Humorous takes on Christmas, instead of mainstays like 'A Christmas Carol,’ help to keep the season light.

The sculpture is on display for the first time in 12 years.

It's not Michelangelo, but the latest acquisition by the Kimbell is nothing to sneeze at.

It was 54 years ago when Ben Stevenson performed his first Nutcracker ballet. ("I was the Prince," Stevenson recalled. "I was never a Mouse.")

This may be a first, but Eddy Tovar, the gifted Cuban dancer starring for Texas Ballet Theater, compares the art form at which he excels to golf.

The gang is hanging at Gallery 414, where some of the area's more popular artists are grouped for a holiday show.

The Richardson-raised Rockette is a niece of Roger Staubach.

Despite recent public protests, the Texas Ballet Theater will stick with its decision to use recorded music during upcoming performances of The Nutcracker at Bass Hall, ballet managing director Margo McCann confirmed Wednesday.

Bill Campbell and his wife, Pam, have been in the Fort Worth art-gallery business for 35 years, which is a major triumph. They are celebrating their good fortune Friday night and opening a show of one of their favorite artists, Billy Hassell.

What it is: Yellow Magpie, Arapahoe (1973) by Leonard Baskin, color lithograph

What it is: Untitled (Cowboys #8) (1980-84) by Richard Prince, Ektacolor print

The colorful installation of CDs, water bottles, shopping bags, plastic wrap, netting, packing materials, telephone wire, even pink hair curlers — the trash that is strangling our planet — is used to an almost too-positive effect by installation artist Joyce Martin.

The contemporary gallery is in one of the oldest homes in the area. Artists headlining the current show, Lee A. Hill and Martha Howell, will be in residence 5-9 p.m. Saturday for a reception and conversation.

This weekend, Alexandre Renoir, great-grandson of Auguste Renoir, will be painting in the Milan Gallery in downtown Fort Worth. He is the headline attraction for a show of works the gallery has brought in for the next month.

'Sweeney Todd's' star taps into his own dark side to pull out the demented passion of his character.

What it is: Rain God Vessel (circa 1100-1400) polychromed ceramic, pre-Columbian, Mexico, Colima, El Chanal, Mixtec style

Christina Rees' first outing at TCU's Fort Worth Contemporary Arts that the experimentally edgy space is in capable hands.

For 20 years, Dallas has had one of the world’s greatest orchestra halls in the Meyerson Symphony Center. On Oct. 23, it was joined by one of the world’s greatest opera houses.

What it is: Untitled #52 (2002) by Laura Letinsky, dye coupler print

Just a few days before the April telephone call, Richard Rodzinski had read a lengthy profile of famed Russian conductor Valery Gergiev in The New York Times Sunday Magazine.

The Amon Carter Museum and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art are at it again: lending each other striking pieces of art.

What it is: The Art of Painting (1972) by Jim Dine, mixed media on canvas with objects

From the first moment she played violin in a youth orchestra in Taiwan, Mei-Ann Chen wanted to be a conductor.

Multilayered abstract color fields by Scottie Parsons are on exhibit now at the William Campbell Contemporary Art gallery in Fort Worth. A reception for the artist, free and open to the public, will be held 6-8 p.m. Saturday.

Ray Price and Roy Clark to play Bass Hall

Including "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe"

This is a laugh-riot of one-liners and broad physical comedy based on the trials and tribulations of two old-style vaudeville actors who want to make it in the newfangled world of radio comedy.

Casa Mañana has pushed the creative envelope by importing gospel singer extraordinaire Zebulon Ellis to join the cast in the pivotal role of "Big Moe."

The star of Broadway's 'Moving Out' takes to Bass Hall for a tribute to Billy Joel.

What it is: Selim and Zuleika (1857) by Eugene Delacroix, oil on canvas