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jrc photoAny time you can get public art without the bureaucrat's thumbs stuck up its... uh... hindside, you're likely to get a quality artistic project. Join us as we tour the heart of Dallas' wall painting in Deepest Deep Elm 2002. And of course, when this rag first went online I did a bit of exploring in that same territory.
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n a spectacular presentation
along three streets in
Dallas' nearly comatose Central Business District, Dallas artist
Sherry Owens' late February Art of Fashion
installation in the downtown Neiman-Marcus department store was
a remarkable marriage of art and commerce. Visit the show in nearly its entirety — big pictures
and lots of explanations — in our
coverage of Sherry's
public display of art.
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iz Ferguson's Impression of an Artist's Painting oil on canvas was discovered at the recent Saint Mark's School annual auction. JR likes it, because it turns misogynist Pablo's famous portrait into a distinctly softer, gentler, feminie piece. Uh-oh, it must be another Aooga! experience.
Hung Rocks at Conemara was probably our first outide of gallery art experience.
Let's not forget Frances Bagley and husband Tom Orr's colllaborative, site-specific, floating sculpture, The White Rock Lake Water Theater
Hall Office Park in Frisco, Texas has an abundance of Public Art out in the redeveloped boonies.
There's a whole DARts Subindex devoted to Public Art, much of which involve gallery-less art
And a Tours subindex that includes Oak Cliff's Drive By, illustrated above, and other art tours around town.
Our
3rd Aooga! Experience is from
long-time reader Michael
Cross, who has
installed some of his paintings in Texas Women's University's
campus-wide, site-specific exhibition Wide Awake 2000,
which allowed artists to propose their own site. Michael's work,
which was installed last Friday in the Greenhouse, can be viewed
on