Review: The Chairs
Kitchen Dog Theater, Dallas Lights up on an older couple in a large space with two chairs set in the middle. The man is standing on a box next to a window while the woman lights a couple of gas lamps. Scott Osborne’s wonderfully grubby set is certainly solid and detailed (nothing vague about it) [...]
Read MoreKen Price Sculpture
Nine hundred enthusiastic art lovers filled the Nasher Sculpture Center last week for a “grand” opening well worth the attention. For many months to come, visitors will be treated to Ken Price’s highly imaginative sculptures gracing the entrance and displayed in the first floor galleries and down the stairs in the gallery below. The Nasher’s [...]
Read MoreReview: Michael Miller “Out of Commerce”
The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas The MAC’s Square Gallery Show – Michael Miller: Out of Commerce – is a colorful cartoon-filled room of happiness. Michael’s work generously reaches out to draw you in and reassure you that whatever you see, it’s O.K. His technique is loose and repetitive; made decorative with squares of fabric attached [...]
Read MoreReview: Bon Appétit!
A presentation of Dallas Opera at the Dallas Farmer’s Market Demonstration Kitchen February 9, 2013 At the heart of Bon Appétit are affection, admiration, and respect. The signature sign-off phrase of one of television history’s largest figures, Julia Child, is the title of a curtain-raiser written in 1988 by composer Lee Hoiby, with a libretto [...]
Read MoreReview: Jennifer & Matthew Guest
Jennifer and Matthew Guest: Doing Wrong Right Mighty Fine Arts, Dallas January 12 – February 24, 2013 Cracked Magazine, Garbage Pail Kids, and an ebullient colorful technique all come together as fine art in El Centro professor Matthew Guest’s paintings at Mighty Fine Arts in Oak Cliff this month. Matthew’s style involves thousands of brush [...]
Read MoreCupid Unites Poetry and Music
Orchestra of New Spain is planning a special Valentine’s concert that will transport audiences to the romantic period of 18th Century Spain, a two-hour show filled with gorgeous arias sung by renown singers in stunning period costumes accompanied by a live orchestra and dancers adorning the stage. The Dallas-based Orchestra is a group dedicated to [...]
Read MoreMeadows Honors Texas Artist
The Meadows Museum recently announced that Stephen Lapthisophon is the recipient of the 2012 Moss/Chumley Artist Award. The award is given annually to an outstanding North Texas artist who has exhibited professionally for at least ten years and has a proven track record as a community advocate for the visual arts. This year’s recipient of [...]
Read MoreReview: Victor Vasarely
“Optical Spaces: The Art of Victor Vasarely” MADI Museum, Dallas Victor Vasarely, who was born and died in Paris (1906-1997), founded Op Art (or Optical Art), a style based on optical illusions, always geometric and abstract. His work shows how this style is intentionally related to how vision functions in the use of vibrating pattern, [...]
Read MoreThe Con is On
The first national tour of Catch Me If You Can lands in Fair Park February 12. This swanky new musical about contemporary con man Frank Abagnale, Jr. is the 2013 season opener for the Dallas Summer Musicals. Based on the 2002 Steven Spielberg film, the songwriting duo Marc Shaiman [...]
Read MoreDancing Left of Center
TITAS was founded in 1982 by co-founders Tom Adams and Gene Leggett, as the “Texas International Theatrical Arts Society,” to provide North Texas communities with the opportunity to experience the best of American and international music, dance, and performance art through a variety of presentations and educational [...]
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