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…
I am not an art collector. If I could afford it, I suppose I would be, but at this point in my life I cannot claim it as a hobby. But as an arts journalist, I find myself staring at the price tag of a piece at a gallery scheming…
Only in America can you tug the sleeve of your Lyft driver, clear your throat and politely ask him to drive-thru Whataburger for you at 2 a.m. Sure, other countries serve third meal at gyro stands or back alley cafes, but here you don’t even have to leave the car…
In 2010, Jordan Roth and his mother Susan Roth Romans set up an exhibition on the second floor of the Fairmont Hotel during the Dallas Art Fair. A veteran in the art world, Romans knew this would attract attention from the collectors visiting the fair or staying at the hotel…
It’s difficult to discuss President George W. Bush’s art show without first talking about the work’s context. To look at his portrait of Tony Blair and not consider the relationship between the two world leaders would be impossible. Just a few years after his presidency, Bush persists as a part…
“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…
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…
It’s Wednesday afternoon and Jesse Morgan Barnett paces through the cavernous space at 2604 Main Street, arranging his works of art. “When you do an installation the space is always in a defensive posture,” Barnett says. “The space looks different now than it will look Saturday. I like to bring…
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,…
Fashion fever is not new to Dallas. Have you ever been to friggin’ NorthPark Mall? People in this city earn and burn money fast and they spare no expense to look good. Why? Photographs, for one. For society pages, we’ve got Paper City, Beverly Drive magazine, Modern Luxury, and Patron…
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,…
“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…
We start with the smallest triptych. In the corner of the painting, Masami points out a small plate of multi-colored lipsticks. “When I started this one I had just found out that in Iran, people aren’t allowed to wear lipsticks,” he says. ” I was amazed by this. The girls…
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…
“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…
English is known for his brightly saturated critique of consumerism that leaves a taste of the bizarre in your mouth. He is the creator of the character MC Supersized used in the film “Super Size Me.” He has painted on the Berlin Wall, and once he appeared as a character on The Simpsons.
What history will say about George W. Bush is yet to be determined, but in the past few years he’s grown pretty damn good at painting puppies. Last year on Jay Leno, he brought up his art teacher to whom he said, “There’s a Rembrandt trapped in this body…your job…
“Nighthawks” is coming to the Amon Carter Museum. Edward Hopper’s 1942 late-night rendering of a sleepy American diner inspired poetry, film scenes and parody, spreading as far as The Simpsons and That ’70s Show. This year it leaves its permanent location at the Art Institute of Chicago and travels to…
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…
There’s a cool museum collaboration happening between Dallas’ Nasher Sculpture Center and Fort Worth’s Modern Art Museum and it’s in the name of a local artist. Painter, sculptor and sketch artist David Bates spent the last 40 years capturing the spirit of South in his varied mediums. Both exhibits opened…
When Frank Campagna opened Kettle Art in Deep Ellum 10 years ago, it was one of three storefronts on Elm Street. The vision was simple: a gallery dedicated to the art of local artists, no exclusive agreements required. It’s been a rocky road to improvement for the neighborhood, but a…
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…
