Russell Young’s career started off with a bit of Faith — an album sleeve’s worth, in fact. He shot the photographic insert for that famous George Michael release in the ’80, and now his over-sized pop art capturings of celebrities are the toast of international high-rollers. Brad Pitt’s got one,…
Starving, stark raving Hunger Gamers commandeered the Galleria Dallas last night, fiending for just a glimpse of Josh Hutercherson (Peeta), Isabelle Fuhrman (Clove) and Jacqueline Emerson (Foxface) – a few of the stars from the upcoming big screen adaptation of the popular book trilogy. And the cast might as well…
Well Dallas, we’ve lassoed in another one. Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art, Maxwell Anderson, has brought his former collaborator and colleague, Robert Stein in to serve as the DMA’s new Deputy Director. The men first worked together at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2006, with…
Kid NES and co-conspirator Eder gave Deep Ellum the gift of Nintendo last month when they painted the promotional mural for Vinyl Thoughts’ newest collectable toy show, The Next Level. Disguised as 8-bit villains Wario and WaLuigi, the pair brushed and sprayed the wall of Quixotic World, where the event…
Meet Mark Ward. He’s a local boy who spends 90 minutes each day transforming into his role of John in Cirque Du Soleil’s “Quidam,” which wraps up its Dallas run this Sunday, March 11. You’ve only got a couple more days to explore Cirque’s rabbit hole world of contortionists, acrobats…
How safe is the art that you make? If you post it to Facebook, can someone legally swipe it? How about an online photo gallery? Copyrights are one of those areas that self-promoting artists need to educate themselves in, that’s why tonight Kettle Art Gallery is hosting a free lecture…
Growing up with a band is strange. I was playing spin the bottle to Kerplunk in the early ’90s, and sittin’ shotgun to inappropriate high school boys when Dookie dropped. I won’t go into detail of what I was doing during the follow-up Green Day albums. Now I’ve got health…
Renaissance man Will Ferrell was stopped by SMU last night on his way down to SXSW to give one lucky audience a peek at his new, all Spanish language telenovela, Casa de mi Padre. Did I mention it’s entirely in Español? Si, es cierto! Seriously, I think Will is just…
Opera is an extravagant and expansive art form and it’s thrilling to watch a live performance, but heading to an opera can also be daunting. After all, “extravagant” and “expansive” are sometimes code for “pricey” and “really effing long”. This Saturday, March 10, the Dallas Opera Guild’s annual Vocal Competition…
“People have their right to get high and stoned. The fuck, whatever. But, I don’t know why they do it this way when it could just be from a plant on their balcony. Or, from a bowl of French wine, like me.” Teun Voeten shrugs, laughing and pushing his long…
Is it just my imagination or have we been working for three weeks straight? It is time to collectively get our rocks off and start the party. Whether you wind up at 35 Denton, the Southwestern Athletic Conference, or some abstract storytelling group where people reveal the details of their…
Disaster stalks the characters of Tigers Be Still even more aggressively than the reportedly loose jungle cat that’s patrolling the neighborhood. Penned by playwright Kim Rosenstock, Tigers Be Still focuses on the lives of several suburban families, each attempting to pick through their own rashes of grief. Sherry is finally…
When most people hear the word “Impressionism,” famous artists such as Monet, Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec and ordinary subject matters painted with loose brush strokes and creamy blends of color tend to dance across their minds. As one of the most well-know art movements of the 19th century, the period of…
Recording “Les Filles du Crazy,” an anthem that they’ll later lip-synch onstage, half a dozen women — performers at the Crazy Horse, Paris’ classy nudie cabaret — sing of themselves, “They are the soldiers of the erotic army.” The military metaphor proves apt, as Frederick Wiseman’s spellbinding documentary on the…
In the opening scene of Friends With Kids, a conspicuously placed copy of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion on the bedside table of Jason (Adam Scott) marks him as a nonbeliever. His doubt also extends to conjugal matters, for he is unconvinced that married parents could ever be happy. Sharing…
Written and directed by Paul Weitz, Being Flynn is an adaptation of Nick Flynn’s 2004 memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, which explored the author’s pivotal experience working at the Boston homeless shelter where his down-and-out dad, Jonathan, was a frequent guest. In the movie, Paul Dano and Robert…
The foundations of Silent House are laid atop La Casa Muda, a nil-budget 2010 Uruguayan horror film that enjoyed an afterlife in international film festivals. It is not surprising that La Casa Muda was hastily snapped up for an English-language remake, for the concept is the sort of low-overhead, trend-conscious…
“That awkward moment when …” is a running theme in some of the best shows in this year’s busy Out of the Loop Fringe Festival at Addison’s WaterTower Theatre. Going on one more weekend, the festival crams more than 60 performances of 22 different productions into its 11-day schedule. Shows…
The Firehouse Agency has put together House Guests, a series of events that don’t focus around a single attraction, but rather around three at a time. This is not the art show that happens to have a bar or the drink tasting that happens to have live music, but a…
Got a raging case of rock ‘n’ roll blue balls? This weekend’s 35 Denton music/art/booze spectacular is going to rub down your temporal lobes with sensual oils until you experience sweet release. Running for the next four days on 13 glorious stages, this festival has lassoed in some of the…
Grab your “Ira Glass-es” and fountain pen and meet us at the intersection of aesthetic and cerebral where art and philosophy collide during two upcoming art talks on Thursday, March 8. First, the DMA and the Nasher partner to bring you The Art of Language: Mark Manders and Elliott Hundley,…
Texas International Theatrical Arts Society, (TITAS) and the AT&T Performing Arts Center present the annual Command Performance, a miscellany of dance routines, from pas de deux, a classic type of ballet duet (think girls in tutus and men in tights) to cutting edge, contemporary performances. Ten principle dancers from across…
