Arts & Culture

You reset your clocks this spring, you’ve cleaned out your closet, and now it might be time to sweep out the mental cobwebs. One trick? A night of dance. Nothing resets the internal tempo quite like watching the grace and beauty of a dance performance. At 8 p.m. Friday and…

MAGIC. Not Johnson. Just magic. See modern day spectacles from Dallas’ own Confetti Eddie and Trigg Watson. At 10 p.m. Friday Confetti Eddie invites you into his personal studio, 823 Exposition Ave., where illusions will be performed, Lyric Laveau will sing and special guest star Sweet T will burlesque her…

It’s a glittery tale of two wild and crazy guys — a loud, funny and scattered flashback to a time when glamour and sexuality sold as many records as the music itself. Velvet Goldmine is director Todd Haynes’ paean to glam rock, Citizen Kane and Oscar Wilde, and it ping-pongs…

Houston-based artist Kent Dorn swims upstream for his exhibition at The Safe Room that opens this weekend. Er, he rolls up the highway at least. Then he climbs the stairs up into the hidden gallery space at the Texas Theatre (231. W. Jefferson Blvd.), paintings under arm, to display his…

Few things can make someone feel more alive than watching two grown men or women beat the snot out of each other in a controlled environment. It’s not only exhilarating to watch two people go to the mat for the thrill of a majestic sport and your personal entertainment but…

Consider the Dallas Heritage Village the official ambassador of history in our dear city — an extended hand, offering to take you back in time to the Dallas of old. The historic buildings and other antiquities on-site are a throwback to the days when Big D was little more than…

What began with just five participants from Booker T. Washington School for the Visual and Performing Arts has grown to include more than 70 students from throughout the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. It’s the Retail As Art annual scholarship contest, where participating high school students present their best photographic interpretations of…

So many art shows purport to be “immersive,” but they’re really just “engaging.” The art is all around you — you see it, you feel it, you hear it even, but largely the art doesn’t really involve you beyond your viewing of it. PrismCo’s PRISM, on the other hand, is…

Some people might try to convince you that there is art in the everyday. You might scoff and return to your spreadsheets. It’s the same premise interdisciplinary artist Lauren Cross functions under, but she knows what she’s looking for. Opening at the South Dallas Cultural Center (3400 S. Fitzhugh Ave.)…

Primary colors might get a bad rap. The newest show at Barry Whistler Gallery was inspired by a piece at the National Galerie in Berlin and the viewing of Barnett Newman’s “Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue IV, 1969-70.” It makes a splendid argument for the continued necessity of…

How do new media artists approach the decay of the physical? The question may sound pedantic, but consider this: Collectively, human beings are leaving a more permanent mark on the earth thanks to the Internet. We’re storing our resumes, our social interactions and more in the cyber world, which is…

Stand-up comedians are usually caricatured as grumpy, clinically depressed people with social phobias and a textbook example for doctors to prescribe antidepressants to, and Marc Maron is a prime example of this archetype. Even now that he’s a successful, iconic name who packs theaters around the country whether it’s to…

Dallas has the Deep Ellum Arts Festival, Fort Worth has its Main Street Arts Festival and even Grapevine has Main Street Days and Grapefest. These are all long-running, multi-faceted family events where drinks can be enjoyed, art of a million kinds can be purchased and, yes, bands can be heard…

We love the earth, both as a planet and a place to live. We love it so much that we dedicated an entire day to it. And then if that wasn’t enough, Texans decided to make an entire festival out of celebrating the earth and how much we want to…

If you’re having trouble nailing down exactly what local playwright Brigham Mosley’s Vultures is about, you’re not alone. But the SMU grad and prolific dramatist seemingly wants it that way; the play is touted as a mysterious surprise. And who doesn’t like surprises? There are a few things you can…

Pop culture has groomed a generation that’s awestruck with music videos. From Total Request Live hosted by Carson Daly to the top morning video block on VH1, MTV and/or Fuse that you listened to while you got ready for class, we were all trained to associate music with gorgeous cinema…

Ever put off going to the grocery store a little too long, and been faced with the prospect of making dinner using only what you have on hand? That’s a terrifying thought, considering it means that you’re supposed to derive sustenance from some soy sauce packets, a can of navy…

Last week, a female CEO from Dallas made a pretty shocking argument that women, thanks to our totally unruly lady hormones, shouldn’t be president. Apparently, “the hormones we have” would prevent us from starting wars and lowering gas prices and fixing the stock market and stuff, which means that Go…

The McKinney Avenue Contemporary leaves McKinney Avenue for south Dallas.

Earlier this year, the City of Dallas, through the Office of Cultural Affairs, issued a call for applications for “Special Support Grants,” by which an artist could receive up to $5,000 in financial support for a project that would “benefit the general public.” It’s the first instance in a while…