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When you begin following cool Dallas creatives on Instagram, Tramaine Townsend is a name you’ll often see bandied about. The visual artist seems connected — both virtually and IRL — with every interesting local creator. Naturally, I perked up when I he…
Read MoreSince 1941, Dallas Summer Musicals has debuted the best of Broadway on the stages of Fair Park, from launching the national tour of Annie Get Your Gun with Mary Martin to landing the exclusive Dallas rights to Hamilton in 2019. In addition to bringing …
Read MoreAfter a two-year pandemic and virtual events, Dallas Arts Month returns in-person to Dallas this April. Launched in 2013 as Dallas Arts Week, the annual event is a city-wide celebration throughout the entire month. Art lovers can find festivals, plays,…
Read MoreRice University’s Moody Center for the Arts is celebrating its five year anniversary this spring. Iconic installations defined the Moody Center’s inaugural years. Five years ago almost to the month, PaperCity first reported upon the $30-million t…
Read MoreOne of the most powerful and visceral exhibitions you’ll see this spring is also a homecoming — for lensman Brian Finke. And it’s at noted Dallas gallerist, Kirk Hopper Fine Art, which has made a name for itself for exhibitions for iconoclastic t…
Read MoreDance, unlike many artistic disciplines, exists only momentarily. While visual artists, composers and authors have the benefit of capturing their craft for future generations, choreographers create with the felt understanding that as a performance is p…
Read MorePaperCity invited Beverly Acha, artist and Assistant Professor of Art at University of Texas at Austin, to interview Peter Halley to get to the heart of his new work on view at Dallas Contemporary. Acha and Halley met in 2010 at Yale where Peter headed…
Read MoreCharles Santos, artistic and executive director of TITAS (Texas International Theatrical Arts Society), dives right in when I ask him about the launch of “Titus/Unfiltered,” the new initiative from Dallas’ premiere dance presenter. Ev…
Read MoreA brand new vision for art and its exhibition is opening to the public this Saturday, March 5 from 12 pm to 5 pm in a unique setting. The Kinfolk House is located in a reimagined 100-year-old historic home Founding couple Sedrick and Letitia Huckaby…
Read MoreIt’s in the stars: The Kinkaid School’s art and design auction returns this month — a collecting opportunity that also does good, funding a new student wellness center and a community cause, the Engineering Math Science Institute summer program for und…
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