Betsy Lewis

Betsy Lewis reviews a posthumous solo exhibition by artist and musician Dennis Gonzalez, on view at Plush Gallery in Dallas.

Cyrus chooses materials that are part of everyone’s daily existence — like denim, and music — and his choices grant access for all to this exhibition.

For this show, be willing to go with the flow: here-immersive, there-interactive, and right across the room, just stand back and listen.

Fashion is psychology. It deserves respect as the most personal of design fields, and the most operative visual expression of an individual’s identity.

Bold is taking a risk in asking her audience to welcome work that looks traditional when it is always marching forward, like the nomadic culture it honors and grieves.

The late Havis credited the military with providing his earliest access to the mysticism of Eastern cultures that’s evident in his art making, as well as the confidence to pursuit art at all.

After the lecture was a tightly coiled media hour. A star was in the building. The star that built the building was in the building. I was stunned by the amount of poetry and humor that emerged inside a handful of minutes.

Loren Mozley, “Winter Fields,” 1948. Oil on canvas, overall: 24 x 30 in. Collection of Susan and Claude Albritton III Though Loren Mozley’s impact is most strongly felt in Austin,…

The only time I have had a transcendent experience through art was while visiting Rome—until now. motherf, an exhibition of new work by Celia Eberle of Ennis, Texas, concentrates uncommon…

Ricardo Paniagua is accustomed to stares. The 31-year-old’s presence alone intimidates many, and at the bagel shop near Highland Park where I interviewed him, the other patrons were flat-out bewildered…

  As senior curator of modern art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Stephanie Barron catalyzed the Nasher Sculpture Center’s current exhibition, Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective.…

The formats are traditional and the originality is through the fucking roof. Artists’ books at Texas Woman’s University; ceramics at SMU. Artistic boundaries are pushed and plundered. Academia. Who knew.…

   Last Tuesday night, Kiki Smith headlined the 2013 UNT Nasher Lecture Series to an adoring sold-out crowd that was hushed, reverent, and wearing mostly black. Working primarily in printmaking…

Dear DMA Friends, You may now enter the Dallas Museum of Art for free. And on top of free general admission, the DMA has implemented a tricked-up, no-cost, interactive “membership”…

The Goss-Michael Foundation’s zesty, celebrity-filled exhibition of Canadian pop star Bryan Adams’s photography embodies the essence of escapist entertainment that Dallas confuses with reality. I have a history of bashing…

Dallasites, if you enjoy the artistic equivalent of Gloria’s Super Special (back in the day it was the #9), have I got a show for you. It ain’t Salvadoran food,…

Ernesto Neto (pronounced NEH-toh) may have created the world’s cleverest aphrodisiac: it takes a while to realize Cuddle on the Tightrope is a journey into a vagina, but as soon…

ArtSlam is an auction benefiting WordSpace, a Dallas writers organization that hosts regular readings and events around town. The auction will be Sunday, June 24th, at Steve Paul Productions, a…

A forgotten series called Impressions of Dallas, last exhibited almost 60 years ago in New York City and exactly 60 years ago in its namesake, has been resuscitated by the…

I tried X once; HARAKIRI is a lot like that but without the uncontrollable want of sex (okay, twice). The opening night of HARAKIRI was the first in a series…