artiFACTS: April 2012
With the addition of the tagline, “the orchestra redefined,” Mercury Baroque is changing its name to Mercury. The orchestra’s repertoire has expanded in recent seasons to include works outside of the Baroque era [...]
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 [...]
Review: Tigers Be Still
“Tigers Be Still” Dallas Theater Center March 2–May 13, 2012 The four characters in Kim Rosenstock’s “Tigers Be...
Review: Acoustic Shadows
Acoustic Shadows Dallas Museum of Art November 2011–October 2012 From time to time a work comes along that...
Review: Gerardo R
Gerardo R: Un Día a La Vez Start Gallery Dallas March 3–April 15, 2012 Terrible things are still happening in Mexico. Your preferred news organizations may not cover it anymore and you may not think of it often, but the drug cartel violence continues to claim the lives of our neighbors [...]
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 Age of Impressionism
The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Clark Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth March 11–June 17, 2012 Regardless of one’s opinion about Impressionism, the Kimbell Art Museum’s latest special exhibition — emphasis on special — might render even the most vociferous opponent [...]
Review: “Word Spirit”
“Word Spirit” Crow Museum of Asian Art, Dallas February 25–May 5, 2012 There may be larger exhibitions at the Crow Collection of Asian Art but none will expand your heart more than the works now showing of Chaco Terada. She chose the word “Kotodama” as the title for her small [...]
Review: Michael O’Keefe “Continuum”
Michael O’Keefe: Continuum Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Dallas February 25–March 31, 2012 Figurative artist Michael O’Keefe returns to the venerable Valley House Gallery for his second solo show. If you know O’Keefe for his gorgeous white figure sculptures, you [...]
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...