurines that have been chopped up, razored down, reformed and painted. The new designs are…

Am I the only one that screamed “Falcor!” at the end of that video? The Red Bull Soapbox Derby race is only ONE of many, many amazingly awesome things going on this weekend: There’s a fashion show on a floating runway, the Observer’s Brewfest, dogs invading a water park and…

Roger Winter might have escaped his Texas roots by relocating to his current dual residencies (New York and Santa Fe), but we refuse to let go of his art. Last Saturday a solo show of his recent work was unveiled at Kirk Hopper (and runs through October 6), and this…