How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Art World
Dr. Michael Corris Last year, Creative Time, a respected New York City based non-profit arts organization, sent a...
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Painting The Town RED
Dallas Theater Center has announced its 2012-13 season, which will take place at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre at the AT&T Performing Arts Center and the historic Kalita Humphreys Theater. DTC’s 54th season will include three world premieres; two new musicals; the culmination of DTC’s four-year Shakespeare cycle [...]
Painting as Painting
Dallas painter and post-medium practitioner Ludwig Schwarz loves a good glitch every now and then. “I am so glad you’re not recording me,” he said in response to the failures of the voice memos option on my iPhone. In self-deprecating fashion, he said, “I really don’t have anything [...]
Review: “The Lighthouse”
“The Lighthouse” Dallas Opera March 16-18, 2012 “Opera” is one of those terms, like “classical music,” that poorly serves to describe an entire world of artistic endeavor. Writers strive in vain to define the difference between opera and Broadway shows when opera companies produce [...]
Review: Joseph Glasco
Joseph Glasco: Paintings from the Estate Talley Dunn Gallery, seek Dallas March 2–April 14, 2012 Joseph Glasco, an...
All That Jazz
You may not know it, but jazz has deep roots in Dallas. As the American jazz and blues...
Celebrated Virtuoso at 19
Child protégées have a hard row to hoe. When a violinist is invited to play in concert with...
Cinema Sensations
To a film-lover in Dallas, order spring means one thing: the return of the Dallas International Film Festival,...
On the Move
Dallas has a new jazz modern dance company ready to premiere work for your pleasure. 8&1 Dance Company,...
Those Were the Days
Few moments in American cultural history are as readily recognized as the “roaring” twenties — their mere mention conjures dynamic images of flappers, Fords, and skyscraper cities. And yet, American artists responded to this dizzying new modern world with art that evoked stillness, clarity,[...]
Artfully Stated
William Powhida is a visual artist and former art critic who continues to blaze the way forward with his satirical, often...
Class Act: Diana Sheehan
Reaching the midway point in life can be a wake up call for anyone; Sheehan explores its moments of celebration and sorrow through an eclectic array of American songs of desire and longing, re-awakened dreams and hopes. One of the North Texas region’s most respected actor/singers (she received multiple regional awards and highest praise for her [...]