In 2009, when Jeff Baker retired from a 35-year career as a commercial photographer in New York City, he moved back to his hometown, Dallas, and began to feel directionless. He also began to feel portents of death in the form of three serious diseases: atrial fibrillation, macular degeneration in…
Standing out as an artist in the comic book industry seems like a near impossibility. Not only does the medium have more artists than it needs but it can be difficult to develop a unique style when editors expect another rehash of muscle-bound superheroes and bosomy superheroines. Robert Wilson IV…
Yesterday we learned that attendance for the Dallas Art Fair last weekend broke the record, with 12,500 people passing through the halls of the Fashion Industry Gallery on Ross Avenue. In its eighth year, the fair seemed more vital than ever. As we mentioned in our coverage of the fair…
Frank Stella: A Retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 3200 Darnell St., Fort Worth The first of its kind in over three decades, the latest exhibit at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth features 100 works that showcase the highlights of Frank Stella’s 60-year career. Starting…
Along with humor, nostalgia and fantasy, Erin Stafford’s new work references the aesthetics of decay. She thinks about the past: fantasies she had as a kid, the greatest times of her life, and what point she would like to revisit if she had the chance to go back. But she…
The latest exhibit at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth started with a simple question: Which great living artist had not had a retrospective in over two decades? Frank Stella has a 60-year career and is ingrained in contemporary art. A young art star, he actually had a retrospective…
Debora Hunter is standing in front of the windows of Neiman Marcus peering in. It’s an overcast Wednesday morning just days before the Dallas Art Fair where Hunter, a longtime Dallas-based photographer, is the 2016 honoree. With that title comes an opportunity to give a talk at a pre-party for…
Irving Penn achieved great artistic and commercial success and became one of the most iconic photographers of the 20th century. A touring exhibit organized by the Smithsonian and presented by The Dallas Museum of Art, Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty is the first retrospective of his 70-year career in nearly two…
Hey Sunshine at Liliana Bloch Gallery From Providence, Rhode Island, Lynne Harlow’s art has been exhibited nationally and internationally for 15 years. In her latest show, she continues a reductive exploration of light, color and material, placing added emphasis on the behavior of light in relation to color and space…
On April 7, two of rock history’s star witnesses will be sharing their life stories at The Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff. Pattie Boyd is music’s Helen of Troy; she has inspired many epic guitar wars. Her first husband, George Harrison, immortalized the way she moved in the Beatles’ “Something,”…
Bearings Down at The Goss-Michael Foundation Paula Crown serves on President Obama’s Committee for the Arts and Humanities. Balancing traditional studio time while engaging technology, her art is about mapping experiences. Crown’s work centers on places and landscapes, exploring how they can exist as objects. This is an immersive installation…
We Are All Homeless at The MAC Willie Baronet started collecting signs made by homeless individuals in 1993. Now with more than 1,000 signs, the project has developed into an exhibit called We Are Homeless. This attempt to confront an often ignored and uncomfortable issue has been exhibited nationally and…
Immediately upon sitting down with artist Tiffany McAnarney, an Oak Cliff-based painter, designer and muralist, it is impossible to ignore the precision, perhaps even compulsion, with which she describes her work. “We specifically crafted the pieces in this series to fit one exact space in the living room, the sun will hit it…
FOUND at Level Gallery After seeing pollution in the ocean and researching the effects, longtime underwater fashion photographer Jeremy McKane decided he wanted to do more than take pretty pictures. McKane uses his art to raise awareness of this urgent issue. FOUND is McKane’s latest ocean conservation exhibit featuring eleven…
American DirtArtists’ using found objects, or trash, in their work is old hat, but that’s not what photographer Jeff Ferrell does. Nope, he documents his dumpster dives photographically. This weekend, the Reading Room (3715 Parry Ave.) teams up with Gavin Morrison and Fraser Stables/Atopia Projects to present American Dirt, a…
Doris Salcedo:Plegaria Muda Last year, the Nasher Sculpture Center announced Nasher Prize, a $100,000 award for a contemporary sculptor, in the vein of the Pritzker Prize. It signaled the Center’s serious exploration of the future of the art form, but it also threw Dallas onto the international map in a…
Media creates a spectacle and a dialogue. To compete with other spectacles, art may have to embrace the spectacular. And social practice is a great way to create a dialogue. Art tries to pursue things that are not yet fully understood, often pushing boundaries. It can certainly help to have…
J.M. Rizzi and his eight-year-old daughter love to look at graffiti together. In the car they will slowdown to take a look at something or watch it go by on a train. But as much as she enjoys the art his daughter is sure that he would never do graffiti…
Dallas artist Jeff Zilm is engaged in a quest to determine the role art can play in a world riddled with images: what meaning can it possibly have to offer a world over-saturated with visual stimuli? Specifically, Zilm has his eye on the technology of film and how the medium…
Joachim West Mother Earth Is a Dirty Whore – In Color and Uncensored Artist Joachim West weaves a tangled web of humanity’s darkest obsessions. His paintings and drawings portray the grotesque underbelly of society, turning metaphor into reality. His work will fuck your mind up and leave you wrestling with…
I didn’t witness the hermit crabs demise, just heard the gruesome rumors. Apparently one of the arrow crabs had been seen snacking on a an eyeball and not long afterwards, that soft-bodied little guy went missing. Pitted against each other by artist Pierre Huyghe, these cute crustaceans aren’t normally arch…
For the Love of Kettle If anyone ever tells you, “No one cares about art in Dallas,” send them straight to For the Love of Kettle. This annual event features the work of hundreds of artists from all over the city at various price points sold off in an energetic…
