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Museum Swap: Bernini
There’s this really ridiculous, rarely fun game I play called Museum Swap, in which I try to picture an exhibit at one of our...
Socially Engaged Murals
The weathered, graffiti-strewn rear wall of Frank’s Market underwent a transformation last Saturday. Around 200 children, teenagers, and adults painted between black outlines on...
Design a Rahr Beer Label
In anticipation of our Third Annual Visionary Awards, to be awarded to three outstanding up-and-coming Fort Worth artists in various disciplines, Rahr & Sons...
Seven at Circle
One of my favorite theatergoing experiences in recent years was Circle Theatre’s 2008 holiday production of A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant. If...
Your Guide to 817 Arts
On the surface, an out-of-towner who spends more than a couple of minutes among some of us Fort Worthians might think we’ve got a...
Road Kill 4
Like many other books, I read this one while sitting in the corner of a bar by myself. Inevitably, passersby inquired as to what...
Taking Wing
Many years ago, when Violet O'Valle was a drama teacher in Houston public schools, she discovered a collection of scripts by the great Irish...
Existential Excellence
“I have ambiguities that you have yet to fathom!” angrily shouts overeducated, understimulated Marjorie to her husband, Ira, a retired ear-nose-and-throat doctor. By all...
Truman Talks: Art
My name is Truman, and I am an artoholic. I live with art and in its world every day, even though much of what...
Thick Pickings
This past summer, a cancer-stricken and emaciated A.C. "Ace" Cook said he was no longer interested in buying art and was selling his beloved...