It’s Wednesday afternoon and Jesse Morgan Barnett paces through the cavernous space at 2604 Main Street, arranging his works of art. “When you do an installation the space is always in a defensive posture,” Barnett says. “The space looks different now than it will look Saturday. I like to bring…
If you could live your life like Jay Gatsby, wouldn’t you? The suits, the women, the music, the cars, the parties. Of course, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s greatest character didn’t live happily ever after, but that was then. This is now. There’s no reason you can’t dress up, pack a picnic,…
When it comes to international art exhibitions, Dallas can often be ignored in favor of cities like New York City or Chicago. The Dallas Museum of Art (1717 N. Harwood St.) is changing that with grabs like Jean Paul Gaultier a few years ago and now with its latest exhibit,…
Explores the international relationships that George W. Bush crafted during his presidency. April 13-June 3, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., 2014…
The Miss America pageant is a strange amalgam of beauty contest and charity event. All of the contestants are incredible citizens of the world, who dedicate their lives to important causes. Oh, who are we kidding? It’s really all about the looks. The ridiculous nature of beauty pageants has been…
If you could live your life like Jay Gatsby, wouldn’t you? The suits, the women, the music, the cars, the parties. Of course, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s greatest character didn’t live happily ever after, but that was then. This is now. There’s no reason you can’t dress up, pack a picnic,…
If a tree falls in the forest and no one’s there to hear it, maybe it’s because no one knows the forest exists. It might come as a surprise to Dallas residents that the Great Trinity Forest is in their backyard. Well, maybe not your backyard. Yep, those are just…
For some artists, the city streets are a canvas. Buildings with blank brick walls beg for the bright colors of a brand new mural. Graffiti artists have been painting Deep Ellum for decades, bringing to life storefronts and back alleys. Jerod DTOX Davies is one such painter, or muralist, as he likes…
My first swings at arts journalism were articles about Undermain Theatre. A poetry student at Southern Methodist University, I turned my eyes up from my belly button just long enough to attend a few shows and immediately began writing about the exciting new work happening in Deep Ellum’s basement theater…
Spring is here. Fittingly, the weekend’s weather forecast calls for highs of 90 degrees and lows of 45. This means that at theaters across the city, you’ll be battling strange combinations of air conditioning and heat. But that’s no excuse to miss any of the shows on this list. If…
We categorize art by medium: painting, sculpture, film, dance. You get it. But to what extent is art meant to be defined by medium? Is it paint on a canvas, a series of movements, a marble carving? Or does the intangible idea transcend the brushstrokes? Much like a person’s humanity…
Over her oven, Clare Floyd DeVries affixed a “Mrs. Lovett’s Pie Shop” sign. She’s a far cry from the cannibal baker in Sweeney Todd, it’s just a souvenir from one of the many sets she’s designed. “I do actually make meat pies,” she laughs. “Probably not the same kind though.”…
A scant number of actors, painters, dancers, comedians, writers dancers, magicians, musicians or mimes (those are still a thing, right?) devote a full day to their crafts. Most have day jobs or night jobs. It’s hard out there for an artist. Maybe there just isn’t enough money to go around…
The folks over at Fun House Theatre and Film can do no wrong. They’ve earned critical acclaim and numerous awards for new perspectives on works by everyone from Edward Albee to David Mamet. What’s different about them? They only cast kids. This weekend, masterminds (at least according to us) Jeff…
Fashion fever is not new to Dallas. Have you ever been to friggin’ NorthPark Mall? People in this city earn and burn money fast and they spare no expense to look good. Why? Photographs, for one. For society pages, we’ve got Paper City, Beverly Drive magazine, Modern Luxury, and Patron…
Usually we use this space to recommend specific performances or events that sound awesome. With this particular event, we can’t promise you the movie will be good because the Alamo Drafthouse won’t tell us what they’re showing. We asked. Apparently the whole point of the AFGA Secret Screening is that…
Kenneth Goldsmith was the poet laureate at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. What does that mean? I imagine him wandering through halls, writing poems about Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night. If anyone deserved the title, it’s Goldsmith. He’s the founding editor of an online archive UbuWeb, a…
Theater programs at high schools are filled with uninspiring monologues from Shakespeare, unsexy productions of Grease and scenes from The Crucible. Out in Plano, Fun House Theatre & Film serves as a counterpoint, skipping the usual riffraff and heading straight for the controversy. Playwright Neil LaBute with 15- and 16-year-olds?…
Where does a memory rest? And more important, what does it look like? Could an artist capture it in a painting? In her latest series, Rebecca Carter attempts exactly that. Using machine stitching on digitally generated color fields, she uses linear forms to create images both familiar and strange. She…
Somewhere in between black and white there are shades of gray. The varied tones of this intermediate color have inspired novels. At the intersection of black and white you discover lead or ash. Kettle Art Gallery’s new exhibit focuses on these Silver Linings with an exhibition composed entirely of grisaille…
The world’s favorite red head has been spending the last few weeks prepping for his upcoming visit to Dallas. Beginning March 31, he’ll be filming his show live at the Majestic Theatre. In a continuation of the Conan pandemonium (pandeConian?), today he announced his guests for his week downtown. If…
For a lot of people the art world can seem inaccessible. It’s a playground for the artists and a salesroom for the well-heeled. Across the city, institutions are attempting to overcome this insularity with free museum admission and fun parties. But when art is sold at fancy fundraisers or auctions,…
