In Martyr, there’s not a likable character to be found. At least not in Second Thought Theatre’s production of it. Marius von Mayenburg’s moralistic tale of a teenager who seeks solace from adolescent confusions in the strictures of the Bible is treated without a hint of subtlety rendering it a…
Do This! Artopia is the party of the weekend. The Dallas Observer art overload features some of the city’s best music acts (Ishi, Dezi 5), a fashion show, performances by magician Confetti Eddie, and so much more. There will be drinks, dancing and a lot of art. One of the…
Black Sheep Feminism, Aura Satz & Jeff Zilm What promises to be another excellent round of programming opens this weekend at the Dallas Contemporary. Dallas-based artist Jeff Zilm fills one of the cavernous galleries with his newest paintings for Lossless Forms for Picture Plane; London-based artist Aura Satz, whose work…
People around the world suffered a certain kind of heartbreak Sunday night when news broke that music legend David Bowie died. He made the alien in all of us feel a little more at home during our time on planet earth. He left this place more colorful than when he…
Nowhere is the spirit of Dallas more alive than in its artists. Their cultural brain power and unstoppable ambition bring us new events and festivals, revitalize neighborhoods, reflect on our blunders and offer us things to take pride in. Our artists challenge the status quo of theater, film, visual art…
Do This! The 4th Annual Hypnotic Polar Plunge asks you to jump into the frigid waters of the FOE pool to raise money for the Greater Dallas Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. Freezing your ass off won’t be how they earn the money, the cold, hard cash you hand over to…
Annette Lawrence As the analog world becomes replaced by the digital, imagine transferring the scribbles in your journals into your laptop, or up into the cloud. Artist Annette Lawrence has long been interested in the written word as object and idea, and for her upcoming exhibition at Conduit Gallery (1626…
Somewhere between season two and season three of Game of Thrones I quit. It was too evil and rape-y for my squeamish brain. But one thing I loved about the show was the theme music. It fit perfectly with the show’s sinister, yet magisterial mood. Fast forward to last week…
The party’s over. You’ve welcomed the New Year with a glass of champagne or with a big dose of vitamin sleep. For some of you, it was just a typical Thursday night. So maybe you’re asking, now what? Well, here’s what. Plenty of things to do this weekend to keep…
If you’re interested in emerging talent, Dallas is teeming with it. Just stop by a show at 500X Gallery, Kettle Art Gallery, Random Art Gallery or Beefhaus and dig through the names on the walls. It’s amazing how much work is being made in this city at any given time,…
Sure, they’ve cancelled the city’s big event in Victory Park, but that doesn’t mean you need to sit on your ass. And sure, partying with strangers isn’t always the best way to start a new year, but nothing’s perfect and you never know who that stranger will turn out to…
Panther Island Ice If you want to feel festive and do something designed for the winter we don’t have in Dallas, head to Fort Worth and skate on real ice at Panther Island Ice. On Christmas day, the rink is open from 2- 11 p.m. Admission is $11, which includes…
Was 2015 a strange year for anyone else? It seems this year sucked a lot of the city’s mojo dry. Maybe it was all the rainfall that filled the Trinity River. Maybe Mercury never came out of retrograde. Maybe we’re all just overworked and underpaid. Whatever went wrong, the tone…
Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots This one is obvious. Seriously, though, there have been too few exhibitions of this caliber, both in curation and in work on display. Each of these pieces warrant a bout of serious looking at the piece. Particularly in some of the later works in this exhibition,…
If Joan Davidow’s name sounds familiar, it’s likely because of her tenures as the director of the Arlington Museum of Art and Dallas Contemporary. She’s one of the city’s go-to experts about art and she has an eye for up-and-comers. These days she imparts her insight in segments for KERA,…
Do This! Star Wars Weekend at Alamo Drafthouse, 100 S. Central Expwy. It’s the most wonderful time of the year, if you already have your tickets to Star Wars at least. This weekend, Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens in theater across North Texas and it’s mostly totally entirely completely…
Site 131 If Joan Davidow’s name sounds familiar, you likely recognize it from her time as the director of either Arlington Museum of Art or Dallas Contemporary. This weekend, she and her son, Seth, open a new non-profit art space on Payne St. Site 131 plans to focus on the…
Gallerist Hahn Ho has created a puzzle. For her latest exhibition at Cydonia Gallery, she’s paired Dallas-based artist Frances Bagley with Portland artist Ryan Burghard for an exhibition she curiously compares to the human drive for marriage. In Where You End and I Begin: Relational Dialetics, Ho places a number…
If everything goes according to plan, this will be Wanda Dye’s last weekend in Dallas. After her closing party on Sunday, the artistic force behind RE Gallery, a progressive space in The Cedars neighborhood, packs her shotgun shack and heads home to Alabama to be closer to her family. Although…
For years, we’ve brought you an extensive, all-encompassing list of weekend events. These long, unwieldy documents were beginning to feel passé. No one knows the high and low brow of Dallas culture, dining and music better than we do, so we decided to pare down these guides to just the…
RE Gallery Closing Party Wanda Dye’s sharp eye for emerging talent, and endless taste for the perfectly eccentric turned RE Gallery into one of the can’t miss spaces in Dallas. Since opening a gallery in her shotgun shack in The Cedars three years ago, she’s exhibited some of the most…
Opening night of Le Sacre du printemps, better known to English speakers as The Rite of Spring, created one of dance history’s most infamous stories. With music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky, this ballet concert opened in 1913 with the subtitle, “Pictures of Pagan Russia in Two Parts.” Both the…
