James Surls

Events for the week

'What is that, a muffler?'

Texas is home to an eccentric group of outsider artists celebrated as far away as New York. But if you want to see their work here, you'll have to travel to a renegade art gallery in Waxahachie.

Letters

Letters from the issue of March 27

Be a Baby

And get one, too

High on the Hilltop

SMU's Meadows becomes an honest-to-God art museum

Busts and Buds

The Arboretum shows off its chiseled slabs

Gnarly

Note to James Surls: Put away the bong and work, dude

Free of Expression

Two phases of John Alexander's work show what happens when an expressionist loses the fire

Grudge Match

If Gerald Peters, Talley Dunn, and Ted Pillsbury are all smiling, why go to court?

Ciao, Bella

What Katherine Wagner's done for DVAC over a decade, she's decided to do at home

Lofty pursuit

The man confronting you in the lobby of your apartment building just may be an artist

Unfinished business

The Gerald Peters Gallery finds itself fending off a lawsuit and possibly its own demise

Déjà view

Among some genuine talent at the Dallas Visual Arts Center, too many copycats abound