Topics :: art

Photo Essay Gives Girls Inspiration and Real Role Models

By Conswella Bennett | Monday Jun 3, 2013
Wanting to offer inspiration, photographer Jaime C. Moore dressed her daughter as strong women throughout history for her fifth birthday. She photographer the results for the series "NOT Just a Girl."

The Bay Lights

By Roberto Friedman | Wednesday Apr 10, 2013
Its 25,000 LED lights strung along suspension cables along a 1.8 mile span of the bridge make this the biggest public artwork we can think of.

NYC Museums Exhibit Gay Life Pre-Stonewall & Coping With AIDS

By Winnie McCroy | Saturday Mar 23, 2013
Two New York museum-curated exhibits present bookends of gay life in the city: one, the decades before Stonewall ignited the gay liberation movement; the other, the horrific early ’80s, when the city was at the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic.

In Garry Winogrand’s Viewfinder

By Sura Wood | Tuesday Mar 19, 2013
A portion of his prodigious output, 300 black & white photographs, is included in the show, which assembles iconic images of New York City, Texas and Southern California, and at least 100 images that haven’t been published or exhibited before.

Dallas Artist Raises Funds for Greg Dollgener Memorial AIDS Fund

By Drew Jackson | Monday Mar 18, 2013
A local gallery owner and artist in residence have teamed up to raise funds for Dallas’ Greg Dollgener Memorial AIDS Fund, a charity that acts as an umbrella when other ASOs have exhausted their resources.

China’s Terracotta Warriors: The First Emperor’s Legacy

By Sura Wood | Tuesday Mar 5, 2013
Although the warriors are certainly the headliner, the bulk of the exhibition is comprised of 110 objects taken from the burial chambers of the First Emperor’s ancestors and areas surrounding his eminence’s tomb.

Artisphere Presents Festival Celebrating Design

By Doug Rule | Wednesday Feb 27, 2013
During the first decade of the 21st century, Burton shared the latest designs at Apartment Zero, the Gallery Place retail store he ran with his partner.

Arts-Lover’s Holiday

By Roberto Friedman | Wednesday Feb 27, 2013
Last week found Out There spinning all over town.

Kehinde Wiley/The World Stage: Israel

By Sura Wood | Tuesday Feb 26, 2013
This particular body of work is based on traditional 18th- and 19th-century European portraiture of the landed gentry, but the artist gave the enterprise a significant twist and shout by adding the seasoning of contemporary youth and hip hop.

Science As Art: Two Installations Straddle the Art/Science Divide

By Doug Rule | Wednesday Feb 20, 2013
Tobias Klein seems to relish the unusual and hard-to-describe nature of his work, taking pride in the fact that both Art Daily and Popular Science have covered the installations.