Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on finding menace in artworks, the risk of imaginary worlds, and how great it is when an artist has a good website.
Tom Orr
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Barry Whistler Gallery in Dallas is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, and it recently announced its pending move from its longtime Deep Ellum space to the Design District. This month…
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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech chat with art pilgrims and natives in Marfa during Chinati Weekend, October 2015. Tequila and prickly pear Jell-O shots abound.
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For nearly four decades, Tom Orr has brought an unending curiosity, commitment, and conviction to making art that speaks to its necessity.
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News
Art + Airports = a welcome distraction from the anxiety produced by airports.
by Glasstireby GlasstireOver the last twenty years, even major airports entered the art-commissioning action. Smithsonian Magazine published its list of ‘Nine American Airports for Art Lovers,’ and one major Texas airport made the list:…
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"If Mark Flood does not come dressed as Ted Nugent, I’m going to be angry."
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This week: creepy Internet addiction, ye goode olde dayes of buffalo slaughter, and–finally being screened for the first time–a Christian Marclay video about a terrible event in Texas’ past:…
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Out here, you could believe that any artwork could grow to unholy proportions, in a sort of 'Food of the Gods' mutation.
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Today the Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs released a statement that the anticipated engineering study is complete on Tom Orr and Frances Bagley’s public sculpture White Rock Water Theater (2001).…
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Yesterday, Art and the Landscape published a new list of endangered national public artworks as part of its Landslide Project (launched 2003), and “focuses attention on threatened and at-risk landscapes…
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If a truck jumped the curb at Dallas City Hall and rammed into the Henry Moore sculpture, should your Aunt Linda then opportunistically petition to have it destroyed rather than restored, just because it doesn’t meet her definition of art? Of course not.
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If you live in Dallas and you care about whether the city is prepared to take care of the public art work it commissions (instead of say, abandoning it to…
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In some ways the late closing date of this group show elongates the casualness of summer, which I appreciate. Summer in Texas should officially last until around September 27th. It could be our consolation for enduring the pitiless heat.
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News
Much-contested Removal of Public Artwork Now Up for Public Debate
by Lucia Simekby Lucia SimekDallas’ Office of Cultural Affairs has announced that it will hold two public meetings in order to discuss the proposed removal of the White Rock Lake Wildlife Water Theater, a…
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BlogGlasstireOp Ed
Dallas Art Voices Speak Up to Give a Public Artwork a Public Forum
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonWhen White Rock Lake Weekly published an article entitled “Art? Or an eyesore? City set to decide,” it prompted some serious folks in the Dallas art community to speak up.
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Airport art has been getting much attention lately, according to the surge of reviews and “best of” lists, such as those put out recently by The Huffington Post, The Wall…
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Boom Town whispered, “Here we are, look what we are capable of.” On the last day, when the roar of POST COMMUNIQUÉ and the Dallas VideoFest had lessened, the works in Boom Town were given the chance to scream this message out loud.
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Those who may suspect that the artists chosen for the 2013 Texas Biennial might just be flukes can check out two exhibitions this weekend to decide if past participants have…
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GlasstireNews
Summer of Love: Two More Dallas Artists Add to Airport Installations
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonIn 2009, a new public art program was developed to coincide with the renovations at Dallas’ Love Field that will be completed in 2014. To add to the mere four…
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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 sell off limited edition prints…