What: 6th Annual Cedars Open Studio
When: Saturday, November 22nd, 10am-6pm; after party begins at 7pm and ends at midnight.
Where: South of downtown Dallas - Cedars neighborhood (map it!)
Price: FREE!

What: 2008 Winter Art Mart
When: November 21-23, 2008
Where: Bath House Cultural Center, 521 E. Lawther Drive, Dallas, TX 75218 (map it!)
Admission Price: FREE!

Schedule:
Friday, November 21 (7pm-9pm) … Preview Reception featuring music by the Herbie Johnson Quartet
Saturday, November 22 (12pm-7pm) … Sale/Auction
Sunday, November 23 (11am-6pm) … Sale/Auction

[From bathhousecultural.com]
Come get a bit of wonderful art for yourself and your friends at the Bath House’s Winter Art Mart. Paintings, sculpture, photography, pottery, ceramics, jewelry, cards and other unique creations will be featured along with food, music, a silent auction and much more.

The Art Mart benefits the Bath House Cultural Center’s year-round visual and performing arts programs - so it’s a purchase that we all benefit from!

Participating Artists:
Elizabeth Amaro, Brenda Benson, Martha Boles, George Boyd, Geraldine Brettmann, Mary Brinson, Marla Cook, Dan Coppersmith, Suzanne Corey, Bebin Cypher and Paco Sutera, Charlotte B. De Molay, Dan and Lori Dudley , Barbara Erickson, Brad Foster, Rebecca Guy, Fred R. Hight, Mahlon Hight, Brandon Jenkins, Cindy Kelley, Carmen Kelley and Sylvia Mims, Dannelle LeBlanc, Charlotte Lindsey, Kayla Mick, Jo Moncrief, Pam Myers-Morgan, Lucky Nelms, Travis Rice, Gail Roberts, Marty Ruiz, Elisabeth Schalij, Tim Scheer, Russ Sharek, Claudia Sullins, Susan Tinkler O’Neal, Sheilah and Dave Unger, Alba Uribe-Sorrentino, and Mary Vanderwood.

For more information visit The Bath House Cultural Center website, or call the event hotline at (214) 670-8570.

Event: Bill Owens Artist Reception and Book Signing
When: Saturday, November 22, 2008 from 5pm-8pm
Where: Photographs Do Not Bend (PDNB) 1202 Dragon Street, Dallas, TX 75207

Bill Owens is an American photographer best known for his suburban domestic photography and famous book Suburbia, published in 1973. Owens captured quintessential hometown suburbia after WWII like no other photographer had done during that time. His most recent book, Leisure, was published in 2005. Born in 1938, Owens is also an editor and brewer (founded 3 pub breweries) living in Hayward, CA. He collects antique lawn sprinklers and carved wooden animals.

Owens’ new series, New Suburbia, will be on display at PDNB from November 22 through January 3, 2009.

Guidelive.com has posted some great photos from Olafur Eliasson’s Take Your Time exhibit currently at the DMA through March 15th, 2009.

This last Friday, Eliasson was interviewed on the show Think with host Kris Boyd. Watch the full interview on KERA’s Think webpage. The show will be replayed on PBS (channel13) this Wednesday at 1:30am (maybe a good idea to set the DVR.)

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Dallas Museum of Arts Presents Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson

Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson at Dallas Museum of Art

The exhibit will begin November 8th and run through March 15th of next year. Eliasson is an internationally known artist with works having been displayed in Copenhagen, New York, and the Tate Modern in London. The DMA will be the third venue stop for the traveling exhibit. Previous venues have included the MOMA in New York City and SFMOMA in San Francisco where the exhibit first began back in 2007.

The DMA has a well written and researched summary online with reviews about the artist and exhibition. The NYT.com Arts section also has a page showcasing his art installations and a quick browse through some of Elisasson’s past exhibits. I have not seen Eliasson’s work in person, but I already cannot stop looking at his work online. His installations are large & extravagant - they are simple and calculated in design - it would seem therapeutic to surround yourself around them.

On Eliasson’s website you can download the .pdf of photographs taken in his studio while he was working on the Take Your Time show. They are all done in black and white and added to some are symmetrical lines & images to coincide with the object(s) captured. The picture below is my current desktop image. I have an infatuation with circular mirrored objects, or maybe just mirrored objects in general. I love reflections and the way the images in them take a contorted but still recognizable shape.

In the fall of each year, a unique art event takes place in neighborhoods near White Rock Lake. In its 16th year, the White Rock Lake Art Studio Tour of 2008 will include 45 professional artists and 5 art centers.

This popular event offers the public the opportunity to visit artists within their special working environments, to see local art exhibitions and to tour art schools. On the Tour this year are painters, sculptors, mixed media artists, potters, photographers, glass and mosaic artists, jewelers, fiber artists and printmakers.

