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  The Bivins Gallery's Psychedelic Robot is Bringing Highbrow Art to the Masses

  August 31 at 4 a.m.

  Michael and Karen Bivins discovered an entirely new Dallas when they moved back to town five years ago. After spending much of the previous three decades buying, selling and curating art across the globe, the couple saw a thriving art scene that’s ready to compete with the world. “When we...

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  Performance Artist Ventures 10 Miles Through Dallas For His Presentation "Sweet Jesus"

  August 27 at 12:41 p.m.

  Barefoot, nearly naked, sweating and seemingly disoriented, local artist Xxavier Carter carried a heavy weight on his shoulder during his Saturday performance of "Sweet Jesus." He walked 10 miles from The Great Trinity Forest to White Rock Lake wielding a wooden cross almost twice his size. The performance was a...

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  Meet the Brothers Behind Five of the Rooms in Sweet Tooth Hotel

  August 24 at 4 a.m.

  For months, people have wandered the halls of the Sweet Tooth Hotel snapping photos, taking selfies in a tub and posing with giant lollipops on a bed made from leftover Nike shoe tread. Built By Bender, a Dallas-based custom fabrication shop, crafted five of the rooms for the Sweet Tooth...

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  Veterans Mural Painted Over at Green Room Has Found New Deep Ellum Location

  August 3 at 4 a.m.

  The Deep Ellum mural depicting a group of soldiers break-dancing, previously painted and subsequently painted over on a wall at the Green Room Bar, has found a new home. Rudolph’s Meat Market and Sausage Factory in Deep Ellum has donated one of their walls to have the mural back up...

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  X-Men at the State Fair: 5 Times Dallas Appeared in Comics

  July 27 at 4 a.m.

  Comic book stories can take place in any location imaginable; the only constraints are the writer’s imagination. With all those possibilities to set a story, it’s surprising how many times the chosen location is Dallas. Dallas is a city of culture and history, but it’s hard to compare it to...

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  Latinx Artists Turn Insult Into Art at Latino Cultural Center

  July 17 at 4 a.m.

  The Spanish term “maricón,” which translates to "faggot," is in insult to gays in the Latino community. Some Latinx artists have reversed the insult and decided to embrace it through art. The nonprofit organization Arttitude is showing MaricónX, an exhibition that features eight LGBT and Latinx artists whose work covers...