In early January, 35 Denton festival founder Chris Flemmons addressed about 30 folks who showed up for the opening party for 35 Denton’s new office. The spot is in a renovated old Gulf Oil service station on the corner of N. Locust and W. McKinney, less than a minute walk…
The historic Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo, which opened its 116th year on January 13, runs through Friday, February 3, but the sights, sounds, smells, and, yeah, occasionally stains tend to make for unforgettable memories. Especially, the “World’s Original Indoor Rodeo, which kicks off in the Coliseum tonight at…
Few weeklies in the area boast more daring and obscure all-vinyl sets than Discipline at Rubber Gloves. Helmed by Andrew Haas (Lychgate), Shane English (Corporate Park and Mistress), Kate DePetris, Jonah Lange (Lychgate and Corporate Park) and Kathryn Falvo (Marriage Material), Discipline is fueled by the DJs’ personal collections of…
No, Post Pop Punks at Cohn Drennan Contemporary isn’t a DIY concert in the Design District. Instead, the show is a group exhibition revolving around the passing of time and the movement of ideas between artists. While some of the nine artists in the exhibition are relatively new acquaintances, others…
Diana Al-Hadid is making some of the boldest, most interesting pieces of any living artist, creating works inspired by a mélange of ancient mythologies, Gothic and Middle Eastern architecture, cosmology and physics. Her visionary creations resemble upended cathedrals, castles and Towers of Babel (See: “Self Melt” or “Spun of the…
The undead tend to leave a lasting impression, whether it’s a spine-chilling commercial for a midnight showing of George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead or The Cranberries’ hit protest song or Target’s “Kids’ Heartless Zombie Costume” for boys. Or, maybe, it’s watching young adult zombies slowly stagger across the…
A few years ago, you’d hear the happy-go-lucky, impossibly supportive local music fans shout their rallying cries, and you’d smile because, much as you wanted to believe that what they were saying was true, you knew in your heart that it wasn’t. Still, you listened to their rants: “There’s just…
When October rolls around, few things stoke the Halloween fires like a classic Alfred Hitchcock flick paired with a tub full of popcorn. Once again, The Angelika Film Centers of Dallas and Plano make it easy for Hitchcock devotees to flock together at the theater’s popular monthlong celebration known as…
If you don’t believe that art’s intersection of popular culture forever changed the way the world sees, embraces and creates art, then you may not enjoy Fort Worth artist Christopher Blay’s new exhibition Art Depreciation 1301: Art Before and After Culture. Through painting, sculpture and photography, Blay creates works meant…
Photographer and printer Dan Burkholder of New York has been combining new and old photographic techniques since embracing digital photography in the early 1990s, the “Paleolithic era in digital imaging” as Burkholder jokes. First published in 1995, his award-winning book Making Digital Negatives for Contact Printing paved the way for…
Galveston-born, Dallas-based Otis Jones doesn’t tend to mince words when coming up with titles for his mixed-media creations. More often than not, with the exception of a series of untitled paintings, those cards next to most of Otis Jones’ works pretty much explain it all. “Black Rectangle with Four Red…
Many of Oak Cliff artist Christopher Bingham’s creations will look familiar to Dallasites. His Texas Lights series of more than two dozen paintings may as well be called Dallas Lights, because in his works of nostalgic realism he’s captured many of the city’s coolest, most historic neon lights and signs…
We know you fancy yourself an art aficionado. You probably take periodic trips to the big local collections to see the classics, and while those Salvador Dali reprints hanging between movie posters in your house are cool, you’re probably tired of looking at them. If so, you shouldn’t miss the…
Of all the stand-up comics booked in all the venues in town, Tig Notaro and The Kessler seem to go together like indie kids and vinyl. And The Kessler folks couldn’t have picked a better comedian to launch their new Comedy at The Kessler series, tonight. Notaro, who once toured…
Who better to kick off the new Comedy at The Kessler series than the first stand-up comic signed to indie label Secretly Canadian, the side-splittingly entertaining comedian Tig Notaro? Since reopening as a venue in 2010, The Kessler, 1230 West Davis St., has played host to lots of concerts, movies,…
R.L.’s Blues Palace #2 occupies a lot at the corner of Grand Avenue and Meadow Street a few blocks southwest of Fair Park. For a quarter of a century, the revered South Dallas nightclub has survived zoning battles, crippling recessions and bouts of media and pop fascination with the blues…
Several months ago LuminArte Design Gallery put out a call for artists, posing the question “What would Andy Warhol do in today’s information age?” with the intention of putting together a contemporary pop art exhibition in honor of Andy Warhol’s 83rd birthday. The gallery held the opening reception of its…
When folks read headlines about floods, famines and other natural disasters around the world, they cope in many different ways. Some write it off to climate change and head to the bar with friends. Others circle passages in sacred texts or watch 2012 doomsday documentaries and set dates for their…
There are a few city leaders I sure hope make it to this exhibition examining how new architecture in a city’s historic districts can allow area neighborhoods to evolve without endangering the crucial character that made the areas worth protecting to begin with. Ahem. Context/Contrast originally appeared at the New…
The relationship between artist and viewer is an interesting and intriguing one for an artist to draw inspiration from. No Trespassing is a collective artist exhibition featuring a pop artist, a photographer/videographer and expressionist painter all exploring “the notion or concept of emotional availability between the artist and viewer.” The…
It turns out that for every time you’ve wondered why on earth mosquitoes exist, one relevant answer was, well, bat food. Apparently, bats aren’t all leather-winged bloodsuckers hell-bent on feasting on the necks of randy teenagers. As it turns out, in addition to being the world’s only flying mammals, bats…
In the Saturday afternoon heat, 11 teams of costumed “idiots” mushed their modified and decorated shopping carts across roughly 5 miles of the city’s streets as they competed for kitschy, homemade prizes in the first Dallas version of the urban shopping cart race. (Read our preview from Saturday for more…
