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Kiss that Goodbye
The New York Times’ Hollin Cotter has recently reviewed Tino Sehgal’s show of performance based art at the Guggenheim. It is a highly praised show, but the no-photography policy (of the artist) is...
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Dreamwalkers
Chong Chu & Hyun Ju Chung (married) continue to be Dallas based painters, but they have not shown much in Dallas since the close of Edith Baker Gallery. They do continue to show in Korea and LA....
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Pics from a Modern Ruin
I just returned from attending Modern Ruin, a great experiment organized by Christina Rees and Thomas Feulmer. The two-day exhibition takes advantage of the never-used 1 million dollar WaMu branch...
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Jay Sullivan @ Conduit
If there were three balls on the floor (1lb, 50lbs, 100lbs) but all the same size, shape, color and surface … could you tell the difference from just looking? The questions of mass, ambiguity and...
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NY Times on Ken Price
Photo via NY Times The Sunday edition of the NYTimes featured an article on Ken Price titled "The Blobs Aren’t Talking ," by Nick Stillman. While I am happy to see such a worthy artist get the...
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The Code and the Payoff
A podcast has recently been released on Frieze Art Fair’s site with a panel discussion about Art and Theory. (The most notable figure being Robert Storr, but the entire panel is excellent). When you...
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Kana Harada: The Way Home
Kana Harada just had an opening at the MAC, displaying almost a dozen of her plant-forms. The combination of trees and flowers reminds me of the forest within the movie Avatar. Part plant, part...
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Dallas Arts District (IN LEGOS)
From July 2 – August 1, Northpark Center is displaying an exhibit of various buildings in Downtown Dallas made entirely of Legos. These are HUGE models, many of which focus on the new Dallas Arts...
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Would Van Gogh be Making Apps?
I took a little hiatus from writing about art because I needed to sort out some thoughts. I have not been visiting gallery shows or museums recently because I have been tired of the quality/crap ratio....
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A Dream Deferred
Director Tim Skousen has just released his documentary “Zero Percent” at the Dallas Film Festival. It spotlights a higher education program within the maximum security prison Sing Sing called Hudson...
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Theory vs. Making
Helen Stoilas has just published an excellent interview with Robert Storr titled: Robert Storr: Most theory has little bearing on art. Here is a snip from the opening remarks: Storr: "I’m not sure...
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Shamrock Opening
Once a year (or so) the artists with studio space at the Shamrock Hotel in Deep Ellum host an open studio day. The whole space is includes 6-7 spaces, each with work on display by a different artist....
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Fresh Air
Art Critic Carol Diehl, in her recent post Observation on Observation , has written an excellent essay about the importance of writers talking about the art itself, and not getting distracted by...
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Fall In! Fall out!
Artist and Blogger Dennis Hollingsworth just visited Claremont Graduate School to talk with students. He was struck by their longing for professional assurances about life after school and questions...
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Philip Van Keuren
Philip Van Keuren at work in Nef Studio, The Macdowell Colony, 2009 - Photo by Damian Van Denburgh Philip Van Keuren has mounted a fantastic show of his work on paper from the past forty years (at the...
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Social Practice vs Studio Practice
As the director of SlideRoom, I have a unique point of view on trends in the arts: contests, grants, education, etc … One interesting trend I am seeing in West Coast Art schools is creating different...
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“Sho” at Meadows
"Sho" is the name of the new sculpture in the Meadows Museum Plaza, consisting of a large wire-frame head. I had seen images of this promoted around town, but had no idea how large and impressive it...
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