Category: arts

• A Year in Review: Best of Dallas Theater

  Jan 10

  I watched 18 plays in 2022. I had tickets for a 19th but had to miss it because I was sick. Except for 2 performances on Vimeo, all of the… more ›

• Best of Art 2021

  May 8

  Even though we balked at spending yet more time online, we ended up taking part in at least 43 art events, both in-person and virtually, in 2021. Here are the… more ›

• A Year in Art

  Feb 5

  For the past few years I’ve tracked all the art events that my partner and I attend together. We are avid supporters of the arts. All of them. In 2020,… more ›

• SX11

  May 6

  Out of the 39 entries available from the SXSW 2020 Film Festival on Prime Video, I’ve watched 23 so far. Free access ends tonight, and I plan to catch as… more ›

• A Year in the Arts

  Dec 27

  We have been ardent supporters of the arts since our undergraduate days. Last year around this time, a colleague at TheaterJones wrote about seeing over 100 shows, mostly theater, I… more ›

• Physical/Labor

  Oct 3

  As many books about the subject can attest, performance art calls into question passed-down notions of identity and subjectivity. At one extreme, the art attempts to dislocate (if not outright… more ›

• Culture Hole in the Sky

  Feb 18

  On a rain-splattered Saturday about sixty people made their way to an evening of avant-garde sound and performance art in Exposition Park, Dallas, in order to hear, among other things,… more ›

• Monday Mix 01092017: Bowie

  Jan 9

  A year ago David Bowie died. It broke my heart. Though I never met him or saw him perform live, he helped define the context of my life and thinking,… more ›

• Parasites

  Nov 17

  The ‘creditor’ always becomes more humane as his wealth increases; finally, the amount of his wealth determines how much injury he can sustain without suffering from it. It is not impossible… more ›

• Station to Station (or How Not to Make a Film)

  Jun 22

  Another film I saw at the fourth annual Oak Cliff Film Festival was dir. Doug Aitken’s Station to Station. Billed as 61 one-minute films, this quasi-documentary of a 24-day, 4000-mile,… more ›