Red White and Blue Notes
What is American music? You may have a hard time answering that after the Cliburn Festival, a series of five concerts of vocal and...
Faces Before Us
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes is in many ways disturbingly modern. He excelled at depicting terrors of the soul, whether they were imaginary...
Cello Pärt
The Cliburn Concerts were scheduled to bring in Alisa Weilerstein this week, but she had to cancel. Not to worry, though; Joshua Roman should...
Black and Blues
“They about to drive me crazy,” says one character in August Wilson’s Seven Guitars. “Who don’t know where the other one is or went...
Out of the Basement
The thing about being a modern art museum is that, if you hang on to your artworks long enough, they’re not modern anymore. That’s...
Unbroken Horses
Why did France submit an entry for the Best Foreign Film Oscar that was filmed in Turkey and performed entirely in Turkish? Writer-director Deniz...
Electronical Music
For those of you who think Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra is at its best playing contemporary music, this weekend is the time to hit...
What Are You Doin’ New Year’s?
This year’s New Year’s Eve events don’t look as appealing as the ones last year, but they’re still well worth rounding up here in...
Meeting of Masters
Film students should head to the Modern this weekend for Kent Jones’ documentary. The nominal subject of Hitchcock/Truffaut is the series of 1962 interviews...
D-Jection
Welcome to the NFC East, the NFL’s version of four eunuchs fighting over a condom. The collective incompetence of the New York Giants, the...
