Dallas Artist Thinks Big at One-Man Art Fair of Texas
Dallas artist Fred Villanueva’s 21,000 square foot exhibition, The Art Fair of Texas, is set to open in tandem with The State Fair of Texas in Dallas on September 28. “In the spirit of Le Salon des Indépendants, and Le Salon des Refusés, or the Vienna Secession”, Villanueva describes the event as an “interaction between [...]
The State Fair of Texas: A Feeling, in Pictures
It’s State Fair time again. I haven’t been in nearly a decade, but I’ve promised my small people I’ll go this year. I look forward to it with a kind of glee mixed with fear – a potent cocktail born of memories of sickness and stickiness and the smell of livestock. In honor of those [...]
Headless Big Tex fitted for new shirt, pics!
Big Tex, the iconic tall Texan that towers over Fair Park in Dallas, was given a new suit of clothes yesterday in preparation for the upcoming Texas State Fair, and Mr. Holga from the Dallas Art News blog happened to be there (news is slow in the summertime). The new shirt, by Dickies, is red [...]