Things To Do In Dallas This Weekend: Feb. 15-17

Goat spotting.

As we all know, happiness isn’t happiness without a violin-playing goat.

Friday

But is that particular picture on view as part of the Dallas Museum of Art’s Chagall: Beyond Color exhibit? Perhaps. Devoted Notting Hill fan that I am, I’d be pretty excited for this exhibit (not included in your free general admission, unfortunately) to officially open on Sunday. But I think just about everything he’s done is beautiful, so my excitement was pretty much a done deal since I realized the La Piscine-organized exhibit was stopping here. The only other location is, well, France. Anyway, I don’t want to tell you how to feel, and Chagall makes me feel all swirly and thoughtful. But I do say that you should check this out, because not only are we looking at paintings, sculpture, and ceramics, but also a rare display of costumes he designed for the 1942 production of the ballet Aleko.

Tonight happens to be the museum’s first Late Night since going to free admission, and it is pitched as a Chagall celebration even if you can’t traipse through the exhibit yet. So, no more long lines to buy tickets to get in, but perhaps bigger crowds, at an event that was always really packed anyway. I’m not entirely sure, but we’ll all find out together. If things get too nuts at the DMA, you can always pop over to the Crow Collection, where they’re hosting their Crow Collection After Dark activities and celebrating the Year of the Snake.

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