Film Fusion: ‘Sunken Garden’ at Dallas Opera
A war has been waging for centuries: words versus music…which is more important in opera?
Dallas/Ft Worth
Progressive Texan: The LBJ Legacy Continues at the Alley and DTC
War. Healthcare. Race. A divisive president in a tumultuous time. Self-destructive and unrestrained ego.
Stories to Tell: Oral Fixation Expands in Texas
Oral Fixation calls Dallas home, but has started taking their storytelling show on the road in recent years.
Commanding Space: Women Sculptors of Texas at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art
It’s been awhile since an exhibition prompted me to play the “Whither Texas art?” parlor game—to check in on what, if anything, we mean when we use the term and how, if any way, we feel about it.
Eclipsed No More: DMA Shines Light on Rare Edward Steichen Murals
In 1913, Agnes Ernst Meyer, the wife of financier Eugene Meyer, Jr., and pregnant with her second child, was out of sorts and unable to make her rounds to the art galleries, where, as a former New York Post reporter on the art beat, she had been dubbed “the Sun Girl” by photographer-gallerists Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen. Writing to Stieglitz, a brooding Meyer quipped, “I am now your Eclipsed Sun-girl.”
A Spring of Firsts at Texas Ballet Theater
After 15 years at the helm of Texas Ballet Theater, Ben Stevenson appears to be catching his second wind.
Abstract Horizons: David Aylsworth at Holly Johnson Gallery
“I don’t really have a fixed idea when I start a painting,” says Houston painter David Alysworth.
First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone at the Nasher
Extraordinary examples of handmade stone tools, some of the first aesthetically-conceived objects known to humankind, will be included in the exhibition First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone which opens Jan. 27 at the Nasher Sculpture Center.
Vincent Falsetta: New Paintings/Sketches 1997-2007 at Conduit Gallery
Anyone who delights in the freshness and immediacy of oil sketches should make a beeline for Conduit Gallery, where the show’s up through Jan. 6.
Making Their Mark: Imprint Theatreworks Launches in Dallas
Dallas does not want for theater companies.
FOCUS: Katherine Bradford at the Modern
After seeing the selection of recent paintings by Katherine Bradford in the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s intimate Focus show of her work, on view through Jan. 14, I found myself searching for the perfect word to describe her surprising color palette.
Close to the Ground: Lily Cabatu Weiss Leads the Dallas Arts District Forward
As a dancer and teacher, Lily Cabatu Weiss operated close to the ground.