Nerd Out with this Trailer for Jellyfish Eyes

Here’s some news you should be excited about: Yesterday, the Dallas Museum of Art announced that they will be the first American museum to screen Japanese artist Takashi Murakami’s live action film, Jellyfish Eyes. This rare chance to nerd out happens at 7 p.m. May 1 to be followed with…

Dallas Art Fair Signals the City’s Potential

“When I look at my schedule for the weekend, I get exhausted before I even start doing anything. If you really wanted to do everything art related in Dallas, you couldn’t.” That’s gallerist Cris Worley on her experience of a normal weekend in this city. Spend a few minutes on…

Seven Art Exhibitions to Catch this Spring

Spring has arrived. With it, galleries across the city fling open their doors to present new work to curious souls fresh out of hibernation. In keeping with the season, here our freshly picked recommendations for your art-going pleasure…

16 Awesome Things to Do in Dallas this Weekend, March 27-30

If you could live your life like Jay Gatsby, wouldn’t you? The suits, the women, the music, the cars, the parties. Of course, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s greatest character didn’t live happily ever after, but that was then. This is now. There’s no reason you can’t dress up, pack a picnic,…

MTV:ReDefine Kicks off Fancy Auction with Public Exhibition

For a lot of people the art world can seem inaccessible. It’s a playground for the artists and a salesroom for the well-heeled. Across the city, institutions are attempting to overcome this insularity with free museum admission and fun parties. But when art is sold at fancy fundraisers or auctions,…

Randy Guthmiller Asks Dallas “Wanna See Some Shapes?”

“Wanna see some shapes?” It’s the first thing Randy Guthmiller ever said to me. We were at The Power Station for a gallery opening, I had walked out to the terrace, looking for a friendly face who might be my next target for cigarette bumming. He was wearing a snug…

Dallas Museum Directors Fulfill Gender Stereotypes, Says Study

In our city, the major museums are the Dallas Museum of Art, the Nasher Sculpture Center, and the Kimbell Art Musuem and The Modern, if you count Fort Worth. This means our major arts leaders are Max Anderson, Jeremy Strick, Eric M. Lee and Dr. Marla Price, respectively. It probably…

Artist Joshua Goode Talks About Latest Discovery: a Unicorn T-Rex

“Last summer I was on a dig in Germany and I discovered artifacts that point toward the existence of an ancient Texas civilization,” artist Joshua Goode says. “It was pretty amazing to find the remains of a Unicorn T-Rex that I determined by the saddle was domesticated and ridden.” We’re…

The Bulletproof, Mustached Samurai at the Kimbell Art Museum

Let me first admit, my experience with samurai is limited. When I learned Dallas had a samurai museum, the first thing three things that came to mind were Tom Cruise, Mulan (wrong country), and 47 Ronin. That there could be an entire exhibition — much less a museum — dedicated to…

2013’s Best Museum Exhibits

From street artists to Picasso, the biggest museums in Dallas and Fort Worth welcomed a diverse array of mediums, genres and artists. The Dallas Museum of Art mounted a retrospective of the groundbreaking performance artist and photographer Cindy Sherman, while the Amon Carter’s survey of color photography welcomed submissions from…