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: Roberta Harris
Eighteen new paintings by Houston artist Roberta Harris find inspiration in geometric forms in her recent show at Kirk Hopper Fine Art in Deep Ellum. Harris paints bold, textured, edgy, and haphazard paintings. She leaves a trail of her work process — drips, splats, impasto elements [...]
Review: Dream Continuum
There’s a new gallery on Dragon Street in the Design District with a hip twist. Circuit 12 Contemporary owners Dustin and Gina Orlando (she’s a Booker T grad), opened their doors at the end of March with a show Dustin says is a “sampler” of the contemporary artists and the types [...]
Review: Nick Barbee
Nick Barbee’s show at Plush Gallery, Proclamation, questions how things stand. His work, mainly minimal cement and plaster sculptures, does this by exploring and playing upon geometry and the notion of ground, both theoretical and material. In this multimedia exhibition of two- and [...]
Review: American Sabor, Latinos in U.S. Popular Music
In Spanish the word “sabor” means “flavor” and is often used to describe good music. The traveling exhibition “American Sabor” explores the influence of Latino musicians in post-World War II America through the lens of major centers of Latino music production. Physical space limitations [...]
Review: Moreshin Allahyari
One of the mantras of contemporary art is that it’s defined by context. If you hang a glass-encased fire extinguisher in a beautifully lighted white room with glossy floors, people will attribute infinite permutations of meaning to it — especially if it’s in a building punctuated by Helvetica type that indicates a hallowed place of [...]
Review: August, Osage County
August: Osage County, Tracy Letts’ powerful, punishing, acerbic comedy on the internal collapse of Western Civilization, received a formidable, well articulated production at the hands of Rene’ Moreno, directing at Water Tower Theatre. Pam Dougherty [...]
Review: Art of Murder
Annie is stuck in a desperately unhappy marriage with Jack (Jordan Willis) a pathological, if successful painter, who delights in degrading her, when he’s not repeating his mantra, “I am an artist. Do not judge me.” The first time we see Jack, he is popping up from an isolation tank, roughly [...]
Review: Tigers Be Still
“Tigers Be Still” Dallas Theater Center March 2–May 13, 2012 The four characters in Kim Rosenstock’s “Tigers Be Still” — Sherry (a teacher) Grace (her older sister) Joseph (Sherry’s boss) and Zack (Joseph’s teenage son) have experienced devastation to one degree or another. Grace’s fiancé left her, Sherry’s dad left her, Grace and her mother, [...]
Review: Acoustic Shadows
Acoustic Shadows Dallas Museum of Art November 2011–October 2012 From time to time a work comes along that genuinely surprises you. And Frank and Kristin Lee Dufour’s audiovisual installation at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), “Acoustic Shadows,” has the potential to do just that, but only if you’re observant. The multimedia presentation shows in [...]
