Architecture of Creation: Michelangelo and the Vatican at MFAH
The artistic process rarely garners as much attention and appreciation as the finished masterpiece, but shaded charcoal figures, sculpted wax half-forms and rough wooden models–the staggered steps along the way to final creation–have their own magnificent beauty.
Acting in Texas: Ian Mead Moore
Ian Mead Moore is an actor, singer, and voiceover artist who has been working in Dallas since 2010.
TX Studio: Gael Stack
“They’re either very big or very small,” Gael Stack says as we stand before her latest set of canvases.
Drawing on influences: Benito Huerta at William Campbell Contemporary Art
The latest one-man show from Arlington painter/professor/curator Benito Huerta is dominated by self-portraits.
From the Lands of Asia: Art through the eyes of collectors at the Kimbell Art Museum
While it is an integral component of the art ecosystem, the role of the collector tends to be overlooked in the context of the museum, at least as far as the audience is concerned; the objects in a museum can seem like they’ve always been there, their presence unquestioned.
A-Typical Painting: Laura Owens at the Dallas Museum of Art
Serendipity often plays a large role in life; it can in the art world, too. Laura Owens’s mid-career survey Laura Owens, is on view at the Dallas Museum of Art through July 29, after a run at the Whitney Museum.
FLATS: A New Way to View Photography
When you attend a FLATS show, you won’t be going to any art gallery you have been to before.
Stages delivers emotional blow with ‘We are Proud to Present a Presentation….’
On rare occasion as a theater critic do I see a production that calls less for a review and more for a doctorate dissertation, but Jackie Sibblies Drury’s We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South-West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915 at Stages Repertory Theatre (now through April 1) feels like such a play.
Detailed Portrayals at the Dallas Vignette Art Fair
Now in its second year, Vignette Art Fair will introduce the city of Dallas and members of a wide international art market to the work of Texas-based women artists.
SHOW UP: Libbie Masterson
Entering Libbie Masterson’s studio is like a breath of fresh air. A small outbuilding is tucked away in a lush courtyard garden in Montrose, windows overlooking the urban greenery. Fitting for an artist who is fascinated by landscape.
Meta Story: ‘Bright Star’ at TUTS
Though it made its Broadway debut in 2016, the bluegrass music-filled Bright Star feels like an old fashioned musical born many decades ago.