Recording the Landscape: Anna Elise Johnson at Cris Worley
Anna Elise Johnson’s Earthworks: West Texas, now on view at Cris Worley Fine Arts in Dallas through August 14, draws heavily from the mythology of the west, especially its deserts.
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Buddha, Shiva, Lotus, Dragon at Kimbell Art Museum
Think of the image that comes to your mind when “Buddha” is mentioned.
Collisional Abstraction: Sean Scully at The Modern
The story of abstraction can’t be fully told without Sean Scully, according to the Irish-American painter who also sees himself as a renegade in the abstract movement.
TikTok Famous: Dallas’ Leos Ensemble Theatre is giving a 105-year-old Gertrude Stein play social-media relevance
Leos Ensemble Theatre decided to change that. The Dallas-based company, which was founded in 2019 by dancer and performer Nick Leos, is becoming the first theater group in the U.S. (and perhaps even the world) to create a piece expressly for TikTok.
ZimSculpt returns to the Dallas Arboretum
ZimSculpt, the exhibition of modern sculptures from the African nation, runs through Aug. 8 as part of the center’s annual Summer of Sculpture event.
Garden Party: With Pilobolus in the Garden, TITAS/DANCE UNBOUND returns to live, in-person performance
The dance company Pilobolus has many missions: to tell stories with the human form, to test the limits of human physicality, to explore the beauty and power of connected bodies.
Bruce Wood Dance Returns to Live performance
For Bruce Wood Dance, March 2021 marked an important milestone: the company’s first experiment with what the world might look like post-pandemic.
Texas Vignette Pivots to Help Women Artists
El Paso-based artist Haydee Alonso was working as a manager in a gallery during March of 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic forced the space to close for an undetermined amount of time.
Texas Lens: Lily Cabatu Weiss Looks Ahead for the Dallas Arts District
Nearly one year to the day that the Dallas Arts District—and most of the world—shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ACTX’s Lindsey Wilson interviewed its executive director, Lily Cabatu Weiss.
Humor, Hope and Revelation—Dallas Theater Center Plans an Artful Return to the Theater
Now as spring and vaccines bring optimism, the Dallas Theater Center will attempt to forge a new trail to bring artists and audiences back into the theater.
Brave and Brilliant: B. Moore Dance Moves Forward
Last month, B. Moore Dance released BOLD—BRILLIANT—BEAUTIFUL—YOU!, an hour-long dance experience that featured B. Moore company members performing a series of pieces alternately in different Dallas locations and against striking solid and patterned backgrounds added during post-production.
Flickering Visions: Chris Schanck at the DMA
“I think I have a relationship with a vanity that’s similar to what everyone has,” Chris Schanck admits, referring to his project Curbed Vanity: A Contemporary Foil, which is currently being exhibited at the Dallas Museum of Art.