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The name of the game is “retro” at William Campbell Contemporary Art. Randall Reid’s new show of collages takes its inspiration from commercial and...
Amphibian Metamorphosis
The adjective “Kafkaesque” gets tossed around a lot, but rarely has it applied more literally than in The Understudy, Theresa Rebeck’s sly show business...
Dark Tome
Early on in Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow’s Texas horror classic Near Dark (1987), a Winnebago speeds across a dusty Lone Star landscape. The dingy RV...
Arts Funding
Much of Fort Worth’s live music scene has transitioned to live streaming shows, but the intermittent Venmo donations probably aren’t paying the bills the...
Gallery Night Sums
I’ve really been drawn to the paintings of one particular artist lately. Erika Duque. I had a studio visit with her a few months...
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As you can tell from its name, Grizlybexar Collective has its roots in San Antonio, even though it’s based here in Fort Worth. The...
Breaking the Chains
’Tis the season for local theaters to cash in on holiday cheer with appropriately themed crowd-pleasers, filling their houses with happy throngs craving the...
Life Unplugged
Painter Sam Swihart’s “Cosmetic I,” “II,” and “III” is a grotesque series of black-and-white portraits depicting morbidly disfigured faces. The three male subjects are...
Bits
I always read with a little stack of Post-it Notes nearby.
I use them to mark interesting passages. ("Wha-?! Lauren's gonna get a job at...
Autodidacts
The last time I wrote up a show at the Amon Carter Museum, I wasn’t overly impressed and speculated that the lack of access...