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Wednesday, 09.04.19

Michael Rakowitz Wins Nasher Prize for Sculpture

New York Times

The prize comes with $100,000, which Mr. Rakowitz would use for his continued work centering on Iraq.

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A monumental sculpture by artist Michael Rakowitz depicting a winged beast with a man's head

Wednesday, 09.04.19

Michael Rakowitz Named 2020 Nasher Prize Laureate

ArtAsiaPacific

On September 4, Michael Rakowitz was announced as the 2020 Nasher Prize laureate by the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, receiving a cash award of USD 100,000. The Iraqi-American artist was recognized for his “deeply considered vision of sculpture’s possibilities in the face of political and humanitarian crises,” according to the Center’s statement.

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2020 Nasher Prize Laureate Michael Rakowitz

Wednesday, 09.04.19

Michael Rakowitz Wins $100,000 Nasher Prize

ArtForum

Michael Rakowitz, the Chicago-based, Iraqi American artist, known for producing powerful works that often address complicated histories and events, has been named the winner of the $100,000 Nasher Prize

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2020 Nasher Prize Laureate Michael Rakowitz

Wednesday, 09.04.19

Michael Rakowitz wins 2020 Nasher Prize for Sculpture

Apollo Magazine

The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas, announced today that Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz has won the 2020 Nasher Prize for Sculpture.

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2020 Nasher Prize Laureate Michael Rakowitz

Wednesday, 09.04.19

Refugees, the homeless and war: The 2020 Nasher Prize goes to an American who makes a bold statement

Dallas Morning News

Michael Rakowitz, 45, is the second American and the second Chicagoan to receive the prize in its five-year history

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An archway by American artist Michael Rakowitz

Friday, 08.09.19

The Nasher Offers a Rare Chance to Visit the Rachofsky Warehouse this Summer

D Magazine

Two great Dallas art collections intermix in tandem exhibitions that span 150 years of sculpture.

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Sculpture of a female statue facing a pile of rags

Wednesday, 06.05.19

Fiber Artist Sheila Hicks weaves storytelling into her custom installations

Dallas Morning News

A look back at the career of Sheila Hicks and a review of her exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center.

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A sculptural installation by Sheila Hicks titled 'Sentinel of Saffron'

Monday, 05.20.19

Nasher Sculpture Center acquires Nicole Eisenman's 'Sketch for a Fountain'

Artforum

The Nasher Sculpture Center has announced that it will add artist Nicole Eisenman's 'Sketch for a Fountain' to its collection.

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Four figures in Nicole Eisenman, 'Sketch for a Fountain'

Friday, 05.17.19

Abstraction in Venice — Jean Arp, Arshile Gorky and Helen Frankenthaler

Financial Times

Three powerful museum shows echo the Venice Biennale's themes of migration and exile

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A sculpture by Jean (Hans) Arp titled 'Human Concretion'

Friday, 05.17.19

Catch a Breath

TheaterJones

The Nasher's Soundings season closed with a dynamic performance by clarinetist David Krakauer and pianist Kathleen Tagg.

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Duet David Krakauer and Kathleen Tagg, also known as Breath & Hammer, performing

Monday, 04.01.19

The Nature of Arp

Modern Painters Magazine

A review of the Nasher's traveling exhibition at Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and an interview with Nasher Curator Dr. Catherine Craft.

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Sculpture by Jean (Hans) Arp titled ' '3 Disagreeable Objects on a Face'

Wednesday, 03.27.19

Isa Genzken World Receiver

L'Officiel Art International

Ben Eastham retraces the steps of an exceptional career of Isa Genzken spanning four decades

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A sculpture by Isa Genzken titled 'Empire/Vampire III, 16"'

Friday, 03.15.19

Lurid but fascinating sculptures fill Sterling Ruby’s exhibit at the Nasher

Dallas News

Los Angeles-based artist Sterling Ruby enjoys transforming a wide range of materials into diverse and raucously grand artworks.

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Fabric sculpture by Sterling Ruby titled 'Laying Figure'

Saturday, 02.02.19

Go See Sterling Ruby’s Giant Sculptures at the Nasher

D Magazine

The Los Angeles-based artist creates on a massive scale.

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Sculpture by Sterling Ruby titled 'The Cup'

Wednesday, 09.26.18

German artist Isa Genzken, shaped by World War II’s aftermath, wins 2019 Nasher Prize for Sculpture

Dallas News

The Nasher Prize is awarded to Isa Genzken, whose art has been defined by her upbringing in post-World War II Germany

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Public sculpture by German artist Isa Genzken in Zuccotti Park in New York

Tuesday, 09.25.18

Isa Genzken Wins the Nasher Prize for Sculpture

The New York Times

Isa Genzken is awarded the Nasher Prize for her work in sculpture

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Portrait of Isa Genzken, winner of the 2019 Nasher Prize, courtesy of Galerie Buchholz

Friday, 05.11.18

From An Irish Castle To A Dallas Garden, Luke Fowler Makes Art of Listening

D Magazine

Two sculptures become speakers at the Nasher in a sequel iteration of Gone Reflections, which sounded in a Medieval defense tower at Lismore Castle Arts last year.

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Luke Fowler stands in front of pictures of film stills

Thursday, 04.19.18

Duchamp Did Not Invent the Readymade. In Fact, It May Have Been the First Human Art Form

Artnet

Consider the case of the Makapansgat Pebble.

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Close up of a pebble that looks like it has a face on it on display at the exhibition

Monday, 04.09.18

At Town Hall, Nasher Prize Laureate Theater Gates Pushed Dallas To Build

D Magazine

"Art without people is dead," the artist told the crowd.

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Portrait of Artist Theater Gates

Thursday, 04.05.18

At the Nasher Sculpture Centre

London Review of Books

Currently on view at the Nasher Sculpture Centre in Dallas is a show whose high ambitions gradually unfold from its title. First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone (until 28 April) has in its sights the deepest origins of art.

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Two brown oval handaxes, the left is more textured and the right has a hole

Thursday, 03.29.18

Theaster Gates, first American Nasher Prize winner, makes a case for art as urban renewal

The Dallas Morning News

And making things — rehabbing things, transforming things, collecting things — is what the Chicago-based artist and urban planner does. Announced as the Nasher Prize winner last September, Gates will address his multi-disciplinary artistic practice in a town hall-style meeting at the Wyly Theater on April 6, and attend a black-tie gala in his honor at the Nasher Sculpture Center on April 7.

