Live From Dallas: TITAS/Dance Unbound lures global stars and eager audiences back to Big D
During the pandemic, Dallas’ TITAS/Dance Unbound truly embraced digital performance and streaming.
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Texas Studio: Carlos Donjuan transforms grief and loss
Carlos Donjuan is known for his surrealist paintings of masked figures punctuated by pops of searing color, striking minimalist shapes, and spurts of spray-paint that nod to his graffiti-painting artistic origins.
Comedy Tonight: Big names are flocking to Fort Worth for Amphibian Stage’s stand-up comic residency
Workshops and new play readings are nothing new in the theater world, but at Amphibian Stage in Fort Worth that same experimental spirit is extended to a different kind of performance art: stand-up comedy.
When Abstraction Gets Personal: Robert Motherwell at the Modern
Robert Motherwell: Pure Painting, on view at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth from June 4 to Sept. 17, is the first presentation in over 25 years to survey the life and work of the influential post-war artist, whose paintings have been recognized as some of the most inventive of his time.
‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’ world premiere finally arrives in The Dallas Opera’s new season
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly celebrates the power of the human spirit when it faces a cataclysm.
Wagner, Mahler, Mozart and more: Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Epic New Season
The challenge is so great that no U.S. orchestra has pulled it off in recent decades: a concert-hall presentation of Richard Wagner’s four-opera epic, The Ring of the Nibelung. But the Dallas Symphony Orchestra is taking it on.
Celebrating 150 Years with 150 Artists at Texas Christian University
As Texas Christian University celebrates the sesquicentennial of its founding, the School of Art is mounting a group exhibition of 150 artists celebrating the talent and range of artists whose work has contributed to the creative life of TCU students and faculty, as well as Texas art and beyond.
Cliburn contest helps aspiring pianists envision their future
After taking the helm at The Cliburn, which runs the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Jacques Marquis looked back across the contest’s winners and noticed a pattern.
A Kind of Dream: Mark di Suvero at the Nasher Sculpture Center
Many readers will be familiar with Mark di Suvero and his work.
Discovering the Dallas Arts District
It’s the start of my whirlwind tour of the Dallas Arts District. Improbably, in all the years I have lived in Houston (23) and all the time I have been an arts writer in Texas (5), I had never been to Dallas. I am here now as a first time arts tourist, eager to absorb the wonders of a new place, open to every experience that might come my way.
Toward the Infinity of Possibility: Leslie Martinez at Blaffer Art Museum
In the work of Leslie Martinez, on view at the Blaffer Art Museum from through March 12, 2023, viewers tumble across landscapes as they explore the peaks and valleys of each piece unhindered by borders.
Dance of Death: South Africa’s Vuyani Dance Theatre explores grief during three-stop Texas debut
In 1995, South African novelist and playwright Zakes Mda wrote a book called Ways of Dying that features a character named Toloki, a professional mourner at township funerals in post-Apartheid South Africa.