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Discoveries of the Dallas Design District

2 months ago | artsandculturetx.com | Donna Tennant |Henry Hunt

For many years, we have traveled to Dallas to visit the city’s art venues, and the number of galleries has grown considerably. Notably, many have moved into the Dallas Design District, a trendy industrial area known for its interior design showrooms, apparel retailers, antique shops, vintage shops, restaurants, and apartment homes. Long-term plans include an outdoor entertainment facility and hotels.
Dallas artist Du Chau Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

Jan 22, 2025 | artsandculturetx.com | Donna Tennant

In 1981, artist Du Chau and his family left Vietnam, emigrating to Dallas. Over the past four decades, Chau has exhibited extensively, curated more than 50 exhibitions, taught art, and co-founded an art center. In 2024, Chau received the Moss/Chumley North Texas Artist Award, recognizing his contributions to the North Texas art community.
Chance and Fate: Tacita Dean’s long overdue exhibit at the Menil

Aug 19, 2024 | artsandculturetx.com | Donna Tennant

Tacita Dean is possibly the most significant artist not widely known in the U.S. This will be remedied on Oct. 11, as the Menil Collection in Houston presents the first major museum survey of her work in this country, Tacita Dean: Blind Folly, on view through April 20, 2025. Dean came of age in the 1990s alongside artists like Damien Hurst and Tracey Emin, and is considered one of her generation’s most important British artists.
Making Waves: Discovering Contemporary Cuban Photography at the MFAH

Aug 14, 2024 | artsandculturetx.com | Donna Tennant

Thanks to a gift from Chicago collector Madeleine Plonsker and her husband Harvey, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, now has the most complete collection of post-revolutionary Cuban photography anywhere—nearly 400 works by some 80 artists. For two years, MFAH photography curator Malcolm Daniel and MFAH research associate Raquel Carrera have been organizing Navigating the Waves: Contemporary Cuban Photography, which opens Sept. 29 and runs through April 13, 2025.
Power and Glory: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries at the Kimbell

Jun 11, 2024 | artsandculturetx.com | Donna Tennant

Imagine installing seven massive Flemish tapestries, each measuring 14 feet tall and 28 feet wide. The Kimbell Art Museum had to make significant adjustments to its galleries to accommodate these masterpieces, part of Art and War in the Renaissance: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries, which will be on display through Sept. 15. “The walls in the largest gallery in the Renzo Piano Pavilion are normally 10 feet tall,” said Jennifer Casler Price, curator of Asian, African, and Ancient American Art.
Sarah Sudhoff’s Photographs Move Off the Wall

May 15, 2024 | glasstire.com | Donna Tennant

Last summer, photographer Sarah Sudhoff spent a month in the small Italian town of Galatina. She had been awarded the Domas Artist Residency, for which the recipient is given a house to live in for a month and, as she came to learn, not much else. “I just wandered around the town not knowing anyone and not speaking the language,” Sudhoff said in a talk at Andrew Durham Gallery, where her work is installed. “I was in a house, and that was all I had.
Clay into Flora: Rebecca Manson at The Modern

Apr 18, 2024 | artsandculturetx.com | Donna Tennant

Rebecca Manson transforms clay into charged flora in her immersive installation, Barbecue, at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth from May 25 through Aug. 25. Composed of more than 45,000 handmade and colorfully glazed ceramic leaves installed in the ellipse, the Modern’s oval first-floor gallery, the exhibition invites viewers to walk along a designated trail winding through the space.
Drawing as a daily process: Ruth Asawa at the Menil

Apr 8, 2024 | artsandculturetx.com | Donna Tennant

Ruth Asawa Through Line is the first exhibition to focus on Ruth Asawa’s lifelong drawing practice. Drawing played a critical role in her work, as demonstrated by more than 130 drawings, collages, watercolors, sketchbooks, stamped prints, folded paper pieces, and copper-foil works included in the show. Organized by the Menil Collection and the Whitney Museum of American Art with support from the artist’s estate, it is on view at the Menil Drawing Institute through July 21.
Mysticism, spirituality, and revolution: Black and Caribbean Surrealists at The Modern

Feb 8, 2024 | artsandculturetx.com | Donna Tennant

The exhibition title, Surrealism and Us, references the essay “1943: Surrealism and Us” by Suzanne Césaire (1915-1966), a Martinique writer, feminist, and anti-colonialist. Césaire believed that the concepts, aesthetics, and power of Surrealism could encourage self-determination and independence.
Diversity, Connections and Community: Black Collage Comes to MFAH

Feb 6, 2024 | artsandculturetx.com | Donna Tennant

The richness and diversity of collage as an expressive medium for Black artists first came to prominence with Romare Bearden, who began his collage work in the early 1960s. Bettye Saar created her first assemblages in the late ’60s, and other pioneering Black artists, including Jacob Lawrence and Faith Ringgold, embraced the process. Building on this legacy are the numerous Black artists who focus exclusively on collage or make it an important part of their practice.