18 Awesome Things to Do in Dallas This Weekend, April 16-19

The weather’s great, the weekend is on its way (or arrived, depending on when you’re reading this), and we’re looking at nothing but culturally relevant fun for the next four days. Kick it off tonight with a play or two of your favorite comedians, and then head into some galleries,…

Virtually Natural Landscapes

At the intersection of art and technology, the leading figure is Mark Tribe. An early adopter of new media, in 1996 Tribe started Rhizome.org as an online resource for anyone with similiar curiousity about how emerging technology affects culture. In his artistic practice, he’s interested in using art and media…

Westward, Ho!

For centuries, pioneers have been heading west. They find something alluring or interesting about following the sunset and off they go to conquer the American plains. Nowadays we’d call them early adopters. But just as valuable to the creation of communities and culture are the people who let others test…

5 Art Exhibitions to See This Weekend

Justyna Gorowska: FWJG Photographer Francesca Woodman was fascinated by the female body. During the late 70’s she shot black and white portraiture, often of women in the nude, playing with the camera to blur or smudge the image further submerging the subject into the medium. Woodman’s photographic self-awareness, her sensitive…

Take Lauren’s Mini Virtual Tour of the Dallas Art Fair, 2015

A smart gallerist wants the work they show to be in conversation with the contemporary international art market, but much of the year it’s more likely you’ll speak in Dallas terms. You’ll compare one Dragon Street space to another. Perhaps this is why it’s quite wonderful to wander the Dallas…

Prism Co. Paints You a Play In Its Namesake Show

All painting isn’t an act of theater, but it can be. Which is why the next Prism Co. show sounds as much like a live painting event as it does a play. That’s the wonderful thing about this young, upstart company: They aren’t just stretching the definition of what theater…

30 Awesome Things to Do in Dallas This Weekend, April 9-12

Climb aboard the weekend cruise liner. First stop? A busy, fun-filled weekend complete with a film festival, an art festival, an art fair, numerous art exhibitions and events, poetry, music, and many more adventures, weather permitting. You won’t be able to see it all, so pick from our handy dandy…

Noah Simblist’s Palestine, Texas

The lore of Texas runs strong in America. Every small town has a story, a history, a legend, a myth. You’ll recognize yourself in a lot of the stories, the characters that make up these places. And in artist Noah Simblist’s creation, you’ll recognize something else as well – a…

Here Are Your Non-Art Fair Art Events to Attend This Week

You’re going to hear a lot of people telling you what #DallasArtsWeek and the Dallas Art Fair mean for the city this week. No matter what they say, roll your eyes, sip your champagne, and adopt the most blasé tone you can muster and say, “Vous sentez come le boeuf…

17 Awesome Things to Do in Dallas This Weekend, April 2 – 5

The Pin Show This year’s iteration of The Pin Show has us on pins and needles for all the right reasons. The much-buzzed-about local fashion event is a must-see for trendsetters and followers alike, seamlessly mixing well-heeled debutantes with edgy artistic types for a show that would be right at…

Movies with Music

There’s a push these days in the arts to be multi-genre, or to be experimental in venue, at the very least. Which is to say that concert venues host art exhibitions, and sometimes movie theaters host classical music events. Sometimes this doesn’t make sense; sometimes it’s incredibly apropos. Like with…

Extra-Sensory Art

Circuit 12 Contemporary isn’t throwing stones or killing birds, but they are introducing you to a bunch of new artists in just a few exhibits. Human Occult Powers explores the mystical thing we call human existence and the magical process of creation. It’s an eight-person exhibition featuring paintings, sculpture, sound…

Caroline Mousseau

A recent New Yorker review of a contemporary painting show at the MoMA posed the question, “Is There Anything Left to Paint?” In some ways rhetorical, in others sobering. A painter working today wrestles with a medium centuries old, struggling to say something new. Something that Cydonia Gallery’s next exhibiting…

7 Best Dog Parks in Dallas, Including Ones with Booze

Deep Ellum Bark Park Located under that stretch of I-345 off of Commerce Street, this dog park is a respite from the harsh sun in the summertime that’s filled with dogs of all sizes. It’s a fun place to meet new, young dog owners, although there aren’t very many dog-friendly…

Video: Behind the Scenes at Shakespeare in the Bar

“This isn’t your English class’ Shakespeare,” Katherine Bourne says in our new video of Shakespeare in the Bar, the wildly popular theater series at Wild Detectives. She’s right about that. We’ve told you how much fun we’ve been having at these pop-up theater performances at the bookstore/coffeeshop/bar in the Bishop…

100 Dallas Creatives Down, Thousands to Go

Last May I sat staring into my laptop and a blank document stared back. One hundred can seem like such a daunting number. But some of the Observer’s sister papers in cities like Phoenix and Miami had come up with 100 creative people to feature in an ongoing series, so…

100 Dallas Creatives: No. 1 Shay Youngblood, Writer About Town

Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Shay Youngblood is an artist of several varieties. An author and playwright with numerous publications to her name, Youngblood began to write by reflecting on her tumultuous childhood and the women who raised her, or…

19 Awesome Things to Do in Dallas This Weekend, March 26-29

We’ve been looking for the pinball tables in Dallas for months. It seems they’ve disappeared from some of our favorite spots. But this weekend, we’ll get to use our flipper fingers on the hundreds of pinball tables that will be at the Texas Pinball Festival up in Frisco. It kicks…