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The giant disembodied head of a cartoonish black baby on a orange carpet stares out at the viewer

Saturday, 03.10.18

First Sculpture views prehistoric tools as early examples of art

The Washington Post

When is an ancient tool a sculpture? It depends on how it’s presented.

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Vase looking ancient artifact displayed as art

Monday, 02.26.18

First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone at the Nasher

Glasstire

Most chronicles of art history trace this human impulse back to objects like the Ice Age Lion-man, an ivory sculpture recognized as the first animal-shaped sculpture, or the Chauvet Cave paintings in France, with their 30,000-year-old depictions of horses, cattle, bears, and woolly rhinos. First Sculpture at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, argues for a much longer timeline of artistic intent.

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Teardrop Handaxe on display at the Nasher Museum

Thursday, 02.01.18

Was Australopithecus an Artist?

New York Times

"First Sculpture” argues that our Stone Age ancestors created these objects not merely as tools, but as art. Can we ever really know for sure?

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Installation view of one large handaxe and two smaller as part of the First Sculpture Exhibition

Monday, 01.08.18

Tom Sachs and David Searcy: Japanese Tea, Rockets, and Switchblades

The Paris Review

Tom Sachs: Tea Ceremony at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas was a vast and complex exhibition of ideas within ideas about ideas, wherein the protocols of the Japanese tea ceremony and those of NASA’s space program are revealed to express opposed yet deeply similar understandings and even longings.

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An image of the exhibition with the focus on a baby blue trailer with a slanted roof

Thursday, 10.05.17

Tea Gardens & Tom Sachs

Art & Seek

The sleek, sun-lit galleries of the Nasher Sculpture Center have been transformed into a Japanese tea garden. The alterations were made by New York sculptor Tom Sachs. Hady Mawajdeh got a chance to talk with Sachs for Art&Seek and explained how his oddly clunky artworks celebrate ceremony and ritual.

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Image of an artistically rendered tree in front of a powder blue trailer

Friday, 09.29.17

FrontRow Video: Tent Poles of Modernism, With Tom Sachs

D Magazine

'Tea Ceremony' is cultural relativism made manifest. Artist Tom Sachs gives us a tour of his influences in the Nasher's permanent collection.

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Installation view of a closeup of Tom Sachs' signature on Con-Ed barriers

Tuesday, 09.19.17

Theaster Gates Wins $100,000 Nasher Prize for Sculpture

The New York Times

Mr. Gates has been named the recipient of the 2018 Nasher Prize, awarded by the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas to celebrate ?a living artist who elevates the understanding of sculpture and its possibilities.? Mr. Gates says he will use part of the prize to develop literature.

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2018 Nasher Prize Laureate standing in front of a piece in the National Gallery of Art

Monday, 08.07.17

So Cool, They're Hot

The Dallas Morning News

Chill out with Roni Horn's simply lovely works at the Nasher.

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Photo: Kevin Todora

Saturday, 08.05.17

Roni Horn at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Glasstire

Running through most of August, the Sculpture Center has your summer’s moment of Zen.

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Photo: Kevin Todora

Sunday, 07.02.17

Glass + Bamboo Square Off

PaperCity Magazine

Roni Horn's solo at the Nasher marks her first U.S. exhibition since 2010 and the first in America devoted solely to her glass works.

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Photo: Kevin Todora

Saturday, 07.01.17

Coachella Junior

PaperCity Magazine

You don't have to jet to Indio to partake in festival life: The creative minds at the Nasher Sculpture Center have styled The Great Create as Coachella for mini-me's.

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Photo: Bret Redman

Thursday, 06.15.17

Roni Horn: Nasher Scultpure Center

Arts + Culture TX

Roni Horn is the artist’s first museum exhibition in the U.S. since 2010, and this is the first time the Center has installed artworks of this scale.

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Photo: Kevin Todora

Monday, 06.12.17

Roni Horn Presents Sculptures at Nasher Sculpture Center and Multimedia at Hauser & Wirth

Forbes

Roni Horn’s work, at times, presents itself as impenetrable: intellectual, theoretical, and deeply conceptual. But despite the perceived inscrutability and the diverse mediums she employs, her central themes are actually quite evident and consistent from exhibition to exhibition.

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Photo: Kevin Todora

Friday, 06.09.17

Critics' Picks: Roni Horn at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Artforum

Meticulously created from solid cast glass generally used for the sensitive lenses of telescopes, these chest-high cylinders are semitransparent light collectors.

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Photo: Kevin Todora

Monday, 05.01.17

Starry, Starry Night at the Nasher

PaperCity Magazine

After a year's worth of events around the world, from Dallas to Mexico City to Berlin, the second annual Nasher Prize was awarded to French artist Pierre Huyghe during a starry gala held in the Nasher Sculpture Center Garden.

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Photo: Bret Redman

Saturday, 04.08.17

The Week In Art

Artnet

Down in Texas on April 1, in a foliage-draped tent inspired by his work, Pierre Huyghe was honored at the Nasher Sculpture Center with the 2017 Nasher Prize.

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Photo: Bruno

Thursday, 03.30.17

Pierre Huyghe: Sculptor Of The Intangible

Interview

There is virtually no art world convention that Pierre Huyghe has not sought to redefine.

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Human Mask

Tuesday, 03.28.17

Nasher Prize to be awarded to French artist Pierre Huyghe on Saturday in Dallas

The Dallas Morning News

Holly Haber reports on support for the 2017 Nasher Prize honoring Pierre Huyghe.

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Zoodram 4, 2011

Sunday, 03.26.17

Sculpture is a Moving Target

The Dallas Morning News

If you thought that the Nasher Prize for Sculpture would go to an artist who sculpts objects that sit on pedestals or stand still, think again.

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Photo: Philippe Quaisse

Wednesday, 03.22.17

Richard Serra Prints at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Glasstire

Serra approaches his printmaking (which he’s undertaken for decades) with the same gravity, precision, and pursuit of mass and presence as when he employs tons of steel.

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Photo: Kevin Todora

Tuesday, 02.28.17

Richard Serra, A Master Of Giant Art

The Huffington Post

Strikingly physical in the sheer force of their presence, Serra’s pieces are primarily focused on large-scale work, usually site-specific works relating to their surrounding architectural and urban landscape setting.

