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ARTifacts: June 2012

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A new exhibit sponsored by Dallas Architecture Forum, Our Architecture: Arts & Humanities DFW 2012, is now on display at NorthPark Center through June 17. The exhibition features 12 of Dallas and Fort Worth’s landmark museums and performing arts buildings photographed by renowned [...]
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Casting a Wide Net

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Ernesto Neto is a contemporary Brazilian artist widely known for spectacularly huge sculptures that invoke adjectives like “seductive” and “glorious” — they’re meant to awaken our primal selves by inviting interaction. “Cuddle on the Tightrope,” currently on view at the Nasher [...]
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Review: King Hedley II

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We’ve probably all heard some version of Chekhov’s maxim, that if a loaded gun is introduced on stage, it better be used before the play is through. In August, Wilson’s King Hedley II seems to bring a new weapon in each scene [...]
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Review: David Aylsworth

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David Aylsworth, The Reverses Wiped Away Along with their own considerable merits and pleasures, the paintings of David Aylsworth’s current exhibition at Inman Gallery provide a case study in how some artists can find seemingly infinite room to maneuver within a narrow register. Each of the show’s small-to-medium-size paintings answers to the gallery’s [...]
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Review: The Bad Plus On Sacred Ground

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May 5, 2012 Da Camera The Bad Plus’s interpretation of Stravinsky’s, The Rite of Spring, presented by Da Camera of Houston, begins with a hazy, ambient prerecorded auditory collage accompanied by foggy visual projections. It’s the typical postmodern art rock concert opening [...]
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