It’s Hard Out There for a Gallery
Another one bites the dust. Pan American Art Projects will open its final show on October 17, as Dallas’ gallery landscape keeps shrinking and shrinking. Sad news.
Another one bites the dust. Pan American Art Projects will open its final show on October 17, as Dallas’ gallery landscape keeps shrinking and shrinking. Sad news.
Film Review
John Woo’s new epic, Red Cliff, may lack heart, but it succeeds as a thrilling war film.
Theater Review
Port Twilight or the History of Science makes its world premiere at the Undermain Theatre through December 12.
Theater Review
If you are going for a popcorn thriller, it’s easier to achieve mindless if you keep it meaningless. But this isn’t what Allison Moore does in Slasher, making its Southwest premier at the Kitchen Dog Theater.
If you listen to the much-welcomed, often pretty darn great Music to the Core station (a slogan which sounds to me like a good name for a nostalgic hour-long radio show for KNON that exclusively plays cuts from D.C’s early-80s scene) you’ve likely now heard Dallas’ favorite Brit-pop outfit, the Happy Bullets, co-headed by Oak Cliff’s resident bicycle / urban planning advocate Jason Roberts. KXT is not the only outlet digging the Bullets as of late. One of the group’s songs, “Good Day,” has been picked up by a Swedish ad campaign. You can watch two ads here and here. Via Jason: the band’s royalties so far consist of wooden shoes and IKEA gift cards. (Got the powder but not the gun / got the dog but not the bun, I guess.) So in related news, the Happy Bullets need a manager.
Peter Simek| December 9th 12:06 pm|No CommentsBoy, it’s been quiet around here lately. I apologize to our regular readers – some changes are afoot and we will fill you in soon. For now, I couldn’t help but break the silence with this little video on Art Babble about photographer Catherine Opie (some of her work was in the Pretty Baby exhibition at the Fort Worth Modern a couple of years back, if you remember). Perhaps you know about Art Babble; I’m just learning about it now. It is a project out of the Indianapolis Museum of Art that aggregates video about art from a variety of sources. As IMA head honcho Max Anderson explains here, there is something about the way video can teach about the visual arts that makes it uniquely engaging and enlightening. Think of Art Babble as a mini-Art 21. Enjoy.
Peter Simek| December 8th 11:23 am|1 CommentA couple of days ago we mentioned our silent urban spaces. Now comes this via Gorilla vs. Bear: Phoenix’s poetry in the public square. Enjoy.
Peter Simek| December 3rd 12:59 pm|No Comments
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