If you want something done right, ask a mom. Masters of multitasking, millennial moms aren’t just raising the next generation of art lovers—they’re reshaping the Dallas art scene into a healthy, vibrant, supportive environment.
The therapeutic process of making a piñata from papier-mâché over a balloon and then decorating it with colorful fringed tissue paper and the tension releasing experience of hitting the piñata with a stick at a birthday party as well as the feeling of sheer joy when the piñata bursts open and rains candy all come to mind when looking at Chuck Ramirez’s Piñata: Gregory. Ramirez (1962-2010) was a San Antonio-based artist with a reverence for material culture.
I am not swiping through digital images or peering into a paperback book; I am standing—as the first viewer to see Yoshitaka Amano: Big Bang at Asia Society Texas Center fully installed, where it runs through Feb. 7, 2027—in the quiet, pristine light of Yoshio Taniguchi’s architecture, confronted by raw scale, chemical reaction, and the unyielding physical friction of human labor on a gallery wall.
We were both dealing with the heat when we started talking about it—I managing an overheated kid and a sudden ice-cream run in Texas, George Shackelford locked in a Massachusetts office while a carpenter yelled about framing in the background.
I step into the Ismaili Center—opened last December on the banks of Buffalo Bayou—and the space announces its intention immediately. The light is controlled. The quiet is profound, engineered so conversation is possible, so presence can be felt.