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 concert by the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra calls on a sprawling three centuries of the music shaped and inspired by Incan landscape and culture.

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.