Saoirse Ronan makes a grand case for herself as the millennial generation’s finest leading lady in Brooklyn, an immaculately crafted, immensely moving character study about a 1950s immigrant struggling to find her place in the world. With an open, innocent countenance equally capable of registering tremulous separation anxiety, exhilarating joy…
This new series connects visually the work of national and international artists with the work of artists living in Dallas. H. Schenck’s H is for Human, M is for Mud @ 500X For H. Schenck mud is identity, humanity, substance and substrate. The work at 500x is elegantly presented as…
It was enough to scare people away. The soft sculptures were looming, abstract but not geometric, elements that were not plain so much as creepy. In the 1970s, Gillian Bradshaw-Smith was living in a New York City loft. Several other artists lived in the building and many of them opened…
Wanting Snow, But Getting Ice Every once in a while around Christmas, it gets really close to snowing. White stuff even starts spitting out of the sky. But by the time it lands on the ground it’s one big sloppy pile of ice. It’s such a tease. We’re still dreaming…
Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots You’re going to need multiple trips to the Dallas Museum of Art (1717 N. Harwood St.) to fully see the stunning new exhibition, Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots. In collaboration with the Tate Liverpool, this is the ONLY time all of these works will share a room,…
Everyone at Plano’s Fun House Theatre and Film is far too young to be doing Arthur Miller’s epic tragedy Death of a Salesman. And yet they succeed in creating one of the best acted, most emotionally lucid productions of this play to hit a local stage in years. Director Susan…
In the corner of a secluded, street-facing gallery in the Nasher Sculpture Center a young Indian man sits under a sign that reads, “I am hear for you. I will listen to you.” He’s Maneesh, aka “the listener,” and he’s inside Piero Golia’s social sculpture, Chalet Dallas, to do exactly…
All the Christmas Trees and Twinkling Lights City sidewalks, busy sidewalks dressed in holiday style. This is how the feeling of Christmas gets into the air. It’s not through shopping or even, dare I say it, designs on a certain red coffee cup. Nope, it’s all those twinkling lights. That’s…
With the spectacular The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2, the best in the series, Jennifer Lawrence closes out the franchise that made her the biggest star of her generation. Since The Hunger Games started, in 2012, she’s starred in four of them and only six of everything else. Luckily,…
How funny, really, are dick pics? Millions of them must be snapped and shared each year, as inducement or harassment, celebration or shaming. Perhaps Harper’s Index could tell us the tonnage of coal mined each year to power the transmission of American crotches. So when a dick pic turns up…
Bryan Cranston parades through Trumbo, a wiki-pageant of shorthand history, like he’s a costumed kid playing Actor Bryan Cranston at a Disney park. As blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, a man given to mannered diction, Cranston layers movieland falseness over the scraped-raw heart of his Breaking Bad triumph. Remember how you…
After the tragedy, mayhem, and chaos of the last week, most of us could use a good and engaging way to get our mind off of how bad the world sucks sometimes. Fortunately, immersing yourself into arts and culture is an excellent way to refocus worrying about terrorism and the…
Artists in Dallas are always complaining about the limited spread of funds. This is why one of my favorite things about my job is the annual announcement, “Hey, Dallas artists, we’re giving away dolla dolla bills.” Well, we’re writing checks at least. Annually, we give away $6,000 to artists working…
There are a lot of “official surveys” created as backdoor marketing strategies for companies. Car companies will release clever angles on road trip statistics or someone like a doggy poop pick up service might release a list of the poopiest cities in the country. Then, they’ll send these lists out…
Everyone dies. It’s opera. So no big surprises there. You don’t go to the opera to be shocked by a sudden plot twist. You go to the opera to hear beautiful music sung by immensely talented performers and the Dallas Opera’s production of Giacomo Puccini’s tragic opera, Tosca delivered. The…
Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, all. We told you Thursday that The Real Housewives franchise is heading to Dallas. Bravo is staying hush-hush on the cast, teasing everything in front of our faces like we are damn dogs begging for a treat. So we took it upon…
We’ve gotten used to the idea that the highest-quality, most innovative television lives on premium cable channels like HBO and Showtime. But two of the most delightful and inventive series to premiere in the past year have come from an unexpected place: the CW. Jane the Virgin and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend…
The drama is so big in Texas! Prepare yourself, Dallas. Everything is about to get more ignorant up in here. Bravo announced two new Real Housewives cities and Dallas is one of them. “The Real Housewives of Dallas follows a group of sophisticated southern socialites, as they claw their way…
Thursday, Nov. 12 Noir at the Bar You’ve probably packed away all your spooky decor and scary movies now that Halloween is over, but you can still indulge in the delightfully dark at Thursday night’s Noir at the Bar reading at The Wild Detectives. Authors from Dallas and beyond will…
Sherwin R Tibayan/IndexYou ready for a bit of mind-blowing trivia? Susan Sontag’s tour de force, On Photography, doesn’t have an index. I know, it sounds impossible, but if you dust off your copy from college, you’ll find that it’s true. Although, I suppose in some ways that bit of trivia…
Art Conspiracy is by far the biggest annual art party in Dallas every year. Bigger isn’t always better, but in this case it’s an indication of an event’s ever-increasing popularity; a sign of something grown from the ground up in Dallas;`and proof that it’s just a fun night. If you…
Here’s a sentence you didn’t expect to read today: There’s a recent Simpsons that’s entirely worth your time. Seriously. “Halloween of Horror,” the fourth episode of the series’ 27th season, is a rarity: a late-era Simpsons rich with feeling, sharp jokes and the sense that this family and their story…
