Dallas has two big time auctions coming up, one this Friday at the Goss-Michael Foundation, the other in October at the Rachofsky House, each raising money for AIDS research. Visiting…
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Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan at the Meadows Museum
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisIs it okay to look at stolen objects? Can advanced technology assuage the guilt of looking at stolen objects? How about the guilt of exhibiting them? The University of Chicago…
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Philip Johnson’s Thanksgiving Square Chapel
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisWith each bright new building added to the Dallas skyline, the city grows more and more impressive, but we Dallasites also risk overlooking those architectural treasures that have grown familiar…
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Pervy Nude Statue! Wholesome Teen Stars! Creepy Dallas Sex Shop!
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisACT I – SCANDAL! Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez are now immortalized in a nude sculpture to be displayed sometime in September at…
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CONTEM?ORARIES Group Show at Fort Worth Central Library
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisPainting is to Art History as Jesus is to Easter Sunday – you can count on celebrating resurrection at least once a year. Painting never vanished and won’t (or theater,…
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Annual MAC Membership Exhibition – “Meltdown”
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisThe membership show. It has one hundred eighty-something pieces of artwork and no curator. Any member can bring one work of their choosing that expresses the year’s central theme. This…
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Actors Playing Artists: Will The Real Andy Warhol Please Stand Up?
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisIn response to the record heat, I am trying to move as little as possible. Even body heat is the enemy. Therefore, engagement in anything cultural becomes problematic, so I…
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Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910-1912 at the Kimbell Art Museum
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisThere is a popular myth that Genius Is Born Of Suffering. The idea is so pervasive and pretentious it demands every word be capitalized when written. Yet the Kimbell Art Museum’s Picasso…
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The concept behind this group show (also called S/Twist or S…/Twist, depending on where you’re looking) derives from Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality. Curator Liliana Bloch had the idea swimming in her head for years—visual representations…
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Nasher’s STATUESQUE in the sweltering sun
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisI saw STATUESQUE for the second time on Saturday, July 23rd, from 11:15 a.m. until 12:15 p.m. The temperature was 90 degrees at arrival and 94 degrees at departure. The…
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SHAZAM! – New Paintings by Ruben Nieto at Cris Worley Fine Arts
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisThe beauty of a gallery like Cris Worley Fine Arts is its invitation to view all of the art at once. The space itself requests your slow study over the…
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Robert Irwin’s Portal Park Piece (Slice), 1981, is the choicest strip of bathroom wall a vandal could hope for. It’s eight feet high, spans three lush lawns in downtown Dallas,…
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You can wear ugly clothes sort-of designed by Damien Hirst’s baby momma! You are so lucky! Remember buying that Peter Max t-shirt at Dillard’s in Plano in 1986? I know…
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The Arlington Museum of Art’s current exhibition surveying the career of Dalton Maroney covers one year shy of three decades. His work is inspired by the boat form of Colorado…
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Silence and Time at the Dallas Museum of Art
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisTime is a bitch to be reckoned with, and so is the current exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art. “Silence and Time” was inspired by John Cage’s 4’33” ;…
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Werner Herzog’s “Cave of Forgotten Dreams”
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisIn 1994 a cave was discovered in Southern France containing paintings dating back about 32,000 years. Christened the Chauvet cave after one of its discoverers, the cave and its paintings…