Reviews

Life In Cube
By Karen Erxleben Weiner
Posted in Art, Reviews, Visual Art
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Art Review
Matthew Whitenack installation at Conduit Gallery

A Magic Stage for a Singer’s Hall
By Peter Simek
Posted in Art, Music, Reviews
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Music Review
I watched a long line of individuals descending against the red-faced hall. The clumped mass became its own architectural feature, an undulating line, a human necklace draped around the ruby vessel that held its amusement, its art.

All Eyes on the Maestro
By Peter Simek
Posted in Art, Music, Reviews
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Music Review
After committing to an additional four years at the head of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Jaap Van Zweden got back to the music, with a program featuring Prokofiev, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Rudolf Escher that will be performed through October 25.

Staring Into the Abyss
By Joan Arbery
Posted in Art, Reviews, Theater
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Theater Review
Rabbit Hole at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas

Coca-Cola Commies
By Peter Simek
Posted in Art, Film, Reviews
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Film Review
Dipping into the ideas that fueled the turbulent years following 1968, Der Baader Meinhof Complex uses the past to bolster the myth of the Che Guevara t-shirt.

Buildings that Breathe
By Joan Arbery
Posted in Architecture, Art, Reviews
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The Nasher Sculpture Garden helps put the new Winspear Opera House into context of a career with the Norman Foster retrospective, “Art and Architecture of Norman Foster.”

Jaded Beauty
By Joan Arbery
Posted in Art, Reviews, Visual Art
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Art Review
A few hundred jade objects, permanent holdings of the Crow Collection of Asian Art, take the floor for the exhibit “Wild Flowering.”

Singing, Dancing in the Desert
By Alexandra Bonifield
Posted in Art, Reviews, Theater
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Theater Review
Writer Stephen Cole and composer David Krane’s wacky re-telling of their most un-likely commissioning, The Road to Qatar, is an enchanting and hilarious piece of musical theater.

One Character, One Joke, One-Note
By Michael O'Brien
Posted in Art, Film, Reviews
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Film Review
The Informant! feels like Steven Soderbergh is venturing into non-violent Coen Brothers country, only the genre-jumping director’s latest effort surrounds a single fleshed-out character with a cast of flat characterizations.

Cooped Up Ladies
By Joan Arbery
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Theater Reviews
Grey Gardens at Water Tower Theater and My Sister in This House, produced by Wingspan Theatre Company.