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Photo: Kevin Todora

Monday, 02.27.17

'Welcome Mat' at the Nasher Celebrated Freedom of Religious Expression

Dallas Observer

It’s doubtful that the Nasher Sculpture Center had ever been the site of a multi-religious prayer ceremony prior to Monday night, but the world renowned institution is thankfully taking chances on a lot of things that might not be typical museum fare with its recent Artist Circle installments.

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Programmed by Lee Escobedo

Saturday, 02.25.17

Blackout? Three shows create meta-exhibition of contemporary art in Dallas and Fort Worth

The Dallas Morning News

Nasher Sculpture Center has the most extreme -- and, for that reason alone, the most aesthetically powerful -- of the three exhibitions, with an important selection of the monumental "prints" by sculptor Richard Serra.

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Photo: Kevin Todora

Friday, 02.24.17

“Richard Serra: Prints” at the Nasher Sculpture Center

art ltd.

On view at the Nasher Sculpture Center, a compelling exhibition of prints by the American sculptor Richard Serra chronicles his engagement with two-dimensional works on paper between 1972 and 2015.

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Photo: Kevin Todora

Sunday, 02.19.17

Cage Match

Theater Jones

In the Soundings: New Music at the Nasher series, Boris Berman breathlessly performs the entirety of John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes.

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Soundings: New Music at the Nasher

Saturday, 02.18.17

Pianist Boris Berman explores the strange and wonderful sounds of John Cage

The Dallas Morning News

Cage's 70-minute Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano, from 1948, was the sole fare for the Saturday-night Soundings concert at the Nasher Sculpture Center.

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Soundings: New Music at the Nasher

Thursday, 02.16.17

Nasher’s 'Soundings' offers rare performance of uniquely corrupted composition and instrument

The Dallas Morning News

American composer John Cage is known as much for what he didn’t do as he is for his completed works. 

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Soundings: New Music at the Nasher

Friday, 02.10.17

Why are women artists so underrepresented in museums?

The Dallas Morning News

Benglis will be in Dallas at the Nasher Sculpture Center on Saturday, Feb. 11, as part of a panel discussion on female representation within the arts titled "Off the Pedestal: Women Artists in Art Museums".

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Photo: Kristina Bowman

Wednesday, 02.01.17

A New Lease On Sculpture

Patron Magazine

When the Nasher Sculpture Center set out to award an international sculpture prize to the most groundbreaking artists advancing the medium today, they certainly meant business.

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A Forest of Lines, July 2008 Event, Sydney Opera House

Wednesday, 01.18.17

Thou shall see 'Dekalog': Kieslowski's masterpiece is coming to the Texas Theatre

The Dallas Morning News

But Dekalog, Krzysztof Kieslowski's ten-part series of modern morality dramas, is about nothing if not defying expectations.

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Krzysztof Kieslowski

Sunday, 12.18.16

What They're Having

Theater Jones

The Nasher's Soundings season is off to an excellent start with a Yellow Barn concert with interesting themes.

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Image courtesy the artist

Friday, 12.16.16

Concert of the Year?

The Dallas Morning News

A provocative, even erotic, musical mix in the Nasher's Soundings series.

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Photo courtesy the artists

Saturday, 12.03.16

Turner Prize finalist Michael Dean's first U.S. exhibition in Dallas speaks volumes

The Dallas Morning News

British artist Michael Dean is having a moment.

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Photo: Kevin Todora

Thursday, 12.01.16

The Nasher's New Man

PaperCity Magazine

Christina Geyer on Donald Fowler, the new Director of Retail at the Nasher Store.

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Photo: Bret Redman

Thursday, 12.01.16

Change of Season

Patron Magazine

The 2016-2017 Soundings: New Music at the Nasher lineup is brilliant, replete with its first-ever Composer-in-Residence.

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Jörg Widmann, Nasher Composer-in-Residence

Thursday, 12.01.16

Charitably Chic

Patron Magazine

Christen Wilson talks about the importance of the Nasher Prize.

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Photo: Daniel Driensky

Tuesday, 11.01.16

Kathryn Andrews

art ltd.

Employing props, costumes, and other movie collectibles, the LA artist deconstructs presidential elections, gender relations, and the mechanisms of cultural desire.

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Kathryn Andrews: Run for President at the Nasher

Tuesday, 11.01.16

Lost True Leaves: Rising Art Star Michael Dean appears in first solo U.S. show at Nasher Sculpture Center

1530 Main Blog

Michael Dean is a sculptor, but he often emphasizes that he is much more than that. Dean’s work as a writer manifests itself physically by way of actual books that he makes specifically for his shows.

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Photo: Kevin Todora

Tuesday, 11.01.16

The Nasher Puts Political Absurdity on Exhibit

D Magazine

The artist Kathryn Andrews has found the perfect image to complement the 2016 presidential campaign.

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Photo: Kevin Todora

Monday, 10.17.16

Bitter Pill: Kathryn Andrews at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Glasstire

Like a clever Hollywood script, Andrews’ Run for President tells a story about telling stories.

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Photo: Kevin Todora

Tuesday, 09.27.16

Pierre Huyghe Wins Nasher Sculpture Center’s $100,000 Prize

ArtNews

The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas announced today that Pierre Huyghe has won its 2017 Nasher Prize.

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Pierre Huyghe

Monday, 09.26.16

Pierre Huyghe Wins Nasher Sculpture Prize

The New York Times

The French artist Pierre Huyghe, who has stretched the concept of sculpture’s stability in recent years by making work with decidedly unstable elements like bees, spiders, horseshoe crabs and artificial snowstorms, has won the Nasher Prize, an award created by the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas to draw attention to the work of the most influential contemporary sculptors.

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Pierre Huyghe

Monday, 09.26.16

The 2017 Nasher Prize Winner Is French Artist Pierre Huyghe

KERA Art + Seek

This year’s winner of the $100,000 Nasher Sculpture Prize is a boundary-breaking artist.

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Pierre Huyghe

Monday, 09.12.16

'What’s another clown in the White House?' Nasher unveils provocative 'Run for President' exhibit

The Dallas Morning News

Presciently timed and eerily paralleling the circusesque plotline of the 2016 presidential election, "Run for President" is an amalgamation of ready-made Hollywood film props, found imagery and Andrews' signature polished-steel pieces.

