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By Bill Davenport on November 29, 2012
Yesterday, a “press communiqué” from the Dallas Contemporary announced two new adjunct curators: Pedro Alonzo and Lilia Kudelia will joi the org, helping to “enhance the institution’s mission of presenting regional, national and international projects by artists.” Each brings some of the lustre of exotic glam (and the professional publicty photos) that have become the [...]
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By Casey Stranahan on November 18, 2012
When I walked into the Dallas Contemporary for Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin’s solo exhibition, Pretty Much Everything, I wasn’t totally sure what to expect, but as an art lover who also loves fashion and pop culture I knew I had to attend. I had, of course, perused the images included in the press [...]
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By Bill Davenport on March 2, 2012
The upcoming Dallas Biennale, opening March 29 at Neiman Marcus downtown and later distributed among several venues is to be a “large-scale survey exhibition of international artists” organized by the Dallas Contemporary (“America’s Kuntshalle”) and curated by Florence Ostende, the new DC adjunct curator, hired last summer for just such internationalizing. “However”, the contemporary’s press [...]
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By Colette Copeland on February 4, 2012
February 2, 2012. By 6:30 pm, the line waiting for the Shepard Fairey talk was already a block long. Thankfully, my RVSP and press status allowed me instant entry. After securing a seat, I went in search of a beer—finding instead another long line of people waiting for Fairey to sign their books. I spoke [...]
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By Bill Davenport on December 4, 2011
The Dallas Contemporary art Center is holding a series of novel collector-training workshops this winter, focusing on the cold-eyed assembling, caring for and insuring a collection of investment-grade art. Programming begins on December 7 at 6pm with a talk by art collector and art consultant J. Patrick Collins and art consultant Lisa Brown talk about [...]
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By Betsy Lewis on October 24, 2011
To anticipate Nutcrackers, Jennifer Rubell’s freakily constructed mannequin brothel of an exhibition, you might expect to go into an early phase of ribald amusement or something more outright disturbing and creepy. Entering a big industrial space with 18 girly mannequins, each one nubile, life-sized, and equipped with special features for cracking Texas pecans, is super [...]
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By Betsy Lewis on September 20, 2011
Dallas has two big time auctions coming up, one this Friday at the Goss-Michael Foundation, the other in October at the Rachofsky House, each raising money for AIDS research. Visiting Goss-Michael is even more fun when the estimated values of the artwork are posted on the wall and the hard wallop of commerce enters into [...]
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By Bill Davenport on September 17, 2011
As part of their Legendary fundraiser, the Dallas Contemporary has commissioned catering artist Jennifer Rubell (daughter of Miami art collectors Don and Mera Rubell) to cater/create a participatory artwork involving Texas cuisine. The piece, titled Made In Texas, will make visible the human labor that is most often hidden inside the kitchens, factories and warehouses [...]
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By GT contributors on September 6, 2011
Here they are, sorted by city, our picks for the best shows in Texas this fall! ALBANY Eric Zimmerman: Sixteen Tons The Old Jail Art Center September 24, 2011 – January 22, 2012 Hey North Texas: if you missed Eric Zimmerman’s recent shows at the Austin Museum of Art, Art Palace Gallery, or the Southwest [...]
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By Bill Davenport on July 3, 2011
This summer, the Dallas Contemporary is offering a street art workshop, promising to train 20 young artists, age 13-16 in “all aspects of the artistic process” under the tutelage of a “professional graffiti artist.” The week-long program is $150. In San Antonio, convicted tagger kids are sentenced to classes like this!
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