Loose Ends: May 2013
Stray Tidbits, Blind Items and Unsolicited Advice Last year’s salutary exhibition American Made: 250 Years of American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston played to the MFAH’s strengths, telling a convincing story [...]
Visual Art
SMU’s Spanish Art Symposium
On May 1-2, 2013, the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University will bring together an international panel of...
DMA’s Poetic New Work
The Dallas Museum of Art has recently acquired an early work by the French painter Guillaume Guillon Lethière (1760–1832), one of the first major artists of African descent in the history of European art. The painting, Erminia and the Shepherds, was shown at the Salon of 1795 in Paris [...]
Review: Roger Winter
Venerable artist Roger Winter shows new oil portraits and a decade or more of collage and photomontage works at Kirk Hopper Fine Art this month. His ease working in various media and with various levels of abstraction is demonstrated beautifully. The show contains three large new [...]
The Queen of Conflation
Marcelyn McNeil Blends the Rules in Lemonworld The seductive, curious paintings of Houston-based artist Marcelyn McNeil leave no room to doubt her commitment to a studio-based practice. Just ask painter Howard Sherman, a friend who often swaps studio visits with [...]
New Gallery Opens
Dallas has another new art space in Deep Ellum. Liliana Bloch, the former director of the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC) and later gallery director for Kirk Hopper Fine Art, swung open the doors of her own gallery last week. The gallery’s its inaugural exhibition [...]
Love Public Art
The new terminal at Dallas Love Field Airport is now open to the public, buy and with it...
Spring Into Art
The Dallas Art Dealers Association is proud to present its annual DADA Spring Gallery Walk April 18–20, 2013, featuring thirty-five of DADA’s leading member galleries, museums, and nonprofit art spaces. The three-day event includes Panel Discussions, a Gallery Walk, DADA Docents [...]
Maximum Overdrive
Every once and awhile you have to get a little outrageous. Tone down the seriousness, find take a...
FRESH FRIDAY ART: Whimsical Use of the Line
Holly Johnson Gallery is the site for Sharon Louden: Simple Strokes, an exhibition of recent painting, sculpture and...
Panoptics
Impressive works require sensible aspects that either allure or intrigue, here and a conceptual couching that enhances...
Urban Explosion
The colors, grit, and spirit of San Francisco provide the foundation for its native Barry McGee’s extraordinary artistic...