If you’re not making the pilgrimage to Marfa for Chinati International Pop If I told you to name an artist from the Pop Art movement, it’s more than likely you’d mention names like Warhol or Lichtenstein. In fact, most of the artists who come to mind for most people are…
In Dallas these days, there’s no shortage of “can’t miss” events. It’s almost impossible to plan a weekend. Looking down a list of events to decide what to do with your weekend can be paralyzing. It’s much easier to sit at home watch Netflix and wait for your friends to…
Alicja Bielawska: Reference Points for Potential Constellations If the work on display in Cydonia Gallery this week seems familiar but you just can’t quite put your finger on it, you’re engaging with what the artist considers the “limits of the past,” or exactly how our perception is tied to to…
In the sunny main gallery of the Nasher Sculpture Center, a single tree branch seems to be growing out of a marble column. Or perhaps it has been trapped that way, memorialized in this regal way. Then, upon closer inspection, you’ll see this branch, and the others like it, aren’t…
Maybe you avoid the art scene because you think it’s boring, or perhaps you think that your own art skills and knowledge just aren’t up to snuff. Either way, you’re probably wrong. Still, everyone can stand to get a little better at art, even those that don’t find themselves particularly…
Welcome to 10 Brilliant Dallas Women, a pop-up online series about 10 awesome women making Dallas a better place to live. Justine Ludwig arrived in Dallas a year ago, but to hear her talk about the city, you ‘d think it was longer. Since moving here from Cincinnati to take…
The fall art season is upon us. Last weekend, a bevy of openings brought with it some fantastic art. This weekend, we have even more with numerous museum exhibits opening, as well as an array of gallery shows. This week, because one of the openings features an artist near and…
Arthur Pena and Francisco Moreno have been friends and known each other’s artwork for five years. They both approach painting with a focus on production and labor. Making use of limitations or defining a painting only as an attempt, both artists develop very specific ways of producing paintings. But with…
This weekend marks the true beginning of the fall museum schedule, with shows opening or entering the second week at nearly every major museum in Dallas and Fort Worth. Here, we outline the highlights. Being the River, Repeating the Forest Thoreau once said, “Nature will bear the closet inspection. She…
Welcome to 10 Brilliant Dallas Women, a pop-up online series about 10 awesome women making Dallas a better place to live. When she moved to North Texas to work on A Dallas Drinking Fountain Project in 2009, Lauren Woods had been living in San Francisco for 10 years and was…
With every stitch or every tear in the fabric, Diedrick Brackens is creating or, more aptly, unraveling a much larger cloth. In a new exhibition at Conduit Gallery, hearts, hands, and other members, of his latest textile works, Brackens continues his exploration of issues of race, tradition and gender, but…
Simon Bilodeau’s Story With No Ending In a sense, the museum is the sculpture housing a painting. Typically manipulated to be as unobtrusive as possible, it interacts, intentionally or otherwise, with the work on display. The two are inextriable. It follows that an artist would be hyper aware of the…
One of the first things anyone asked during Sunday afternoon’s inaugural Dallas Zine Party was, “Who are all of these people?” That same question was why the event’s founder, Randy Guthmiller, planned this afternoon in the first place. Who were the people in and around Dallas making zines? What did…
Every artist struggles to reach certain milestones, but viewers aren’t always offered a glimpse of the journey. Neither of the two upcoming solo exhibitions at Kirk Hopper Fine Art have a unified or cohesive look. With a sample of drawings and paintings from two different projects, one focuses on the…
For much of her career, Lucia Simek’s work revolved around what she describes as, “the grand adventure of domesticity.” Her exhibition at the Dallas Contemporary (a collaboration with Kristen Cochran) was made from marble, which she describes as an aspirational stone, a material that represents or projects a certain image…
North Texas Masters of Light The American Society of Media Photographers is home to some pretty talented storytellers. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. Especially if the media outlet is paying pennies per word. This weekend the wide array of talent in the ASMP’s Dallas branch…
Violence affects people in different ways. Some become shut-ins, others are drawn to work with people and create social change. Fifteen years after a stranger was shot and killed in front of her home, artist and Pulitzer Prize winning writer Karen Blessen is still spreading peace through art with her…
Professior R. Mutt and his Duchampaphones It’s impossible to pinpoint where an idea comes from. What compels one person to creatively rethink something that’s come before? Why would a guy masquerading as” Professor R. Mutt” would look at the bicycle wheel sculpture by Duchamp – in homage to whom he…
Joe M. Nanez’s family found out he died in World War II when they saw him killed on a Dallas movie theater screen. His brother-in-law, Regulo Vasquez, saw i t on a newsreel after a film as a teenager. He stayed for the next showing and watched the film again,…
Frank Artsmarter isn’t here to judge you. He wants the general public to judge you. Which is why he has partnered with Glasstire to create the ArtSmarterPrize, an open call contest that has been described by some as “an artist invitational in which every artist, no matter his or her…
We are just a few weeks from summer ending, school starting and the return of the arts in Dallas. Enjoy these final quiet days before your calendar again fills up with events you cannot miss and art you want to see. In the meantime, here are three things to fill…
I don’t know why there are so many juried shows opening on the same weekend, and I’m not sure that I like the looks of them any more than any other summer group show. But I suppose if we can build a justice system on twelve impartial men, why not…
