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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 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

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presented for the first time in Texas in conjunction with the Nasher Sculpture Center. The ticketed, experimental, visual installation is a solo virtual reality experience that reunites frequent collaborators Alejandro G. Iñárritu and three-time Academy Award–winning cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki. bushcenter.org

09 KIMBELL ART MUSEUM

The Language of Beauty in African Art presents nearly 250 remarkable works from collections around the world—compelling art that scholars, connoisseurs, and collectors outside Africa have admired for more than a century, Apr. 4–Jul. 31. Image: Yòrùbá: Yewa culture; Nigeria Dance Staff (Oshe Sàngó), early 20th century wood and pigment The Art Institute of Chicago, gift of Richard Faletti, the Faletti Family Collection. kimbellart.org

10 LATINO CULTURAL CENTER

On Apr. 20, LCC presents Cine de Oro: The Chosen Ones and on May 18, Cine de Oro: Tortilla Soup. lcc.dallasculture.org

11 THE MAC

In Uncolonized: A Vision in the Parallel by Angel Cabrales, the artist uses science fiction to convey a reimagined legacy of the indigenous peoples of Latin America, through Apr. 30. the-mac.org

12 MEADOWS MUSEUM

Murillo: Picturing the Prodigal Son presents paintings that represent the first time a Spanish artist painted the story in serial form, through Jun. 12. Marking the Meadows’ first collaboration with the National Gallery of Ireland, the exhibition was inspired by the recent conservation work carried out in Dublin, highlighting the beauty of Murillo’s technique and revealing new insights into his working method at a critical point in his career. Meadows/ARCO Artist Spotlight: Ignasi Aballí presents an installation by the Spanish conceptual artist, who is representing Spain at the 59th Venice Biennale, through Jun. 26. meadowsmuseumdallas.org

13 MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH

The Modern commemorates its 20th year in its Tadao Ando–designed galleries with Recent Acquisitions 2002-2022 showcasing work from varied disciplines by artists from a wide range of cultures and geographies, through Apr. 24. Houston-based artist Jamal Cyrus’ sculpture, assemblages, performances, and paintings examine Black American histories and social movements as well as cultural traditions within the African diaspora in FOCUS: Jamal Cyrus from Apr. 1–Jun. 26. Women Painting Women features 46 female artists who choose women as subject matter in their works, May 15–Sep. 25. Image: Jammie Holmes, Carrying Caskets #1, 2021, acrylic and oil pastels on canvas, framed: 80.50 x 91.75 x 2 in. Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Museum purchase with funds donated by the Green Family Art Foundation. Courtesy of Adam Green Art Advisory. © Jammie Holmes. themodern.org

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14 MUSEUM OF BIBLICAL ART

The Spirit of Abstraction features an outdoor sculpture garden of works from modern industrial design to deeply idealistic art by James Surls, George Tobolowsky, Sherry Owens, and other artists. biblicalarts.org

15 NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER

Featuring work by the late Italian-born American artist, Harry Bertoia: Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life continues through Apr. 24 alongside Sightings: Olivia Block. 2022 Nasher Prize Laureate Nairy Baghramian presents sculptures from her recent series Misfits, including a new work created by the artist for this installation. Dutch-born, London-based artist Magali Reus presents an installation that examines the relationships between people and objects through the distortion of common images, May 14–Sep. 11. Throughout five decades, Lynda Benglis has created sculptures in a wide range of materials that explore the physicality of form and its effects on the viewer. For her exhibition at the Nasher, Benglis highlights three bodies of work in media as diverse as traditional bronze and decorative glitter, May 21–Sep. 18. Image: Harry Bertoia, Untitled, 1953, bronze-coated iron, 33 x 17 x 10 in. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Bunshaft. Harry Bertoia © 2021. Estate of Harry Bertoia / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. nashersculpturecenter.org

16 PEROT MUSEUM

Paula Crevoshay’s designs in The Shape of Matter—Through An Artist’s Eye celebrate nature’s beauty, continues through Apr. 20. Thomas Peschak’s lifelong obsession with the ocean led him first to marine biology, specializing in kelp forest and the impacts of marine poaching. A conservation photographer since 2004, he realized his images could have greater impact than his research. See them in Wild Seas, Secret Shores on May 4. perotmuseum.org.

17 SIXTH FLOOR MUSEUM

A multimedia experience, John F. Kennedy and the Memory of a Nation examines the life, legacy, and assassination of JFK stemming from the events of November 22, 1963, and their aftermath. Fragments presents architectural elements from the Texas School Book Depository that explore the building’s 120-year history. jfk.org

18 TYLER MUSEUM OF ART

Building a Legacy III: Selections from the Permanent Collection remains on view through May 1. tylermuseum.org