Review: Anything Goes
AT&T Performing Arts Center, Dallas Broadway actress Rachel York seems to have it all: impeccable comic timing, a deftness for dance, and a dynamic voice that carries all the way to the rafters. The triple threat was in fine form for Wednesday’s opening night of Anything Goes, the latest [...]
Read MoreReview: 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 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 MoreReview: “Environs”
Cohn Drennan Gallery, Dallas “Environs” presents the work of three artists and it’s readily apparent that one is wholly unique and, in fact, outstrips the other two. Put bluntly, Ron Clark and Betty Sewell work on large canvases that are muted and unremarkable. They’re not shocking; they’re not lucent. They offer no spark or burn. [...]
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 MoreREVIEW: The Joffrey Ballet
On Saturday, January 19, the Joffrey Ballet returned to Dallas after twenty years, bringing with them a historical event: the recreation of Vaslav Nijinsky’s 1913 “Le Sacre de Printemps” (The Rite of Spring). But before we could see what 100 years had done do it, we were witness to its effects on contemporary dance. In [...]
Read MoreREVIEW: Scottie Parsons
Scottie Parsons: Selected Works From The Artist’s Estate 1925-2011 Currently on view at William Campbell Contemporary Art is the life work of Texas artist Scottie Parsons, Selected Works From The Artist’s Estate (1925-2011). Carrying the vestiges of the likes of Ellen Frankenthaler and Richard Diebenkorn, Parsons dedicated her life to the field of abstraction, using [...]
Read MoreREVIEW: Randy Twaddle, New Drawings
Art has many purposes and distinctions. The most significant recurring theme states that There Is Beauty To Be Found In All Things. Houston artist Randy Twaddle has elegantly reminded us to keep looking, with his new work at the Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas. Jewel thieves and snipers know that most people rarely look up. [...]
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