The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza has extended its popular seventh floor exhibit, A Photographer’s Story: Bob Jackson and the Kennedy Assassination, through Sunday, October 17, 2010. Featuring photographs, artifacts and historic footage, A Photographer’s Story provides Jackson’s personal and professional chronology of three chaotic days in November of 1963—from President John F. Kennedy’s arrival at Dallas Love Field to accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald’s murder. The exhibit also tells the larger story of Jackson’s decades-spanning career, including his images of Jack Ruby’s murder trial, school desegregation and Beatlemania.
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Kids of all ages are invited to invent, explore, tinker, adventure … and have fun on Art Thinkers’ Day at Dallas Contemporary on Saturday, March 27, 11 a.m. ~ 1 p.m. This FREE event encourages children of all ages to use their eyes, hands, and imagination to enter the world of contemporary art. Families & friends can enjoy gallery adventures and hands-on art making that draw inspiration from the artspace’s current exhibition, James Gilbert: Warnings & Instructions.
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Join the Amarillo Museum of Art for Third Thursday on Thursday, March 18, 2010, from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m.
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The Crow Collection of Asian Art has kicked off a brand, spankin’ new monthly program and I love it! Last Thursday evening the indoor courtyard of Gallery III transformed into the Silk Road Lounge, complete with dim mood lighting, silk covered café tables and hypnotic world music spun by DJ Woodtronic.
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Local artist Corey Godfrey’s opening of her series Soft at Heart at The Magnolia this past Thursday, March 4, found me delighting in childhood memories of crafting with glue and found objects. She utilizes soft material (yarn) mixed with acrylic paint in creating beautiful visuals of women.
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Within seven weeks of President John F. Kennedy’s death in 1963, Jacqueline Kennedy received nearly one million condolence letters. Two years later, the volume of messages would nearly double. Written on elegant stationery, scraps of paper, in black ink or in pencil smudged by tears, the correspondence would remain essentially untouched for the next forty-six years.
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Ever wanted to examine a mock crime scene and study evidence like fingerprints, hair, documents and eyewitness testimony? Now’s your chance! For the fourth straight year, CSI Family Day at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza gives visitors the chance to solve a hypothetical crime. Guests can examine a mock crime scene, receive a police report about what happened and perform forensic analysis at evidence stations.
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Just got back from the press preview of Royal Splendor in the Enlightenment: Charles IV of Spain, Patron and Collector at the Meadows Museum. The exhibit has some very beautiful and elegant works. You are really going to like what you see. Royal Splendor opens to the public on Sunday, March 7, 2010. See you there!
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This past Saturday found me at the HiFive opening at Kettle Art Gallery. The show featured five male artists, Tyson Summers, Clint Scism, Daniel Perez, Hatziel Flores, and Dan Colcer. This is a strong show that goes until March 14, 2010.
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The Lens of Impressionism: Photography and Painting Along the Normandy Coast, 1850-1874 at the Dallas Museum of Art is a beautifully arranged exhibit with paintings by Gustave Courbet, Edouard Manet and Claude Monet, and photographs by Gustave Le Gray and Henri Le Secq, among other. The exhibit, which focuses on works of the French coast, juxtaposes the birth of photography with the ever evolving art of painting. Lens of Impressionism is on display through May 23, 2010.
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Spice up the night with world music, tours, complimentary wine and beer tastings at Silk Road Lounge, a free monthly event premiering Thursday, March 4, from 6 – 9 p.m. at the Crow Collection of Asian Art (2010 Flora Street, Dallas, 75201). Showcasing local and international eclectic musical groups, the monthly series will feature sounds from Asia, North Africa, the Middle East and beyond. Enjoy music from DJ Woodtronic as he opens and closes the evening. Silk Road Lounge continues every first Thursday through December, featuring a different artist each month.
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The Dallas Museum of Art, through the help of the Eugene McDermott Education Fund, will offer eight paid internship positions—four in the Museum’s Education Department, and four in the Curatorial Department—all beginning September 7, 2010, and with a duration of nine months.
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All aboard for the Dallas Art News Museum Express Tour. The tour will visit eight Dallas and Fort Worth museums in one day using the Fort Worth Transportation Authority (The T), Trinity Railway Express (TRE) and Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) as transportation between the institutions. The Dallas Art News Museum Express Tour will visit the Amon Carter Museum, Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Kimbell Art Museum, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Meadows Museum, Nasher Sculpture Center and The Women’s Museum. The tour starts at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 3, 2010, when all tourists gather for a coffee kick-off at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center.
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No one traveling down Greenville Avenue would have taken a second look at the Washington Mutual building that sat stripped of its corporate brand and unused until Saturday night. The uninviting shell of a bank, surrounded by a chain link fence, drew in a crowd of Dallas gallery goers like a magnet.
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Join artist Muriel Hasbun and the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC) on March 6th at 4: PM at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary for an Art Talk & Workshop. In conjunction with her opening exhibition at The MAC, “Muriel Hasbun : barquitos de papel and other stories, Hasbun and the MAC invite all participants to bring photocopies of family photos, letters from home, documents and other memorabilia to make paper boats to add to the installation and to the artist’s growing collective archive.
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