Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Nefertari’s Egypt on View at Kimbell Art Museum

Tarra Gaines·December 17, 2020

For those Texans seeking art refuge this weary winter, the Kimbell Art Museum has a queen’s knees of an exhibition to transport us back 3000 years into the world of Queen Nefertari’s Egypt (now through March 14).

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Marina Adams at The Modern

James Russell·November 10, 2020

Adams, who splits her time between New York and Parma, Italy, has spent her career instilling passion in viewers with her colorful, abstract paintings, prints and gouaches, linking contemporary life and universal patterns.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

How to be Flexible: TITAS explores new ideas while (safely) welcoming America’s top dance companies

Lindsey Wilson·November 2, 2020

Since its founding in 1982, TITAS has been all about bringing the best of the arts to North Texas. The 2020-21 season had been planned to expand upon this mission by featuring, for the first time ever, an all-American lineup of visiting dance companies—until the coronavirus happened.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance

Back From the Grave: Teatro Dallas partners with Deep Vellum Publishing for outdoor literary theatrical event

Lindsey Wilson·October 22, 2020

Many things were on the cusp of happening when the COVID-19 shutdown occurred, including Teatro Dallas’ landmark production of Cement City.

Dallas/Ft Worth Theater

Two Outstanding Berruguete Exhibitions at the Meadows Museum

Amy Bishop·October 8, 2020

Even if you’ve never been to Spain, you’re likely to be familiar with some of the country’s most stunning signature artistic marvels, such as the elaborate retablos, or altarpieces, found in churches and cathedrals throughout the region.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Afton Battle Takes the Lead at Fort Worth Opera

Steven Brown·October 7, 2020

Battle’s move to the company completes a journey--a more circuitous one than she imagined--that began that night at La Traviata.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music

A Love Letter to the Audience: Tarra Gaines on her Digital Diet and Missing Live Performance

Tarra Gaines·October 1, 2020

Tarra Gaines on her Digital Diet and Missing Live Performance

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Features Houston Music Theater Visual Art

Cabinet Cards and Everett Spruce: Two Must-See Shows at the Amon Carter

James Russell·September 15, 2020

Nineteenth-century cabinet cards and a forgotten Texas artist are the two new exhibitions at the re-opened Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

THE VISUAL MANIFESTO OF MARK BRADFORD AT THE MODERN

James Russell·August 31, 2020

ark Bradford enrolled in California Institute of the Arts in 1991 as an adult student. He was a...

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Dallas Opera Goes Digital with the TDO Network

Steven Brown·August 6, 2020

The Dallas Opera had just begun rehearsals for a landmark event: the company’s first production in more than 30 years of Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlo, a drama whose challenges tower nearly as high as its musical splendors.

Dallas/Ft Worth Features Music

From Faraway Lands to the Apocalypse, Soluna Festival Is All About Adventure

Steven Brown·March 14, 2020

The Dallas Symphony’s 2020 Soluna festival will encompass all that and more. The annual music and arts showcase, opening April 3, will feature Dallas artists plus globe-trotting guests; traditional concerts and multimedia immersions; a live incarnation of an acclaimed rock ’n’ roll album as well as a documentary film whose subjects perform in person in front of it.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music Theater Visual Art

Our Stories Onstage: How Dallas grew one of the nation’s biggest LGBTQ theater companies

Lindsey Wilson·March 11, 2020

Nearly 20 years ago, Craig Lynch and Jeff Rane took a look around Dallas and noticed a gap. Despite having the sixth-biggest population of LGBTQ people in the nation and a reputation as one of the country’s most gay-friendly cities, no theater company in Dallas was regularly producing theater that told this community’s stories.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music Theater

Visual Art

Body Geometries: Contemporary Jewelry at the DMA

In the Flesh: Jenny Saville at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Tensions of Time and Remembrance: Zalika Azim at UT Visual 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

‘Birdy’ Takes Flight in Texas: Hung Dance at TITAS and Performing Arts Houston

Sharing the Same Rhythms: Cara Mía Theatre’s Latinidades Festival Returns to Dallas

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

Music

Boheme+Broadway: Austin Opera marks 40th anniversary

Award-Winning Apollo Chamber Players Tell The American Story Through Music

Sharing the Same Rhythms: Cara Mía Theatre’s Latinidades Festival Returns to Dallas

Theater

Honoring the Past, Forging into the Future: Derek Charles Livingston Settles in at Houston’s Stages Theater

Texas Studio: Amanda Reyes is Working through It Onstage

Sharing the Same Rhythms: Cara Mía Theatre’s Latinidades Festival Returns to Dallas

Dallas/Ft Worth

Nefertari’s Egypt on View at Kimbell Art Museum

Marina Adams at The Modern

How to be Flexible: TITAS explores new ideas while (safely) welcoming America’s top dance companies

Back From the Grave: Teatro Dallas partners with Deep Vellum Publishing for outdoor literary theatrical event

Two Outstanding Berruguete Exhibitions at the Meadows Museum

Afton Battle Takes the Lead at Fort Worth Opera

A Love Letter to the Audience: Tarra Gaines on her Digital Diet and Missing Live Performance

Cabinet Cards and Everett Spruce: Two Must-See Shows at the Amon Carter

THE VISUAL MANIFESTO OF MARK BRADFORD AT THE MODERN

Dallas Opera Goes Digital with the TDO Network

From Faraway Lands to the Apocalypse, Soluna Festival Is All About Adventure

Our Stories Onstage: How Dallas grew one of the nation’s biggest LGBTQ theater companies