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Miguel Zapata at Valley House through December 12

Painted Poems by Olga Palunin at Joel Cooner, 1601 Dragon Street through December 15

The Dallas Contemporary Legends 09 at the Contemp through December 19. This year the artist is the well deserving Vernon Fisher, and patrons are Arlene and John Dayton and Nash Flores with Hallworks by Sally Warren

Philip Van Keuren: Forty Years of Works on Paper, 1969-2009, Ivan Stoytchev: The Shape of Colors, and Eric McGehearty - Surface with an Opening at The MAC through December 19

Holiday $25, $50 and $100 500X Sale, Rebecca Carter and Thomas Feulmer downstairs and Julie Barnofski - Melancholia upstairs and Holy Saint Mary's Biscuits Captain! by Mark Collup and Joel Kiser in the Project Room at 500X through December 20

Rich Bowman, Marci Harnden and JP Long at Craighead Green through December 26

Naturally Abstract - Mary Tomas Studio with work by Cecelia Feld, Roger Moore, Adrienne T. Rosenberg, Judith Seay and of course, Mary Tomas, Reception 6-9 Thursday December 3, through December 28

Best of 2009 - with work by Dorothy Clarke, Zane Steadman, Celine Raphael-Leygues, Liz Netherland, Elisa Canfield, Linda Clary, KeLaine Kvale, Pavlina Panova, Wha Paek, Bob Nunn, Jenny Keller, Kay Wyne, Sonny Williams, Jan Partin, Alison Jardine, Elizabeth Padgett, Junko Otsu, Yael Vangruber, Flo Barry, Mary Ann Turner, Robin Gary, Peg Rosenlund, Sarah Dauterman, and Marilyn Eitzen Jones at the TVAA Downtown Plaza of the Americas. Opens December 14. Reception: 2-4, December 20. Through December 31.

Barsamian - Reality / Dream and Recess with Billy Hassell, Ted Larsen and Susan Barnett at Conduit through January 2

Winter Rusiloski   Girl with Machines   2009
oil and photographs on canvas   30 x 30 inches

new Sky Water Leaves Grass - Heidi Lingamfelter, Winter Rusiloski at Mokah, 2803 Taylor Street, through January 2.

members Global Swarming - encaustic paintings by Ivonne Acero, Kristy Battani, Trayc Claybrook, Charlotte Cornett, Rhonda Daniel, Linda Disosway, Diane Reader Dorn, Brett Dyer, Peggy Epner, Nancy Ferro Laura Griffin, Darlene Hartman, Carolyn Fox Hearne Antoaneta Melnikov Hillman, Larry Kitchen, Teri Lueders, Jackie MacLelland, Cheryl McClure, Carmen Menza, Junanne Peck, Michelle Pryor, Janet Reynolds, Patty Rooney, Susan Sponsler-Carstarphan, Silvia Thornton, Carolyn Todd, VET, Deanna Wood and Mary Wrigh tat Texas Discovery Gardens at Fair Park. 3601 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. through January 3.

The Dallas Portfolio Exchange, photographs by Fernando Ceja, Stewart Cohen, Adam Fish, Rusty Hill, Phil Hollenbeck, Scott Jenke, David Lyles, Scogin Mayo, Nancy Newberry, Danny Piassick, Hal Samples and Ken Smith, at The Magnolia, through January 6.

new info Holiday Show introducing Andrew DeCaen, Lithographer; Sunny Jacquet, Surrealist and Brent Kollock at Norwood Flynn Gallery. Artist's talk by Andrew DeCaen at 7, reception 6-8 Wednesday December 14 through January 9

new Members Galore! The Dallas Arts REVUE, this site's 30th Anniversary exhibition with work by James Michael Starr, Joan Iverson, Susan Lecky, Lynn Rushton, Anna Palmer,Rebecca Boatman, Nancy Ferro, Jeanne Sturdevant, Kathy Robinson Hays, Peggy Epner, Shafaq Ahmad, David Hickman, Elisabeth Schalij, Kathy Boortz, J R Compton, Michael Helsem, Rita Barnard, George Bailey, Matt Kaplinsky, T J Mabrey, T.Stone, Donna Ball, Elaine Merritt, Cecilia Thurman,   Marty Ray, Cecelia Feld, Richard Ray, Tiana Wages, Pavlina Panova, Lorrie McClanahan, Jerry Dodd, Chris Bergquist Fulmer, Carroll Swenson-Roberts, Ray-Mel Cornelius, Jeanne McIntosh, Bob Nunn and Fannie Brito and The Back-room Invitational with work by Laura Abrams, Terry Hays, Gisela-Heidi Strunck, Charlotte Smith, Eliseo Garcia, Diana Chase, Simeen Ishaque and Peter Ligon at the Bath House Cultural Center, both shows include an informal Art Conversation 7-9:30 Saturday January 9, through Saturday January 30, 2010

