Art for Darfur will kick-off its 2010 event season with a Preview Night at the Southern Methodist University Hughes-Trigg Auditorium on Saturday, March 20, from 7-9 pm. The event will feature a performance by the Dallas Black Dance Theatre, and a spoken word performance paired with a live, reactionary painting by a DISD fifth grade student. Original artwork created by fifth graders and Hotchkiss and Rice Elementary schools answering the question, “If you were a peacemaker, what would you do to bring peace to Darfur?”will be on display, as well as selected pieces to be featured at Art for Darfur’s silent auction night April 17. Donations taken during the evening benefit the local activist group Texans Against Genocide.
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Lisa Grossman: Windings
Marty Walker Gallery
March 23 to April 17, 2010
Opening Reception Saturday, March 27, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Marty Walker Gallery presents Lisa Grossman, in a solo exhibition where deftly executed landscape oil painting flirts wildly with abstraction.
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The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,in conjunction with the Andy Warhol: The Last Decade and FOCUS: Ben Jones exhibitions, presents our sixth Modern ’til Midnight event Saturday, April 10 from 6 p.m. to midnight. The community will enjoy everything The Modern has to offer during our extended hours including live music from well-known artists, films, gallery activities, and late-night fare from Café Modern. Dress like your favorite 80’s celebrity if you are in the mood! Check the Modern’s Facebook page for contest details.
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This week Dallas Art News learned that Alyssa Gardina, Marketing Associate for The Women’s Museum, is leaving her post at the museum. We would like to take this moment and express our gratitude to Alyssa and to wish her well in future endeavors.
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Mr. Kalish will be at the opening reception at Samuel Lynne Galleries on Friday, March 26, 2010, from 7 to 10 p.m. On display will be 20 plus sculptural works ranging in price from $8,000 to $18,000.
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Join the Dallas Museum of Art on March 19, 2010, at our Late Night for a trip through the looking glass as we celebrate the release of Tim Burton’s new film Alice in Wonderland. Enjoy concerts, performances, family activities, and Fresh Ink lectures inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Stay late for a screening of Disney’s Alice in Wonderland, open mic, and karaoke.
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Christopher Rabb’s paintings represent slices of selected comic book compositions in their bare visual elements exposing the raw expressive power of the climax. Rabb’s source is comic books for their inherent expressive visual language. Comics are seemingly simple because they are comprised of three major elements: the image, text, and sequence. Rabb removes the characters and text, leaving activated space, visual movement, and visual time gaps between planes.
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The Arts of Collin County has received a significant contribution to the project in the form of an in-kind donation of sandstone, valued at $100,000, from Sunbelt Stone. The sandstone will be used on the interior walls of the Arts of Collin County’s 2,100-seat performing arts hall. Sunbelt Stone is owned by Scott and Lisa Carpenter, formerly of Plano and now a Highland Park resident.
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Station Museum of Contemporary Art wishes to announce the following six solo exhibitions. These exhibitions will open on Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 7 p.m. with music & refreshments.
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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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