Being walked through artist Loretta Gonzalez’s new series of paintings is like exchanging introductions at a dinner party for savages. “This is Dena Schlosser from Plano. She cut the arms off her baby,” says Gonzalez, expanding a photo of the painting on her iPad. Next we meet Gilberta from Hudson…
“Keep Little Forest Hills Funky” is more than just a stoner’s chant. It’s actually an underground battlecry. It’s the Little Forest Hills residents way of saying, “Keep your barfbag McMasions off our property.” They mean it too. The neighborhood east of White Rock Lake is a quirky hodgepodge. Some streets…
Life is relatively spacious out west of downtown these days, since the Dallas Contemporary moved to what is in gallery terms a gargantuan exhibition space from its cozier (though still not bad) location in East Dallas. The exhibition Acceleration was part of the Contemporary’s 35th anniversary celebration. Taking a cue…
One of the key annual fundraisers for the organization is the Art for Advocacy auction, which supports the art therapy programs and other services offered to child abuse victims. Silent auctions can be competitive arenas, so we’ve scoped out 10 artists you might want to bid on.
Pole dancing has been a non-stripper thing for a while now. Well, it’s obviously still a stripper thing, but many non-strippers now turn to it for general fitness and to ensure they could flee upward into a firehouse if the situation calls for it. Even though pole dancing champions have…
This weekend when a host of Dragon Street galleries open new shows, here are six galleries where you won’t feel left out.
In the Dallas arts scene, the urgent question people are finally beginning to ask: where are the young artists? The stunning architecture of the Dallas Arts District yearns to be filled with the creation of young, hungry artists. It’s why the Flora Street Lofts are being developed to bring affordable…
Dallas’ murals are as disjointed as the architecture they’re painted on. The high-end commissioned works, like the walls Shepard Fairey and Faile did for the Dallas Contemporary, are balanced by spaces where local artists were allowed to get handsy. What we don’t have much of — well, never for long…
We’ve been following the progress on Instagram, watching the stair and ramp construction for Overground’s new street course. And yeah, we got nostalgic. We looked at our skate shoes that are never, ever used for skating and wondered if some secret talent would be unlocked if we threw a deck…
Inside a nondescript, hard-to-find office in Richardson, a man named Jordan Williams takes many forms. There’s a full-color, miniature bust of him on the edge of a desk. On the wall a few feet from the front door hangs a hi-res picture of Williams holding said bust. And last but…
In addition to its roster (impressive), its kitschy theme (snail mail) and its awkward environment (inside someone’s house), Going Postal at RE Gallery had the added benefit (when I was there) of the fast-talking, funny, devilishly charming Irishman Gary Farrelly as exhibition tour guide. Alas, he has returned home by…
Why is a billboard advertisement for 2-year-old Norman Rockwell exhibition at Irving’s National Scouting Museum lately beaming down on Lemmon Avenue, just shy of Wycliff Avenue? Earlier this year, the Irving-based Boy Scouts of America reversed a long-held ban on admitting openly gay Scouts. But only a few short weeks…
The room we’re in looks like a bigger version of a high school art studio. There are sculptures clothed in plastic wrap, rows of Grecian urns, a worktable where staff was assembling mounts for a buffalo mask, a 3D printed lamp and ancient Roman jewelry. A lot of Jesus paintings…
The temperature was hovering somewhere in the mid-90s on Saturday afternoon when Olaniyi Rasheed Akindiya, better know as Akirash, stepped out of CentralTrak. The temperature was significant because Akirash was wearing only Scotch tape and empty water bottles on his feet. As he splashed water around the concrete and onto…
The Webb Gallery is what the FOE must have been years ago — this amazing, secret spot that you’re not really sure if you should share or if you should continue to hog it all to yourself because it’s perfect in all its little-known glory. It’s an incredible space to…
Editor’s note: Over the weekend, Betsy Lewis took home second place for arts criticism at the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies’ annual awards. See the rest of her work here. Moving violations, Border Patrol checkpoints, a flurry of camp Americana souvenirs — how, exactly, does a short story flourish as a…
Ro2 Art Downtown has a small works show, aptly named CHAOS, which is so dense with artwork that I’m not sure where to begin. Gallery owners Jordan Roth and Susan Roth Romans invited a long list of artists to submit a maximum of five works in any medium, with a…
Aside from a swath of fabric draped across her own masterpiece, The Golden Goddess stands entirely in the buff. The statue pre-dates Deco, but looks like something that could guard Versace’s old South Beach nest. She’s had a peculiar life, this golden girl. And it seems like divine intervention that…
Last weekend’s Design & Build Workshop from Tumbleweed Tiny House Company was not so much a workshop as a meticulous seminar: tablecloths and pastries in a hotel ballroom with 50 attendees passionate to adopt a truly counterculture lifestyle. The Tiny House movement may be the ultimate fuck you to more-is-more…
Tumbleweed Tiny House Company will show you how to design plans for a tiny functional house, then build the thing, plop it on a trailer hitch, and exist by roaming the land as the unfettered Kerouac gypsy soul your high school self was certain you’d turn out to be. Or…
Lucy Kirkman’s solo show at That That, a hard-to-find new art space in a Deep Ellum building that you’ve passed a million times (think of the Finley Shirts window on Main Street), is rooted in the Jorge Luis Borges short story “Library of Babel,” 10 dense and challenging pages of…
Walking through the installation room of Wunder-Block, a new exhibition by Katharina Grosse, is an instant lesson in size perception. I feel like I’ve been zapped by a ray gun, transformed and shape-shifted into an ant harvesting dust on a busy MAC cosmetics counter. Mountains of pigments — charged-up royal…
