MAC Announced First 2010 Exhibit: Mixed Media

The McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC) is proud to present its first exhibition in 2010: Mixed Media, curated by Phillip E. Collins. The opening reception will be Saturday, January 9th from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. at our galleries located at 3120 McKinney Avenue, which is in the Uptown District of Dallas.

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Pictures and Pages Children's Program at the Kimbell Art Museum

The Kimbell Art Museum’s children’s program “Pictures and Pages” continues on Tuesday, December 1, from 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Designed for children ages four to six, this free program features a reading of the acclaimed storybook The Pencil, by Allan Ahlberg and illustrated by Bruce Ingman, followed by an engaging docent-led tour and a related art activity.

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Sambunaris and Gilbert Lecture at New Mexico Museum of Art

Artists Victoria Sambunaris and Bill Gilbert will hold a dialogue at the New Mexico Museum of Art about “The Road Trip” as an artistic practice on Thursday, December 3, 2009, at 6 p.m.

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Collecting Antiquities in the Lone Star State at the Kimbell Art Museum

Jessica Powers, The Gilbert M. Denman, Jr. Curator of Western Antiquities, San Antonio Museum of Art, will present “Mediterranean Pasts, Texas Present: Collecting Antiquities in the Lone Star State” as part of the Kimbell Art Museum’s “Art in Context” series, on Wednesday, December 2, 2009, at 12:30 p.m. in the Museum auditorium.

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Deborah Gage to Lecture at Dallas Museum of Art

The Dallas Museum of Art is pleased to host on December 3, 2009, Deborah Gage, art historian, art dealer, writer and lecturer, as the presenter for the sixth annual Michael L. Rosenberg Lecture. The yearly lecture brings a scholar to Dallas to discuss works of art in the Michael L. Rosenberg Collection, a distinguished group of 18th-century French paintings, sculptures and decorative art on long-term loan to the Dallas Museum of Art.

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Museum of Nature & Science Breaks Ground on $185-Million Museum at Victory Park

After years of planning and gathering donations ranging from a couple of dollars to millions, the Museum of Nature & Science today celebrated “the ultimate dig” by breaking ground on the $185-million museum to be constructed at Victory Park.

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FuNcTiOn: Big Space, Big Art at Corinth Park Warehouse

On November 21st, Dallas artists Cathey Miller, Diane Sikes, Jonathan Brooks, Nicole Arendt, Oliver Bradley, Patrick Dowdy, Stephen Hartzler, and VET will be exhibiting new work in a group show entitled FUNCTION, curated by Nicole Cullum Horn and Scott Horn, and produced by Herschel Alan Weisfeld and Sarah Jane Semrad. The event will be held at the CorinthPark warehouse located at 1837 Corinth at Park. It is a part of the Cedars Open Studios Tour and will be open during the day from 10AM to 5PM for the tour and again from 7PM to 10PM for an artist’s reception on Saturday, November 21, 2008. More information is available at www.corinthpark.org.

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Web Comic Artists Wanted for Feature Article

Calling all Web Comic artists! Dallas Art News would like to highlight established Web Comics in a future article. The theme of the article will be “comics imitating art”, where artists re-create well known works of art using their Web Comic character(s) and style. The article, which will mostly be the images created by the comic artists and links to their sites, will appear during the first week of December 2009.

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Remembering the Alamo at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

The thirteenth day of the battle of the Alamo is one of the most famous days in Texas history. On March 6, 1839 the president of Mexico, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna Perez lead thousands of Mexican soldiers in a siege to take back Texas. It was on this day that the Alamo fell. The Panhandle Plains Historical Museum (PPHM) is currently presenting this historic day in a new exhibit, Remembering the Alamo, 1836-2009. The exhibit is made possible through generous donations from the Daughters of the Republic Texas Library. Remembering the Alamo, 1836-2009 is on view through March 14, 2010.

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Tech Lab: Pinhole Photography at Dallas Museum of Art

You missed a quaint pinhole photography lesson in the Tech Lab at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009. How do I know? Because I was there with a very small handful of people. You should have come to the meet-up. The weather held and the photographs looked great.

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Michael Roman — Painter, printer and photographers.
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Laura Moore Fine Art Studio — A working artist's studio and gallery. Check this one out in McKinney, Texas.
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