Justin Clumpner — Sacred Kettle Art 2650-B Main St. Opening reception 5-8 p.m. Friday In his first solo exhibition at Kettle Art, Justin Clumpner continues to posit America as a Christian nation. Employing newspapers and advertisements as his materials of choice, he paints and collages his works into religious narratives…
In DFW, a few sign painting artisans have made a living working on hundreds of signs for local businesses. It takes years of experience to become an expert sign painter — Sean Starr and Roy Warren Lunt explain the process of becoming a master and the highs and lows of the trade.
A red door is, biblically speaking, a sign of protection, an echo of the blood rubbed on posts and lintels during Passover to keep God from smiting you and your home. But like most things that the Bible insists are positive, the red door also comes with an undercurrent of…
The Oak Cliff Film Festival crew is sitting in the back of Wild Detectives, bantering over the recent uptick in interest for slow-core Soviet cinema. They just showed Tarkovsky’s Stalker, a challenging piece of stitched-up long shots, and each has theories on why the crowds were so large. One thing…
The trailer for Henry Koster’s 1952 adaptation of My Cousin Rachel channels hysteria as the voiceover asks, “Was she woman or witch? Madonna or murderess?” Unfortunately, the film itself proved far tamer than the marketing suggested. The novel’s author, Daphne du Maurier, who also penned The Birds and the psychological…
Like many great things, De Colores Collective got its start at a Selena-themed event. Rafael “Rafa” Tamayo met Eva Arreguin at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center’s “Anything for Selenas” tribute, and the two creatives immediately hit it off. Tamayo, a longtime manager at the cultural center, thought that Arreguin, then…
First Monday Social Run Spillway at White Rock Lake Garland Road at Winsted Drive 6:30 p.m. Monday Free It’s hard, especially when it gets hot in Texas, to keep up a workout routine. And maybe we don’t always have the time to stick to a regular schedule of burpees, sit-ups…
Sometimes when you love somebody, you have to tell him when he’s hurting himself. I love the Dallas Symphony, which is why I have to warn it that it should never, ever do anything like Saturday, June 3’s, disastrously boring concert again. Ordinarily, the sight of a patron in a…
Walking up to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s second-floor galleries, you’re greeted by a phone booth pulsating with light. The Wi-Fi-controlled sculpture nods to a less convenient time when apologies, laments and assuring words were spoken publicly on street corners as others waited nearby, impatiently. It breathes like…
The 2017 Cannes Film Festival wrapped up last Sunday with a slate of generally predictable (and perfectly worthwhile) awards. And while it may have been a somewhat lackluster year for the festival’s main competition, there were plenty of cinematic treasures to be found on the Croisette – even a couple…
Pretty dresses hanging to dry outside an apartment building in Italy once caught the attention of photographer Milton Greene. That image, along with 100 others taken by the artist, is now captivating audiences at the Arlington Museum of Art. The Milton H. Greene: Women exhibit, which runs through Aug. 6,…
Shelly Rosen says her cousin called her the moment the Sidell House was put up for sale, and she knew she’d be buying it the moment she stepped through the door. But it was far from being a dream home. “I thought it could’ve been a teardown,” Rosen said. “The…
Confused: how Haylee Ryan felt when PurePoint, a new digital bank, asked her to create murals about money. “Typically, if I’d heard I was going to do a mural for a financial company, I would have said no,” she says. “Because that doesn’t sound interesting. I love nostalgia, and I…
It’s summer! Time to stay inside and watch TV! Duh! I’m Dying Up Here (Showtime), June 4 Peak TV giveth, and Peak TV taketh away. And sometimes Peak TV confuses the shit outta ye. Case in point: this new drama about LA’s stand-up comedy scene in the ’70s. I mean,…
For some reason, I can’t bring myself to hate Jim Brockmire. Played by comedian Hank Azaria, best known for his voice work on The Simpsons, Brockmire wears a perpetually wounded and somewhat confused expression, the look of a man coming off a bender who can’t find his car. His loud,…
I’m Dying Up Here premieres June 4 on Showtime Mythologies are built on pain. It’s why nations remember the invasions they’ve suffered better than the ones they’ve perpetrated, why religions celebrate their martyrs, and why Disney princesses – among the most privileged individuals in their respective kingdoms – sing about…
Roni Horn Exhibit Nasher Sculpture Center 2001 Flora St. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday $10 It’s hard to be ethereal and industrial at the same time, but Roni Horn’s exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center accomplishes exactly that. Her massive, heavy glass sculptures could double as some sort of…
In Midlothian, about a half hour south of Dallas, backhoes and excavators are working more than a thousand acres of land in preparation for the opening of DFW’s newest amusement park. But don’t start entertaining visions of roller coasters and log flumes. At Texplex, opening this weekend, it’s the excavator…
Imagine a remake of Cape Fear shot like Kubrick’s The Shining, with Max Cady recast as a child, and you’ll have some idea of the strangeness of Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Killing of a Sacred Deer. The film has quickly proved to be one of the most divisive titles at this…
With his bow-legged power-walk, low-boil narcissism and tough-guy snarl, Brad Pitt is the comic ghost in David Michod’s all-too-real War Machine. The film, which is premiering on Netflix this week (and also getting an extremely limited theatrical release), was inspired by the late Michael Hastings’s book The Operators: The Wild…
Solid rule of thumb: Never accept strawberries from strangers on the street, no matter how good-looking the fruit or well-spoken the unknown person. But maybe that’s just me. For Clare (Teresa Palmer), the intrepid Australian backpacker who in Berlin Syndrome finds herself imprisoned in a Berlin apartment by a romantic…
There will always be, it’s become clear, one more Winston Churchill story to tell: one more slant on a weekend, a summer, a year in the life of the 20th century’s most formidable leader, a man whose history includes two world wars and speeches so glorious that future dramatizations were…
