She Speaks: Michelle Rawlings on Controversial Empathicalism

If you want to hear about Michelle Rawlings’ dad, you should head over to Unfair Park. The Dallas blogosphere went into a four-alarm, screaming alert last week at the announcement that the “Mayor’s Daughter” had been chosen for a solo show at Oliver Francis Gallery that, it would seem, contains…

North Bishop Avenue’s Trees are No Longer Nude

Artist and musician Sally Ackerman was spotted yarn bombing trees along N. Bishop Avenue last Sunday afternoon. She explains that what started as a “love bomb” for a friend at Artisan’s Collective turned into a gig when TV producers from the show Dallas hired her to knit up four more…

The Many Stories of the Titanic Exhibit in Fort Worth

Never has there been an event as catastrophic or storied in maritime lore quite like that of the Titanic. It is the story of an impermeable ship with giant expectations. It sought to revolutionize the way goods were shipped; improve and increase the transportation of immigrants; and change the game…

FLP: Door Boards of Papua New Guinea

Today’s FLP (or FLPs) come from the Joel Cooner Gallery. They’re called door boards, and they are exactly what they sound like: boards that are hung over and around doors. Or the openings to homes, anyway. These are from the Star Mountains in central Papua New Guinea from the Ok…

Go Legit: Gallery Bomb Calls for Street Artists

Are you an artist searching for that perfect, unbuffable wall (aka: The Holy Grail of graff writers)?  How about putting your name on something permanent by taking your skill set indoors? Your mom would be so proud…Local graffiti art collective, Gallery Bomb, is experimenting with new Dallas talent. The crew…

From a Firestation in Fairview, TX: A Mural in Timelapse

Well, here’s your cool timelapse video of the day… Over on Dallas’ Reddit page this morning, caught an exciting piece from local artist Andy Buchanan. The two-minute plus video chronicles the construction of Buchanan’s action-y, three-dimension-y mural “Rescuing Freedom.” According the YouTube vid, the piece took three weeks to complete…

“Fanatic Aunt” Studies Facial Expressions While You Talk About God

People can be, shall we say, incredibly emphatic when they talk about religion. But, sometimes, they’re a little too emphatic. Enough that you can’t help but wonder what they really feel.Today’s FLP, “Fanatic Aunt” by r. mateo diago, one of four pieces in a series titled “iChat God Talk,” examines…

Deep Ellum’s Traveling Man Gets Pumped Up Kicks

Look who’s got some brand spankin’ new shoes. Like the rest of us, the Deep Ellum “Traveling Man” sculpture’s been a little chilly this week. And being made of metal, can you imagine how much worse that must be? Finally, someone took pity on his big robot feet and sized…

Steven Culbert’s “Red Tree” at Jacques Lamy Gallery

Steven Culbert is one of those artists who eschews the idea that there’s any limit to the number of ways you can paint. You can see that in his current show, Big and Small, at Jacques Lamy Gallery. Upon viewing the show, you might not even guess that all of…

Conduit Gallery Offers a Fine Lookin’ Trio of Exhibitions

While the rest of us are freaking out about what to buy Aunt Fern for the holidays, Conduit Gallery is basically blowing up with shows. There’s Jeremy Red’s solo show of unconventional portraits, Catching Up — his first here since he moved from Denton to Seatle, WA in 2003. There’s…

Sedrick Huckaby’s “The Day We Talked a New Talk” at Valley House

Quilts have long been misunderstood. People have considered them craft, pretty blankets sewn by women with too much time on their hands. Although many quilts are quite beautiful, they are also incredibly powerful. Frontier women crafted them to shelter their families from the dangerous cold. Slaves created them as creative…

Lucky Girl’s Not So Lucky Bird

Her name is Stacey Maynard but she calls herself Lucky Girl. And rightly so. Maynard, unlike way too many people, is actually doing what she loves — creating art. The high school art teacher working in a variety of media hails from Australia, but she’s celebrating her first solo exhibition,…

“Almost Everything” by Lance Letscher at Conduit Gallery

What do clocks, a desk, logs, cardboard boxes, equipment of one kind or another, buildings, a train, meters, fans, a chair, radios, a tractor, a bed, blocks, toy trees, a dollhouse, a telephone, an electrical outlet, Saturn, record players, cut pages from a children’s book,a grandfather clock, train cars, cash…