new Jesús Moroles: Creating a Sense of Place and Destinos by Michelle Murillo (gallery talk at 2 January 23) at The Latino Cultural Center, open 10-5 Tuesday - Saturday through February 27.

new Movement, Light, Space, Time, Dimension and Color with work by 55 [unnamed] artists from Europe, Japan and South America and by 15 [unnamed] Dutch artists . Museum of Geometric and MADI Museum through March 7.

new 5th annual Art Conspiracy featuring work by "150 Dallas Artists" (none mentioned) — 7 p.m., Saturday, December 12, 511 W. Commerce Street. $10 admission lets you bid on pieces of art created on-site the day before. See our story of 2007's event — For more information and map, visit www.artconspiracy.org

new Randy Brodnax and Friends Christmas art sale, 5-9 Friday December 11, 10-6 Saturday December 12 and 10-3 Sunday December 13 at Sons of Hermann Hall, 3414 Elm Street.

We attended another, Jingle Something art sale at the Sons of Hermann couple weeks ago, and boy! howdy! were we disappointed with the quality. This is the original, carefully selected artists and artistsans. Randy's been doing this for decades and he knows quality. —JRC

new My Very Own Book reception and silent auction of Art at McKinney Avenue Contemporary 3-5, Saturday, December 12.

new Conversation with Keith Livingston at Haley-Henman, 2 pm, Sunday, December 13

new Artist's Talk by Lithographer Andrew DeCaen at Norwood Flynn, 3318 Shorecrest Drive, reception 6-8 pm, Talk will begin at 7, Wednesday, December 16.

Drop off your canned goods or food items at Craighead Green through December 19 to benefit the North Texas Food Bank.

Donald of Dallas   Union Station   watercolor on paper   11 x 17 inches   $115

new Clients of Dallas homeless ministry The Stewpot show at David Dike Fine Art, 2613 Fairmount January 12-18 and sold in silent auction at The Stewpot Alliance's 2nd annual Soup's On benefit luncheon at The House of Blues January 27

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Dallas Artists Out of Town

Read our Submission Guidelines or at least the pink box on top of this page before you send us calendar information.

members big Boot Mural in Lampasas involving DARts Members (and old friends) T J Mabrey is spelled out in a news story and slide show on the Austin American Statesman website.

Click Member's links to see their work.

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Community News

Kafka Bunny Checking Who's Been Naughty or Nice — From our
coverage of a Centraltrak event in January 2009  JRComptonPhoto

Centraltrak's founding director Charissa N. Terranova, PhD, has announced her resignation from that institution. Her replacement — if that is even possible — is Kate Sheerin, whom San Antonio's Witte Museum calls "an expert on early Texas Art," will be the new director of the University of Texas at Dallas art residency program housed in a building beneath elevated Central Expressway in Deepest Elm, near where the depot of the Houston and Texas Central Railroad tracks used to be.

As Terranova states in her public resignation letter PR, she brought artists from "France, Germany, The Netherlands, Argentina, Russia, Mexico, Israel, and Saudi Arabia to work in our avant-garde compound on Exposition Avenue." Her stated reason for stepping down is to "focus all of [her] energy on teaching at the university and [her] scholarly writing, in particular the completion of [her] manuscript Automotive Prosthetic: The Car, Technological Mediation, and the Conceptual Turn in Contemporary Art."

Terranova "will continue working at UTD in the capacity of full-time tenure-track assistant professor," and in the best news of all to Dallas artists, she "will also continue work as freelance art critic." Hooray for that! We need her unfettered art opinions, despite the complicated Marxist theories. — J R Compton

The Contempt  as of November 17 2009

Aren't we lucky to have an entity called the DALLAS Contemporary, which for its first show in its new space somewhere off beyond Dragon Street (where such lofty institutions as Gerald Peters and Pan American galleries have recently gone under. Is there really a curse?) is importing some artist from Los Angeles "that is doing an artist residencey at UTD's CentralTrak (sic)." Aren't we proud of our precious contemp that was founded for the purpose of showing Dallas artists. Maybe he'll stay. —JRC

David Hickman and Eliseo Garcia at Childrens Medical Center

Here are pictures from the Garden at Children's Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. David Hickman has three dragonflies, and Eliseo Garcia has carved the children's story wall in limestone at left.

