Can you feel it? The sun is on its way out. It’s slowly killing off the clouds with its warm rays of light, and soon, possibly in the next day or two, it’s returning to Dallas to brighten our bouts of depression and warm up our chilly bodies. You’ll need…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Danielle Avram Morgan is a photographer turned video artist turned curator, all of which she likely does a great deal better than the average person. Hers is a name you’ll see around Dallas now that…
Mark Tribe: New 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…
Last week I made an appointment to see a loft in Exposition Park just before news hit that Amsterdam Bar would be closing. This on the heels of the Meridian Room’s shuttering thinned the neighborhood of its history. Walking to my car from Craft & Growler late Saturday night, the…
“It’s like ‘Miami Vice’ in there,” says artistic director Tina Parker as I wander into the back offices of Kitchen Dog Theater on an overcast Tuesday afternoon. “Complete sensory overload.” For the season’s next play, company member Lee Trull reconfigured the wildly likable Oscar Wilde play, The Importance of Being…
Navigating the Loop can be a complicated, down to the wire process. It’s a variegated 10-day festival of theater, dance, and performance, and unless you’ve cleared your schedule, it’s unlikely you’ll get to see it all, so you’ll need to plan accordingly. Critics will give you the rundown of picks…
Out of the Loop Fringe Festival opens at WaterTower Theatre this weekend. The annual fest up in Addison isn’t afraid to take risks on new work from Dallas-based playwrights, like this year’s Standing 8 Count by Van Quattro. The fest also brings in outside performers, like the return of Jenn…
Two words are not foreign to Kelly Kroener: community and collaboration. In the few years that the Cincinnati-born artist has lived in Dallas, she’s co-founded multiple artist initiatives and invested time and energy into her adopted neighborhood, The Cedars. With a background in painting, sculpture and fashion, Kroener will exhibit…
Late last year, during the run of Draftsmen of the Apocalypse, CentralTrak hosted an artist talk with Thor Johnson and Joachim West that was more performance than analytical discussion of their work. But it some ways, it encouraged more productive conversation than most artist talks. After all, What Is An…
An artist’s process starts long before he picks up a paintbrush, or in the case of HG, a can of spray paint. In her latest video, Kathy Tran stops by the studio to see what Dallas-based street artist HG is up to, capturing him as he tries things out, brain…
Cutie & The Boxer Artists Noriko and Ushio Shinohara earned international acclaim for their 2013 documentary Cutie and the Boxer, which was nominated for an Academy Award. The film explored the couple’s relationship and their artistic practices, following the way they’ve intertwined life and careers as Japanese artists living in…
Years ago, my love for theater was my entry point into journalism. A poetry student dog paddling in the social tsunami that was Southern Methodist University campus life, I signed on to write a few articles for the student newspaper about theater. Next thing I knew I was taking journalism…
Today, the world was dealt a sad blow. Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ died at 83. “Live Long and Prosper” popped up numerous times in my newsfeed, stories of Nimoy and Star Trek were everywhere, but one tribute caught my eye. Rob Wilson, local artist and graphic designer extraordinaire,…
If you’re tired of hearing about the dress of many colors, the Internet offers numerous alternatives. Lately, Dallas writers have flooded the Internet with words worth reading. And while I’m obviously biased toward the writing you’ll find on the pages of DallasObserver.com, there are some articles out there about the…
Looking for things to do this weekend? Mixmaster knows good times that will fill your culture quotient and keep you entertained. Sit back and let our knowledgeable team of culturati fill your calendar…
Poets live among us. That man slurping coffee in the corner of Mudsmith, scribbling into his notebook? Poet. That woman drumming her fingers on the bar, mouthing words and staring into space? Poet. And they’re finding inspiration for poetry everywhere. By all accounts, it’s a beautiful way to see the…
Well, this is sad news. The mammoth Lucky Dog Books location in Oak Cliff, announced via Facebook this morning that it has reached its final chapter. After a campaign last month to raise money via gift card sales and donations, the Oak Cliff Advocate reports that the used bookstore will…
The number of galleries in the Design District continues to grow. Over the past year, new galleries like Zhulong Gallery and Cydonia have popped up in the neighborhood. Last month Cris Worley and Holly Johnson’s eponymous galleries traded spaces, moving onto the main stretch of Dragon Street. Today, Liliana Bloch…
There’s not much in your way of typical exhibition openings, so you’ll only see one of those on this list. If you’re looking to get your art fix you’ll have to be a bit more adventurous. Check out one of these five events to attend. We lead off with one…
It’s 4 p.m. on a Wednesday and I’m climbing into the body of a 1975 Datsun Z, receiving instructions that amount to “flip this switch and jiggle that one” with the warning that “just know, it will actually be quite startling.” I’m sitting on a false seat in the driver’s…
For musical lovers, the hottest ticket in town is the season subscription for the AT&T Performing Arts Center Broadway Series. These are the people who have brought Book of Mormon to Dallas twice, and continue to book Broadway’s blockbusters. Monday night, the theater announced its 2015/16 season, which doesn’t disappoint…
The rumors are true and the official announcement and link for more details are on the way, but this week Giovanni Valderas, Vice Chair of the Cultural Arts Commission for the city of Dallas announced via Facebook that starting February 27, artists will be able to apply for grants that…
