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Forging Admiration: Art Worth encourages Fort Worth fans to see artists in their element

Lindsey Wilson·August 13, 2025

If you’ve ever wanted to watch molten glass stretch and curl into a goblet while an opera aria drifts through the autumn air, Fort Worth has just the weekend for you.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music Visual Art

Stage Left of Center: Four Texas Theaters Redefining Regional Performance

Lindsey Wilson·August 13, 2025

Texas is no stranger to theatrical prestige.

Dallas/Ft Worth Theater

Presence, Absence and a Certain Tension: Timothy Harding Redefines Space

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·July 27, 2025

In Timothy Harding’s paintings, there’s a kind of friction at play, a low hum between precision and improvisation, between gesture and grid, between what is seen and what is suggested.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Innovation, Ingenuity and Intimacy: Texas Theater Designers Create Big Worlds in Small Spaces

Tarra Gaines·July 27, 2025

“We can’t build sets in here. We have to build a real thing,” says Azizi of what he approximates is a 20 feet by 70 feet space, with half of that reserved for the audience.

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Houston Theater

Caught in Motion: Robert Rauschenberg at the Menil

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·July 26, 2025

A curtain lifts. A dancer moves across the stage, costume fluttering around graceful limbs.

Houston Visual Art

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Nancy Zastudil·July 26, 2025

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row Visual Art

Imaginative Freedom: Antony Gormley at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Chris Becker·July 26, 2025

Stop reading for a second and close your eyes. What do you see?

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

A Landmark Anniversary: AMSET Celebrates 75 Years

Brett Grega·July 26, 2025

While digging through the archives at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET), Curator of Exhibitions Caitlin Clay discovered a picture of herself from when she was just two years old.

Beaumont Visual Art

Reclaiming Agency: Joe Harjo’s Indian Removal Act

James Russell·July 23, 2025

Sometimes the final act brings resolution and neatly ties up an epic tale. Sometimes the final act leaves little resolution and gives an opening for a follow-up, or nothing at all.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

A Half-Century of Vision: Moody Gallery Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Donna Tennant·July 23, 2025

After 50 years in business, Betty Moody continues to run her gallery with passion and enthusiasm. She is celebrating this landmark occasion with two shows featuring gallery artists: Part I runs from Sept. 13 to Oct. 25, and Part II from Nov. 8 to Dec. 20.

Houston Visual Art

Big Moves Ahead: Bruce Wood Dance Dallas Leans Into Legacy for 2025–26

Lindsey Wilson·July 21, 2025

Bruce Wood Dance Dallas is approaching its sweet sixteen with a season that blurs boundaries between genres, generations, and creative disciplines.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance

Fort Worth Symphony: From Beethoven and Brahms to the Bard and Ballet

Steven Brown·July 21, 2025

The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra still has its eye on Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy and their ilk. But it will peek beyond its artistic home turf next season, when it will share Bass Performance Hall with actors, dancers and even masterpieces of Spanish painting.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music

Visual Art

The Stories We Carry: Angelica Raquel: Mystic Threads at the McNay Art Museum

Head West: Contemporary artists reimagine the American West at the Amon Carter

Stitched Across Time: Marilyn Henrion brings a lifetime of textile works to the Irving Arts Center

Gallery Row

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Dance

Dancing in Between the Spaces of Life: Karen Stokes Premieres ‘4 Corners’ at the Match

Big and Bold: Waco’s {254}DANCEFEST Expands its Reach

Texas Studio: Alexa Capareda Keeps Moving

Music

Dreaming Frida: Brooklyn Rider premieres a new work by Gabriela Lena Frank at DACAMERA

Fresh Notes: Grassroots Opera Companies Take Off in Houston

Music in Every Neighborhood: Monarch Chamber Players expands its Mission

Theater

All The World’s Their Stage: Teatro Dallas celebrates 40 years

Texas Studio: Alexa Capareda Keeps Moving

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Forging Admiration: Art Worth encourages Fort Worth fans to see artists in their element

Stage Left of Center: Four Texas Theaters Redefining Regional Performance

Presence, Absence and a Certain Tension: Timothy Harding Redefines Space

Innovation, Ingenuity and Intimacy: Texas Theater Designers Create Big Worlds in Small Spaces

Caught in Motion: Robert Rauschenberg at the Menil

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Imaginative Freedom: Antony Gormley at the Nasher Sculpture Center

A Landmark Anniversary: AMSET Celebrates 75 Years

Reclaiming Agency: Joe Harjo’s Indian Removal Act

A Half-Century of Vision: Moody Gallery Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Big Moves Ahead: Bruce Wood Dance Dallas Leans Into Legacy for 2025–26

Fort Worth Symphony: From Beethoven and Brahms to the Bard and Ballet