Bryan Adams “Exposed” at Goss-Michael Foundation (yeah, that Bryan Adams)
The Goss-Michael Foundation’s zesty, celebrity-filled exhibition of Canadian pop star Bryan Adams’s photography embodies the essence of escapist entertainment that Dallas confuses with reality. I have a history of bashing this gallery for pandering to fame, but Adams is a sensational photographer, and I suspect his famous subjects—including Mick, Posh and Amy Winehouse—were all the [...]
Goss-Michael Foundation Announces Winners of $5000 Scholarships
Dallas’ Goss-Michael Foundation has announced the winners of four $5,000 annual scholarships for high school seniors, which are applied toward tuition at each winner’s college in the fall. The Kenny Goss Art Scholarship went to Maximilliano Brito who will be attending Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in the fall. The George Michael Music Scholarship went [...]
Russell Young at the Goss-Michael Foundation
Weaving together the movie star and the rock star, Fame holds a place of honor in contemporary art. The Goss-Michael Foundation’s retrospective of the work of Russell Young includes pieces owned by Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, President Obama, and the late Elizabeth Taylor, and its paintings find Mick Jagger, Sid Vicious, and Elvis in the [...]
Angus Fairhurst at Fort Worth Contemporary Art: Guerilla Gorilla
Fort Worth Contemporary Art’s exhibit of Angus Fairhurst’s bronze gorilla sculpture entitled A Couple of Differences Between Thinking and Feeling pays homage to the YBA artist who tragically died in 2008. Post-death, we cannot help but anthropomorphize and project the artist’s depression and loneliness onto the magnificent sculpture. The gorilla, regal in stature, stares at [...]
MTV: RE:DEFINE Benefit Art Event at Goss-Michael Foundation Raises Over $770,000
The MTV Staying Alive Foundation announced that the inaugural MTV RE:DEFINE art exhibition and auction, held at the Goss-Michael Foundation in Dallas, has raised more than $770,000 for the charity, which funds projects aimed at fighting the stigma, spread and threat of the HIV and AIDS. Simon de Pury, Chairman of Phillips de Pury & [...]
Goss-Michael Scholarships help send four Dallas high school seniors into creative fields
Four $5000 scholarships for young artists and musicians went to Megan Wainwright and James “Austin” Allen of Dallas Booker T. Washington High School, Isaac Williams from Lancaster High School, and Erica Garza of Vista Ridge High School. The four were chosen by Aphrodite Gonou, art advisor, and David Austin, songwriter and long-time collaborator with George [...]
The Pop-Up MoP SHoP at Goss-Michael Foundation
You can wear ugly clothes sort-of designed by Damien Hirst’s baby momma! You are so lucky! Remember buying that Peter Max t-shirt at Dillard’s in Plano in 1986? I know I do! And this is even better since these clothes cost hundreds of dollars! Thank you, Goss-Michael Foundation, for taking me back to the Dillard’s [...]