Arts & Culture

Trees aren’t just good for climbing and providing oxygen anymore. The good folks at Earth Rhythms, North Texas’ lovable human-spirit celebrating (and Birkenstock-wearing) community, are meeting at the Bath House Cultural Center (521 East Lawther) for CommuniTREE, an epic four-hour celebration of all things tree. Amidst the shade-bearing live oaks…

If you’ve ever spent time in a city where the arts scene is really geographically concentrated, you can’t help but be a little jealous. It’s exhilarating to lose an entire day shuffling between giant public museums and tiny, edgy galleries, taking in everything from Renaissance-era paintings to Cubist sculpture to…

The modern definition of “keeping up with the Joneses” is competing with the neighbors to be the most environmentally friendly. Vegetable garden? Check. Compost pile? Yep. Solar panels on the roof? Double check. The City of Dallas is touting green living to the fair crowd at the Texas Discovery Gardens…

The idea that “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” is especially true at yard sales. But if anyone has the eye to discern gems from junk, it’s an artist. So the Gems & Junk sale 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (3120 McKinney Ave.) should…

We’re doing well if we don’t take our breakfast straight from the bottle. Coffee and a banana is as good as it gets most hectic mornings, and when we have time for more, we’re mostly limited to scrambled eggs and Bisquick pancakes. If you’re like us, you could use some…

Perhaps our love of a good know-it-all comes from P.G. Wodehouse’s most beloved character, Reginald Jeeves. The quintessential gentleman’s gentleman, the poor man had to put up with uber-daft rich boy Bertie Wooster for almost 60 years, and he did so with a smile – and his sharp wit. Bringing…

The nation’s oldest and largest video festival, VideoFest, is here. The following four days will showcase films from notable directors, such as Spike Jonez and the founders of the Webby Awards. The Angelika Film Center at Mockingbird Station, 5321 E. Mockingbird Ln., will serve as headquarters for the event, with…

Just how watered-down is the Cowboys-Redskins rivalry these days? It certainly doesn’t help that Washington has posted a winning record just twice in the last 11 seasons, with a whopping seven different head coaches roaming the sidelines during that span. And Dallas has dominated the match-up recently, winning four of…

With apologies to Joyce Kilmer: I think that I shall never bow/To writing a poem about a cow. While the world collapses in on itself due to the impossible existence of the previous sentence, we’ll take these last few moments to opine on poetic bovine. In the tradition of art…

Galveston-born, Dallas-based Otis Jones doesn’t tend to mince words when coming up with titles for his mixed-media creations. More often than not, with the exception of a series of untitled paintings, those cards next to most of Otis Jones’ works pretty much explain it all. “Black Rectangle with Four Red…

We live in a world where animals are increasingly out of place, often pushed out of their natural habitat and forced to interact with the environment man has created for himself. The New York-based Norwegian artist Simen Johan depicts these animals with harsh realism in photos and photo illustrations now…

As much as some Dallasites would like to think the city has swung to the left in the past decade, this is still Texas: home of gun enthusiasts (the type who don’t want locks on their Glocks), George “No New Taxes” Bush and his son, George “Mission Accomplished” Bush. And…

Stay ZaZa Art House and Social Gallery and Turner Carroll Gallery are hosting a new exhibition, West Coast Women, featuring three female artists from the San Francisco Bay Area. Although all three ladies hail from the same region, their styles are nothing alike. Deborah Oropallo incorporates western-style-Annie Oakley types into…

Sometimes we have days when nothing goes right, everything falls apart and things generally suck. Thankfully, someone has taken the time to explain these depressingly inevitable days to our vulnerable youth. The Dallas Children’s Theater kicks off its 28th season with Judith Viorst’s aptly named children’s classic Alexander and the…

Despite the fact there’s a prim, frilly and old-fashioned undergarment in the title of this exhibition, you won’t find any of those at Petticoats and Slide Rules: SWE, A History of Women Engineers. The exhibit features memorabilia from the Society of Women Engineer’s historical collection at the Reuther Library. Celebrate…

Austin tattoo phenom Jason Brooks, owner of Great Wave Tattoo, brings his unconventional art to Big D, and he’s not just showing off a few books with fancy designs he’s done on clients. The exhibition at the Dallas Contemporary, Brooks’ first with a contemporary art institution, will include a short…

Whether you’re a fan of art or just browsing through shops, it’s hard to skip out on the unique African headdresses sitting in the window of any gallery. Created with wood and copper or from the skin of the pangolin, African headwear is a unique form of art that is…

If Jackson Pollock was the darling of abstract expressionism in New York during its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s, then Richard Diebenkorn was the face of the movement in California. Known for his abstract figural works, Diebenkorn began painting abstract geometric works in 1967, and his most popular collection,…

Oh, no, not that again. But there she is, actress Michelle Williams on the cover of the October Vogue, trussed into a white gown and done up as Marilyn Monroe for an Annie Leibovitz photo shoot. Williams, from Dawson’s Creek to now, is a good little actress. But dressing her…

“Kate Moss has this bag; that’s actually why I wanted it.” Style breakdown: Left on Houston dress, Bernardo clogs, vintage ’70s bracelet, Genevieve Jones bag with fox tail…