Next week will be the busiest of the calendar year in the art world. Formerly called Dallas Arts Week, it has now expanded into Dallas Arts Month, because the Dallas art scene has grown so much that you can’t possibly try to showcase it in only a week. Dallas Arts Month kicks off this Saturday with a slew of openings across the city. But first, the Nasher Sculpture Center concludes its Nasher Prize Month by bringing out the star power. This year’s winner of the 2017 Nasher Prize, a $100,000 award given annually by the museum, is French artist Pierre Huyghe. The prize is the largest award presented to a living sculptor in the world.
On Thursday the Nasher Prize Dialogues, which are free and open to the public with an RSVP, offer a graduate symposium with papers presented by art history students from London, Leeds, Berlin, Melbourne, and San Diego. The discussion will be moderated by Pavel Pyś, curator of visual art at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. The keynote speaker is renowned art theorist and scholar, Nicolas Bourriaud, director of the La Panacée art center in Montpellier, France, who will speak at 3 p.m.
On Friday, National Gallery of Art Senior Curator Lynne Cooke, Haus der Kunst Director Okwui Enwezor, and Jed Morse, the Nasher’s chief curator, describe the process of selecting the winner at 10:30 a.m. at the Dallas Museum of Art. Then Pierre Huyghe himself speaks in conversation with Cooke at Booker T Washington High School at 2 p.m.
On Saturday, several galleries have daytime openings, including Erin Cluley and Galleri Urbane. DeColonize Dallas, presented by Michelada Think Tank, which I am a member of, kicks off its run of events and exhibitions with Super Fantasy Mercado 2 at Red Bird (Southwest Center) Mall. Dallas favorite Simeen Farhat is at Cris Worley, John Pomara is at Barry Whistler, and Gabriel Dawe is at Conduit Gallery. However, perhaps the most well-attended show will be the second Arte y Pan Dulce at the Meet Shop in Oak Cliff, hosted by Lucha Dallas and organized by Mariah Garza and Susana Edith. This show of artists of color in various disciplines particularly tries to center womxn, queer, and trans people of color. If one wants to see what the future of Dallas will be like, swing by this show.
Without further ado, this week’s events and openings:
Thursday
Nasher Prize Dialogues: Graduate Symposium at
Nasher Sculpture Center – March 30, 10 a.m. – 4p.m.
2001 Flora Street, Dallas, TX 75201
Birds, Cats, Skulls, Yeah! at
Kettle Art – March 30, 7 – 10 p.m.
2650 Main Street, Dallas, Texas 75226
https://www.facebook.com/events/200623193758800/
Friday
Nasher Prize Dialogues: Jurors Conversations at
Dallas Museum of Art – March 31, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
1717 N Harwood St, Dallas, Texas 75201
https://www.facebook.com/events/269811456797577/
Nasher Prize Dialogues: Pierre Huyghe at
Montgomery Arts Theater – March 31, 2 – 4 p.m.
Booker T Washington High School
2501 Flora Street, Dallas, Texas 75201
https://www.facebook.com/events/1894999724115421/
Saturday
Block Party at
Recipe Oak Cliff – April 1, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
1831 S. Ewing Ave, Dallas, Texas 75216
https://www.facebook.com/events/414698215571421/
At Home on Time by Nic Nocosia at
Erin Cluley Gallery – April 1, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
414 Fabrication Street, Dallas, Texas 75212
https://www.facebook.com/events/285904858490027/
Entendre by Will Heron at
H Gallery at Eastfield College – April 1, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
3737 Motley Drive, Mesquite, Texas 75150
https://www.facebook.com/events/189843278175010/
Anna Kunz and Stephen D’ Onofrio at
Galleri Urbane – April 1, 11:11 a.m. – 1:11 p.m.
2277 Monitor Street, Dallas, Texas 75207
https://www.facebook.com/events/263989584029032/
Super Fantasy Mercado 2 at
Southwest Center Mall – April 1, noon – 6 p.m.
3662 Camp Wisdom Road, Dallas, Texas 75237
https://www.facebook.com/events/153994421787751/
Blood Shot is Blood Love by Simeen Farhat at
Cris Worley Fine Arts – April 1, 5 – 8 p.m.
1845 E Levee Street Ste 110, Dallas, TX 75207
https://www.facebook.com/events/124375911428059/
MFA Qualifying Exhibition Special Edition at
Pollock Gallery – April 1, 5 – 7 p.m.
3140 Dyer Street, Dallas, Texas 75205
https://www.facebook.com/events/1287773557926635/
Stay in Touch by Ann Glazer at
Liliana Bloch Gallery – April 1, 5-7 p.m.
2271 Monitor Street, Dallas, Texas 75207
https://www.facebook.com/events/401362136914091/
Shifting Fancy of the Crowd by Howard Sherman at
Circuit 12 Gallery – April 1, 6 – 9 p.m.
1811 E. Levee Street, Dallas, Texas 75207
https://www.facebook.com/events/433254183675006/
Arte y Pan Dulce – A POC Art Show at
The Meet Shop OC – April 1, 6 – 11:30 p.m.
1409 Ferndale Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75224
https://www.facebook.com/events/979446805521585/
FUN | Curated works by Benjamin Terry at
Kirk Hopper Fine Art – April 1, 6 – 8 p.m.
3008 Commerce Street, Dallas, Texas 75226
https://www.facebook.com/events/1248351838585450/
Gabriel Dawe, Sarah Ball, Ellen George at
Conduit Gallery – April 1, 6-8 p.m.
1626 C Hi Line Drive, Dallas, Texas 75207
https://www.facebook.com/events/1255638134557535/
Vince Jones at
Liliana Bloch Gallery – April 1, 6 -9 p.m.
2271 Monitor Street, Dallas, Texas, 75207
https://www.facebook.com/events/1455795067766998/
Digital Hypnosis by John Pomara at
Barry Whistler Gallery – April 1, 6 – 8 p.m.
315 Cole Street, Dallas, Texas 75207
https://www.facebook.com/events/1809120679410718/
Jaime Tarazona, Nina Katchadourian, and Cameron Schoepp at
Site 131 – April 1, 6 – 8 p.m.
131 Payne Street, Dallas, Texas 75207
