Film Review: ‘Tchoupitoulas’
Tchoupitoulas (pronounced CHOP-it-TOO-luhs) is simply brilliant storytelling. It’s something I have not seen done before and it came across vibrantly original [...]
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Film Review: ‘Compliance’
There were rumors surrounding Craig Zobel’s film Compliance--unsettling rumors that piqued my interest. The word on the street was that people were walking out of the film in protest and disgust. After a long day of watching relatively [...]
Filling the Air with Beautiful Music
A trained pianist and radio executive, Sarah B. Colmark has taken over the reigns as the new General Manager of WRR Classical 101.1 FM, North Texas’ classical music station. Prior to Dallas, she was station manager of Classical KHFM-FM (95.5 and 102.9 FM) in the Albuquerque/Santa Fe [...]
Review: Adam McEwen
One of the most intriguing things about the Goss-Michael Foundation — and there are many — is their willingness to ruffle feathers. They stir things up. Because they concentrate on British art, their contemporary shows often allude to Western mythological stories and archetypal [...]
Review: Roberta Harris
Eighteen new paintings by Houston artist Roberta Harris find inspiration in geometric forms in her recent show at Kirk Hopper Fine Art in Deep Ellum. Harris paints bold, textured, edgy, and haphazard paintings. She leaves a trail of her work process — drips, splats, impasto elements [...]
Review: Dream Continuum
There’s a new gallery on Dragon Street in the Design District with a hip twist. Circuit 12 Contemporary owners Dustin and Gina Orlando (she’s a Booker T grad), opened their doors at the end of March with a show Dustin says is a “sampler” of the contemporary artists and the types [...]
Review: Nick Barbee
Nick Barbee’s show at Plush Gallery, Proclamation, questions how things stand. His work, mainly minimal cement and plaster sculptures, does this by exploring and playing upon geometry and the notion of ground, both theoretical and material. In this multimedia exhibition of two- and [...]
Review: American Sabor, Latinos in U.S. Popular Music
In Spanish the word “sabor” means “flavor” and is often used to describe good music. The traveling exhibition “American Sabor” explores the influence of Latino musicians in post-World War II America through the lens of major centers of Latino music production. Physical space limitations [...]
Review: Moreshin Allahyari
One of the mantras of contemporary art is that it’s defined by context. If you hang a glass-encased...
Review: August, Osage County
August: Osage County, Tracy Letts’ powerful, punishing, acerbic comedy on the internal collapse of Western Civilization, received a formidable, well articulated production at the hands of Rene’ Moreno, directing at Water Tower Theatre. Pam Dougherty [...]
Review: Art of Murder
Annie is stuck in a desperately unhappy marriage with Jack (Jordan Willis) a pathological, if successful painter, who delights in degrading her, when he’s not repeating his mantra, “I am an artist. Do not judge me.” The first time we see Jack, he is popping up from an isolation tank, roughly [...]
Sense of Place: Barbel Helmert
Few artists seem as comfortable working in different mediums as Alpine, Texas-based Barbel Helmert. Born in Krefeld Germany...