I almost don’t want to intro this video so that you can enjoy the full hilarious shock of its genius pairing of cultural stuff. But, so that we are all on the same page. You’ve heard of the “Double Rainbow” viral video, right? (And you’ve dug the remix.) Denton-based artist Peter Rand was in New York and caught the Donald Judd show at Tina Kim Gallery, and somewhere an idea for a mash-up occurred to him. Massive tip of the hat to Glasstire for pointing this one out.

Untitled from VJ Peter Rand on Vimeo.

When the Dallas Wind! Symphony’s Kim Campbell chose Casablanca for his installment of FrontRow’s Film Series, we here at the D headquarters immediately started scheming. We wanted to find a venue that would support Campbell’s reasons for choosing the film: to highlight how when you watch a movie with an audience it profoundly changes the experience of watching that movie.

“I chose Casablanca because everyone has seen it, but most likely very few have seen it with more than themselves and a ..read more

At least U.S. Marshal Annie Frost is consistent in employing her absurd crime-fighting techniques. In the series pilot, she shared her philosophy that “music is the quickest way into a person’s soul.” The second episode of Chase finds her kicking back with some Tejano, while chewing bubble gum and doing a little light reading about the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo — all to get into the mind of a killer.

This week’s bad guy is called — repeatedly, with a straight ..read more

Trenton Doyle Hancock’s latest show at Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Work While it is Day, For When Nigh Cometh No Man Can Work, is primarily an exhibition of the artist’s paintings and drawings, which are presented on white walls –  large canvases hung on their own and smaller work framed and grouped in clusters. There is also a wall that the artist has painted black, on which he has written a sentence, hanging a few smaller works against the unconventional ..read more

Could it be that the thing that John Allen most enjoys about stealing money is the quality time that it allows him to spend with his son? Tonight’s second episode of Lone Star leaves the distinct impression that John gets more satisfaction from the chance his crimes give him to serve as a role model for Bob than from the money he takes from his victims. He’s a con man who likes the thrills in his life, and who takes ..read more

1. Stage West has been hosing a playwriting competition for four years, and it has just announced the winners of this year’s installment. Four finalists were chosen from a pool of 57 writers, all through blind judging, and the first place winner will receive a cash prize and both the winner and the runner up will receive a professional reading during Stage West’s New Play Reading Festival next February. Dallas’ Larry Herold took top honors. You can find our more about Herold here.

2. We mentioned last week that a Dallas police officer was painting a mural in Deep Ellum to try to facilitate some reconciliation between the Law and the good for nothing vagabonds who hang out in that part of town. The mural is complete.

3. In the wake of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Manohla Dargis takes a look at the influence the changing roles of film festivals are having on cinema culture in our society. Her question is essentially the same as the one she has André Bazin raise at the beginning of the piece: “Why can’t we have a serious geology as well as a flashy geography of our art?” Toronto’s new Bell Lightbox complex, which includes five screens, galleries, restaurants, a bar, and a gift shop, as well as research and film education centers, addresses that concern:  

For Noah Cowan, the artistic director of the Lightbox back in Toronto, the big-screen experience remains crucial. Movies might be produced to be seen on smaller and smaller devices, but, he said, “size and groups of people should form the basis of our advocacy” (quality, too, he later added).

“How do we know what we know?  I feel at home with this line of questioning because I don’t know.”"

During a press preview walkthrough of the exhibition Vernon Fisher: K-Mart Conceptualism, Vernon Fisher repeatedly asserts his prerogative to inhabit the terrain of negative capability. Negative capability is a state of not knowing, essential for the intentional play that is making art. Keats wrote about it in a letter to his brother as: “when man is capable of being in uncertainties, ..read more

FrontRow’s film series continues this Thursday, September 30 at 7:30 p.m., and there’s still time to RSVP for the screening of Carlos Saura’s Tango at Dallas Hub Theater. To sign up for the screening, just go here and fill out the short RSVP form. To tide you over, a scene from another Saura film, Flamenco:

Get ready, in less than an hour you can begin to reserve your free tickets to theater performances at 20 local theater and performing arts organizations thanks to “Free Night of Theater,” a nationwide program that being put on locally by the City of Dallas Office of Culture Affairs. The concept is simple: nearly 2,000 tickets to performances have been set aside. To get your hands on them for free, all you need to do is go here, find a ..read more

The Council for Artist Rights’ John Viramontes passes along word that Texas art historian Samuel S. Blain is preparing a history of the Dallas visual arts scene that will be published straight to a new blog called, simply enough, Dallas Art History (dallasarthistory.com, though the site is not yet up). According to the release, the history will focus on how the local scene functioned in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. The release is after the jump.