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Review: El Latido Incesant

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Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas May 5-June 2, 2012 El Latido Incesante (The Endless Heartbeat) is the current show at the Bath House Cultural Center on the shore of White Rock Lake. The show is a close-up look at old-master quality wood sculpture lovingly created by Mexican [...]
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Review: Deborah Ballard

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Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Dallas May 20-June 16, 2012 Deborah Ballard: Alter Ego is a exhibition of a large number of Ballard figurative works, both in the gallery and in the gorgeous sculpture garden at Valley House Gallery in North Dallas. Cheryl and Kevin Vogel’s gardens have [...]
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Remarks

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This month the Dallas Symphony Orchestra is hosting the 67th National Conference of the League of American Orchestras, our industry’s “go-to” event. Nearly 1000 managers, trustees, musicians, and volunteers from our 850 member orchestras will gather at Meyerson Symphony Center to celebrate the DSO’s brilliant music making under music director [...]
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The Formative Figure

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The human figure remains a persuasive vehicle for the expression of fathomless doubt, hard skepticism, and existential uncertainty about the world. While perhaps something of a straw man argument today, the polemic over the “figurative” and “abstract” in art [...]
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Pages with Punch

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Book Fest offers life lessons to all A day packed with appearances by top children’s book authors and illustrators, free workshops, art tours, music and theater performances, plus an appearance by a Hollywood actor are what the Dallas Museum of Art has planned for the second annual [...]
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Review: God of Carnage

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God of Carnage Dallas Theater Center at the Kalita Humphreys Theater May 11–June 17, 2012 Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage (translated by Christopher Hampton) is spectacular in a strange way, we keep waiting for a meltdown, and it comes, but without catharsis. We’re primed to witness [...]
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Summer Reads

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Mid-Century Ads: Advertising from the Mad Men Era. 2 Vols Jim Heimann, Steven Heller Taschen AMC’s award-winning Mad Men is more than just a series. It has a huge impact on fashion, magazines, interior, photography and style in general. The series inspired Taschen to do a two-volume [...]
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