Sister Act
During the holiday season a lot of people dread the additional family time. It seems that every gathering...
Cowboys of Color
Fort Worth’s Jubilee Theatre creates Black Spurs, a new musical about cowboys of color on the Chisholm Trail....
Flash Chat: Matthew Dirst of Ars Lyrica
Ars Lyrica takes us to Vienna for a special New Year’s celebration on December 31, 2012, 9 p.m. at Zilka Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, featuring featuring two rising stars of the opera stage – soprano Lauren Snouffer and countertenor John Holiday. An elegant gala and [...]
At Play with Dead White Zombies
The Dallas-based group of malcontent theatre, performance, visual, sound, and installation artists, collectively known as The Dead White Zombies, are taking experimental theatre to an all-new level. Thomas Riccio, an award-winning playwright, director, and scholar of indigenous and ritual created the group’s newest play (w)hole, a karmic love story [...]
The Magic of Mozart
The Dallas Symphony showcases two weekends with music by everyone’s favorite composer Mozart’s birthday is January 27. (He’ll...
Master of Macabre
No one utters the salutation “good evening” quite as chilly as Alfred Hitchcock. Those two words greeted viewers from 1955 to 1965 when the mystery anthology series Alfred Hitchcock Presents aired on CBS-TV (and later rotated to NBC-TV). Even by the time the popular television show [...]
The Meaning of Life
Ann Glazer is a New York and Dallas-based artist intrigued by the unconscious. Her installation, Wellhead, now showing at Kirk Hopper Fine Art, includes a little of everything from narrative to collage to video, creating a single piece. The gallery describes the experiences as [...]
Poetry by Design
Pablo Picasso renders twenty portraits to accompany sonnets by the Spanish poet Luis de Gongora y Argote On view this fall is Vingt Poëmes (Twenty Poems), Pablo Picasso’s tribute to arguably one of Spain’s greatest poets, Luis de Góngora y Argote (1561-1627). The exhibit [...]
ARTifacts: December 2012
ACTOR HAGMAN’S FINAL ACT The late actor Larry Hagman visited the Dallas Children’s Theater two weeks prior to...
Review: Gilad Efrat – Negev
In his latest exhibition at Inman Gallery, for sale Israeli artist Gilad Efrat ruminates on the desert landscape...
Roam If You Want To
Houston Mobile Art Hits the Road These days, being mobile is where it’s at. And “it” is art....
Rising Writers in Houston
Word Pusher: David Tomas Martinez Meeting David Tomas Martinez makes me wonder how many gang members are really frustrated poets. “Growing up in the inner city, in southeast San Diego,” acknowledges Martinez, “You have to have a certain bravado, a toughness about you [...]