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Photo: Nan Coulter

Friday, 07.01.16

In Suspense

ArtDesk

The acclaimed contemporary sculptor's remarkable self-titled exhibition opened in May and continues through August 21, 2016

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Photo: Kevin Todora

Friday, 07.01.16

The seriousness of a child at play: Kenneth Baker on Joel Shapiro at the Nasher Sculpture Center

The Art Newspaper

The Nasher invites a wide-minded reading of Shapiro's new work by grading it into the context of the museum's permanent collection.

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Photo: Kevin Todora

Monday, 06.20.16

Bringing a Sculptural Platoon of Female Soldiers to Life

Hyperallergic

In a downstairs gallery the Nasher Sculpture Center, Mai-Thu Perret has created an enclave for her newest sculptural figures.

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Photo: Kevin Todora

Thursday, 06.09.16

No. 240: Joel Shapiro, Linn Meyers

The Modern Art Notes Podcast

Joel Shaprio’s newest immersive installation is now on view in an eponymous exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas that also includes works on paper and Shapiros from the Nasher’s collection.

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Photo: Kevin Todora

Tuesday, 06.07.16

Working In Real Time: An Interview With Multi-Disciplinary Artist Mai-Thu Perret

AUTRE

Swiss multi-disciplinary artist Mai-Thu Perret understands that the most interesting artwork lives within the viewer’s mind, as an impression, memory, or dream, as much as it lives within the space that the art is presented.

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Photo: Kevin Todora

Saturday, 06.04.16

Committed to memory: the art of Doris Salcedo

Apollo

Doris Salcedo talks to Lidija Haas about making monuments to memory.

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Doris Salcedo

Friday, 06.03.16

Profound? No, but definitely fun

The Dallas Morning News

Nasher's Shapiro show a delightful must see

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Photo: Kevin Todora

Thursday, 06.02.16

Women at Arms

The Dallas Morning News

Danielle Avram writes on Mai-Thu Perret: "Nasher exhibit's female guerilla fighters paer of a merging of modernism, feminism."

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Photo: Kevin Todora

Wednesday, 06.01.16

Elemental: A Celebration of American Sculptor Joel Shapiro

Arts + Culture Texas

In celebration of the American sculptor Joel Shapiro, the Nasher Sculpture Center has unveiled a new piece specifically designed for the central gallery on the ground floor.

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Photo: Kevin Todora

Wednesday, 06.01.16

Melvin Edwards: The Poetics of the Blacksmith

Black Renaissance Noire

Lydie Diakhaté's profile on American artist Melvin Edwards at the time of his retrospective at the Nasher.

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Melvin Edwards at the Nasher

Monday, 05.23.16

‘Joel Shapiro’ Review: Forms in Flight

The Wall Street Journal

A career overview of a master of Minimalist abstraction, with a focus on a new, site-specific work.

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Photo: Kevin Todora

Monday, 05.09.16

Critic's Pick: Mai-Thu Perret

Artforum

The work demonstrates Perret’s skill in using charged material to produce objects and environments that attract and repel, vibrating on the edge of life.

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Mai-Thu Perret Sightings Installation

Sunday, 05.01.16

Happy Hours

Frieze

Aram Moshayedi writes on what Piero Golia's Chalet project reveals about private and public social spaces for artists.

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Photo: Bret Redman

Sunday, 05.01.16

Melvin Edwards: Liberation and Remembrance

Sculpture Magazine

Joan Marter writes on Edwards' career and recent retrospective organized by Catherine Craft, Nasher Sculpture Center Curator.

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Photo: Kevin Todora

Friday, 04.01.16

A Three-Dimensional Dialogue

Patron Magazine

Diana Al-Hadid, Melvin Edwards, and Eva Rothschild discuss contemporary sculpture and the selection of Doris Salcedo as the inaugural Nasher Prize recipient.

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Doris Salcedo

Wednesday, 03.30.16

How Can The Nasher Prize Rise Above All The Other Arts Awards Out There?

KERA Art + Seek

Now the first Nasher Sculpture Prize is being presented this weekend – and it’s clear the prize is aiming for international status. KERA’s Jerome Weeks reports on how that’s often been achieved.

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Jeremy Strick announcing Nasher Prize

Sunday, 03.27.16

Nasher Prize Helps Center Shape Its Future

The Dallas Morning News

Cover story on Nasher Prize and Doris Salcedo with a guest essay from María Belén Sáez de Ibarra and photographs by Nan Coulter.

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Doris Salcedo

Thursday, 03.24.16

Sightings: Mai-Thu Perret at the Nasher

Arts + Culture Texas

The downstairs gallery space at the Nasher Sculpture Center has been transformed into a kind of theatrical stage, obliging visitors to take part in the action by walking through an art installation contemplating the mise-en-scène.

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Photo: Kevin Todora

Friday, 02.26.16

See The Dallas Installation of Nasher Prize Winner Doris Salcedo’s Thought-Provoking ‘Plegaria Muda’

The Dallas Morning News

What is important about Salcedo’s strategy of conquering the larger world through art is that her work is actually rooted in the social and historical problems of her native country.

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Photo: Nan Coulter

Tuesday, 02.23.16

‘Ann Veronica Janssens’ Review: Lights, Color, Action

The Wall Street Journal

Ann Veronica Janssens proves to be a master of light in her first American solo show.

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Ann Veronica Janssens in Nasher Garden

Monday, 02.22.16

Don't Miss Another Soundings, The City's Most Surprising Classical Music Concerts

Dallas Observer

Italian-American Piccinini and her husband, German-Swiss pianist Andreas Haefliger, both renowned advocates of new music, looped around their destination of Boulez with an intriguing mix of (mostly) twentieth- and twenty-first-century music.

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Flutist Marina Piccinini

Monday, 02.22.16

Eyes On The Prize

Cultured Magazine

Catherine Marcus Rose and Jennifer Eagle usher in the Nasher Sculpture Center's new prize.

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Gallery I in Nasher Sculpture Center

Saturday, 02.20.16

A Provocative Flute-And-Piano Program In The Nasher Soundings Series

The Dallas Morning News

The Nasher Sculpture Center's Soundings concert series presents sophisticated mixes of often challenging newer fare with older music, with generally excellent imported performers.

