Only a few years ago, the Design District silently hosted one or two art and photography galleries at best. Little traffic made its way down Dragon, Glass and Levee streets. But thanks to some creative minds around town, the area has become known for galleries that appeal to collectors and…
It would be fair to say that Dallas-Fort Worth appreciates good art. Murals have cropped up in nearly every corner of interest and neighborhood with heart, and Lesli Marshall, owner of Articulation Art, has played a big role in beautifying the city. Just stop by Pecan Lodge for proof; Marshall…
Extreme Ornament Help-CreateVetro Glassblowing Studio & Gallery 701 S. Main St., Grapevine Ongoing Wednesday through Dec. 31 It’s like Etsy but saucier: Back by popular demand, the Extreme Ornament Help-Create series allows participants temporary immersion in the ancient art of glassblowing with a jolly, seasonal twist. Each participant selects colors…
Nao the robot is a little over a month old but can already recite poetry as if it feels passion. It speaks with a soft high-pitched voice while it moves with elegant precision. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate,” it says…
Tucked into a chic corner between the Burberry and Louis Vuitton stores at NorthPark Center, Bruce Weber’s photographed portraits of prominent visual artists, such as Georgia O’Keefe and Richard Avedon, will transport you to the world in which each artist lived and worked. In a testament to NorthPark Center’s commitment…
Media Burn 2016 Streamed live here 6 p.m. Thursday Well, this is interesting. On Monday, a mysterious email began circulating around the Dallas art community. In part, the short message reads, “On December 8, a group of Dallas college students will attempt to destroy the internet from [redacted location].” The…
Seth Lorenz slices a piece of blond China birch with a table saw for a custom bed he’s working on outside his art studio garage in Oak Cliff. It’s for a local musician’s work room — most of which he’s also building on his own. The bed measures roughly 4…
Artist Anthony Howe went from building erector sets as a kid to sculpting a massive, moving, sun-inspired cauldron for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Now, he has left his kinetic mark on Dallas. Howe’s pinwheel-like masterpiece, “Lucea,” whose windblown dandelion look is pulled together with rotating arms…
FEATURE: Goode, Tanchak, Winkler Goss-Michael Foundation 1305 Wycliff Ave., Suite 120 Opening reception 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday For the debut of Goss-Michael’s FEATURE series, the space will transform into a shrine devoted solely to three Texas-based artists: Jenaro Goode, Keer Tanchak and Paul Winker. Each is interested in surface,…
Showing up at a local watering hole, sliding onto a bar stool and ordering a martini straight up is something that’s easy to take for granted. Bars are everywhere, liquor is plentiful and most bartenders have the required tools (vermouth, bitters, ice, a shaker) at their fingertips. They strain that…
On the three-year anniversary of his death, Matthew Brinston opened an art show of nearly 50 pieces of his original paintings, drawings and clothing at BREDA Studio, the sleek offices of a watch manufacturing company in Deep Ellum. Brinston was there that night, in the flesh, which would be impossible…
Courtney Hamilton: Kickin’ the Tire 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday Eastfield College — H100 Gallery 3737 Motley Drive, Mesquite How do we decide what is worth keeping and what is disposable? Like most of us, artist Courtney Hamilton’s answer is equal parts aesthetic preferences and fuzzy sentimentality. Influenced by an…
Art critic and artist Darren Jones began his career as a painter before he began introducing words into his work. Now Jones says he “thinks of words the way a sculptor thinks of clay.” Nine Inch Will Please a Lady: Romance and Ribaldry in the Literary Vernacular of Scotland is…
Radioee.net: Solario 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday The Pollock Gallery at SMU 6101 Bishop Blvd. Radioee.net is a nomadic, online, bilingual radio transmission dedicated to themes like mobility, migration and transportation. The program is set to occur in tandem with the…
Synecdoche: Midge LynnHaley-Henman Gallery 422 Singleton Blvd. 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday Dallas-based Midge Lynn chose the title Synecdoche to describe her process of capturing a particular moment in the life of the model. Lynn is a conceptual artist who plays with the world of everyday objects and people, the…
From his backyard studio, Oak Cliff artist Chris Bingham has detailed the face of a survivor. “Abdur” was granted asylum from his home country, Afghanistan, where he was accused of being a spy for the United States. In a mostly dark painting, a colorful bandana represents his loss of identity…
Aesthetically, the two shows running concurrently at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Kathryn Andrews’ Run for President and Michael Dean’s Lost True Leaves, could not be more different. It’s a testament to much of contemporary art’s surprising simplicity that despite the drastic difference in appearance, both sets of work essentially explore the…
Cellular Level6 to 8 p.m. Friday William Campbell Contemporary Art 4925 Byers Ave., Fort Worth Cellular Level, an exhibition of new works by acclaimed Fort Worth artist John Holt Smith, opens Friday at William Campbell Contemporary Art. While any mention of “stem cells” is often surrounded by controversy, Smith’s paintings…
Jay Shinn: Air Space Barry Whistler Gallery 315 Cole St., Suite 120 6 to 8 p.m. Friday If you know what a decahedron is, you are probably either A) a high school geometry teacher or B) the artist Jay Shinn. Shinn uses the 10-faced, three-dimensional wooden shapes as canvasses for…
Aurora, the Dallas Arts District’s biennial light, video and sound art extravaganza is back this weekend in its off-year, scaled-down iteration to preview next year’s festival and resolve some of the issues that come when you’re just too darn popular. Prelude is the title of this year’s two-day preview event…
FIVE: Ties That Bind The Art Room 2712 Weisenberger St., Fort Worth 6-9 p.m. Friday Sibling rivalry. Mommy issues. Crazy aunts. Local artist Deedra Baker explores these themes and more at FIVE: Ties That Bind, a one-night show featuring portraits, still lifes and landscapes that document the nexus of three…
Closing: Ryder Richards’ Invisible Hand and Artists Anonymous7 p.m. Friday Beefhaus 833 Exposition Ave. Friday night is the last chance to catch Ryder Richards’ Artists Anonymous at Beefhaus. This particular breed of AA is an open session where addicts (the art kind) who’ve hit rock bottom (in the art sense)…
