News
Over 30 Galleries Sign Letter Demanding Refunds From Canceled Dallas Art Fair
“We don’t owe anybody any money,” John Sughrue, real estate developer and chairman of the Dallas Art Fair, told the Dallas Morning News.
Texas
News
At This Museum of African American Culture, Displaying a Confederate Statue Is a "Part of Healing"
The bronze sculpture “Spirit of the Confederacy" was removed from Sam Houston Park in June and is now on display in the courtyard of the Houston Museum of African American Culture.
Film
What Happens When a Thousand Teenage Boys Form Their Own Government
For the new documentary Boys State, directors Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine use a long-running youth program to examine US democracy. The result is is both comedy and horror.
News
Dallas Art Fair Will Not Reimburse Participants for Canceled 2020 Edition
As galleries struggle to stay afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic, exhibitors learned the fair will not reimburse participants for the booth fees they have already paid.
In Brief
How Risky Is Visiting a Museum? This Graphic About COVID-19 Transmission Provides Some Answers
From going to a library or museum, to visiting a concert, the Texas Medical Association created a graphic to assess the scale of risk, on a scale of one to 10.
Art
How Black Artists in Texas Demonstrate the Spirit of Juneteenth
For better or worse, words like “proud,” “unapologetic,” and “resilient” have come to define Texans, and these words and this attitude also define a spectrum of Black artists who are from, or have lived in, Texas.
Art
About the Black Skin We Live In
As Juneteenth approaches, I've been given reason to consider a confluence of events and ideas: my family’s life-long process of becoming Black and having to police my sons’ consumption of a certain kind of blackface.
Announcement
UT Dallas Offers Transdisciplinary Graduate Programs in Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication
Apply by July 1 to develop your creative skills and undertake critical investigations of technology in artistic practices.
Art
Live Blogging Discussions on Nomadic Arts Organizing and How to Address Trauma
Check out Hyperallergic’s live report of day six of the Common Field Convening.
Art
Live Blogging Discussions on Fossil Fuel Abolition and Representations of Gender in the Arts
Check out Hyperallergic’s live report of day five of the Common Field Convening.
Art
Live Blogging Discussions on Art Education and Building Safe Spaces
Check out Hyperallergic’s live report of day four of the Common Field Convening.
Art
A Museum Educator Asks How We Can Feel Closer to Art
With the teaching galleries at the Blanton Museum now being closed, as a museum educator there I can’t but help ponder how an art experience of close looking with our eyes, our bodies, and our breath might translate in our post-pandemic future.