Seeing Red
It is 1958 and New York City is on the rise, literally and figuratively. With the influx of immigrants at the turn of the last century and the subsequent wave of artists and architects fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe, the cultural quotient of the city erupted exponentially. Mark Rothko belonged to this post-war generation of artists. He [...]
Read MoreGet Looped
A 4,000 mile journey, a baby-smuggling clown and a post-modern Medea: Out of the Loop returns to Addison March 7-17, for 10 days of theater, dance, visual art and for the first time opera. This year’s “Loop” will be focused on local performing groups and host theater WaterTower Theatre will produce a mainstage show of [...]
Read MoreReview: Jay Shinn
Minimalism is easy to enjoy. Such works, as privations of fussiness and excess, usually educe somewhat sublime responses. Somehow when an artist pairs simplicity of form with a sense of craft and staging, something smart steps forward. And Jay Shinn’s show, “Highlight,” at Marty Walker Gallery, carries on this tradition nicely. It ought to be [...]
Read MoreWho Will Win at Cliburn?
The Cliburn announces today the 30 competitors selected to participate in the Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, taking place May 24-June 9, 2013, at Fort Worth’s Bass Performance Hall. The pianists were chosen from a talented pool of 132 applicants who were invited to audition live in front of a five-member screening jury in [...]
Read MoreReview: Jason Flowers’ “Critique Machine”
While some works are made with a wide audience in mind, others are addressed toward smaller communities, like fellow artists. And for both better and worse the content and presentation of Jason Flowers’ “Critique Machine,” in the Project Room at Conduit Gallery [...]
Read MoreDallas International Film Festival
With over 1,300 submissions this year from as many as 30 different countries and an Italian theme that promises a look at both classical and new films from Italian filmmakers, the 7th annual Dallas International Film Festival is indeed gearing up to bring together the best films from around the world to celebrate the art [...]
Read MoreNewer Works Highlight Opera Season
The Dallas Opera is returning to four mainstage productions for the company’s 2013-2014 season in the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center. The 57th season consists of works spanning three centuries, each of which challenged the musical or dramatic conventions of their day. Announced in mid-February, the next season [...]
Read MoreThe Price of Beauty
Because of the caliber of the Nasher Sculpture Center, it is one of the three museums in this country — and the only sculpture museum — to host Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective, featuring over 100 of Price’s sensual, brilliantly colored and exquisitely finished ceramic sculptures. The show ends May 12. In its close to [...]
Read MoreNew Play Contest
Seven local playwrights compete for a chance to win $1,000 cash in the annual New Play Competition produced for the eleventh year by TeCo Theatrical Productions, under the helm of Teresa Coleman Wash, herself a playwright and director. Wash owns and manages the Bishop Arts Theatre Center, where the schedule is filled with stage events and [...]
Read MorePublic Art
To commence a yearlong 10-year anniversary, the Nasher Sculpture Center will present Nasher XChange, a dynamic art exhibition consisting of 10 newly – commissioned public sculptures by contemporary artists at sites throughout the city of Dallas from October 19, 2013 to February 16, 2014. Covering a diverse range of sites and approaches [...]
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