Rediscoveries: Modes of Making in Modern Sculpture
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas September 29, 2012-January 13, 2013 Rediscoveries: Modes of Making in Modern Sculpture, the recent show at the Nasher Sculpture Center, is glorious. Piece by piece it steals your attention until you find yourself at the epicenter of a metaphorical canopy from which you’re unable to escape. And why would you want [...]
Read MoreReview: Jules Buck Jones @ Conduit
Jules Buck Jones Conduit Gallery, Dallas October 13-November 24, 2012 Jules Buck Jones’ show of new work at the Conduit Gallery through Thanksgiving weekend features dense, complex, colorful paintings of organic patterns on paper. Some as large as six by seven feet, this is some of the most compelling, unique, and biographical work by a [...]
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John Pomara has a solo show at the Barry Whistler Gallery titled off_Key2 comprised of new paintings and photographs incorporating miraculously manipulated images derived exclusively from the computer. Pixel forms floating in isolated color fields somehow eliminate the presence of the artist and defy understanding the technique that [...]
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Posters of Paris: Toulouse-Lautrec and His Contemporaries Dallas Museum of Art October 14, 2012–January 20, 2013 A new exhibition exploring the earliest days of the affiche artistique (artistic poster) and its flowering in Paris, first under Jules Chéret in the 1870s and 1880s, and then with a new generation of artists including Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec [...]
Read MoreCulture Clash
In preparation for his upcoming exhibition at Dallas’ Circuit 12 Contemporary, arts writer Robin Dluzen recently visited the studio painter Ron Ewert, one of the four Chicago-based artists who will be presenting their work in White Noise this November at the Dallas gallery [...]
Read MoreDara Mark Goes With the Flow
She’s a self-proclaimed starving artist who says she has been making things all of her life. Since her dad is an artist and an art teacher, too, one would think that Santa Fe resident and artist Dara Mark would have plunged right into the field and never looked back. Not so, however, since she says [...]
Read MoreA Reflection of Chinese Culture
While Dallas doesn’t have a Chinatown, this year’s State Fair is going to add a surprising new feature — a Festival of Chinese Lanterns. Moreover, it’s being accomplished with an out-sized scale and flair that’s, well, Texas-sized. Dragon-oriented décor has been part of the Chinese culture for centuries [...]
Read MoreThe Greatest Names in American Art
Opening October 6, 2012 at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, To See as Artists See: American Art from The Phillips Collection is a landmark exhibition tracing American art from the 1890s to the 1960s. It’s the first time this impressive collection from the esteemed institution [...]
Read MoreDiego Velázquez: Painter of Painters
When Algur Meadows bequeathed his collection of Spanish paintings to create a “Prado on the Prairie,” he could not have foreseen that his namesake institution, the Meadows Museum, would become a significant partner with the Prado Museum in Madrid. This autumn marks the third and [...]
Read MoreArt as a Lifeline to Healing
Art heals. This is probably not news to you by virtue of the fact that you are reading a publication devoted to the arts. However, you might not be aware of how much of a lifeline art is to our community’s most vulnerable. The Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center sees the most severe cases of child [...]
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