Crowd Sourced Art Crowds are the primary focus of Francesca Bifulco’s art, and this Saturday WAAS Gallery will welcome one in her honor for the opening of her debut solo show Inside Out of Touch. Bifulco is from Italy, but she has lived and worked in Los Angeles since 2012…
#AlexfromTarget will appear on the Ellen Show at 3 p.m. Wednesday, and host Ellen DeGeneres gets to the bottom of the entire viral thing. That’s an exaggeration because really the only thing we learn from the segment is that he does in fact work at a Target just outside of…
Left Hand First In daily life, pretty is quite the compliment. Sure, it may rank lower than beautiful or stunning. But every good flatterer knows the power of telling a woman she’s pretty. In art, pretty is perjorative. You want to insult a serious painter? Tell her that her life’s…
Randy Guthmiller started a zine to make friends. When he moved back to Dallas after college, he would attend gallery openings and leave without talking to anyone. He needed a conversation starter, an entry point to access the sometimes-insular art scene. So he created, SHAPES, a simple publication filled with…
If you didn’t grow up frequenting museums or galleries, navigating the art world can be extremely intimidating. Thanks to the state of arts education, most of us have a very limited knowledge of art outside of recognizing the “Mona Lisa” or that Van Gogh painting of sunflowers that hung in…
This past weekend, the fall season of dance in Dallas started off with two very different shows from two very different companies. In the Arts District, Dallas Black Dance Theatre opened its 2014-15 season with The Director’s Choice series; in Deep Ellum, Muscle Memory Dance Theatre opened its season with…
BY INKOO KANG There’s more television today than at any other point in the medium’s history, but there’s a good chance you’re stuck in a TiVo rut. That’s because, with a handful of exceptions, this fall has delivered a truckload of mediocrity and dead-on-arrival trends. (Goodbye, “rom-sit-coms” like the already…
There’s so much space in Christopher Nolan’s nearly three-hour intergalactic extravaganza Interstellar that there’s almost no room for people. This is a gigantosaurus movie entertainment, set partly in outer space and partly in a futuristic dustbowl America where humans are in danger of dying out, and Nolan — who co-wrote…
Last night, the popular, beloved even, storytelling series Oral Fixation presented another round-up of true life tales. It was the third or fourth time I attended — this time to see my kickass writer Caroline North. Each one I’ve witnessed has been engaging. Real people telling their true stories can…
“I’ve got a great ambition to die from exhaustion rather than boredom” — Thomas Carlyle What our Scottish philosopher friend is trying to say is that instead of being bored you need to be out there making the most of life instead of being that person no one wants to…
SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts dance program is known for putting on really good shows. The college’s dance program not only teaches its students form and choreography, it also brings in celebrated guest artists, whose work challenges both the students and any outsiders who can weave their way through…
Teenaged girls are a peculiar species. And Twitter is an even weirder place. Put those two together and you have today’s No. 1 trending topic that is #alexfromtarget. Yes, a young girl tweeted a picture of a long-haired boy, who could be plucked out of any current chart-topping boy band,…
Many years ago something happened that made me question the nature of music, and ultimately all “art” for that matter. I was at a friend’s house playing a record (Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music), when his mom complained about the noise. She asked, “what’s that sound?” “It’s music,” we replied…
Halloween comes once a year, and there’s a lot to see. We dispatched photographers all over Dallas to capture some of the best. From Deep Ellum to Denton and Uptown to Slipknot, here are some of the best costumes from the holiday weekend…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Chad Houser loves his job. The former co-chef-owner at Parigi in Oak Lawn is living his dream, and giving the same opportunity to disadvantaged youths everyday, as Executive Director and Head Chef of Café Momentum…
Maybe you read about the sand show in the Trinity Groves warehouse and thought to yourself, I wonder what they’re going to do with all that sand? Build a private beach? Donate it to the local sand volleyball league? At this point, all the theater company knows is that after…
Deborah Voigt is fabulous. She’s one of those once-in-a-lifetime performers on an imagined performing arts bucket list. Like Alan Cumming in Cabaret, or Joshua Bell on violin (who will be at the Winspear next week, coincidentally). And if you’re going to see Voigt, you’ll want to see her singing Strauss,…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Christopher Carlos and Tina Parker often soak in the spotlight. No strangers to the stages of local theaters and frequently illuminating the televisions, these two keep busy with acting and directing gigs. And that’s when…
I have a confession. I didn’t grow up listening to the radio. I imagined I was like most young people in that way, but over the last couple of weeks, I’ve learned that’s not the case. When I’ve mentioned plans to attend an evening with Garrison Keillor, the reaction has…
The first time Flip Orley got on a stage and used his hypnotic powers to make people do his bidding, he himself had to be coaxed into doing it. Of course, it wasn’t with a swinging pocket watch or a spinning spiral. Sometimes, nagging someone enough is its own form…
Salome Look, there’s a lot of sex in the Bible. Chances are, you didn’t talk about any of it in Sunday school. Salome, for example, the seductress who set her sights on the unattainable John the Baptist. When he denied her advances she had her daddy, Herod II behead him…
Every fanboy who open carries a Star Trek phaser or a replica of Ashley Williams’ stump mounted chainsaw honestly believes they could survive a zombie apocalypse. It’s a flawed theory at best. Life isn’t a movie. Even the most daring hero runs out of ammo or forgets to prime their…
