Downtown Dallas Cultural Events Calendar: November 2011

Enjoy this monthly Downtown Dallas Cultural Events Calendar for November 2011, just in time for the holidays! Please find the calendar below. Use it, pass it on, and keep supporting the DFW art scene! 

For those of you outside of the DFW metroplex (or anyone who misses images and text about art history), I apologize for not being able to update and blog more often. I am still battling that evil dragon (my thesis) as well as working full-time, so what little spare time I have is too precious at the moment to be spent in front of the computer screen. Hopefully I will be able to return to some normality in posting in December. Fingers crossed all goes well with my thesis. 

Thanks for reading!

Downtown Dallas Cultural Events Calendar: October 2011

Enjoy the monthly Downtown Dallas Cultural Events Calendar for October 2011, just in time as the weather cools off! Please find the calendar below. It list events for the Downtown Dallas area and its environs. Enjoy it, pass it on, use it! 

Downtown Dallas Cultural Events Calendar: September 2011

To my Dallas readers, I have been working on a monthly Downtown Dallas Cultural Events Calendar. Finally, I finished it! Please find below the calendar. It will list events for the Downtown Dallas area and its environs. Enjoy it, pass it on, use it!  

Events: Art on the Rocks!

It's been a busy summer! For those of you who kept up with my posts from last summer, then you know that the art world shuts down after Art Basel. However, the summer is great time for museums to get events going for tourists and stay-cationers. As a Dallasite, I have been lucky enough to attend the free Jazz Under the Stars nights at the Dallas Museum of Art and also some of the Nasher Sculpture Center's Til Midnight (the latter of which I will discuss more in a future post).

As with most of you, I recently took some summer trips, one of which was to Birmingham, Alabama. Thanks to a visit to the Nasher Sculpture Center from the Curator of Education at the Birmingham Museum of Art, I decided to visit the website and see what the museum had to offer. I am glad I did! Not only is the museum free, but it also has a fun event called Art on the Rocks! Seeing as my sister recently moved to Birmingham, I took the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone- visit her and attend the Art on the Rocks event- not to mention loading up on some delicious Southern cuisine.

Although Art on the Rocks is not a free event, $20 for non-members and $10 for members, it was worth every penny. I dragged my sister to the event that was promoting the upcoming exhibition Who Shot Rock and Roll set to open on June 24th. I missed the photography exhibition, but did enjoy the themed  event's which featured dueling DJs, live graffiti on the Museum walls, and a funky band. Art on the Rocks caters to 20-30 somethings, which is rare in a museum world that  has been focusing on families. The museum had (free) appetizer and (at cost) drink stations littered around the forum and outdoor sculpture arena. Another activity, of which I took part, was having museums patrons 'graffiti' on the sculpture pit walls alongside the real graffiti artists. Please enjoy the pictures of this and other highlights from the Birmingham Museum of Art's Art on the Rocks event.

Thornton Dial, Nobody Knows What Go On Behind the Jungle, 1989

Paint and Mixed Media

As a preview of what's to come:

Inside of the BMA, with a Chihuly sculpture. 

Recap: Dallas Art Fair 2011

A few months later, and I can finally post the pictures I took of the events surrounding the Dallas Art Fair and most importantly---the art! Enjoy!

Harriet Bart, Helicon Volumes, 1993

Unique; bronze work

Babcock Galleries, NY

Asya Reznikov, Packing Art History, 2011

Video and cardboard

Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NY

Joel Ross

Monique Meloche, Chicago

John Adelman, Concordant, 2005

Gel ink on paper

Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas

Angela Musco, Avernus, 2010

Edition 1/5; C-print

Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago

Coming up next: 

Birmingham, Alabama. What's up with the art scene there?

And then, a review of the Museum scene in Boston!

Events: February Art Events in DFW

We may have reached mid-month, but there are still plenty of FREE (or incredibly cheap) art events happening throughout DFW in the remainder of February. Here is a list to give you something cultural to do, and as always- Enjoy!


What: Artist Demonstration by Nan Phillips & Art Wells
Where: Oak Cliff Cultural Center
When: February 18th from 7 PM

What: The 2011 Marlon Riggs Film Festival
Where: South Dallas Cultural Center
When: February 18th and 19th at 8 PM; February 20th at 3 PM
Admission: $5

What: Exhibition Opening
             “TransFORMation: Miller & Waggoner”
Where: Samuel Lynne Galleries
When: February 19th from 6-9 PM

What: Exhibition Opening
             “Justin Ginsberg, Gary Shafter, and Brad Ellis”
Where: Craighead-Green Gallery
When: February 19th 5-8PM


What: Exhibition Opening
             “Linear Thinking”
Where: Marty Walker Gallery
When: February 19th from 6-8 PM


What: Exhibition Opening
             “Virginia Fleck: CONSUMED”
Where: Holly Johnson Gallery
When: February 19th from 6-8 PM

What: Preview Night
             “Texas & Neighbors Regional Art Exhibition”
Where: Irving Arts Center
When: February 19th from 7 PM

What: Exhibition Opening
             “Sedrick Huckaby & Barbara Riley”
Where: University of Texas at Arlington: The Gallery
When: February 25th from 6-8:30 PM

What: Exhibition Opening
             “Nobody Knows My Name: The African American Experience in American Culture"
Where: MAC: McKinney Avenue Contemporary
When: February 26th from 5-7 PM

What: Exhibition Opening
             “Earth & Ether: Paintings by Pamela Burnley-Schol”
Where: Norwood Flynn Gallery
When: February 26th from 6-8 PM