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High Voltage
Painter John Holt Smith enlarges photographs until they’re abstract bands of color and then renders the results on aluminum panels. His “Oculus” series does...
A Newbie Night at the Opera
I liked Fort Worth Opera’s Tosca so much I made my friends go see it.
I didn’t really make them go, but I did talk...
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This Friday you can attend the opening receptions of two new shows at the Center for Visual Arts in Denton. Besides a group exhibition...
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Watercolor doesn’t have to be limited to paintings, as the new exhibit at UNT on the Square cheekily entitled H2OHUE/UNT demonstrates. This show has...
Geography, Class
Painter Mark Smith, 60, came by his love of the natural world early. As a kid, he spent equal time in the countryside near...
Lysistrata: Make War Not Love
For most of the second act of Mark Adamo’s Lysistrata, or The Nude Goddess, most of the men on stage have gigantic, visibly bulging...
Figaro into Three Decembers
Fort Worth Opera general director Darren Woods has a leg up in finding fresh young talent; since he serves off-season on the jury for...
Loving Tosca
Fort Worth Opera kicked off its 2012 festival on Saturday at Bass Performance Hall with a performance of Puccini’s Tosca, a three-act work that...
Opera Festival Time
Good ideas don’t always translate into success, but Fort Worth Opera’s festival format, alternating performances of four productions in a month-long residency, mostly at...
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Making us doubt what we see is a centuries-old tradition in Western art, and Michael Bane carries that on in his solo show at...