From 10am to 5pm on Saturday, October 18 & Sunday, October 19th. I posted the map below and found some artists that could be worth checking out. The weather is supposed to be beautiful this weekend - sunny skies with a high of 80 degrees!

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Information courtesy of Dallas Arts Revue

Image via Wikipedia

This Sunday WRR is presenting the 14th Annual Picnic in the Park at the Dallas Arboretum.

The Dallas Wind Symphony will be playing at 7pm and at 8:30pm AFI Dallas will present The Princess Bride.

Download the WRR program for this Sunday.

WRR will be giving away promotional prizes as well as 2 free Lufthansa airline tickets to Europe.

Coolers are allowed, and don’t forget your blanket.

Admission and parking is free after 5:30pm.

The Dallas Arboretum
8617 Garland Rd
Dallas, TX 75218
(214) 515-6500

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I’m not sure if I like this artist because his work was so strange, or because some guy took me to his gallery opening on our first date (by far my favorite date because he wasn’t so lame as to do the ordinary.)

Chet Morrison is a fantasy photographer and combines photos from the past with his original photos. His photographs are offbeat and I remember just sort of looking deeper into each photograph for a meaning or even a story. Whatever it was, I was reaching for more.

His photography is dark and has an unapologetic sense of humor. The hats play a role in almost every photograph, acting as a constant accessory. Not sure what that even means, maybe you can tell me.

I will most likely never ever own a Morrison because it’s not the style of art I could look at everyday, but I would not mind seeing his work again.

Anyway, I’ll keep you posted if I hear anything about gallery openings or showings.

I grabbed one of Morrison’s postcards as we were leaving. It’s sad, the clothes are dated, the mother has died, and I almost want to hear the tune of the father’s violin. But why is the mother driving the car?

2917 Gallery
2917 Canton Street (located in Deep Ellum)
Dallas, TX 75226
ph: 214/755-0903

Two places in Chicago that you should know about if you ever visit (or are lucky enough to live there).

Meli Cafe & Juice Bar, 301-305 S. Halsted, Chicago, IL 60661, tel: 312/454-0748
www.melicafe.com

Meli’s is located in the Greek district, a little off the beaten path, about a 5 minute cab ride from downtown. This place is small (quaint) with people packed on the inside and busy with people waiting on the outside. Worth the trip, worth the wait.I could have ordered anything on that menu and probably not have been disappointed. How good does this sound?

Brie Omelete, Ham, Asparagus & Mozzarella Frittatas, Stuffed Strawberry French Toast (held together by a layer of marscarpone), Banana & Cocoa-hazelnut Crepe

… this goes on, I’m just listing what I think sounds good.

Of course here’s a picture of what I ate - Feta Scrambler (made with Eggland’s Best organic eggs).

All their marmalade is freshly made from natural ingredients and for sale.

If you don’t order anything with marscarpone, ask for a sample of it. Not too sweet, creamy and mixed with honey.

Meli Cafe & Juice Bar is open daily from 6am to 4pm. Breakfast is served all day and lunch is served after 11am. Kitchen closes at 3pm.

Moving on.

Into the 2nd best bookstore I have ever been in. The first was an American bookstore in Prague, inside a coffee shop and through a narrow hallway back into a tiny room; it was like a hidden treasure of books only the locals knew about about.

Quimby’s had art magazines, books, comics (most of them drawn by hand, some were copied pages stapled together), political materials, poetry books. It’s all the stuff you don’t talk about on the pop-culture mix.

An opinion is not manufactured in a store like this. You’re free to roam.

I could have spent hours in there. Instead I had 20 minutes to browse art magazines and pick out the ones I could possibly use later. And by use, I mean be inspired by… maybe. We’ll see.

Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave., Chicago, IL 60622, tel. 773/342-0910
www.quimbys.com

The Boston Globe have produced images that are worth taking a look at. They’ve titled the project “The Big Picture” because all the pictures are digitally enhanced to large, high quality size. Some will move your heart while others will compel you to share with your friends. I most enjoyed the “USA Olympic Diving Trials”. Their muscles are so beautiful, they scream “I’ve worked HARD for this”!  I was also interested in “A Look at the Presidential Candidates“. 23 pictures looking at the lives of the two Presidential hopefuls, Senator Barack Obama II and Senator John McCain III. Two very different lives they lived. Both struggled and have had successes on two different ends of the spectrum. These pictures really take you into the lives of these two men. No politics involved; no empty promises; no speeches prepared. The pictures are so honest.

These pictures do no justice to how they look on the Globe’s website. That’s why they called it “The Big Picture”.

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