SOLILOQUY: Jason Salavon at The Public Trust 2271 Monitor St. The SOLILOQUY series puts the focus of an entire art gallery on one work of art for a month. Using software processes of his own design, Jason Salavon generates and reconfigures masses of communal material to present new perspectives on…
There’s no doubt you’re watching a live radio drama when you watch The Intergalactic Nemesis. The actors bring their characters to life behind an old-timey microphone and a sound effects operator uses the whirl of a Little Tykes cement mixer to mimic the sound of a robot scuttling across a…
U.S. Poet Laureate Felipe Herrera could be frustrated. As the first Latino appointed to America’s highest honor in poetry, and a writer who often delves into his experiences as a Mexican-American, he could use the platform to express his disillusionment with the hostility being directed toward immigrants in the United…
On the surface, there has been a lot of forward movement on television for black women. We’re now able to see an incredible breadth of black female characters, including Cookie Lyon (Taraji P. Henson) on Empire, Rosalee (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) on Underground and Dr. Rainbow Johnson (Tracee Ellis Ross) on Black-ish…
In an appreciation published in The Guardian a few days after the death of J.G. Ballard, in April 2009, Martin Amis noted that the paragon of New Wave science fiction was “remorselessly visual.” Ben Wheatley’s muddled adaptation of the dystopian 1975 novel High-Rise — one of many Ballard books that…
Like The Imitation Game, The Man Who Knew Infinity is a Great Man biopic about a man most viewers have probably never heard of. Srinivasa Ramanujan was a brilliant, self-taught Indian mathematician who in his brief time on this earth made seismic contributions to his field. That he’s largely unknown…
You know that primly annoyed nice-ish guy that Jason Batemen always plays? The straight-arrow whose barely-held-in disgust suggests that universal American feeling that it’s everyone but you who is the selfish idiot? If you’ve ever suspected that the real Bateman was himself swallowing back some annoyance at the stupidity of…
“There are so many newcomers to Dallas and they don’t know the history,” Dallas Observer editor in chief Joe Pappalardo said Monday, during a panel discussion for the “Observing Our Legacy” lecture series inspired by the life of J.L. Turner Sr., one of Texas’ first black attorneys. Pappalardo explored Turner’s life in…
By now, we’re familiar with the five women (plus a friend) of The Real Housewives of Dallas. They have seemingly formed two teams and this season is basically just about who will come out on top. We’ve been told that this cast had all the characteristics to make Bravo green…
Not much has been heard from Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan since it won the Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, beating out pictures like Todd Haynes’ Carol, László Nemes’ Son of Saul and Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Assassin. But going into this understated film cold isn’t a bad way to…
Since it was founded by artistic director and conductor Richard McKay in 2011, the Dallas Chamber Symphony has enlivened Dallas’ classical music scene with innovative programming. Now that work has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), which announced yesterday that the Dallas Chamber Symphony will receive…
There’s so much to do over the next week in Dallas that we could probably just pick events out of a hat, and you’d still be guaranteed a stellar time. But there’s a little more method to our madness than that; we like to find a little something for everyone…
The Real Housewives of Dallas Episode 5 Recap “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” From everything we’ve been told, The Real Housewives of Dallas started out as a show about women balancing their society, personal and career lives. But when Housewives executive producer Andy Cohen saw the footage, he said Dallas…
The first thing multimedia artist K. Yoland brings up over coffee in her second floor apartment in the M Streets is the Ku Klux Klan. For the British-born artist, who now divides time between Dallas and Marfa, the strong historical presence of the white-hooded terrorist group in Texas was quite…
The Oak Cliff Film Festival turns five this year and they just announced the first six features they’ll be screening. They’re all killer. The festival’s theme this year is the “New Hollywood Era.” “This year’s artist’s inspiration uses the New American era of ’70s maverick Hollywood as a jumping off…
Do This! Former Observer arts and culture editor Lauren Smart has collaborated with The Wild Detectives (314 8th St.) to throw a month-long festival, Women Galore, that celebrates the work of women in the arts. At 7:30 p.m. Saturday you can catch everyone’s favorite 10-year-old comedian, Saffy Herndon, as she…
If PEZ Dispensers never struck you as works of art, pay a visit to the Perot Museum of Nature and Science and you’ll see them differently. One of the most visually enticing displays in its new exhibit, Eye of the Collector, shows hundreds of Kermit and Princess Jasmine sugar-delivery mechanisms…
Vaxxed, the new “documentary” about the alleged connection between vaccines and autism, is directed by Andrew Wakefield, the disgraced doctor responsible for duping untold thousands of parents into believing vaccinations could give their children autism. This may not be news to anyone who’s followed the controversy surrounding the film’s abrupt…
trapped in the fjord, so we had to walk everywhere at the Magnolia Theatre 3699 McKinney Ave. Ro2 Art presents a new exhibition by Fort Worth-based multi-disciplinary artist Dannie Liebergot. The show, trapped in the fjord, so we had to walk everywhere, features new photographs inspired by Liebergot’s six-week residency…
All actors possess their own personal gateway into becoming a character. Some require deep memory mining (method). Others require lengthy conversations with the director about seemingly unrelated philosophical topics. And some just need a single physical characteristic around which they can develop a character’s entire being. Susan Sarandon is a…
If nothing else, Captain America: Civil War stands as something of a corrective to this spring’s other superheroes-bludgeoning-each-other opus, Batman v Superman. While that film was severe and downcast, Civil War is expansive, at times even light. BvS strove to redefine its superheroes to fit newer, darker, borderline-sociopathic molds; Civil…
The Real Housewives of Dallas Episode 4 Recap “Mouth of the South” We are now on episode 4 of The Real Housewives of Dallas and one thing seems to be certain. Brandi Redmond will get the first segment. And she’s almost always in her home, cooking something, and talking about…