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Flutist Marina Piccinini and pianist Andreas Haefliger

Wednesday, 02.03.16

Giuseppe Penone Being the River, Repeating the Forest

Gagosian Now

Giuseppe Penone discusses the Nasher exhibition, and his Gagosian Gallery Hong Kong show with Gagosian’s Director Pepi Marchetti Franchi.

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Giuseppe Penone

Wednesday, 02.03.16

Lost In the Fog at the Nasher

KERA Art + Seek

The Nasher Sculpture Center has an artwork that actually makes it hard to see much of anything. That’s because it surrounds you with fog. It’s part of the first solo show in the US by Belgian artist Ann Veronica Janssens.

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Ann Veronica Janssens

Monday, 02.01.16

Poetic Gravitas

Patron Magazine

Loss and trauma define the oeuvre of Doris Salcedo, the inaugural Nahser Prize recipient, whose groundbreaking works bear witness to political violence in the Colombian homeland and around the globe.

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Doris Salcedo

Monday, 02.01.16

Stars In His Eyes

W Magazine

Is the artist Alex Israel Hollywood’s most clever critic? Or its biggest fan?

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Alex Israel on the set of SPF-15

Friday, 01.29.16

Review: Artist Ann Veronica Janssens Takes Us Inside the Rainbow

Fort Worth Star Telegram

Gaile Robinson reviews the enlightening experience of walking through Ann Veronica Janssens’ “Blue, Red, and Yellow” fog-filled installation piece at the Nasher Sculpture Center.

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Ann Veronica Janssens

Thursday, 01.14.16

Nasher Sculpture Center to Exhibit Doris Salcedo

ArtInfo

Following her acclaimed exhibition at the Guggenheim in New York, Doris Salcedo will be showing an installation at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas in February.

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Plegaria Muda

Friday, 01.01.16

Atlas Dallas: Civic Duty

Art In America

Michael Corris writes on Dallas' need to cultivate a sustainable environment for emerging artists.

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Rachel Harrison, Nasher XChange

Sunday, 12.27.15

The Power 100 of 2015: Promoting Women Artists

ArtInfo

Bridget Moriarity's year end essay on promoting women artists highlights the Kaleta A. Doolin Acquisitions Fund for Women Artists.

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Phyllida Barlow

Sunday, 12.20.15

You Say Potato, I Say Giuseppe Penone At The Nasher

KERA Art + Seek

Jed Morse, chief curator at the Nasher Sculpture Center, received an elaborately packaged item last week in the mail. He wasn’t surprised. He wasn’t even surprised when, inside, he found — a single potato.

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Chief Curator Jed Morse opening a package from Stephen Lapthisophon

Thursday, 12.17.15

Tyler Green’s 2015 Top Ten List

Modern Art Notes Podcast

Tyler Green names Phyllida Barlow 'tryst' and Melvin Edwards: Five Decades in his top ten for 2015.

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Melvin Edwards: Five Decades

Monday, 12.14.15

The Nasher’s Soundings Series Premieres a Major New Work

D Magazine

The Soundings chamber music series, now in its sixth season of presenting not just new music but new ways of hearing music, continued its mission Saturday night with a concert featuring the world premiere of what will undoubtedly be a major addition to the concert repertoire of the harp.

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East Coast Chamber Orchestra

Monday, 12.14.15

Nasher Announces Winners of Fall 2015 Microgrants

Glasstire

The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas has just announced the winners of their Fall 2015 microgrants. The award provides $1000 to North Texas artists to realize specific projects.

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Alicia Eggert

Tuesday, 12.01.15

The Twenty Five

Cultured Magazine

Inaugural Nasher Prize winner Doris Salcedo is featured in Cultured Magazine's The Twenty Five, produced by Janelle Zara.

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Doris Salcedo Nasher Prize Winner

Tuesday, 12.01.15

Alex Israel

Surface

Alex Israel interview in Surface Magazine

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Alex Israel Installation

Monday, 11.30.15

State of the Art

Mindfood

Texas is known for many things: Southern hospitality, a Wild West identity and booming business, from oil to technology. But the arts culture that’s been brewing beneath the surface has only recently broken into the global spotlight. Now Texas is making a scene – and the world is watching.

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Gallery I, Nasher Sculpture Center

Wednesday, 11.18.15

Chalet Dallas Presents More Questions Than Answers In A Beautiful Setting

Dallas Observer

You’ve arrived at Golia’s Chalet Dallas. The gallery has been architecturally transformed into a luxurious space. A modest number of grand artworks are found in the room. A Pierre Huyghe aquarium, complete with a floating sculptural rock and a hermit crab in a silver shell, fills the space with the tranquil sound of flowing water.

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Chalet Dallas

Friday, 11.13.15

At the Nasher, guard perfects the art of friendliness

The Dallas Morning News

At the Nasher Sculpture Center, that help comes from an unlikely source, Patricia Ann Jackson, a native Dallasite who has worked as a guard at the museum for the last three years, mostly in the lower-level gallery, where she has gained a devoted following for her considerable charm and perspicacious, if idiosyncratic, commentary.

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Patricia Jackson

Thursday, 11.05.15

Lean back: a museum lounge doubles up as art at Dallas' Nasher Sculpture Center

Wallpaper

The Naples-born, LA-based artist Piero Golia has created 'Chalet Dallas' – an enticing, contemporary art-filled lounge for the Nasher Sculpture Center.

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Chalet Dallas

Monday, 11.02.15

Masters Old and Young Featured in Two New Museum Shows

The Dallas Morning News

Penone has produced important work for nearly 50 years. His art is single-mindedly dedicated to challenging the relationship between modern urban citizens and nature.

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Giuseppe Penone

Sunday, 11.01.15

The Discomfort Zone

FD

Why Colombian sculptor Doris Salcedo—winner of the first Nasher Prize—matters.

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Doris Salcedo

Sunday, 11.01.15

The Art of Experience

PaperCity

Italian conceptual artist Piero Golia is recalibrating the city's communal vibe in a hip way that shows an acute understanding of contemporary culture.

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Chalet Dallas

Monday, 10.19.15

Rick Lowe: Community Genius

ARTDESK

With the advent of the public artist, "social practice," also known as "social sculpture," is a growing medium for creators of places, ideas, and installations, all designed to improve the lot for the rest of us. In North America, Rick Lowe of Texas is its patron saint.