David Hickman Dragonfly - images provided by the artist

Their works compliments each other and it is a lovely Garden by two Texas State Artists.

 

Pan American Art Projects bites the dust

Joining Gerald Peters in me-too-ing into Dragon Street Art District just as the Recession recessed, Pan American Art Projects closes at the end of this year. Like Gerald Peters, they had much nicer, more luxurious digs before they moved to Dragon, and the parking was better, although PanAm's director may fare better than GP's who banished itself back to Santa Fe.

Now I'm wondering how The Contemp will fare. The Meadows Foundtion offerred that name-changing organization space to get established many years ago with the proviso they stay less than that, so they pretty much gotta move to new digs. Dragon Street is not the nicest art neighborhood in Dallas.

Thornwood Gallery

The Thornwood may also be in that same financial boat. Unlike Gerald Peters and Pan American, however, they suck as a gallery and apparently deserve their fate, although there's plenty other galleries in the vicinity that suck worse.

Last year, the Contemp was braying about how close they'll be to Dragon Street. I wonder if maybe they could have found a better, less expensive place farther from the devouring Dragon. I can only assume the inside has changed. But there's a lot of it for an organization that's dependant upon the kindness of strangers who might be as poor as they get.

Part of the crowd of 135 at the PAC-WE Flash Mob Performance Rally for Health Care.
Our Community Performance Art page has more than 30 pics of that Sunday Event.

Dallas artist Ann Huey's latest, all-original Halloween animation is Skellikin Feet on YouTube.

Dallas artist Martin Delabano singing The Bear Song on YouTube.

DARts Supporting Member Kapil Dixit was named Nepali Personality of the Month for October 2009.

The Bath House Cultural Center has lost 50% of its budget and may lose one of its staffers. There is a community effort afoot to mail out 3,000 fundraising letters and set up fund-raising events. More info when it becomes available.

It hardly seems likely that who might leave will be Enrique Enrique Fernández Cervantes, since he is now running art at The Bath House Cultural Center and the Latino Culture Center art shows, too. I figure if he can pull that off, keep both centers running, he ought to, when this economical mess is over, get a lot more money and a better job, running one of the two.

I'm fonder of the Bath House than the LCC, but Enrique is a talented guy who is much loved in his community, and he will be mightily appreciated whatever he does next.
 

Initial Panic

When some cut in finances is initially announced, people tend to panic. Oh, gosh. What will we do, if that happens. Then it happens, and it almost always works out better than before, almost no matter what. When it was announced that the City Arts Program was going to be taken over by the Dallas Public Library, first I wondered what idiot savant bureaucrat thought that one up. Then I decided it was probably a good time to change who's running the CAP. I mean, how could anyone do a worse job?

Some of those people are wonderful. But whoever's in charge is not and never will be. It's always got more to do with politics than with art. Mighten it be a good enough time to have it run differently? To give money to the smaller, more independent, upstart organizations that need it just to get started instead of the big already well-endowed mega-orgs who probably should be supporting themselves by now?

In Europe they treasure art and artists. In the U.S., we the people clearly do not, and the gummint blames art for our ills. But then they gotta blame somebody else. A couple weeks after the initial panic, we learned that the Library wasn't going to run it, after all. That the City Arts Program gets to keep their bailiwick. What a surprise. Mixed emotions here.

I'm not a fan of the government paying arts organizations any more than I am of governments paying banks or oil companies or anybody else who should be supporting themselves. Although I love the idea of the government or anybody paying artists to make art. It is a job, after all. And the government needs art more than most peoples.

But I'd love to see somebody else distribute public money for the arts. If only for the sake of doing it differently and changing it around for again a little while.

— J R Compton
 

More Old News is on the News page.

Legal Line - From 5:30 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. on the 2nd and 3rd Wednesdays of each month, The Dallas Bar Association sponsors an anonymous telephone hotline where volunteer attorneys answer any legal questions free. Spanish-speaking attorneys may be available. Call 214 220-7476.

