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Friday, September 30, 2011

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!

Monday, June 6, 2011

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!

Monday, May 23, 2011

The Great Blog Catch-Up & CityArts Festival

Yes, I disappeared. This time without excuses and sans apologies. Life was moving at warp speed and I kept moving with it, unfortunately this blog could not keep up. As such, I am now in the process of beginning (and hopefully completing) the great catch-up. First thing will be posting Dallas Art Fair pictures, I know I am a month behind, but better late than never.

In major news, I now have my very own place to furnish. This means that not only have I become addicted to craigslist, etsy, and 20x200- but I am also scrounging the plentiful Spring Art Festivals in and around Dallas for some great (and inexpensive) art pieces. I will be keep my posts updated on all festivals and super artist finds. Speaking of, this weekend is the CityArts Festival in Fair Park. Here's the scoop:

What: CityArts Festival
Where: Fair Park in Downtown Dallas
When: May 27-29
Times: 6 – 10 p.m. Friday; 11 a.m. – 10 p.m. Saturday; 12 p.m. – 6 p.m. Sunday
Cost: Free

As always, Enjoy!

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Event: Dallas Art Fair!

Tonight I got to preview the Dallas Art Fair, and I can say that it matches my expectations. Galleries ranged from New York to Santa Fe and from Rome to Dallas. For the most part, the mood was very chill and easy going. I am sure that the copious amount of wine, liquor, and champagne helped with that. Not to mention the amazing appetizers provided by the Mansion at Turtle Creek. Because of these tasty delights, I didn't get any photos. But I do think that everyone should spend the twenty bucks to enjoy the Dallas Art Fair and do something different this weekend.

Here is the link to the Dallas Art Fair.

And here is some basic info:

What: Dallas Art Fair
Where: f.i.g.
1807 Ross Avenue, Suite 250
Dallas, Texas 75201 When: April 8th- April 10th
Cost: Dependent on Pass Type

Hope to see you there on my second and third passes. I will post recap articles once this very cultural weekend in Dallas ends.

Best,

Ester

P.S. Laura Bush attended, so you should too.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Recap: Art Basel Miami

It's been a couple of weeks since my last post, but in the meantime I have made the move across the ocean back to Texas. After a short reunion (and break) for the Thanksgiving holiday, it was off to Miami for the most important collection of art fairs in North America.

There were many things going on and I took in a lot of art. So, in this post, I will just very quickly try to recap the central fair Art Basel Miami, the sister counterpart to Art Basel.

The main event was at the convention center in South Beach. Much like those I have described for Basel, Berlin, and Turin, the fair is a winding labyrinth of white wall gallery sets. There were many images caught my attention. Too many to show in a few blogs. I also noticed, perhaps because of my personal interest in the area, that the Latin American community is showing up more and more at these fairs. Enjoy!

If you would like to know more about the events in Miami, check out my collaborative article on Berlin Art Link. Where I recently became the editor, so keep checking out the site to keep up with the emerging Berlin art scene.

Bernd Ribbeck, Galerie Kamm, Berlin

Untitled, 2010, acrylic, pigment marker / mdf, 35 x 35 cm

Untitled, 2010, acrylic, ball point pen, pigment marker / mdf, 30 x 40 cm

Ross Bleckner, Lehmann Maupin, New York

Overexpression, 1998, oil on linen, 84 x 72 inches

Jesus Rafael Soto, Sicardi, Houston

Guitar Sonata, 1959, Acrylic on masonite with black wire, 17 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches

Ivan Navarron, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

Reality Show (Black), 2010, LED light, aluminum, wood, mirror, one-way mirror, and electric energy, 92 x 45 x 45 inches

Anthony James, Patrick Painter Editions, Santa Monica

Birch, 2010, birch aluminium, glass, fluorescent lights

Mondongo, Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires

Lo que temes te sucederá, 2010, Stickers, plasticine, thread and wood, 256 x 334 x 11,4 cm

Monday, November 15, 2010

Events: Torino Artissima

Since surprise trips seem to be the theme for my Fall art calendar, I thought I would share some quick images from my most recent 10 hour trip to Turin, Italy. I went specifically to see (and be seen) at Artissima, the city's annual art fair.

Artissima is neither the largest nor the smallest of fairs. It is pretty mid-sized and includes a book and magazine area, a print shop, 4 different bars/cafes, a theater space called the House of Contamination, and a lecture space. This year was the fair's 15th anniversary.

I say "and be seen", because this was all courtesy of my internship at the Secretariat Schlemmer due to the fact that the fair hosted the reconstructions of Oskar Schlemmer's Bauhaus Dances, as interpreted by Debra McCall in 1984 in it's House of Contamination.

Instead of just showing close-ups of work that really struck a chord, I realized as I walked around the fair that to many people the concept of the art fair is very abstract. Therefore, this time I took some general pictures of the fair itself.

The day I went was the preview, so it was much less packed than it will be. Or at least, that is what the galleries hope. More people equals more prospective buyers.

After Basel and Berlin, I feel like I might actually be getting the hang of these fairs. However, as visually stimulating as they are, let's not forget that it is the galleries job to sell, sell, sell! Which is definitely the part I hate.

An exciting and entertaining part of these fairs is that they are the perfect opportunity for performance artists to venture out and "do their thing." In one of the pictures below you may notice a woman in a white dress. She was one such performance artist who strolled around the fair in a type of LSD induced serenity and randomly gave fair-goers amazing hugs.

As always, enjoy the pictures!