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Rick Lowe's Trans.lation: Vickery Meadow

Monday, 10.12.15

This Director Refuses to Let Dallas be a Shallow City

PaperCity

How the Nasher’s bold moves change everything.

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Doris Salcedo

Thursday, 10.01.15

Glancing Inwards from the Set

Patron

A photo-op in two parts: the work of Piero Golia and Alex Israel at the Nasher Sculpture Center.

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Alex Israel Installation

Thursday, 10.01.15

Doris Salcedo Wins Nasher Prize for Sculpture

The New York Times

Doris Salcedo is the first winner of the Nasher Prize, a new, annual $100,000 award created by the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas in recognition of an artist’s influence in the field of sculpture.

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Doris Salcedo

Thursday, 10.01.15

Doris Salcedo Wins Inaugural $100,000 Nasher Prize

Blouin Artinfo

Dallas’s Nasher Sculpture Center has announced Doris Salcedo as the first winner of the $100,000 Nasher Prize. The newly founded award honors influential living sculptors.

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Doris Salcedo

Thursday, 10.01.15

Colombian Artist Doris Salcedo Receives Inaugural Nasher Prize for Sculpture

The Wall Street Journal

The world of sculpture has carved out a new figurehead.

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Doris Salcedo

Thursday, 10.01.15

Doris Salcedo Wins Inaugural Nasher Prize for Sculpture

Artnet

The inaugural winner of Dallas's Nasher Sculpture Center's Nasher Prize is Colombian artist Doris Salcedo.

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Doris Salcedo

Wednesday, 09.30.15

Doris Salcedo Wins Inaugural Nasher Prize

Artforum

Bogotá-based artist Doris Salcedo is the inaugural winner of the Nasher Prize, a newly founded, $100,000 international award for sculpture launched by the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas.

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Doris Salcedo

Wednesday, 09.30.15

Bold and political, Colombian artist Doris Salcedo captures the inaugural Nasher Prize for Sculpture

The Dallas Morning News

Colombian artist Doris Salcedo, whose provocative, political statements have honored the victims of violence and repression around the world for three decades, is the winner of the inaugural Nasher Prize for Sculpture.

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Doris Salcedo in profile

Tuesday, 09.29.15

All Eyes On The Prize

FD

How the Nasher Sculpture Center's six-figure salute to an art form just put sculpture - and Dallas - firmly on the world stage.

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Jeremy Strick announcing Nasher Prize

Tuesday, 09.29.15

The Foreman

FD

Artist Piero Golia's tool to build community at the Nasher Sculpture Center is unlike anything you've ever seen - or experienced.

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Chalet Dallas

Thursday, 09.03.15

New Sculpture Award the Nasher Prize is Putting Dallas on the Global Art Map

London Evening Standard

The new $100,000 Nasher Prize is the only annual award dedicated to sculpture, says Fiona Hughes, and it will put Dallas on the global art map.

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Nasher Prize

Tuesday, 09.01.15

Force of Nature

Apollo Magazine

Few artists can match Giuseppe Penone in his deep understanding of artistic materials. The Italian sculptor tells Apollo how he has learnt through touch and repetition.

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Giuseppe Penone

Tuesday, 09.01.15

Rejecting Spectacle: Giuseppe Penone at the Nasher

Arts + Culture Texas

In a bold move that continues to look beyond its own holdings, the Nasher Sculpture Center plans to open an exhibition focused on the art of Giuseppe Penone this fall.

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Giuseppe Penone

Thursday, 08.27.15

Big Art Money: New $100,000 Prize Adds to Dallas Institution’s Grand Design, Sets a New Standard

PaperCity

Not only does Dallas’ finest art institution remain the locus of aesthetic thrills on an international scale, but it’s moving things forward by establishing the Nasher Prize for Sculpture — a “$100,000 annual award to recognize outstanding contributions to the field.”

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Renzo Piano, Nancy Nasher, and David Haemisegger

Tuesday, 08.11.15

Phyllida Barlow Kicks Off New $750,000 Nasher Sculpture Center Women Artist Fund

Artnet

Phyllida Barlow's untitled:hangingmonument2015 will be the first work in a new fund for female artist acquisitions at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas.

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Phyllida Barlow

Tuesday, 08.11.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Acquisitions Funds For Art By Women

Art News

The Nasher Sculpture Center announced yesterday that, following a gift of $750,000 from the Kaleta A. Doolin Foundation, the museum will form an acquisitions fund for work by women artists.

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Phyllida Barlow

Wednesday, 08.05.15

The Cultivist's Top 12 International Hidden Art Gems

The New York Times

The Cultivist names The Chalet, opening at the Nasher in October, as one of the top international hidden art gems.

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Piero Golia's Chalet

Saturday, 08.01.15

Social Structure

Texas Architect

This October, artist Piero Golia will reinterpret "Chalet Hollywood" in the Nasher Sculpture Center. Assistant Curator Leigh Arnold interviews Piero Golia and Edwin Chan leading up to the exhibition.

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Detail of the Chalet, Hollywood

Saturday, 08.01.15

Trysted Sister

1530 Main

Known for her outsized sculptures that fill whatever space they inhabit, there was some question of how the British artist Phyllida Barlow would occupy the pristine Nasher Sculpture Center for her current show, tryst, which opened at the end of May.

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Tuesday, 07.28.15

Objets Trouvés: At Nasher Sculpture Center, Contemplating a Barbara Hepworth Monolith

PaperCity

For those who think museums are for pinky-raisers, it's time to think again.

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Sunday, 07.19.15

Phyllida Barlow at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Glasstire

The art world’s sudden interest in sculptor Phyllida Barlow’s work is long overdue.

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Tuesday, 07.14.15

Finding a recipe to preserve Vickery Meadow’s unique flavor

The Dallas Morning News

Vickery Meadow sits on prime real estate that inspires some to pine for trendy restaurants and high-end lofts. Others fear such development would elevate rents and displace people who give the neighborhood its global vibe.

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Sunday, 07.05.15

Phyllida Barlow

Visual Art Source

Phyllida Barlow's mammoth site specific installation, “Tryst,” dominates the galleries in what is quite possibly the most ambitious exhibition presented here to date.

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Phyllida Barlow

Wednesday, 07.01.15

Haptic Tendencies

Arts + Culture Texas

The Work of Phyllida Barlow

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Wednesday, 07.01.15

Say You Say Me

Rachel Harrison: Gloria

An essay by Johanna Burton from the catalog for Rachel Harrison's recent exhibition, Gloria.

