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Review: Mary Vernon Paintings

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Mary Vernon Paintings is a large, luxurious collection of recent drawings and paintings from the prolific artist and long-time SMU faculty member. It is likely the most joyously colorful show of paintings you’ll see all year. Vernon’s work is all of these wonderful things at once [...]
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At Play with Dead White Zombies

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The Dallas-based group of malcontent theatre, performance, visual, sound, and installation artists, collectively known as The Dead White Zombies, are taking experimental theatre to an all-new level. Thomas Riccio, an award-winning playwright, director, and scholar of indigenous and ritual created the group’s newest play (w)hole, a karmic love story [...]
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Master of Macabre

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No one utters the salutation “good evening” quite as chilly as Alfred Hitchcock. Those two words greeted viewers from 1955 to 1965 when the mystery anthology series Alfred Hitchcock Presents aired on CBS-TV (and later rotated to NBC-TV). Even by the time the popular television show [...]
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The Meaning of Life

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Ann Glazer is a New York and Dallas-based artist intrigued by the unconscious. Her installation, Wellhead, now showing at Kirk Hopper Fine Art, includes a little of everything from narrative to collage to video, creating a single piece. The gallery describes the experiences as [...]
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Poetry by Design

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Pablo Picasso renders twenty portraits to accompany sonnets by the Spanish poet Luis de Gongora y Argote On view this fall is Vingt Poëmes (Twenty Poems), Pablo Picasso’s tribute to arguably one of Spain’s greatest poets, Luis de Góngora y Argote (1561-1627). The exhibit [...]
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Rising Writers in Houston

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Word Pusher: David Tomas Martinez Meeting David Tomas Martinez makes me wonder how many gang members are really frustrated poets. “Growing up in the inner city, in southeast San Diego,” acknowledges Martinez, “You have to have a certain bravado, a toughness about you [...]
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