The art world and its stock market unpredictably will quickly make even the most well-intentioned artist cynical. These days the world is filled with aspiring art stars. The lifelong drive to make something valuable is easily diminished by a discussion of finding a gallery, pricing a work of art as…
As part of an ongoing series of art receptions at Bishop Art’s design store, {neighborhood}, co-owners (and husband and wife) J.P. and Erin Hossley welcome Austin’s Tim Kerr Saturday night. Kerr is a legend in the punk rock world with his time in punk/funk act, the Big Boys, but he’s…
Over the weekend, the Nasher Sculpture Center unveiled Phyllida Barlow: tryst, a major exhibition of all new works by the influential British artist who has been working with sculpture since the 1960s. Using commonplace materials, Barlow has hand-built an imaginative world of organic structures that challenges common ideas about sculpture…
Tattooing has come a long way since the early days of a needle, thread and a vial of Indian ink. Back then, the only Americans showcasing body art were outlaw bikers, inmates and sailors. They were the days when getting a tattoo was a right of passage, and you were…
Phyllida Barlow: Tryst If the Nasher Sculpture Center has taught Dallas one thing (and surely the number is vastly larger), it’s that sculpture transforms its environment, and vice versa. Fill a white walled room with golden balloons and entering it becomes an adventure; fill the same room with technicolor dirt…
Three years in the making, Francisco Moreno’s The WCD Project was open to the public as an exhibit on Friday and then fully realized with a 5-minute performance piece on Saturday night at a Trinity Groves warehouse. Part of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s inaugural Soluna Festival, Moreno’s study of cultural…
In this series of articles, Leslie Moody Castro takes on the role of journalist or interlocutor to explore the inequity in the creation, curation and exhibition of art. Read more here. By Leslie Moody Castro This week is has been bittersweet. This is the last in this series of articles,…
truly, madly In a conversation with gallerist Brian Gibb, he shared that one of his biggest professional regrets was a missed chance for The Public Trust to be the first exhibitor of a now big-name artist. It’s one of the reasons he pounced on collaborative photographers, Kasumi Chow and Desiree…
Saturday evening, PDNB hosted the opening reception for France, its fourth solo exhibition for Michael Kenna, a master of modern landscape photography. Following the release of his latest book of the same name, the exhibit showcases work from the past four decades representing several different projects. Kenna now operates on…
This weekend the Dallas Museum of Art opens Inca: Conquests of the Andes. On the surface it’s one of those historical art exhibitions filled with antique knick-knacks of which you can buy knockoffs on that adventure vacation you’re planning with your super-rich-hipster-adventure husband. No, I’m not jealous of your imagined…
In this series of articles, Leslie Moody Castro takes on the role of journalist or interlocutor to explore the inequity in the creation, curation and exhibition of art. Read more here. By Leslie Moody Castro I have learned a lot in my time in Dallas. This is a beautiful and…
This weekend is packed with art to see in Dallas. It seems everyone on Dragon Street and beyond is opening an exhibition. Limiting this list to just five is impossible, so there are a few more than that here, plus additional shows to see when you’re out and about this…
For nearly a quarter century, Brent Kollock has been painting and drawing with a unique visual language that cannot be confused with anyone else. He is also an accomplished writer of short stories and poetry. But in the last few months, Kollock may have found his true calling as an…
At the center of an enormous, lushly green landscape sits a bright white sheep, head cocked in interest, staring directly at the onlooker. The animal is on the other side of a metal fence. Separate from the flock, the animal couldn’t have known that when Letitia Huckaby captured him through…
The title of the Nate Lowman’s exhibition at the Dallas Contemporary is the punchline to a joke: Why is everyone always saying “God Bless America?” Because America Sneezes. It’s a simple introduction into the brain of an artist whose work as a painter often emerges from observations about American culture…
In this series of articles, Leslie Moody Castro takes on the role of journalist or interlocutor to explore the inequity in the creation, curation and exhibition of art. Read more here. By Leslie Moody Castro Dallas has been an incredible learning experience. I never expected that canceling an exhibition would…
Josephine Durkin: Maps, Flora and Highlighters Sculptures come in all shapes, sizes, colors and beautiful packages. Especially in the art of Josephine Durkin, a Greenville, Texas-based artist whose colorfully abstract sculptural pieces will be on display in a solo exhibition at Erin Cluley Gallery (414 Fabrication St) that opens at…
By Jeremy Hallock Throughout his career, Phillip Collins has focused on giving African-American artists exposure. An accomplished art historian and curator, he established himself as an important voice in the Dallas arts community and then used his position to re-cast the spotlight. In his 60s, he retired from his Chief…
In this series of articles, Leslie Moody Castro takes on the role of journalist or interlocutor to explore the inequity in the creation, curation and exhibition of art. Read more here. By Leslie Moody Castro I liken my job in the arts to a long-term relationship. It has the ups,…
Ark Festival Last year Fort Worth-based artist and Dallas Observer Mastermind Christopher Blay collaborated with bc Workshop to erect an ark in Oak Cliff — a project meant to bring a neighborhood together. Created as a gathering space and temporary gallery installation, the ark sat on East 10th Street between…
By Jeremy Hallock These days, Viola Delgado is an artistic inspiration in Dallas-Fort Worth. But since she was just a kid living in South Texas near Corpus Christi, she knew she wanted to be an artist. “My mom was really the first one to give me my tools to become…
In this series of articles, Leslie Moody Castro takes on the role of journalist or interlocutor to explore the inequity in the creation, curation and exhibition of art. Read more here. By Leslie Moody Castro I wish I could photograph people’s faces when I tell them that I cancelled the…
