Surveying our ecletic arts scene, from the galleries to the stage.
Instead of attempting to navigate the crowds at the King Tut exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art over the weekend, my Thanksgiving visitors and I decided to check out the just-opened Bill Owens exhibit at the Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery.
What a treat: The superbly curated exhibit includes classic selections from Owen's three seminal collections, Suburbia, Working and Leisure, along with his latest work, titled Suburbia Revisited, in which Owens takes a look at "places and subjects that he thought would be iconic to Suburban life in the 21st Century."
Among the many remarkable highlights: a close-up of a piece of high-end restaurant steak, cooked rare (it was photographed in Dallas in 2003, though it's not clear at what eatery); a picture of a row of outhouses pitched in front of one of the buttes in Monument Valley; and a portrait of a ghostly lit Shell Station in Nashville.
You can check out a slideshow of the photos here. Or -- and this option is much more highly recomended - you can visit the show yourself.
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