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Surveying our ecletic arts scene, from the galleries to the stage.

The week's top three arts highlights, including the Perot Museum in Dallas

The Star-Telegram arts writers spotlight what's rocking their world this week: Read more

Theater review: Jekyll & Hyde starring Constantine Maroulis

DALLAS -- It's tough to pull off Grand Guignol-type, Victorian-era horror in a musical. Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd handles it deftly, but in Frank Wildhorn's Jekyll & Hyde, it comes off as unintentionally campy, or at least it does in t... Read more

In the galleries: John Holt Smith at William Campbell Contemporary Art

Stretched, folded and spinning striations of delicious color bands are the signature of Fort Worth artist John Holt Smith. His latest collection of paintings and works on paper originated from photographs of things as micro as flowers and as macro as galaxies photographed by the Hubble Space Tele... Read more

In the galleries: David Conn's 'Return' at Artspace 111

The dense forest scenes by Fort Worth-based artist David Conn are on exhibit at Artspace111 in "Return: Paintings and Prints." These exquisitely detailed linocuts and paintings are, from a distance, photo-perfect, yet up close they are a writhing field of abstract shapes. The exhibit will be on v... Read more

'Jekyll & Hyde' has a split personality -- and not in a good way

Jekyll & Hyde

(Chris Bennion)

It's tough to pull off Grand Guignol-type, Victorian-era horror in a musical. Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd handles it deftly, but in Frank Wildhorn's Jekyll & Hyde, it comes off as unintentionally campy, or at least it does in the tour th... Read more

Our critics' three arts highlights for the week of Dec. 9

The Star-Telegram arts writers spotlight what's rocking their world this week. Read more

The week's top three arts highlights

The Star-Telegram arts writers spotlight what's rocking their world this week. Read more

In the galleries: 'Falloff' at TCC Southeast Campus

Light manipulations by Timothy Harding and Kris Pierce are on display in an exhibition titled "Falloff" at a Tarrant County College gallery. These artists manipulate light so that the illuminated pieces and the areas just beyond the influence of light form a cohesive space. Read more

The week's top three arts highlights

The Star-Telegram arts writers spotlight what's rocking their world this week. Read more

The week's top three arts highlights

The Star-Telegram arts writers spotlight what's rocking their world this week. Read more

The week's top three arts highlights

The Star-Telegram arts writers spotlight what's rocking their world this week. Read more

77 Kimbell artworks are just a Google away

FORT WORTH -- The Kimbell Art Museum on Thursday announced its alliance with the Google Art Project. Read more

Kimbell Art Museum joins Google Art Project

Google Art Project Kimbell

(Kimbell Art Museum)

FORT WORTH -- The Kimbell Art Museum on Thursday announced its alliance with the Google Art Project. Read more

The week's top three arts highlights

The Star-Telegram arts writers spotlight what's rocking their world this week. Read more

In the galleries: Bob "Daddy-O" Wade at William Campbell Contemporary Art

It's time for another round of Bob "Daddy-O" Wade's color-enhanced photos of Texas past at William Campbell Contemporary Art. Wade's latest endeavor, "Cowgirls & Critters," with a plethora of snakes, horned toads and indomitable femmes, opens with a reception 6-8 p.m. Friday at William Campbell, ... Read more

Social groups help like-minded professionals connect with local arts

Sometimes it starts with a cocktail party; maybe friendship follows and then perhaps passion. Commitment is the next step, that deep dedication that seizes time and loosens purse strings. Read more

Kickstarter campaign helps take performers to South Korea

I settled into my seat in the Montgomery Arts Theater in Dallas last June, not sure what to expect. I was among several hundred other Bruce Wood fans who had come to witness the second season of his new dance troupe, and we were salivating at what was in store. Read more

The week's top three arts highlights

The Star-Telegram arts writers spotlight what's rocking their world this week. Read more

Van Cliburn

The Fort Worth Symphony had just finished its traditional playing of The Star-Spangled Banner when the Bass Hall crowd and the musicians began to settle in for what was going to be a concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Van Cliburn Competition. Read more

Walls are packed and ready for Gallery Night on Sept. 8

Gallery Night is Saturday. As usual, the offerings are too numerous to be seen in the hours after dark, so beginning this afternoon, the Fort Worth Art Dealers Association will be throwing open the doors for the twice-a-year frenzy of gallery-hopping. Read more

The week's top three arts highlights

The Star-Telegram arts writers spotlight what's rocking their world this week. Read more

The week's top three arts highlights

The Star-Telegram arts writers spotlight what's rocking their world this week. Read more

Theatre Arlington turns back clock to celebrate milestone season

ARLINGTON -- Theatre Arlington will have plenty of help when it blows out the candles on its next birthday cake. Read more

In the galleries: brand 10 art space

The shadowy recesses of night, where the knowable becomes the mysterious, is the subject of brand 10 art space's exhibit "Midnight Garden." Dense woodlands by Jim Blake, night skylines by Janaki Lennie, endangered cityscapes by Soledad Salame, the demarcation between rural and urban by Luther Smi... Read more

Six local actors who've found second homes on area stages

North Texas may not have the hills of Hollywood, but that doesn't mean the actors who grace the stages here aren't just as talented. Read more

Amon Carter Museum's outreach to seniors proves popular

FORT WORTH -- The Amon Carter Museum has long cultivated a wide and deep variety of programs for school-age children and schoolteachers, and it has recently discovered that seniors want the same exposure to American art. Read more

Group show at William Campbell Contemporary is great way to see stable of artists

A group show for summer, capital idea. No, really. Group shows are a great way to introduce yourself to the community. Now in the case of William Campbell Contemporary Art, one of the oldest continually operating galleries in Fort Worth, introductions are not needed, unless you, the reader, have ... Read more

Ballet Concerto to perform its Summer Dance Concert at Trinity Park

Ballet Concerto's Summer Dance Concert is back. It started Thursday and runs through Sunday with four ballets each night, two of them choreographed by Webster Dean. Bring food and beer/wine, and make it even more enjoyable. Read more

In the galleries: 'Blinding Pain' at Conduit Gallery

Gabriel Dawe's blue jeans, punctured by thousands of straight pins that were poked from the outside in to make a most cruel lining, were one of the most startling images of the Dallas Art Fair in April. Now, Conduit Gallery in Dallas is mounting a number of his works in "Blinding Pain," an apt ti... Read more

Three for three: Mindy Smith's self-titled album, the Nasher's Speaker Series and Pecha Kucha in Fort Worth

The Star-Telegram arts writers spotlight what's rocking their world this week. Read more

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