Spec’ing Out a Theater
Dallas City Performance Hall is a 750 seat multi-disciplinary theater that has the ability to become whatever it...
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Worth the Trip
Lucian Freud and Omer Fast in North Texas I didn’t exactly want to drive four-and-a-half hours to see...
The Family Business
The mother-and-son team of Susan Roth Romans and Jordan Roth have been making a bold statement on the...
Local Lights
Three Houston Artists Put Houston on the Map None of them are from Texas, but as the saying goes, “they got here as fast as they could”. Once they arrived in the Bayou City, they found a thriving arts community. “People in Houston have an ownership of their arts organizations [...]
The First Annual Oak Cliff Film Festival is This Weekend!
The inaugural Oak Cliff Film Festival, illness taking place at the historic Texas Theatre, the Kessler Theater, the...
Review: Charlotte Moth
Dallas Biennale Exhibit curated by the Dallas Contemporary Museum Displayed at the Goss Michael Foundation, Dallas Charlotte Moth has given us important work. It’s not moving or viscerally arousing — but it does make us pose a serious question. Namely, how much ancillary information [...]
Just One of Those Things
It proved to be difficult to interview Michael Feinstein, songster extraordinaire, because of his hectic timetable. A number...
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...
Casting a Wide Net
Ernesto Neto is a contemporary Brazilian artist widely known for spectacularly huge sculptures that invoke adjectives like “seductive” and “glorious” — they’re meant to awaken our primal selves by inviting interaction. “Cuddle on the Tightrope,” currently on view at the Nasher [...]
Review: Adam McEwen
One of the most intriguing things about the Goss-Michael Foundation — and there are many — is their willingness to ruffle feathers. They stir things up. Because they concentrate on British art, their contemporary shows often allude to Western mythological stories and archetypal [...]
Review: Moreshin Allahyari
One of the mantras of contemporary art is that it’s defined by context. If you hang a glass-encased...
A Family Affair
The Stafford family has always shared an interest in art. Whether it was family vacation in Paris wandering through The Louvre, where young daughters Erin and Elissa curiously inspected “Sleeping Hermaphroditus,” the stunning marble sculpture dating back to first century B.C., or a weekend visit to the Fort Worth Contemporary [...]