Dallas/Ft Worth
Sci-fi Surrealist: Mexican-American artist Francisco Moreno levels up with an epic survey at Dallas Contemporary
It’s been 11 years since painter Francisco Moreno took the local art world by storm with a hot-rod performance in an empty warehouse.
The Decade-Long Journey Home: Inside Kitchen Dog Theater’s 35th Season at Its New Dallas Home
On Tim Johnson’s very first day as managing director of Kitchen Dog Theater (KDT) in 2014, he found out the company would have to leave its home of two decades at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (MAC).
Shaping the Future: When Texas Theater Kids Grow Up
Whether used as a compliment, insult, meme, or pseudo psychological term to explain a politician’s antics, the phrase “theater kid,” (or “theatre kid” for the British, Canadian, and pretentious) has become something of a catch-all description for anyone enthusiastic about the performing arts or who holds a “pick me” mentality of life.
What the Eye Can’t Settle: Rubén Guerrero at the Meadows Museum
The canvas can be a site where architecture tries to remember itself and fails on purpose.
A Prayer in Gold: Holy treasures make the pilgrimage to Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Museum
If there’s one thing Louis XIV was known for, it was opulence.
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
Homecoming: Jaime Castañeda returns to lead Dallas Theater Center
Since its founding in 1959, Dallas Theater Center has been led by only five artistic directors: Paul Baker, Adrian Hall, Ken Bryant, Richard Hamburger, and Kevin Moriarty. Now the Tony Award-winning regional theater can add one more name to the list: Jaime Castañeda, who officially assumes the position in July 2026.
All The World’s Their Stage: Teatro Dallas celebrates 40 years
In 1985, Jeff Hurst and Cora Cardona founded Teatro Dallas, the city’s first Latinx stage company.
Head West: Contemporary artists reimagine the American West at the Amon Carter
When visitors step into New Horizons: The Western Landscape at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, they won’t find sagebrush clichés, cowboys in silhouette, or sweeping vistas painted to satisfy nostalgia.
Stitched Across Time: Marilyn Henrion brings a lifetime of textile works to the Irving Arts Center
The first stitch in Marilyn Henrion’s journey to becoming an acclaimed textile artist began in two rooms on New York’s Lower East Side where she lived alongside her parents and seven siblings.
Dream Worlds: The Dallas Museum of Art takes a deeper look at ‘International Surrealism’
On a November night in Paris in 1925, a collective of outlier artists launched a movement intent on tapping into unconscious creativity. A century later, surrealism’s unsettling imagery and thought-provoking themes still seem as timely as the years it was introduced.
