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On this week's Voice Film Club podcast, we welcome Village Voice contributor and filmmaker Zachary Wigon, who tells us about his paranoid thriller The Heart Machine (iTunes). We also scoop out some time for John Wick, which helps restore our faith in...
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John Pomara exhibited artwork before the Internet. With degrees in studio art, and exhibitions on his resume dating back to the 80's, it was more than a decade into his practice before he took an interest in technology. Now, he brings a painterly eye...
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Most of us would much rather buy something than make it, especially if it's hand-made by a much more creative and talented person. Fortunately, the rise of Etsy and the DIY trend has made it much easier to find unique goods crafted by individual arti...
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I'm not sure this is the kind of public art they're talking about....
We're just passing this information along. Apparently the city of Dallas has a list of whom they'll commission for public art in Dallas. And apparently this list is currently a...
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Halloween is on a Friday this year. This means your excuses are all worthless and you will have to participate in the festivities. But house parties are so 1998. Get out of the house and do something. Want to go to a haunted house? We've got you cove...
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Our videographer, Sarah Passon, caught a recent set at DCH. ...
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In 2009, Sarah Perry had an idea for a neighborhood market. She was tired of going all the way downtown to buy local produce, and wondered why nothing similar but smaller existed near her in east Dallas. She partnered with her friend Mary Norvell and...
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An artist used Flickr to explore how we interact with nature.
Patricia Reed's "The Two" greets visitors to Zhulong Gallery's international group show, Systema. A pair of bright red megaphones frozen in french kiss, any amplified messages lost in ...
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Anonymous 19th century watercolor: Scene from Mozart's opera Le nozze di Figaro
The men's urinals are where you learn the most about an ongoing opera. The unedited state of things--the real nitty-gritty. (In all fairness, I'm sure the women's ro...
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Some comics travel for their trade because of their love of the art form or some inner need for attention or the hope of delivering to mankind a new plateau of understanding through the power of laughter.
Lavell Crawford has a brutally honest reaso...
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The Alamo Drafthouse is about to launch a massive invasion on the Dallas-Fort Worth area, opening several new theaters, and it starts downtown with a new movie house on South Lamar Street. Developers for the new theater announced plans to break groun...
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Across Dallas stages, a long ignored genre of theater seems to have taken center stage. Science fiction, with all its robots, aliens, and future societies has been seen in its intellectual (Tomorrow Come Today at Undermain Theatre) and its campy (Roc...
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This is Anna Bella Papp, a beautiful young mind in the art world.
Sometimes ink is given to the artists showing at the Nasher Sculpture Center simply due to its reputation. Which is not unexpected: It's the norm in the art world to approach a vene...
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It's a pop-up storytelling adventure.
History is built on stories. Often, it's the stories of politicians who impact the world or scientists who impact daily life, but our personal histories are built around our own stories -the ones you tell you...
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What's cooler than being cool? Ice cold! And ballet. Obviously.
Another weekend has arrived without jamming a newly sharpened pencil into your coworker's eye, so you deserve to celebrate your self-control. There are parties, movie screenings, da...
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Pedro Velez, Chicago and San Juan PR artist and critic, 2014 Whitney Biennial participant
At this year's Whitney Biennial, the museum invited three curators from outside of the museum to work on the acclaimed exhibition. The goal of the biennial...
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The Power Station presents Grafika.
Fill October's final full weekend with art. As fall trickles into town in fits and starts, decorate your life at these galleries. And for once, Friday is the stronger night to hit the galleries, although there ...
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These are students giving President Obama a deserved standing ovation.
Friday night, I found myself doing the Dallas Do-si-do Ditch. It's a cute little shuffle that people here do after a show with the following steps.
1. Wait for first moment...
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Michael Keaton and Edward Norton put up their dukes in Birdman.
It's awards season and the hyped movies are starting to land in theaters. On this week's Voice Film Club podcast, we talk about Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu's Birdman, starring Micha...
