This edition of Art in Practice invites artist Aaron Baker, Curator of the Playboy Collection, to delve into his role as an archivist and advocate of original artworks by 20th…
October 2011
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A special performance created by artist Suzanne Bocanegra and performed by Paul Lazar. Through a story about a priest, an artist, and a young girl in Pasadena, Texas, Bocanegra weaves…
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Los Angeles artist Koki Tanaka presents the development of his playful and insubordinate art.
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Sides pays homage to, pokes fun at, recognizes the history of, and shows his respect for sculptural tradition by relying on materials for his content, and common objects for his…
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Short films from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, including historical and home movie footage from Houston and Texas with everything from a zookeeper that rides a zebra, a…
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Color-rich mixed-media works reflecting the artist’s escapist love for comic book, video game, toy and movie culture. In 2010, Jason Reynaga presented a solo show Bling Bang at The Dallas…
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Live music, improvisational dance, visual artistry, and a freaky and sensual celebration of the Day of the Dead. Ghastly body paint, harrowing baptisms, and a whole lot of Voodoo are…
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New and recent works from the Dallas based painter, as well as a new series of Macrodons. The gallery’s small room will become a satellite studio where Zinser will paint,…
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Students in John Pluecker’s cut-and-paste writing class, offered as part of Skydive’s Saturday Free School Series, will first look at artists and writers who cut and erase books, then “intervene”…
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Three new works For the puppet stage by local independent theatre company BooTown. A Bloody Puppet Show transports the audience to a bizarre Ice Capades, featuring shock-metal band Gwar as…
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Mother of all stain-painters, Helen Frankenthaler became famous for pouring pigment directly onto large-scale, unprimed canvases and avoiding the gestural brushstrokes of the abstract expressionism. Now she’s doing Japanese-inspired woodcuts.
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Revered and collected since the early 1960s, painter Philip Pearlstein reclaimed the nude figure with his own woodenly realistic approach: painting nude figures as if they were furniture!
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Aurora is a district-wide public art event which will transform the Dallas Arts District with nearly 70 contemporary works of light, sound, performance, and projection art from dusk until midnight.
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Acclaimed painter Eric Fischl will present the inaugural Naomi Turner True Lecture at the Glassell School of Art on Friday, October 28, at 6 p.m. The lecture, “How I paint…
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11 artists discovered by FotoFest’s curators at photography events across the world, including Julia Curtin (U.K.), Oleg Videnin (Russia), Ryu Tae Yeol (Korea), Liliana Molero (Uruguay), Jamey Stillings (U.S.A.), Louie…
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Contemporary artists who use repeated forms in multiple, related pieces, revealing historical ideas that began with the technology of mass production and industrial fabrication seen in the work of Pop…
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Riley’s digital photographs of contemporary household items, as if they were 17th Century Dutch still lives.
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Selected Films by Jack Smith, with introduction by Dr. Ann Reynolds, Associate Professor in Art History, Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. Dr. Ann Reynolds is Associate Professor in the…