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The Curated Weekend of September 10th | 2026
Curated Weekend of September 10–13, 2026
The Unexpected Pairing
Dallas, Texas has some interesting combinations on the calendar this weekend.
Western swing in the ballroom where the story began. Elvis with a symphony orchestra. Italian automotive design against a historic Texas farm. And an exhibition where fashion, interiors, visual art, and motion share the same room.
Sometimes the setting changes the experience. Sometimes two things that don't necessarily belong together turn out to be exactly the point.
Here are five worth knowing about—and one to put on next week's calendar.
⭐ EDITOR'S PICK | TEXAS, LIVE
Still The King at the Longhorn Ballroom
Some concerts are about the lineup.
This one is also about the room.
The Longhorn Ballroom began life in 1950 as Bob Wills' Ranch House, giving this weekend's celebration of country and Western music a sense of place that's nearly impossible to replicate anywhere else. Bob Wills' Texas Playboys return to the stage alongside Asleep at the Wheel, Ben Haggard, Summer Dean, The Waymores, and others for the inaugural Still The King.
There will be two-stepping, food, games, and vendors across the ballroom and courtyard, but the reason this is the Editor's Pick is simpler.
The right music found the right room.
Saturday, September 12 | Doors 3 PM; music 4 PM | Longhorn Ballroom, 216 Corinth Street | All ages
Still The King tickets + details
🎸 LIVE | ELVIS, WITH AN ORCHESTRA
The Music of Elvis with Frankie Moreno + the Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Blue suede shoes at the Meyerson?
Exactly.
Five-time Las Vegas Headliner of the Year Frankie Moreno joins the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for a weekend devoted to Elvis Presley, from Suspicious Minds to Can't Help Falling in Love. Enrico Lopez-Yañez conducts.
We've already sent you to the DSO once this month, but this is precisely why it's worth another look. A symphony hall doesn't have to mean a traditional symphony program.
Sometimes it's simply a very good way to hear something familiar differently.
Friday, September 11 at 7:30 PM | Saturday, September 12 at 7:30 PM | Sunday, September 13 at 2 PM | Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center | Tickets from $29
Worth knowing: the DSO is offering 30% off regularly priced tickets through September 10; the discount applies automatically when eligible seats are placed in the cart.
The Music of Elvis tickets + details
🎨 ART | YOU HAVE TO SEE IT IN PERSON
The First Public Exhibition of Reflectionism
This may be the weekend's most interesting discovery.
On Saturday evening, Samuel Lynne Galleries in the Design District presents the first public exhibition of Reflectionism, an emerging art movement developed in Dallas by artist JD Miller beginning in 2001. For the first time, all nine founding Reflectionist artists will exhibit together.
The paintings are built dimensionally with layers of oil paint, creating sculptural surfaces that change with light, shadow, movement, and where you're standing. In other words, they're particularly unsuited to experiencing through a phone screen.
I'm deliberately leaving the larger question—whether Reflectionism ultimately earns its place as a significant contemporary art movement—to time and the art world.
What's interesting right now is closer to home: an artistic idea developed in Dallas is making its public debut here.
That is worth seeing for yourself.
Saturday, September 12 | 6–9 PM | Samuel Lynne Galleries, 1105 Dragon Street | Attendance is limited; invitation request required
Reflectionism exhibition + invitation request
🖼️ ART + DESIGN | WORLDS COLLIDE
CROSSOVER at SPACE at Adolphus Tower
Fashion next to interiors. Graphic design beside installation. Motion media sharing space with visual art.
CROSSOVER is an interdisciplinary exhibition and design expo bringing together work from Dallas College students and faculty with Dallas' broader creative community. It's also the Friday-night kickoff for the Downtown Dallas Arts & Music Festival.
The student connection is actually part of what makes this interesting.
Creative work often gets separated into neat categories—and emerging talent is frequently seen only inside academic spaces. CROSSOVER deliberately removes both boundaries, putting multiple disciplines and generations of Dallas creatives in the same room.
You may discover someone before everyone else does.
Friday, September 11 | 6–9 PM | SPACE at Adolphus Tower, 1412 Main Street, Downtown Dallas
CROSSOVER + Downtown Dallas Arts & Music Festival details
🇮🇹 WORTH THE DETOUR | ITALIAN DESIGN, TEXAS FARM
ItalianCarFest at Nash Farm
Ferrari. Alfa Romeo. Lamborghini. Maserati.
And a nineteenth-century Texas farm.
You can probably see why this made the list.
More than 90 classic and modern Italian automobiles and motorcycles gather at historic Nash Farm Saturday for the 22nd annual ItalianCarFest, the largest showcase of premier Italian automobiles in the Southwest. Admission is free.
You don't have to be particularly interested in cars to appreciate what happens when engineering becomes design. Seeing generations of Italian automobiles together makes the evolution of both unusually easy to spot.
The Nash Farm setting makes the whole thing just unexpected enough.
Saturday, September 12 | 10 AM–2:30 PM | Nash Farm, 626 Ball Street, Grapevine | Free admission
The historic Nash Farmhouse is also open for tours from 9 AM–5 PM.
📌 PLAN AHEAD | SCULPTURE AFTER DARK
Bruce Nauman + 'til Midnight at the Nasher
Next Friday gives us two reasons to head back to the Dallas Arts District.
The Nasher's monthly 'til Midnight returns September 18 with live music, food and drinks, art after dark, and free admission from 6 PM until midnight. This month's music includes Yolanda Cruz and The Daydreamers followed by Vanita Leo.
Then on Saturday, the Nasher opens Bruce Nauman: Identical, the first exhibition organized by a Texas museum devoted to Nauman's work. The exhibition brings together recent sculptures and drawings centered largely on animal forms, casting, repetition, and the artist's decades-long fascination with the studio itself.
Friday night for the garden. Saturday for the gallery.
'til Midnight | Friday, September 18 | 6 PM–midnight | Free
Bruce Nauman: Identical | Opens Saturday, September 19; through March 21, 2027 | Nasher Sculpture Center, 2001 Flora Street
Not everything needs an obvious match.
Sometimes Western swing belongs in the room where its Dallas story began. Elvis sounds better with an orchestra. Italian cars look surprisingly at home on a Texas farm. And art gets more interesting when the boundaries between disciplines become a little less tidy.
Five things worth experiencing now. One worth putting on next week's calendar. All worth sharing.
Written and curated by Shay Lary
Global Real Estate Advisor, Christie’s International Real Estate | Lone Star