5 Art Events to Attend This Weekend

Aurora  The ephemeral nature of the biennial event, Aurora, gives the whole night a sense of magic. It also requires something of visitors: clear the calendar and show up. Starting at 7 p.m. Friday, 19 city blocks will be filled with light, video and music to create a sometimes messy,…

5 Art Exhibits to See This Weekend

If you’re not making the pilgrimage to Marfa for Chinati International Pop  If I told you to name an artist from the Pop Art movement, it’s more than likely you’d mention names like Warhol or Lichtenstein. In fact, most of the artists who come to mind for most people are…

8 Reasons Not to Miss Aurora 2015

In Dallas these days, there’s no shortage of “can’t miss” events. It’s almost impossible to plan a weekend. Looking down a list of events to decide what to do with your weekend can be paralyzing. It’s much easier to sit at home watch Netflix and wait for your friends to…

2 Art Events for this Weekend

Alicja Bielawska: Reference Points for Potential Constellations If the work on display in Cydonia Gallery this week seems familiar but you just can’t quite put your finger on it, you’re engaging with what the artist considers the “limits of the past,” or exactly how our perception is tied to to…

5 Places In Dallas Where You Can Get Better At Art

Maybe you avoid the art scene because you think it’s boring, or perhaps you think that your own art skills and knowledge just aren’t up to snuff. Either way, you’re probably wrong. Still, everyone can stand to get a little better at art, even those that don’t find themselves particularly…

5 Art Exhibitions to See in a Dallas Gallery this Weekend

The fall art season is upon us. Last weekend, a bevy of openings brought with it some fantastic art. This weekend, we have even more with numerous museum exhibits opening, as well as an array of gallery shows. This week, because one of the openings features an artist near and…

Two Upcoming Exhibits Focus on Life through Art Production

Arthur Pena and Francisco Moreno have been friends and known each other’s artwork for five years. They both approach painting with a focus on production and labor. Making use of limitations or defining a painting only as an attempt, both artists develop very specific ways of producing paintings. But with…

6 Museum Exhibits to See in Dallas/ Fort Worth This Weekend

This weekend marks the true beginning of the fall museum schedule, with shows opening or entering the second week at nearly every major museum in Dallas and Fort Worth. Here, we outline the highlights.  Being the River, Repeating the Forest Thoreau once said, “Nature will bear the closet inspection. She…

Diedrick Brackens Unravels Life’s Narratives In Fabric

With every stitch or every tear in the fabric, Diedrick Brackens is creating or, more aptly, unraveling a much larger cloth. In a new exhibition at Conduit Gallery, hearts, hands, and other members, of his latest textile works, Brackens continues his exploration of issues of race, tradition and gender, but…

5 Art Exhibitions to See in Dallas This Weekend

Simon Bilodeau’s Story With No Ending In a sense, the museum is the sculpture housing a painting. Typically manipulated to be as unobtrusive as possible, it interacts, intentionally or otherwise, with the work on display. The two are inextriable. It follows that an artist would be hyper aware of the…

Things We Loved at Dallas Zine Party

One of the first things anyone asked during Sunday afternoon’s inaugural Dallas Zine Party was, “Who are all of these people?” That same question was why the event’s founder, Randy Guthmiller, planned this afternoon in the first place. Who were the people in and around Dallas making zines? What did…

From Her Eyes to Yours: Lucia Simek on Her Solo Exhibition, Occiput

For much of her career, Lucia Simek’s work revolved around what she describes as, “the grand adventure of domesticity.” Her exhibition at the Dallas Contemporary (a collaboration with Kristen Cochran) was made from marble, which she describes as an aspirational stone, a material that represents or projects a certain image…

5 Art Exhibitions to See in Dallas This Weekend

North Texas Masters of Light The American Society of Media Photographers is home to some pretty talented storytellers. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. Especially if the media outlet is paying pennies per word. This weekend the wide array of talent in the ASMP’s Dallas branch…

5 Art Exhibitions to See This Weekend

 Professior R. Mutt and his Duchampaphones It’s impossible to pinpoint where an idea comes from. What compels one person to creatively rethink something that’s come before? Why would a guy masquerading as” Professor R. Mutt” would look at the bicycle wheel sculpture by Duchamp – in homage to whom he…