 

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Series/Ongoing 

Free Museums

The Nasher - 5-10 pm Thursday nights and 10 am till 2 pm on the First Saturday of each month

Entrance into The Dallas Museum of Art is free - First Sundays and 5-9 every Thursday, although some shows still cost.

SMU's Meadows Museum is free after 6 pm on Thursdays
 

Tours & Series

Dragon Street galleries and shops remain open til 8 pm on First Thursdays

Exposition Avenue First Thursdays - On the First Thursday of each month galleries along Exposition Avenue (from Fair Park's main entrance up to 500X) has a First Thursday Night. They invite the community out to enjoy art, food and drinks on the Fist Thursday of every month. Involved are Van Ditthavong, 832 Exposition, Canvass at 824, the Art Club at 823, Expo Park Cafe at 841, Daddy Jack's at 3106 Commerce (more than a little walk away),

A free walking tour of our so-called downtown Arts District at 10:30 am First Sundays (and parking meters are free), meeting at Olive and Flora.

The Uptown Off the Wall gallery stroll is the first Friday of every month, when all participating galleries, museums, bars, antique and map stores and restaurants stay open till 9 pm. For full info, visit the Near North Dallas website.

Norwood Flynn presents Artful Wednesdays, open "late" till 7 pm Wednesdays in March for wine, cheese and, one supposes, art

 

Sketching in the Galleries/Life Drawing

Life Drawing at The Cedars (1114 South Akard Street, 214 421-2982) 7-10 Thursday evenings and 1-4 Sunday afternoons. $20 each. "no one is too inexperienced to enjoy the experience."

7-8:30 Thursdays at the Crow Collection of Asian Art; 7-8:30 Thursdays at the DMA; and sketch works from the permanent and special collections at the Meadows Museum. Visitors 12 and up, open to artists of all abilities. Paper and drawing materials provided. Free but reservations required 214 768-4993 beginning one month in advance.

Lectures

Artist lectures At the MAC Wednesdays at 6:30 but check with them first.

Dallas Architecture Forum has lectures but changes the times and dates faster than i can keep up.a

Some Art Talks are listed with their exhibitions. Many area art galleries
are listed in Art Space Information or the Museums and Art Centers pages

DallasArtsRevue Resources include geographic, phone and link information for area galleries and other places that show art, museums, schools and visual art groups and HOW TOs including How To Start Showing Your Work, How to Design and Distribute an Invitational Post Card and How to Photograph Art, among other topics.

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Other Places

Many art venues have so much going on we could never catch up, so we link their sites, and you can discover for yourself. See Museums, below.

museums  Amon Carter (current exhibitions), Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Kimbell Art Museum, Meadows Museum, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, The Women's Museum. All of Dallas' best art museums are in Fort Worth — except the amazing MADI. — JRC

More information about area art centers and museum on our Museums & Art Centers page.

other  Dallas Architecture Forum are often doing something, sometimes really interesting, but they're expensive and their events are primarily for their membership. We usually avoid groups' membership-only events.

Shows with a are probably more interesting, but I often do not get around to using it. From here, short reviews go to the 2008 Short Reviews page & old news goes to the old news page  Red quotes " indicate a quote from another source, usually the gallery. This color shows time and dates. Unless noted, images are from postcards or email attachments (greatly appreciated, unless it incorporates words, which are difficult to squeeze out.)

Send your info in this precise order, in one paragraph, in the text of an email:  Show title, names of all artists in paragraph form separated by commas and spaces (duh) with and before the last one, gallery name, opening times, day, month, date, through closing month date (not year), and if it is one- or two-days-only. No lists, no hype, "no quote marks," no th or st or years after dates. We don't say "gallery." No ALL CAPS. Spell-out every word. Attach up to a 5 x 7-inch JPEG of art in the show — with caption in this precise order: artist  title  year date  medium size. No images of words. This page is arranged chronologically by end date. No listing without the end date or artists' name. Our Submission Guidelines explain everything else. Our latest email is on the Contact Us page. Information submitted in this exact format will be posted quickly. Everything else can wait. Unless yours is a new space, addresses go on the Gallery Info page. If you send info per these instructions, I'll publish it soon as I see it. If you make me retype, rethink or edit, it'll take weeks longer. If I screw up your listing, don't just tell me what I said, tell me how to fix it.

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• since mid-April 2009

Special thanks to Anna Palmer for taking over this calendar.