In the sunny main gallery of the Nasher Sculpture Center, a single tree branch seems to be growing out of a marble column. Or perhaps it has been trapped that way, memorialized in this regal way. Then, upon closer inspection, you’ll see this branch, and the others like it, aren’t…
Welcome to 10 Brilliant Dallas Women, a pop-up online series about 10 awesome women making Dallas a better place to live. Sayra Carpenter and Michelle Carranza wear a lot of jewelry. Precious stones, woven friendship bracelets, gold pendants in the shape of Texas. They stack their wrists with bracelets, they…
If Moonshine:That Hee Haw Musical is redundant, predictable and precariously sexist, the audience doesn’t seem to mind. Taking its title from the long-running variety television show, it’s roughly five minutes into the story that the ending becomes clear and five minutes after that when the heroine looks more like a…
Welcome to 10 Brilliant Dallas Women, a pop-up online series about 10 awesome women making Dallas a better place to live. Justine Ludwig arrived in Dallas a year ago, but to hear her talk about the city, you ‘d think it was longer. Since moving here from Cincinnati to take…
Over the last few years, a number of Dallas-based artists have been making trips to Corsicana, a town about 55 miles south of downtown. Helmed by Southern Methodist University alum, Kyle Hobratschk, the project has been to transform a three-story historic building into a residency space for artists and writers…
If you didn’t buy tickets to see Garth Brooks, and you aren’t going to spend the weekend in your basement making clocks, then we’ve assembled this list of awesome things to do in Dallas this weekend just for you. Thursday, September 17 331/3 Party Vinyl used to be the cheapest…
This weekend marks the true beginning of the fall museum schedule, with shows opening or entering the second week at nearly every major museum in Dallas and Fort Worth. Here, we outline the highlights. Being the River, Repeating the Forest Thoreau once said, “Nature will bear the closet inspection. She…
With every stitch or every tear in the fabric, Diedrick Brackens is creating or, more aptly, unraveling a much larger cloth. In a new exhibition at Conduit Gallery, hearts, hands, and other members, of his latest textile works, Brackens continues his exploration of issues of race, tradition and gender, but…
The headline says it all. Donald Trump is in a city where more than 40% of the residents are Latino, making a campaign trail stop at the American Airlines Center. And if you can bear to spend five more minutes looking at his face you can do some ridiculous things…
Thursday, September 10 Josie and the Pussycats There are guilty pleasures, and then there are bad movies. Guilty pleasures are films that don’t have much artistic merit, but watching them won’t necessarily make you dumber. A guilty pleasure may be mildly offensive or politically incorrect, but it doesn’t mean to…
In a bright, open space inside Dallas’ downtown library, about 50 women and men stand alert at a table with their hands tied behind their backs. “3-2-1, go!” someone counts down, and they begin to change diapers on children’s dolls. Their hands bound, the competitors fumble with the stand-in babies…
Simon Bilodeau’s Story With No Ending In a sense, the museum is the sculpture housing a painting. Typically manipulated to be as unobtrusive as possible, it interacts, intentionally or otherwise, with the work on display. The two are inextriable. It follows that an artist would be hyper aware of the…
One of the first things anyone asked during Sunday afternoon’s inaugural Dallas Zine Party was, “Who are all of these people?” That same question was why the event’s founder, Randy Guthmiller, planned this afternoon in the first place. Who were the people in and around Dallas making zines? What did…
Thursday, September 3North Texas Masters of Light The American Society of Media Photographers is home to some pretty talented storytellers. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. Especially if the media outlet is paying pennies per word. This weekend the wide array of talent in the ASMP’s…
For much of her career, Lucia Simek’s work revolved around what she describes as, “the grand adventure of domesticity.” Her exhibition at the Dallas Contemporary (a collaboration with Kristen Cochran) was made from marble, which she describes as an aspirational stone, a material that represents or projects a certain image…
North Texas Masters of Light The American Society of Media Photographers is home to some pretty talented storytellers. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. Especially if the media outlet is paying pennies per word. This weekend the wide array of talent in the ASMP’s Dallas branch…
Remember when you used to love summer? It meant freedom: no homework, a later curfew and plenty of warm nights by the pool with your friends. Well, that’s what it was supposed to mean. I was always grounded. Some things about growing up aren’t so bad. But I do miss…
Professior R. Mutt and his Duchampaphones It’s impossible to pinpoint where an idea comes from. What compels one person to creatively rethink something that’s come before? Why would a guy masquerading as” Professor R. Mutt” would look at the bicycle wheel sculpture by Duchamp – in homage to whom he…
Dude, remember that time the entire arts district was filled with light sculptures and art? I don’t mean some pansy, boring event that says it’s going to blow your mind but then because it’s set such high expectations inevitably lets you down. Aurora is the bi-annual art event that puts…
Robert “Breaking News” Wilonksy has been running some pretty stellar coverage of the Lakewood Theater re-do, getting scoop right and left. He just shared a juicy tidbit about the space’s would-be operators, and it’s something straight out of our moviegoing dreams. He reported a while back that Kinney, the Lakewood…
Summer’s on its way out, fall is coming, and even though we may not measure our lives in semesters anymore, I have a goal for you to make with me, a leaf to turn over. Let’s see more theater this year? Whadya say? There’s something really great stuff hitting the…
Thursday, Aug. 20 Spelling Bee You’ll never forget the moment when it all came crashing down. You made it through the classroom trials, passed the grade-level competition with flying colors, and advanced from the school finals to the district spelling bee. “Soliloquy”, no problem. “Puerile”, you got it. And then,…
