Arts
![According to the Modern, theater influenced a lot of work of '80s artists, including Robert Longo, who photographed his subjects in motion before drawing them.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141206003613im_/http://www.fwweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/art1-300x170.jpg)
Urban Theater: Still/Here
The Modern’s new exhibit harks back to the Decade of Decadence. Wonderfully.ANTHONY MARIANI
It hits you like a rail of coke. The brightly neon-hued images and three-dimensional ephemera that cover every inch of the small dark room –– records, a piano, boom boxes, TVs, a Star of David, children’s toys, tinsel –...
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Deep Barley Roots
Before Rahr, Peticolas, and Deep Ellum, North Texas had Wagenhauser – and several other craft and industrial-scale breweries.EDWARD BROWN
The release of North Texas Beer is timely. As co-authors Paul Hightower and Brian Brown state in their introduction, the beer industry has grown exponentially in North Texas over the past two years. Against the backdrop of this...
![Bass Hall was packed with music fans on Wednesday but not for a live performance. Photo by Performing Arts Fort Worth.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141206003613im_/http://www.fwweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/blotchcliburn-300x170.jpg)
Cinematic Virtuosity
EDWARD BROWNInternational piano competitions and glitzy film festivals make for interesting bedfellows. The mix seemed uneasy at first but slowly coalesced into a memorable evening as the Van Cliburn Foundation’s new documentary, Virtuos...
![For his Aluminum Life series, Mohammed Al Qassab subtly comments on the pliable material that employs many UAE citizens.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141206003613im_/http://www.fwweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/art-300x170.jpg)
Emirati Art
A dazzling touring show from the UAE lands in Fort Worth.JIMMY FOWLER
Past Forward: Contemporary Art from the United Arab Emirates is a national traveling show of multimedia works that makes its North Texas stop at Artspace 111. The exhibit is immediately notable for what it lacks — any obvious...
![At The Live Oak, Anderson & Roe chatted with concertgoers and mixed in some Michael Jackson among the Stravinsky and Mozart.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141206003613im_/http://www.fwweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/stage1-300x170.jpg)
Cliburn, Now in Session
Fort Worth’s venerable piano foundation gets a chic makeoverEDWARD BROWN
Last March, Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Roe, also known as the classical duo Anderson & Roe, sat facing each other at pristine Steinway grand pianos and unleashed a pyrotechnic display of bravado and virtuosity to dozens of...
![Painting by John Hartley](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141206003613im_/http://www.fwweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/John-Hartley-300x170.jpg)
North Texans, Rally Around this Exhibit
ANTHONY MARIANIArt in the Metroplex, one of the oldest (almost-)annual open-call visual art shows in the state, is recommended viewing for any loud and proud North Texan. The art from Tarrant, Dallas, and 17 surrounding counties, and it’s m...
![Carolyn Judson was spectacular as Aurora, perhaps her best role.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141206003613im_/http://www.fwweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/stage-300x170.jpg)
What a Beauty
Texas Ballet Theater opened its season brilliantly with a lavish classic.LEONARD EUREKA
There probably isn’t a better way to open a dance season than with a lavish production of Sleeping Beauty with choreography by Ben Stevenson, sets and costumes by Broadway designer Desmond Heeley, and a Tchaikovsky score that...
![(From left to right) Jennifer Chang, Aleksandra Holowka, Karen Hall, and Kevin Hall brought the music to the masses Sunday.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141206003613im_/http://www.fwweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/hall-300x170.jpg)
Double Shot of Chamber Music
EDWARD BROWNLate Sunday evening, the independent coffeehouse Avoca Coffee, on the Near Southside, provided the casual (and great-smelling) backdrop for The Hall Ensemble’s first and only public performance this fall. Cellist Karen Hall a...
![Some of the broad comic performances and situations reflect racial stereotypes that 21st-century movie audiences may find grating.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141206003613im_/http://www.fwweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Kultur-300x170.jpg)
The Joint Is Jumpin’
Wildcatter Exchange screens a rare “race movie” to start a dialogue.JIMMY FOWLER
In 1983, veteran Fort Worth journalist and movie historian Michael H. Price — then a film critic for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram — received a phone call from his friend G. William Jones, director of the film and video arch...
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Remembering Bo Powell
ANTHONY MARIANIOne thing’s for certain: Bo Powell lived a full life. Though best known as a painter and muralist, Powell, who died Wednesday night at home at the age of 74, also worked as a roughneck, radio DJ, train conductor, long-haul tr...