Events

Upcoming events in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Rowena Xiaoqing He: My Country and My People: China Since Tiananmen

Apr 22, 2019

A lecture by the author of Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China.

Safiya Noble: Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

Apr 17, 2019

A lecture by Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble, Senior Research Fellow of the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford.

Nils Roemer: Deportation and Liberation in the Final Year of the Third Reich

Apr 14, 2019

A lecture by Dr. Nils Roemer, Stan and Barbara Rabin Professor of Holocaust Studies.

 

The Nature of Arp

Apr 13-Sep 2, 2019

The Nature of Arp, curated by Catherine Craft and organized by the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, first venue of the show, provides a long-overdue look at the achievements of Jean (Hans) Arp (1886-1966), one of the most important and multifaceted artists of the modern era. Arp’s experimental approach to creation, radical rethinking of traditional art forms, and collaborative proclivities resonate with the wide-ranging character of art today.

Over a career spanning more than six decades, Arp produced a remarkably influential body of work in a rich variety of materials and formats. A founder of the Dada movement and pioneer of abstraction, he developed a vocabulary of curving, organic forms that moved fluidly between abstraction and representation and became a common point of reference for several generations of artists.

The exhibition brings to Palazzo Venier dei Leoni more than 70 works—sculptures in plaster, wood, bronze and marble, painted reliefs in wood, collages, drawings, tapestries and books—from European and American institutions and private collections.

The seven works by Arp in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection provide a rich starting point for this exhibition, as Arp was the first artist to enter Peggy Guggenheim’s collection with his small bronze sculpture Head and Shell (Tête et coquille) dated 1933. “The first thing I bought for collection was an Arp bronze. [Arp] took me to the foundry where it had been cast and I fell so in love with it that I asked to have it in my hands. The instant I felt it I wanted to own it”, wrote Peggy Guggenheim in her autobiography, Out of This Century(London: Andre Deutsch, 1979). She then enthusiastically added sculptures, as well as collages, reliefs and works on paper to her holdings. Likewise, Patsy Nasher purchased a bronze sculpture by Arp, Torso with Buds (1961) for her husband Raymond on his birthday, and it turned out to be—as for Peggy Guggenheim—the founding work of the famed Nasher collection of modern sculpture.

Alex Piquero, Nothing Fake Here: Debunking the Immigration/Crime Relationship

Apr 12, 2019

A lecture by Alex Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of Criminology and Associate Dean for Graduate Education in the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences.

A reading and conversation with Brice Matthieussent and Emma Ramadan

Apr 8, 2019

A discussion of the recently released novel The Revenge of the Translator, co-hosted by The Center for Translation Studies, The School of Arts and Humanities, and Deep Vellum Publishing

 

Zsuzsanna Ozsváth: When We Remember: The Murder of the Hungarian Jews, March 19, 1944 – May 1945.

Apr 8, 2019

A lecture by Zsuzsanna Ozsváth, Leah and Paul Lewis Chair of Holocaust Studies at UT Dallas.

JACOB HASHIMOTO: Clouds and Chaos

Sep 28-Apr 14, 2019

JACOB HASHIMOTO: Clouds and Chaos. Sept. 28, 2018 to Apr. 14, 2019. Crow Museum of Asian Art, Dallas.

Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy

Sep 18-Jan 6, 2019

Featuring seventy works by thirty artists in media ranging from painting and sculpture to photography, video, and installation art, from 1969 to 2016, Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy presents an alternate history of postwar and contemporary art that is also an archaeology of our troubled times.

Francesca Brunetti: Home, Un-homey Home

Sep 9-Oct 8, 2018

Francesca Brunetti’s Home, Un-homey Home is on view at 500X Gallery until October 8th, 2018.

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