From west to east, there'll be live local music and art this Saturday Read more

Arts Fifth Avenue rocks its little corner of the Fairmount neighborhood Saturday. The organization is not only exhibiting new paintings by three artists but also hosting free live music to close out the ArtsGoggle experience. Artists John Carlisle Moore, Dale Connor and Wally Knight are bringing ... Read more

The Mikado is one of Gilbert and Sullivan's best-loved creations, and that's saying something, given their roster of enduring hits. The two-act comic opera has not only added phrases such as "let the punishment fit the crime" to the lexicon... Read more

This year's Fort Worth Opera Festival opens Saturday with The Mikado. And you can already order your season tickets for the 2012 festival. Read more

A trip to the Grand Canyon is an American birthright, and it often draws the overused exclamation "Awesome!" But many people will never get that great pleasure, so the Grand Canyon is coming to Fort Worth. Read more

Pianist Barry Douglas won the bronze in the 1985 Cliburn Competition and went on to more acclaim with a first at the Tchaikovsky Competition the next year. The Belfast, Northern Ireland-born performer followed the competition wins with a career that built on his early promise, not only recording ... Read more

Also on the arts calendar Friday is a preview of the DSO's show for Carnegie Hall Read more

FORT WORTH -- Mayfest organizers are banking on warm weather and sunny skies this week to bring the Fort Worth festival into the black, two years after swine flu threatened to end it for good. Read more

Also, Casa Mañana will traipse down the yellow-brick road Read more

Everybody likes to go through their old pictures, and Shirley MacLaine has some doozies. Television specials with her swinging those long legs; movies; images from the very day in 1954 when MacLaine, an understudy for leading lady Carol Haney in The Pajama Game on Bro... Read more

If there were any doubt about life being essentially unfair, this guy is the proof. Not only is Alessio Bax super talented, but his pianistic mojo has been recognized so many times that you can't even fit all the kudos he has won into this space. The Italian-born Bax is so good that critics have ... Read more

Tango ambassadors to visit Arts Fifth Avenue to offer lessons, dance time Read more

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

There's a temporary gallery, a side show, to the Main St. Fort Worth Arts Festival this weekend. Local artists and musicians have cobbled together a three-day slate of alternative performances and showings. The Show and Tell Art Festival is at 1912 Wenneca Ave. in Fort Worth. Live performances be... Read more

There's clearly something in the water. Otherwise, composer Tan Dun, who made a splash with his Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon score, couldn't have found a way to create an entire concerto -- appropriately titled Water ... Read more

The Texas Ballet Theater is marking its 50th year, but the golden anniversary could be brighter. Read more

The Dallas Museum of Art announced Friday that Bonnie Pitman will step down from her post in May for health reasons. Pitman has been the Eugene McDermott director since 2008. She came to the museum as deputy director in 2000. Read more

The Dallas Museum of Art announced today that Bonnie Pitman will step down from her post in May due to health reasons. Pitman has been the Eugene McDermott Director since 2008. She came to the museum as deputy director in 2000. Read more

A celebration of the pursuit of vehicular pleasures opens Friday night at brand 10 artspace. Cars, skateboards and bikes are the subject of artwork by Heagan Bayles, Libby Black, Matthew Cusick, Ryan Humphries, Chris Powell, Matthew Porter, Tatsuki Masaru and Justin Shull. A reception for the art... Read more

It has been a decade since pianist Olga Kern walked away with the Cliburn competition's top prize and stole fans' hearts in what was often referred to as "Olgamania." If her recent reviews are any indication, she's still got the stuff that earned her the gold medal. The crit... Read more

Check out ‘Ain't Misbehavin''; ‘Broadway Rocks'; and Texas Camerata at the Modern Read more

Say the word "Olgamania" in Fort Worth, and no one will ask you, "Olga who?" Read more

FORT WORTH -- A field of 77 pianists -- including a physicist from Germany, a local criminal prosecutor, a screenwriter and a molecular biophysics professor -- will compete for cash prizes in the sixth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs at Texas Christian Univers... Read more

Plunking down more than $5 million for a single work of art is not a casual move. In 2007, British pop star George Michael and his partner, Dallasite Kenny Goss, paid a reported $5.6 million for Damien Hirst's young bull pierced by arrows and suspended in a tank of formaldehyde. With half-closed ... Read more

Patti LuPone wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. Read more

On Saturday, Grammy-winning American composer/pianist Joan Tower is scheduled to appear at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Tower, considered a leading contemporary American composer, will discuss her works and career. The Bard College music professor, former St. L... Read more

Backed by the symphony orchestra, the Broadway legend will sing trademark numbers Read more

Settling into his office in the subterranean headquarters below the Burk Burnett Building in downtown Fort Worth, Tre Garrett, Jubilee Theatre's new artistic director, begins to discuss how living in the city just a short time already has inspired an idea for a new musical. Read more

FORT WORTH -- It's no big deal to steal the show with 76 trombones, but music man Charles Vernon plans to do it with just three. Read more

Saturday's Spring Gallery Night is a massive social happening and a good time for art fans. Read more