Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Opera That Soars: Madame Butterfly at The Dallas Opera

Monica Smart·March 13, 2017

The Dallas Opera’s 2017 centerpiece production of the Puccini classic Madame Butterfly opened Friday night and featured several highly anticipated Dallas debuts including that of Chinese soprano, Hui He.

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New Dimensions: Richard Serra Prints at Nasher Sculpture Center

Jennifer Smart·March 10, 2017

Richard Serra’s work in print-making may be unknown to the casual art-goer, the artist’s name associated instead with his massive, imposing sculptural work in steel.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

From Mexico (via Paris) with Love: A Franco-Mexican Collaboration Comes to Dallas

Devon Britt-Darby·March 1, 2017

Six months after Agustín Arteaga joined the Dallas Museum of Art as its new director, visitors to the DMA will benefit from one of his last initiatives at his previous post running the Museo Nacional de Arte in Mexico City.

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Primed for Growth: Is Dallas the Country’s Next Hub for New Plays?

Lauren Smart·February 22, 2017

What is theater that doesn’t reflect contemporary realities? What kind of life can theatrical storytelling have if it doesn’t exist within the world it’s born into?

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Nothing’s Regular: Stanley Whitney at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

john zotos·February 21, 2017

In the current FOCUS series of exhibitions at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, abstract paintings by the African American painter Stanley Whitney are on view through April 2. This solo show is his first in Texas.

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Dropout By Dropping In: The Co-work Space for Potential Dropouts at Pollock Gallery

Jennifer Smart·February 15, 2017

The Co-Work Space for Potential Dropouts, which will occupy SMU’s Pollock Gallery through March 11, is a project by the artist Avi Varma and curated by Pollock Curatorial Fellow Sofia Bastidas.

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Mass Effect: Orchestra of New Spain Revisits Classic Courcelle Composition

Steven Brown·January 31, 2017

Francisco Courcelle may not rank as a big-name composer. But his Misa Ave Maris Stella, a dramatic chorus-and-orchestra work from 1750, has become a go-to piece for Dallas’ Orchestra of New Spain.

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Doing Well By Doing Good: Dallas Black Dance Theatre at 40

Manuel Mendoza·January 31, 2017

Forty years in the business – that fact has quietly crept up on Dallas Black Dance Theatre founder Ann Williams. “You don’t see what you’ve accomplished because every day you’re trying to make it happen,” says Williams, who has spent half of her life making it happen at the longest-running dance company in North Texas.

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Paul Taylor Company Connections at SMU and Eisemann Center

Manuel Mendoza·January 20, 2017

When they were students at Southern Methodist University in the 1990s, Michael Trusnovec and Annmaria Mazzini would hole up in the basement of the library obsessively watching videotapes of the Paul Taylor Dance Company.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance

Highs and Lows: Gloria at DTC

Lauren Smart·December 19, 2016

Satomi Blair and Drew Wall in Gloria. Photo by Karen Almond. In keeping with the law of averages,...

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Housing the Drama: An Update on Dallas Theater Spaces

Jeremy Hallock·December 15, 2016

Experimental plays and intimate dramas set in homes typically belong in black box theaters. The nuance and detail of these productions cannot be captured in larger theaters.

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Fantastic Spaces: Where Will a Former Architect Take the DMA?

Devon Britt-Darby·December 15, 2016

Given the centrality of immigration to the 2016 election and Texas’s status as a red state with an ascendant Latino population, this summer’s announcement that the Dallas Museum of Art had hired Agustín Arteaga, a museum director in Mexico City, and that he would be moving, with his husband, to the Lone Star State to run the Dallas Museum of Art, was bound to turn heads.

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Visual Art

Diving Into Hidden Universes: Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within at the MFAH

An Enigmatic Woman: Marisol’s Big Works Get an Even Bigger Retrospective at Dallas Museum of Art

Dallas artist Du Chau Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

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

Women First: Texas Ballet Theater Highlights Six Outstanding Female Choreographers

The Hills are Alive with a Pair of Mickle Mahers, Noises Off, Die Hard, Tharp, Cinderella’s Rats and so much more: The 2024 Season Wrap up

Revealing Repertoire: Houston Ballet’s Triple Bill Tells a Company’s Story

Music

The Hills are Alive with a Pair of Mickle Mahers, Noises Off, Die Hard, Tharp, Cinderella’s Rats and so much more: The 2024 Season Wrap up

TX Studio: Héctor Guzmán Conducts a Life

Spreading the Classical Music Word: San Antonio’s Agarita Thinks Beyond the Concert Hall

Theater

Finding His Niche: Actor/Playwright Parker Davis Gray Carves Out His Place

The Hills are Alive with a Pair of Mickle Mahers, Noises Off, Die Hard, Tharp, Cinderella’s Rats and so much more: The 2024 Season Wrap up

Building a Community: D. Wambui Richardson Invites Audiences to Become Part of Jubilee Theatre’s Family

Dallas/Ft Worth

Opera That Soars: Madame Butterfly at The Dallas Opera

New Dimensions: Richard Serra Prints at Nasher Sculpture Center

From Mexico (via Paris) with Love: A Franco-Mexican Collaboration Comes to Dallas

Primed for Growth: Is Dallas the Country’s Next Hub for New Plays?

Nothing’s Regular: Stanley Whitney at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Dropout By Dropping In: The Co-work Space for Potential Dropouts at Pollock Gallery

Mass Effect: Orchestra of New Spain Revisits Classic Courcelle Composition

Doing Well By Doing Good: Dallas Black Dance Theatre at 40

Paul Taylor Company Connections at SMU and Eisemann Center

Highs and Lows: Gloria at DTC

Housing the Drama: An Update on Dallas Theater Spaces

Fantastic Spaces: Where Will a Former Architect Take the DMA?