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By Bill Davenport on April 16, 2013
The Dallas Contemporary is a hangar and tends to dwarf anything smaller than a DC-10 that’s parked there. John Pomara’s transparent tapestries were no exception. [...]
Posted in Blog, Uncategorized | Tagged caja dallas, dallas contemporary, John Pomara, marc swanson, SEVEN dallas, seven miami, soner, walter van beirendonck |
By Bill Davenport on March 24, 2013
As part of their “Best of Everything Series” Culturemap got contributor Kendall Morgan to list the ten best contemporary art galleries in Dallas; despite having [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged contemporary art gallerie dallas, dallas contemporary, el centro college, Photographs Do Not Bend, plush gallery, Randall Garrett, Ro2 Art |
By Bill Davenport on March 7, 2013
dcU, a new program from the Dallas Contemporary, is bringing professors from North Texas colleges to speak on their topics of expertise at their monstrous [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged Carlos Donjuan, Cathy Caesar, dallas contemporary, dcu, dzine, Stephen Lapthisophon, thomas riccio |
By Bill Davenport on March 1, 2013
The Dallas Contemporary has announced that it will commission Dallas-based street artists JMR and SOUR GRAPES to each paint 60+ feet of an existing wall [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged belmont hotel, dallas contemporary, jmr, shepard fairey, sour grapes, street art dallas |
By Casey Stranahan on January 28, 2013
The website of Austin’s Flatbed Press is offering a limited edition aquatint by noted Texas artist Melissa Miller for $1,500. If, however, you were surfing [...]
Posted in Article, Feature, Uncategorized | Tagged dallas contemporary, ebay scandal, peter doroshenko |
By Bill Davenport on January 24, 2013
Peter Simek gets to the bottom of the Dallas Contemporary’s scandalously cheap eBay art sales in D Magazine. Calling the fiasco, in which the Contempoary [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged d magazine, dallas contemporary, peter doroshenko, peter simek, talley dunn, Vernon Fisher |
By Bill Davenport on January 20, 2013
You’ve got to stay alert to catch the best bargains on eBay- since last March, the Dallas Contemporary has been using the auction site to [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged dallas contemporary, Linnea Glatt, Ludwig Schwarz, melissa miller, Ted Kincaid, Tom Orr, Vernon Fisher |
By Bill Davenport on November 29, 2012
Yesterday, a “press communiqué” from the Dallas Contemporary announced two new adjunct curators: Pedro Alonzo and Lilia Kudelia will joi the org, helping to “enhance [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged dallas contemporary, lilia kudelia, pedro alonso, peter doroshenko |
By Casey Stranahan on November 18, 2012
When I walked into the Dallas Contemporary for Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin’s solo exhibition, Pretty Much Everything, I wasn’t totally sure what to [...]
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By Bill Davenport on March 2, 2012
The upcoming Dallas Biennale, opening March 29 at Neiman Marcus downtown and later distributed among several venues is to be a “large-scale survey exhibition of [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged dallas contemporary, florence ostende, neiman marcus |
By Colette Copeland on February 4, 2012
February 2, 2012. By 6:30 pm, the line waiting for the Shepard Fairey talk was already a block long. Thankfully, my RVSP and press status [...]
Posted in Blog, The Open Blog, Uncategorized | Tagged dallas contemporary, obama, Occupy, Pedro Alonzo, shepard fairey, street art, v for vendetta |
By Bill Davenport on December 4, 2011
The Dallas Contemporary art Center is holding a series of novel collector-training workshops this winter, focusing on the cold-eyed assembling, caring for and insuring a [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged dallas contemporary, J. Patrick collins, Jennifer Rubell, lisa brown, peter doroshenko |
By Betsy Lewis on October 24, 2011
To 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 [...]
Posted in Blog, Don't Look. Okay Look., Uncategorized | Tagged dallas contemporary, Hilary Clinton, Jennifer Rubell, Nutcrackers, Taxi Driver |
By Betsy Lewis on September 20, 2011
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 [...]
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By Bill Davenport on September 17, 2011
As part of their Legendary fundraiser, the Dallas Contemporary has commissioned catering artist Jennifer Rubell (daughter of Miami art collectors Don and Mera Rubell) to [...]
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By GT contributors on September 6, 2011
Here they are, sorted by city, our picks for the best shows in Texas this fall! ALBANY Eric Zimmerman: Sixteen Tons The Old Jail Art [...]
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By Bill Davenport on July 3, 2011
This summer, the Dallas Contemporary is offering a street art workshop, promising to train 20 young artists, age 13-16 in “all aspects of the artistic [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged dallas contemporary, graffiti, street art workshop |
