Getting (Not Too Far) Away From It All – To Work
Galveston Artist Residency Offers Time, Space and a Bike For artist Nick Barbee, a two-year resident with the...
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Review: Rusty Scruby, Cube Network & Cherry Blossoms
The disparate influences informing Dallas-based artist Rusty Scruby’s photographic reconstructions and folded-paper constructions include knitting, piano composition and mathematics. You can see evidence of all three in Scruby’s mastery of structure, harmony and tension in Cube Network and Cherry Blossoms, his second [...]
Review: Jason Yates, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
Tightly structured and composed of hatch marks drawn into dozens of petal-like shapes, Los Angeles artist Jason Yates’ abstract paintings seem to be of two minds, cultivating patience, on the one hand, through meditative repetition, while expressing impatience, on the other, with the limitations of their medium [...]
Worth The Trip: Dance Festivals Define Summer Stages
While other art forms go into a summer slumber, the art of dance ramps up as three top...
Shifting Keys
A Classical DJ Goes Undercover The line at the East Gate of the Free Press Summer Fest 2012...
Sartre in the Summertime
Bit of Stretch Theatre Co. at 14 Pews Houston opens its doors to returning college students every summer. Some don’t just want to hang around. Southwestern University (SU) students Emma Martinsen and Erin Cressy and New York [...]
Pages with Punch
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 [...]
Just One of Those Things
It proved to be difficult to interview Michael Feinstein, songster extraordinaire, because of his hectic timetable. A number...
Summer Reads
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 [...]
Shining a Light on Stephen Knapp
This is the season of glass in Dallas. With Dale Chihuly’s installation at the Dallas Arboretum serving as...
Review: Margaret Meehan
Conduit Gallery, Dallas May 12–June 16, 2012 More than the materials they use, some artists are better approached...