Human and Alien
Matthew Bourbon Lets “Internal Disputes” Play Out in Paint IMAGE: (Detail from) Matthew Bourbon, viagra buy A Part...
Dallas/Ft Worth
Looking Back: Under Acceleration
According to the proverbial mission statement, the function of a given city’s contemporary art space is to exhibit the work of young, emerging artists from the area, and to proffer artistic experimentation therein. Let us consider this to be the face of things.
Jim Hodges: Give More Than You Take
As I leaned into the razor-sharp oculus of Jim Hodges’s The Dark Gate (2008), I experienced the memento mori that often haunts his work.
Francis Alÿs & the Poetics of Politics
In Francis Alÿs’s video installation Rehearsal 1 (1999-2001), a red VW Beetle drives up a hill in a rundown neighborhood of Tijuana.
Double Feature
Dallas Theater Center Pairs Raisin in the Sun with Clybourne Park IMAGE ABOVE: Dallas Theater Center’s production of...
Eerie Does It
Click. A key turns, unexpectedly. Locked in? Panic rises as the clock keeps time. Alone and defenseless, the mind runs wild with what horrific end one might meet;
27 Languages in Trans.lation
The Vickery Meadows neighborhood in North Dallas is known for its high-density housing, consisting almost exclusively of apartment complexes.
Assassins
IMAGE: L-R: Gregory Lush, stuff Sam Swanson, Daron Cockerell, and Brian Lewis. Photo by Jeffrey Schmidt. Gun control,...
Stephen Lapthisophon: Sphere
In 22 mixed-media works on paper on view at Conduit Gallery in Dallas, Stephen Lapthisophon invites viewers to...
Review: Raisin in the Sun
IMAGE ABOVE: Liz Mikel and Ptosha Storey in Dallas Theater Center’s Raisin in the Sun. Photo by Karen...
Peter and the Starcatcher
If the title character of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan existed before the beloved story begins, he might have been a nameless boy in the bowels of a boat caught in the crossfire of warring pirates. That’s the story of Peter and the Starcatcher, a winsome play touring the country and still enjoying a successful run on Broadway.
Michael Blair & Angel Fernandez: New Work
Over the years a few things happen when you write about local art— the most basic being that you become familiar with local work (and occasionally with the artists who make it).