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THE LATEST CULTURAL NEWS COVERING ALL ASPECTS OF THE ARTS IN NORTH TEXAS: NEW EXHIBITS, NEW PERFORMANCES, GALLERY OPENINGS, AND MORE.
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01 AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM Facing The Rising Sun presents the remnants of a once-thriving North Dallas community, and the Billy R. Allen Folk Art Collection, featuring one of the largest collections of African American folk art in the country, remain on view through May. aamdallas.org 02 AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART Sandy Rodriguez in Isolation features 30 new works on paper created by the Los Angeles–based painter through Apr. 17. Through Dec., Stephanie Syjuco: Double Vision transforms images of renowned works from the Carter and investigates narratives of national identity. Newly acquired photographs and more are on view in Beauty and Life: The Finis Welch Collection, through May 8 alongside ¡Printing the Revolution!, organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which explores the rise of Chicano graphics within early social movements and the ways in which Chicanx artists since then have advanced printmaking practices attuned to social justice. Art Making as Life Making: Kinji Akagawa at Tamarind offers a glimpse of life in a 1960s print workshop, Apr. 23–Oct. 30. Darryl Lauster’s Testament (2018–20) will inaugurate a series of outdoor creative projects implemented by the Carter May 8, 2022–2023. Image: George Earl Ortman (1926–2015), printed by Kinji Akagawa (b. 1940), Two (Oaxaca XIV), 1966, lithograph. Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth. © George Ortman. cartermuseum.org 03 CROW MUSEUM OF ASIAN ART OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS JooYoung Choi: Songs of Resilience From the Tapestry of Faith introduces the Cosmic Womb multiverse and highlights some of its key characters and narratives. In creating a world that explores loss, healing, and growth based upon a connective web of belief and faith in oneself, Choi expresses human resiliency and strength through the power of storytelling. Through Sep. 4. crowmuseum.org 04 DALLAS CONTEMPORARY Joseph Havel presents Parrot Architecture, an exhibition of neverbefore-seen wall assemblages and totemic bronze-and-resin sculptures made with the help of his pet parrot, Hannah, during the pandemic. See Lonnie Holley: Coming from the Earth, his first exhibition in Texas, featuring a new body of ceramic works made especially for the show. America, Nice Place marks New York–based artist Borna Sammak’s first solo exhibition in Texas. Riffing on 36
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American culture, Sammak brings his wide-ranging practice through a showcase of new and recent works as well as a new exhibition design conceived by the artist. Natalie Wadlington: Places that Grow presents her figurative paintings based on storytelling with wide-eyed characters full of wonderment and fear. On view Apr. 16–Aug. 21. Image: Natalie Wadlington, Digging in the Rain, 2021, oil on canvas, 42 x 42 in. Image courtesy of the artist and Library Street Collective. dallascontemporary.org 05 DALLAS HOLOCAUST AND HUMAN RIGHTS MUSEUM Courage and Compassion provides a 360-degree perspective of the World War II experience of Americans of Japanese ancestry while exploring the relevance of these events today. The exhibition honors people across America who stood up to recognize Japanese Americans as friends, neighbors, and fellow citizens. Through Jun. 12. dhhrm.org 06 DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART Slip Zone: A New Look in Postwar Abstraction in the Americas and East Asia continues through Jul. 10 along with Bosco Sodi: La fuerza del destino and Guadalupe Rosales: Drifting on a Memory. Rosales collaborated with Dallas-based lowrider artist Lokey Calderon to create an immersive work that nods to lowrider culture and uses sound to replicate the aural experience of cruising in East LA. Naudline Pierre: What Could Be Has Not Yet Appeared continues through May 15. Octavio Medellín: Spirit and Form continues through Jan. 15, 2023. Spirit Lodge: Mississippian Art from Spiro is the first major exhibition dedicated to the art and culture of Mississippian peoples, through Aug. 7. Cartier and Islamic Art presents over 400 objects from major international collections, including the Department of Islamic Arts at the Louvre Museum and the Keir Collection of Islamic Art on loan to the DMA, May 14–Sep. 18. Image: Starr Hardridge, Muscogee (Creek), COSMIC TWINS, 2016, acrylic and plaster on canvas. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. dma.org 07 GEOMETRIC MADI MUSEUM Forty Days Forty Nights presents work by Shafaq Ahmad through May 27. geometricmadimuseum.org 08 GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL CENTER On view at the Food and Fiber Pavilion in Fair Park, Carne y Arena (Virtually present, Physically invisible), through Apr. 18, is
