Multidisciplinary Storytelling
A key feature of Diane Durant’s creative process caught my attention as I stepped into her Monticello abode and work studio. In lieu of...
Stairway to Heaven
Early-’80s Madonna throws off a smoldering, over-the-shoulder look filled with youthful defiance. Debbie Harry tosses her Marilyn Monroe mane of bleached blonde hair back...
When a Cart in a Tree Is Art
I don’t have the academic equipment to articulate what makes art art, but I can mostly get behind the notion that art is whatever...
Gone Too Soon
It’s hard to keep a tally of how many basic artistic constructs and motifs are tweaked or altogether upended in Disappearing –– California c....
Walls and Boards
From stand-up comedy to vintage Neil Simon, from revivals of classics to a bevy of world premieres, this summer’s theater stages will come to...
Chaos and Cosmos
In 1975, at a Greek restaurant in the provincial English countryside, Bob Pridden held a loaded pistol to the head of Lynyrd Skynyrd frontman...
Pass the Peas, Please
Jeremy Joel has ambitious plans for Fort Worth. As we sat chatting at a West Magnolia Avenue bar, the self-described “outsider folk artist” focused...
Dreaming Big
Established art galleries are often tasked with turning a profit while serving the greater arts community. Since opening in early 2016, Fort Works Art...
The Circle Should Remain Broken
Dallas Morning News architecture critic Mark Lamster and the paper’s former art critic, Rick Brettell, discussed North Texas museums and galleries before a public...
Subtle Surreal, Expansive Abstract
Healthy dollops of praise should be lavished on Artspace 111 for providing an enjoyable and efficient primer on the virtues of pure abstraction and...
