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Fort Worth Contemporary ArtsGALLERY
Transmission is an exhibit of work by TCU’s MFA students at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts that enjoys its opening reception this Friday at 6 p.m. Notably, it includes the work of Bradly Brown, the driving force behind last yea...
Gabriel Ascends
On a Nazi-occupied island, strong women and children take wing.JIMMY FOWLER
Theatergoers tired of plays with overly introspective characters and navel-gazing actor monologues, take heart: Stage West’s production of Moira Buffini’s WWII drama Gabriel, which opens this weekend, is full of women of ac...
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William Campbell Contemporary ArtGALLERY
This week marks the one-year anniversary of the death of Scottie Parsons at age 86. In honor of this artist who grew up during the high tide of abstract art, William Campbell Contemporary Art runs a show of her paintings. The...
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GALLERYAs you can tell from its name, Grizlybexar Collective has its roots in San Antonio, even though it’s based here in Fort Worth. The six artists will display their work at FWCAC in media ranging from watercolor to vinyl to digi...
Color Fields Forever
Inspired by science and technology, Fort Worth painter John Holt Smith dazzles the eye.JIMMY FOWLER
Painter John Holt Smith, 44, grew up in Fort Worth surrounded not only by art but also by arty types. His stepfather was a dentist and contemporary art collector who visited New York galleries in the 1960s and ’70s and began ...
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Artspace 111GALLERY
David Conn’s large-scale paintings and prints capture forest landscapes so dense that the branches and trunks almost become abstract elements. The artist has been working on these pieces since he retired from his TCU art prof...
Black Dawn Fades
Fort Worth author Rachel Caine’s Morganville Vampires series draugs on.ALEX TYLER
At a time when vampires have become their own little entertainment industry, paranormal creators have to work hard to distinguish their work from all of the ripoffs of Twilight, True Blood, and The Vampire Diaries already out t...
Black Spurs Jingle
Though critical reception has been cold, Jubliee’s latest is a statement.JIMMY FOWLER
Tre Garrett has been artistic director of Jubilee Theatre for almost two and a half years now. He replaced Ed Smith, who served briefly as the first new artistic director since much-loved founder Rudy Eastman died unexpectedly ...
Mistletoes
Texas Ballet Theater’s new Nutcracker rocks.LEONARD EUREKA
The holidays took on a warm, fuzzy glow with the opening of Texas Ballet Theater’s glorious new production of The Nutcracker in Bass Performance Hall last weekend. A gift from the now-defunct Ballet Florida of West Palm Beach...
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The Art CorridorGALLERY
In lighting terms, falloff is the rate of how much dimmer a light appears the farther away one is from the source. This is the title of Kris Pierce and Timothy Harding’s group show at TCC’s Southeast Campus. The exhibit rem...