In the fine arts world, printmaking often gets a bad rap. Whether it’s a design mass-produced on T-shirts or Andy Warhol’s poppy screenprinted Marilyn Monroe heads, critiques range from “simple” to “unoriginal.” Yet much of the art form of printmaking — both the process and the history — has fallen…
Funny or Die’s touring comedy show, the Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival, is coming back to Dallas this fall, with an even stronger lineup than last year: Louis CK, Marc Maron, Hannibal Buress, Sarah Silverman, Jeff Ross, Whitney Cummings and still others. The show is Friday, September 19, at Gexa…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Know an artistic mind who deserves a little bit of blog love? Email lauren.smart@dallasobserver.com with the whos and whys. Marianne Newsom and Sunny Sliger of The Color Condition are as colorful as their installations. They…
For Ricardo Paniagua, the canvas is sculpture and his sculpture is a canvas. He uses vivid colors to reconfigure recognizable shapes, suggesting interests in geometry and psychedelia, and to talk to Paniagua is to talk to someone inspired. His self-taught artistry and varied creative outputs are what he considers “assignments”…
Who is Bozo Texino? I have no clue. But The Public Trust plans to help answer that question at 7 p.m. Tuesday when they host artists Ralph White and Bill Daniel, who are currently on tour with their traveling exhibition, Tramp Species of the American Southwest…
On this week’s episode of the Voice Film Club podcast, Voice film critics Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek, along with L.A. Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson, discuss rom-com Begin Again (2:26), starring the always-interesting Mark Ruffalo. They also talk about the biting rom-com parody They Came Together (15:47), which might…
For 32 years, Ballet Concerto has been ringing in summer with an outdoor end-of-the-season concert series at the Trinity Park Pavilion in Fort Worth. Well attended every year, with more and more people coming out, laying down their blankets, and cuddling up with a glass of wine, and chowing down…
Shale was the topic of conversation at the sold out, adults-only party at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science on Friday night. “Who knew we had endless untapped shale right below our feet?” an attractive young woman playfully asked her date, who handed her a $7 glass of champagne…
By Angelica Leicht, courtesy of the Houston Press. Oh, there’s so much to see in Texas. From the white sands of the coastal shores to the deep canyons on down, our state has so much to offer. And while everyone knows about some of our more national attractions — Big…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Know an artistic mind who deserves a little bit of blog love? Email lauren.smart@dallasobserver.com with the whos and whys. Rene Moreno was at the beginning of what promised to be a long, fruitful career as…
You’re about to go on a date in Dallas. Things haven’t been great lately, and you’re not sure if this is the end or not. Here are 10 signs that your Dallas relationship might be headed in the “it’s over” direction…
Nathan Felix fell in love with orchestral music on the open road. The leader of Austin-based indie-pop band The Noise Revival Orchestra was just out of college and touring with a punk band when he found himself in a moment of musical exasperation. “One night I was just so furious,”…
It’s a Thursday night in Expo Park and a quick duck into the Amsterdam Bar accidentally becomes an art experience. A small group has gathered on the sidewalk in front of Beefhaus (833 Exposition Avenue) to watch a projected video of lobsters staring back at them. It’s part of Gregory…
When attending a fashion show that promises to satisfy artistic inclinations of all types, skepticism is the name of the game. At Thursday evening’s Man as Machine at Three Three Three First Avenue fashion, dance, music, makeup, body painting and all types of fine art were broadcast as the draws…
The Internet is full of hatred and bile-spewing comments about video games. Hell, I’m guilty of it myself. If you shelled out money for the Duke Nukem Forever: Balls of Steel Edition, you’re entitled to throw out a couple of curse words in front of someone’s children at a Best…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Know an artistic mind who deserves a little bit of blog love? Email lauren.smart@dallasobserver.com with the whos and whys. There’s a consistent trait shared by creators: the fear of not creating. When most people think…
What happens when you take live music, a fashion show and an indie film screening and shove the whole package into the Lizard Lounge? Well, that’s effectively what’s happening Friday at Panorama, the latest in a series of events thrown by RAW Dallas, a branch of the Los Angeles based,…
Baron Batch is one passionate man. The artist, writer, salsa maker and former Texas Tech star running back spoke to us over the phone while he traveled to Lubbock for its First Friday Art Trail. And with each question we asked, Batch answered with a detailed story. And a passionate…
I would’ve chosen a theme other than school house, if I were decorating the Warby Parker storefront in Dallas, which opened this week. This is not to say that I didn’t appreciate the oversized pencil sticking out of the roof, or the kitschy school bus parked out front. I love…
The Oak Cliff Film Festival happens this weekend. Allow me to offer a few reasons you should care: Movies, drinks, bike rides, dance parties, and croquet. If you need more convincing, head over to Jamie Laughlin’s preview of how it all happens this weekend. If you’re like me, the above…
For all the Fox News fear-mongering that Hollywood is out to indoctrinate us with liberal values, when it comes to pregnancy, the movies have for years been curiously conservative. If a woman gets knocked up, she either loses the baby by accident (cue waterworks) or carries it to term (cue…
The Rover, Australian filmmaker David Michôd’s follow-up to the brutish family drama Animal Kingdom, is a post-apocalyptic Western from the Outback, a stretch of land that already looks like the world’s been blown away. All Michôd needs to convince us of the devastation is a title card pegging the events…
