Arts & Culture

Twenty years from now when our children hear Outkast’s “Hey Ya” on the Oldies station on the radio or Pandora or whatever they’ll be listening to in the future and have to ask us what “Shake it like a Polaroid picture” means, we’ll enjoy a sweet, sad moment of nostalgia…

In the 1970s Elliott McDowell excelled at traditional photography techniques, acclaimed for his keenly printed photographs of unusual, mostly staged shots of comical people and quirky subject matter. The Santa Fe-based photographer’s early black and white images aren’t easily forgotten, and ones like “The Wolf,” “The Bachelor,” “Moonrise Over Rolls…

A man standing in the scalding Texas sun, sporting a mid drift T-shirt with pit stains and back hair sticking to his skin isn’t what you would call picturesque. Fortunately for you, Mighty Fine Arts (419 N. Tyler St.) is featuring some delicious eye candy for your viewing pleasure with…

Every summer, across the country, outdoor amphitheaters roll out the red blanket for the Greatest Literary Figurehead Ever and begin cranking out night after night of sonnets and stanzas. This is no small feat- catering to a populace whose concept of tragedy involves that time that Maks dropped Kirstie Alley…

Imagination is given to you at a tender age. Young and innocent, you use imagination to pretend you’re climbing Mount Everest or swimming the Nile. Your bedroom becomes filled with long lost treasures: rubies, diamonds and emeralds. You’re now a high priestess. You just robbed a bank with Bonnie and…

If there is one thing more relaxing than roaming the galleries of an art exhibit, thrusting your eyes upon beautiful paintings, sculptures and photographs, it’s doing so in the midst of an intense yoga session. Lucky for all you tranquility-seeking art lovers, the Crow Collection of Asian Art will be…

Contemporary art is a mystery. Its definition is nebulous, beyond the qualification that it be created by someone, you know, contemporary. Sigh. Six Arms to Hold You, a female-centered exhibition by three contemporary Dallas artists, seems simple enough to “get” at first glance. But then the gallery throws in descriptive…

When Adolf Hitler and the Nazis set out to create a “master Aryan race,” it wasn’t only the Jews they wanted to do away with. Although Jews were the most significant group of victims of the Nazis’ systematic imprisonment and murder, other targeted groups included anyone with mental and physical…

Dubbed “enfant terrible” after his first runway show in 1976, Jean Paul Gaultier has never been afraid to rebel against the norms in his industry, whether it be in the skewed styling of his designs on the runway or even the models themselves who are often curvier than the typical…

It’s not often you get to be Dan Cortese for the day, but I did a couple Saturdays ago. I spent my morning at National Rowing Day, my afternoon at NY-TX ZipLine Adventures and my evening stuffing tube socks in my bike shorts and telling people to “step off.” I’ve…

With A-Kon departing from the Sheraton Hotel June 12 and Comic-Kon loading up its boxes of cartoons last month; The Texas Visual Art Association has produced a cure for your “no more conventions” blues. Graphic Novels, Comics, Anime & Toons: Art as Story was chosen to be on display so…

Here we are at the third edition of our photo feature, Profiles In Pictures, where every couple of weeks or so, photographer Sara Kerens brings us an intimate perspective on a different Dallas creative. Along with the parade of images of locals who create with their hands, minds or both,…

Last week, I was going to tell you how you could acquire a well-known Ansel Adams print, but then something strange happened: The print was suddenly no longer for sale, and the circumstances surrounding the incident were too interesting not to share. Back in May, Ben Bread, owner and director…