Brooklyn artist KAWS hurls the onlooker into a cartoon’s daytime nightmare with effectively targeted film and television favorites, calling forth a sense of the unexpected that is fun and funny but also…
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Nativity Scenes Should Be Colorful, Life-Sized, and Plastic
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisMerry Christmas! The holiday hoopla is drawing to a close and decorations will soon be coming down. This means I will soon drive down Gaston Avenue to discover that my…
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The Index Cards: Vincent Falsetta at The Reading Room
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisWhile others swoon over Vincent Falsetta’s distinctly abstract paintings, The Reading Room’s Karen Weiner swoons over his handwriting, archiving, and documentation. Her small, noncommercial Exposition Park gallery is devoted to…
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stockpile: New Photographs by Dornith Doherty at Holly Johnson Gallery
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisWhen I was little my nana had a picture of Jesus that looked directly at you no matter where you were standing in her bedroom. It was terrifying, a touch…
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Post Pop Punks at Cohn Drennan Contemporary
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisPost Pop Punks proffers many stops in its pop culture parade/group program which, according to the press release, “incorporates popular cultural references, utilizes appropriation, co-opts historical icons, (and) exploits the…
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Knitta, Please: My Girl Crush on Magda Sayeg
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisIn any new issue of Texas Monthly, the first item I turn to is “Object Lesson,” Kristie Ramirez’s regular piece on the trinkets and baubles that notable Texans keep on…
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Amon Carter’s John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisRugged individuals call for rugged environments. John Marin (1870-1953) does not render the mythological status in art history of Picasso or Pollock, but his work might be a missing link…
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Video, Stoners, and Yo Gabba Gabba!
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisH.R. Pufnstuf’s legacy is alive and thriving and hitting the bong. Yo Gabba Gabba!, the children’s television show that airs on Nickelodeon’s Nick Jr. channel, is gaining fans among an…
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“Jennifer Rubell: Nutcrackers” at Dallas Contemporary
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisTo anticipate Nutcrackers, Jennifer Rubell’s freakily constructed mannequin brothel of an exhibition, you might expect to go into an early phase of ribald amusement or something more outright disturbing and…
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40th Anniversary of Afterimage Gallery
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisPhotographic prints have risen steadily in both collector lust and monetary value over the last hundred years, and Afterimage Gallery in Dallas has been a microcosm of the history of…
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I sit here typing on a 15-inch MacBook Pro. I maxed my credit card to get it four years ago and never looked back. There were cheaper laptops out there…
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Celia Eberle + Michael Mazurek at Plush Gallery
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisCelia Eberle: The End of Things (Typed notes for this part because I took so many notes that complete sentences would make this review inappropriately epic for a blog post.)…
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Of Brits and Bill Clinton: Art Auctions in Big D
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisDallas 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…