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Moore to the point, 2013

Friday, 06.26.15

Critic’s Pick: Phyllida Barlow

Art Forum

In her playful installation at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Barlow describes her approach as being analogous to a ship in a bottle—the proverbial bottle in this case being Renzo Piano’s graciously elegant architecture.

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Phyllida Barlow

Friday, 06.05.15

Phyllida Barlow Talks ‘Tryst’ in Dallas

WWD

The acclaimed English artist, who shapes common materials into wild and mysterious tableaux, explores space as “a phenomenological experience, a poetic experience.”

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Phyllida Barlow

Tuesday, 06.02.15

Basking in Barlow at the Nasher Sculpture Center

PaperCity

On view now at the Nasher Sculpture Center is an exhibition refreshingly lacking in irony, which operates as a piled confection of metaphorical landscapes.

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Phyllida Barlow

Monday, 06.01.15

Phyllida Barlow, The Nasher Sculpture Center's Big Summer Get

FD

The 71-year-old British artist wants to change your mind. (And she has come to Dallas to do it.)

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Phyllida Barlow 'tryst'

Monday, 06.01.15

Tryst Me

Dallas Modern Luxury

Renowned British sculptor Phyllida Barlow invades the Nasher Sculpture Center's galleries with six revolutionary installations.

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Photo: Kevin Todora

Saturday, 05.30.15

Weill Nights

Theater Jones

The final Soundings concert of the Nasher Sculpture Center season featured a luminous performance of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, plus Brecht and Weill.

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Photo: Zachary Stephens

Friday, 05.22.15

Soluna's and Nasher Soundings' Pierrot Lunaire Did Not Disappoint

Dallas Observer

It was a thrill to see that to this day, when performed this zealously, Pierrot Lunaire can still conjure the impulse and anxious energy of early twentieth-century musical modernism.

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Music on the Brink of War

Thursday, 05.14.15

Nasher Sculpture Center’s Garden Filled With Youthful Artists For Third Annual Great Create

My Sweet Charity

As all types of warnings ventured into Tarrant County, the cool temperatures and user-friendly shade of Nasher Sculpture Center’s garden saved the day on Sunday, April 26, for The Great Create. And what an afternoon it was.

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Photo by Evan Chavez

Sunday, 05.03.15

What 5 local artists are doing with grant money from Nasher Sculpture Center

Culture Map Dallas

Back in January 2015, Nasher Sculpture Center announced plans to award semi-annual microgrants, ranging from $250-$1,000, to local artists. The museum recently revealed the first round of recipients.

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Fetus

Friday, 05.01.15

Reciprocal Gestures: Mark Godfrey on Melvin Edwards and Frank Bowling in Dallas

Artforum

At the Nasher Sculpture Center, in the Melvin Edwards retrospective “Five Decades,” expertly curated by Catherine Craft, a gallery is devoted to a reprise of Edwards’s March 1970 Whitney show.

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Melvin Edwards: Five Decades

Monday, 04.27.15

The Nasher’s Soundings Series Features the Most Challenging, Rewarding New Music in North Texas

D Magazine

What Soundings requested from its audience Friday night was time, attention, stillness, and an open mind. What it provided in return was a sonic safari, a carefully crafted tour of the periphery of tonality, timbre, and time.

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The Parker Quartet

Thursday, 04.02.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces New $100,000 Prize

The New York Times

There is no shortage of prizes in the art world, but few specifically recognize sculpture. That will change, a bit, on Thursday with the announcement of the Nasher Prize, an honor that comes with a $100,000 award.

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Nasher Garden, Mark di Suvero

Tuesday, 03.31.15

Review of ‘Melvin Edwards: Five Decades’ at the Nasher Sculpture Center

The Wall Street Journal

An introduction to an unruly Constructivist whose work bridges African and Modernist sensibilities.

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Melvin Edwards, Chaino

Sunday, 03.01.15

Melvin Edwards: Five Decades

Arts + Culture Texas

The Nasher Sculpture Center has organized the first major retrospective of his large body of work in more than 20 years, bringing together not only the Lynch Fragments, but also pieces representative of his entire artistic range.

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Melvin Edwards, Ame Eghan

Monday, 02.16.15

Review: A Texas-born Sculptor’s Career Retrospective at the Nasher

The Dallas Morning News

The Nasher Sculpture Center has opened its most important retrospective of a living sculptor in several years. He is Melvin Edwards, an African-American born in Texas, whose five-decade career has taken him to California, New York and Africa.

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Melvin Edwards: Five Decades

Friday, 02.06.15

Interview: Artist Melvin Edwards on da Vinci, Rembrandt, and Sonny Rollins

D Front Row

Peter Simek sat down to talk to Edwards about his Texas roots, his emergence in Los Angeles in the 1960s, and how his affinity for music informs his process.

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Steel Life

Thursday, 02.05.15

Review: Melvin Edwards Sculptures at the Nasher

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

In 1988, New York Times art critic Michael Brenson cited Melvin Edwards as “one of the best American sculptors...[and] one of the least well known.” Nothing has changed.

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Some Bright Morning

Sunday, 02.01.15

Mental Notes: From Vermont and Baltimore, how — and why — pianist Seth Knopp makes music happen in Dallas

FD Luxe

Meet Seth Knopp: The man behind those unconventional concerts at the Nasher.

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Seth Knopp

Sunday, 02.01.15

Ideas in Design: Studio Visit with Melvin Edwards

Surface Magazine

The sculptor, whose retrospective “Five Decades” is currently on view at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas (through May 10), discusses his creative process from his Hudson Valley home.

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Melvin Edwards

Sunday, 02.01.15

When Stars Align

Patron

A trip to view the world-renowned art at the Nasher Sculpture Center is a must for any resident or globetrotter. The Nasher Store is the bonus. Always a stop-by for great finds, this small, highly edited shop at the entrance of the museum culls the best from artists and artisans, and many are from the area.

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Nasher Store

Saturday, 01.31.15

Melvin Edwards at the Nasher: Man of Steel

KERA Art + Seek

KERA’s Jerome Weeks joined Edwards in the Nasher galleries to discuss art, anger – and football.

