This year for its annual charity fundraiser MTV:REDEFINE, taking place on April 10, the Goss-Michael Foundation, in keeping with its educational mission, has adopted a more public attitude. The exclusive fundraiser that auctions off work from artists the likes of Mario Testino, David Salle, and Julian Schnabel will stay fancy…
Often in a photograph there is more than meets the eye. What’s just out of view? What happened the second before? Or the second after? Dallas-based artist Kevin Todora takes questions like these and raises them further. In his recent photographic works, he challenges the medium itself, manipulating images and…
Not only has the World Wide Web turned the most sheltered among us into cosmopolitan bon vivants, it’s changed the way artists interact with, discuss and create art. Three such artists are the elusive, questionably real trio: Whyte Window, Black Mirror and Black Burka. By all accounts, these artists use…
I’m a lifelong runner. Which is to say that I ran track in high school and have always owned a pair of running shoes. I typically pull them out only when I’m leaving the dumpy phase and headed into the frumpy phase. Or when I’ve eaten one too many delivery…
I’ve been slacking when it comes to seeing all the exhibitions happening in and around Dallas. I don’t know if it’s been the weather, or what you might call being in “a funk,” but I’m slowly emerging from my shell to see everything out there. This list is a healthy…
You’ve spent more time today staring out the window then you have on those spreadsheets your boss rush ordered from you. You’re distracted by the fading memory of the fresh spring air you felt walking to your car this morning. We’re right there with you. And we’re making plans for…
Hey, you. Yeah, you. The one hunched over the keyboard in that corner cubicle too far away from the window to see that the sun is shining and you’re missing out on one of the few spring days we’ll have this year. It’s glorious outside. The striking splendor of today…
John Alexander nearly presses his nose against a charcoal image of a lobster and laughs when he says looking into the drawing’s eyes reminds him of his dog. We’re in the downstairs gallery where a series of drawings serve as a prelude to the exhibition at the Meadows Museum, Human/nature…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Over the span of four months at the beginning of 2014, the Dallas Biennial hosted 12 exhibitions, showing 50 artists. The art of DB14 was all over the city’s map, and artists were both local…
If you’re not in Austin for South by Southwest, you’re probably going to need something to distract you from the barrage of social media updates your “cooler” friends are posting. We’re here to help. There’s plenty going on in Dallas this weekend and we’ve selected some of the best here,…
George Henson first heard rumors of a man interested in starting a translation publishing house in Dallas about two years ago. Henson was teaching Spanish at the University of Texas at Dallas and working toward a PhD in Humanities with an emphasis on literary and translation studies. He reached out…
Joy Laville, Chuck & George, and Flor Garduño Three very different artists take over the McKinney Avenue Contemporary this weekend. Mexican-based artist Joy Laville’s paintings return to Dallas for her first exhibition in 30 years, featuring work from five decades of painting. In the square gallery, Dallas-based collaborative duo Chuck…
A series of winged, masked men are all over Dallas. And no, they’re not tardy promos for Birdman. They’ve popped up in Facebook and Instagram news feeds, captioned with varying degrees of creeped out and surprise, as they appeared with little to no explanation March 7…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Kevin Rubén Jacobs isn’t your average Dallas curator. In a city that worships blue chip artists and lets money do most of the talking in the art world, Jacobs is far more interested in shaking…
In fall of 2013, tucked away in a small upstairs space in the Kalita Humphreys Theatre in Turtle Creek, a small cast of actors began to sing the first few lines of a musical. Recognizable from a staged reading at the Out of the Loop Fringe Festival in 2010, the…
Kevin Todora’s photographs don’t resemble any you’ve seen before. In fact, much of his work on display at Erin Cluley Gallery doesn’t look like photography at all. The images suck you in with their 3-dimensional quality, compelling you to examine alongside Todora the boundaries of photography’s language…
If you do only one thing on Sunday, visit the Dallas Museum of Art. You may very well need all day. Currently, in addition to its large permanent collection, the DMA has not one, not three, but five killer exhibitions…
Have you ever wanted more from your visit to a gallery? A show that will make you feel invigorated or well rested? If you’re able to sleep intimately with strangers on the questionably clean floor of a gallery space, you’ll want to clear your schedule Friday night and head to…
This Saturday you’ll see green everywhere: in your pint of warm beer, on your bar tab, being flung from parade floats in the form of plastic beads, and on the faces of sorority girls who’ve been drinking since 8 a.m. It’s once again time for the Dallas St. Patrick’s Parade…
Just off Ross Avenue, there’s a charming South American restaurant called Joyce & Gigi’s. The food is delicious, the cocktails are flowing, and they’ve recently introduced an occasional beer dinner. The first in the series takes place at 6:30 p.m. Monday and it will be a five-course meal paired with…
For the past few months, artists Josh Reames and Amber Renaye have been using Oliver Francis Gallery as a studio space, and they’ve created a body of work that is sure to earn them attention. The pair are plannign to split the rest of the year between the east and…
Do you remember lock-ins? Those relics of childhood, where you’d fluff up your sleeping bag next to your fellow hormone-riddled middle schoolers and stay overnight in the school gymnasium or church youth building? Well, Expanded Sleep is like that, but for adults and with an artistic soundtrack. This “Performance for…
