Seriality, color, and time: Matthew Wong at DMA
The Dallas Museum of Art seemed to have known that Matthew Wong was on the cusp of fame before most of the world’s other leading art museums.
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Stir Your Heart Toward Change: Bruce Wood Dance Expands Its Reach
The 2022-23 season is a bit of a homecoming for Bruce Wood Dance.
Colette Copeland: My Jesse James Adventure at the Old Jail Art Center and Jody Klotz Fine Art
Driving alone through the middle of the country, spanning nine states and more than 4,000 miles, Dallas-based artist, cultural critic, and social activist Colette Copeland spent three summers visiting the numerous sites where Jesse James lived and outlawed, filming on location throughout her performative journey.
Go Big, Go Joyful: The Journey Back to the Theater
During the height of the streamed performing arts portion of the pandemic, I thought a lot about the difference between being a viewer and an audience member.
Texas on Stage at the McNay
The Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts contains artifacts dating back centuries, and its exhibitions sometimes revel in that broad historical panorama. But The Great Stage of Texas, running through July 24 at San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum—the collection’s home—could hardly be more contemporary.
Full Strength: TITAS/Dance Unbound Returns with a Packed Season
After a shortened 2021-22 season, TITAS/Dance Unbound is roaring back for its first full, live season since the pandemic. That’s 10 companies, hailing from four countries, with five making their Texas debut.
Hovering Words: Ignasi Aballí at the Meadows
Palabras Vacias, which means “Empty Words'', is on view at SMU’s Meadows Museum through June 26, a minimal contemporary installation in an institution more often associated with the gilded frame than the white cube.
Texas Legend Octavio Medellín Honored at the DMA
More than twenty years after his death, his legacy will be honored in the retrospective, Octavio Medellín: Spirit and Form, on view at the Dallas Museum of Art, Feb. 2, 2022- Jan. 15, 2023.
The Alley Theatre at 75
Houston’s Alley Theatre, one of the oldest and largest companies in Texas, celebrates its 75th anniversary with a beautiful monster of a season.
Texas Studio: Ari Brielle
“There are many Black people who feel like art is not their space…it’s been really great to have shows where people come who might not typically engage with the art. Where they can be seen in a special way.”
Sage Studio: Artists in Tandem
In the three years that Sage Studio has showcased artists with disabilities—helping its roster develop and sell their works, much as ordinary galleries do—Austin’s art scene has embraced it, co-founder Lucy Gross says.
TITAS Leaps Into Live Performance
The name of TITAS/DANCE UNBOUND’s new season—its first full return to live performance since the pandemic—packs a punch.