Arts + Culture

North Texas Performing Arts, headquartered at the Willow Bend Center of the Arts in Plano has just announced that they will be opening an academy, the North Texas Performing Arts Academy, this summer.

The Box Garden is now open at Legacy Hall (at Legacy West, Plano) and this cool new outdoor music venue will be officially opened next week with a special performance from Dallas’ own singer/songwriter Sarah Jaffe and a four-day party from Thursday M

The Allen Arts Alliance and Watters Creek at Montgomery Farms invite the community to celebrate local talent and artisans during the annual Allen Arts Festival from 4 p.m. Friday, May 11 through Sunday, May 13.

Doreen Chen, a student at Jasper High School in Plano, is this year’s best of show winner in Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s (DART) annual student art contest.

There are many words that could be used to describe “The Musical Phenomenon” LES MIS É RABLES . Slightly depressing yet strangely uplifting, for example. Also, long.

This weekend, April 27 to 28, the Downtown Plano Arts District is going above and beyond to live up to it’s name with the Plano ArtFest, a free two-day art extravaganza featuring all kinds of family-friendly activities and community arts programming.

Curtis Grimes takes the stage for the May entry of the Courtyard Texas Music Series at the Courtyard Theatre, downtown Plano. To hear Curtis Grimes sing is to take a trip through the heart of country music.

You’ve got a good reason to go to Fort Worth: the New Works exhibit by Ron Mueck, on display at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth through May 6. For our upcoming Art Issue–arriving in mailboxes this June–I spent some time exploring Fort Worth.

Intersections: the Visual Cultures of Islamic Cosmopolitanism is an innovative Islamic Art Symposium in Texas to be jointly hosted by the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History, Islamic Art Revival Series and Aga Khan Council for the Central United

Arts in Bloom returns to Historic Downtown McKinney from Friday, April 13 through Sunday, April 15.