Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Feature Photography Exhibition: Work
Masterworks of American Photography: Landscape
54th Annual Delta Exhibition
Building the Collection: Lino Tagliapietra
Ending Sunday, Jan 29th
Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood
Horizons Interrupted
Masters of American Watercolor
Fabled Journeys in Asian Art: East Asia
Qiu Anxiong: Animated Narratives
Qualities of Jade
David Jablonowski: Many to Many (Stone Carving High Performance)
Failure
Rob Pruitt
Encountering Space in the Center for Creative Connections
Form/Unformed: Design from 1960 to the Present
Ending Sunday, Jan 29th
Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrences/Documented Assignments
The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk
David Taylor: Working the Line
Margarita Cabrera
Our Lady of Refuge of Sinners
Working the Line: Photographs by David Taylor
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection
English Taste: The Art of Dining in the Eighteenth Century
Ending Sunday, Jan 29th
Highlights of the Peter Blum Edition Archive
Matthew Buckingham “Where Will We Live?”
New Formations: Czech Avant-Garde Art and Modern Glass from the Roy and Mary Cullen Collection
The Spirit of Modernism: The John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation Gift to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs
Visions of Saints
Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum
Frocks & Togs: Childrens Clothing from 1900 through the 1950s
Littlefield Murals
Try!: Rodeo on the Southern Plains
5,000 Years of Chinese Jade
Animal Instinct: The Photographs of Daniel Lee
San Antonio Collects: African American Artists
The Chinese Art of Cricket Keeping: The Ernest K. H. Lee Collection
Black and Gold Exhibit
Reflections on Water in American Painting: The Arthur J. Phelan Collection
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth has announced their 2010-2011 exhibition Schedule. The two major exhibits are Vernon fisher: K-Mart Conceptualism and Ed Ruscha: Road Tested. The exhibits start September 2010 and January 2011, respectively.
On Sunday, April 11, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) will host a free family day, which among other things, will launch the Museum’s nine-month-long celebration of the Mexican bicentennial at the Dallas Museum of Art. Also on April 11, the Dallas Museum of Art will partner with The Dallas Film Society’s 2010 DALLAS International Film Festival Family Day. General admission is free.
Sandow Birk, a guest artist from Los Angeles, is flying here to Dallas and giving an ART TALK at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC) about his work and his notable suite of fifteen, large-scale woodcut prints on sekishu paper (each measuring 48 x 96 inches!).
The Dallas Architecture Forum continues its 14th season of lectures with landscape architect Deb MITCHELL of JJR Landscape Architects, who designed Elaine and Charles Sammons Park, the ten-acre urban oasis at the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas. Mitchell will speak Thursday, April 8 at 7 p.m. in Hamon Hall at The Winspear Opera House, 2403 Flora St.
We learned this morning of the passing of Dr. Edmund P. (“Ted”) Pillsbury at the age of 66 from an apparent heart attack yesterday afternoon after returning from lunch with a consignor. All of us here at Heritage Auction Galleries wish to express our deepest sympathy to his wife, children, coworkers and all others who knew and loved him.
The McKinney Avenue Contemporary (MAC) is proud to present its first contemporary music event of the year: JAMPACT. JAMPACT plays an original mix that echoes many moments in American Jazz. These five well-rounded players/composers glide effortlessly from blues to gospel to fusion to the standards of Ellington, Monk, Miles as well as their own well-grounded originals. The quintet freely embraces the universe of Jazz and all of its siblings inclusively.
Ben Jones is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York whose tantalizing work is featured in the Modern’s third FOCUS exhibition of the season. Jones, a member of the East Coast Art Collective, Paper Rad, has received recognition with an impressive exhibition, performance, and publication record for what is described in the press release for his solo exhibition The New Dark Age at Deitch Projects in New York as, “between-media video sculpture, light painting, and ‘drawing in the digital age’ ” that “explores new methods of pictorial storytelling…”
Perry Chapman, professor of art history at the University of Delaware, Newark, will present a free lecture titled “ ‘Rembrandt Laughing’: Passion in the Early Self-Portraits,” on Friday, April 9, at 6 p.m. in the Kimbell Art Museum auditorium.
Pairing the traditional arts of basket making and screen making, Modern Twist, Bamboo Works from the Clark Center and the Art of Motoko Maio will debut at the Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas on Saturday, May 1. For centuries, bamboo baskets and folding screens have played important roles in everyday life, embodying the principle that the fusion of utility and beauty permeates all Japanese art. The dual exhibition will feature a selection of bamboo works by various artists from the Clark Center for Japanese Art & Culture in Hanford, California, and exquisite folding screens by artist Motoko Maio. Free and open to the public, the Modern Twist exhibition will run through Sunday, September 5.
A groundbreaking, seven-year study that provides unprecedented understanding of the preferences and behaviors of museum visitors has been released by the Dallas Museum of Art. The study and its findings have catalyzed fundamental changes in all aspects of the DMA’s practices and programs—from exhibition and programming development to new marketing strategies and interpretation tools—leading to a 100% increase in attendance and motivating more than 50% of the museum’s visitors to participate in its educational and public programs.
Laura Moore Fine Art Studio — A working artist's studio and gallery. Check this one out in McKinney, Texas.
www.lauramooreart.com
Michael Roman — Painter, printer and photographers.
www.michaelroman.com