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Chaino, 1964

Friday, 01.30.15

Melvin Edwards' Nasher Exhibit Inspired by Social Upheaval

The Dallas Morning News

Standing in the center of the main gallery at the Nasher Sculpture Center is a sculpture made of steel, one that carries a story. “I call it The Lifted X,” says Melvin Edwards, whose retrospective, “Five Decades,” opens at the Nasher Center Saturday.

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Ame Eghan

Tuesday, 12.30.14

French Sculptures in the US Stand Up to Be Counted

Hyperallergic

On the hunt for one of Emmanuel Fremiet’s cat bronzes? Want to play a game on Man Ray’s chess set? Curious to know which state has the most Louise Bourgeois sculptures? (It’s New York, hands down.) All these pressing queries and more will be answered thanks to the French Sculpture Census, an initiative to catalogue every single sculpture by a French artist in a US cultural institution or collection.

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Jacques Lipchitz

Monday, 12.29.14

Critic's Choice: Glasstire.com's Christina Rees on Visual Art to Look Forward To

KERA Art + Seek

Christina Rees of Glasstire.com shares some highlights from 2014 and looks ahead to 2015.

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Nasher Garden

Sunday, 12.28.14

Dallas and the World Paid Attention to Urban Environments in 2014

The Dallas Morning News

Architecture Critic Mark Lamster names Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio one of 2014's "eureka moments."

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Heatherwick Studio at the Nasher

Friday, 12.26.14

Critic's Picks: Top 10 DFW-area Visual Art Exhibits in 2014

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

The local art scene in 2014 was richly rewarding, experimental, collaborative, global in scope and history, and loudly defended. Sounds fractious, but it was all good. Here is short list of the most rewarding efforts, in order of preference.

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David Bates

Wednesday, 12.24.14

Classical Music in Dallas: 2014's Most Memorable Moments

D Front Row

In a smallish hall in the basement of the Nasher Sculpture Center, cellist Alisa Weilerstein gave an incredibly captivating performance this November as part of the museum's series Soundings: New Music at the Nasher.

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Alisa Weilerstein

Monday, 12.22.14

Suitable for Framing: Museums Rolled Out Dazzling Array of Beautiful Provocative Works in 2014

The Dallas Morning News

North Texas' major museums hosted crowd-pleasing exhibitions that combined beauty with scholarship.

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Rick Lowe Translation

Friday, 12.19.14

10 Best Art Exhibitions of 2014

Dallas Observer

Lauren Smart names the 10 Best Art Exhibitions of 2014, including Heatherwick Studio and David Bates at the Nasher

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Heatherwick Studio UK Pavillion

Monday, 12.01.14

Small Scale, Big Impact: Anna-Bella Papp is Driven by Curiosity to Create Unfired Works in Clay

Patron

Anna-Bella Papp's small scale works in unfired clay clear a space for themselves. From the twenty-six year old artist's chosen medium, to her remarkably restrained design, her pieces are nothing if not understated.

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Anna-Bella Papp

Monday, 12.01.14

Review: Sightings: Anna-Bella Papp

Arts + Culture Texas

On the south side of the Nasher Sculpture Center, facing Flora Street, an intimate gallery serves as temporary host to Sightings: Anna-Bella Papp, the first solo museum exhibition of this Romanian-born artist who lives and works in Rome.

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Anna-Bella Papp

Monday, 11.24.14

Interview: Melvin Edwards by Michael Brenson

Bomb Magazine

BOMB’s Oral History Project documents the life stories of New York City’s African American artists.

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Melvin Edwards

Wednesday, 10.29.14

Review: Anna-Bella Papp’s sculptural objects at the Nasher

Fort Worth Star Telegram

It is odd how a common material presented in an unusual but not unremarkable way can look so completely new. Such was the case in viewing the sculptural works of Anna-Bella Papp at the Nasher Sculpture Center.

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Sightings: Anna-Bella Papp at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Tuesday, 10.28.14

Review: Heatherwick Studio at Nasher Sculpture Center

Glasstire

Thomas Heatherwick’s name is attached to the London-based architecture and design firm he founded in the 1990s, but, as he describes the process in the introduction to the 600-page book that accompanies the show, the projects the studio undertakes are all collaborative. Nothing is done solo.

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Thomas Heatherwick at the Nasher

Thursday, 10.23.14

Anna-Bella Papp is a Rising Young Art Star, and Her Work at the Nasher Shows Why

Dallas Observer

Without question, Anna Bella Papp's show at the Nasher benefits from its presence within Renzo Piano's architecturally stunning walls. But it's not like any other show you've seen at a Dallas museum lately. It's quiet, methodical and demands intimacy with the viewer.

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Sightings: Anna-Bella Papp at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Friday, 09.26.14

Interview: Thomas Heatherwick on Inventing, Madness, and Alfred Hitchcock

D Magazine

The Thomas Heatherwick exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center is the first show at the museum dedicated to the work of an architect.

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Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Wednesday, 09.24.14

Dallas' Nasher Sculpture Center Makes Way for Thomas Heatherwick

Fort Worth Star Telegram

Recently an exhibit opened at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas of work by Thomas Heatherwick, a British designer and architect who shines a brilliant beacon of hope that things can be better — much, much better.

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Heatherwick Studio Spun Chairs Nasher Sculpture Center

Monday, 09.22.14

Everything is Illuminated

The Dallas Morning News

The blank page. For the creative professional, its limitless potential may appear either inspiring or debilitating — sometimes both. How do I begin? How do I conjure something from nothing when anything is possible?

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Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Sunday, 09.14.14

A Designer's 'Provocations' Thrive

Wall Street Journal

Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio opens at the Nasher Sculpture Center

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Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Saturday, 09.13.14

Art by Design

W Magazine

On September 13th, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas presents “Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio”—the first stateside retrospective of renowned British designer Thomas Heatherwick.

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Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Friday, 09.12.14

Thomas Heatherwick Architecture Exhibition

The Dallas Morning News

The Nasher presents the first US museum exhibition of the work of British designer, Thomas Heatherwick.

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Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Sunday, 08.31.14

Architect and designer Thomas Heatherwick takes on the Nasher

FD Luxe

The buildings are like the harebrained schemes of imaginative children: exteriors that seem covered in toothpicks and drawbridges that coil into the shapes of snails. The furniture and design objects are like the confections of a candy- or toymaker: metal benches that recall saltwater taffy and chairs that can spin like outsized tops. Such are the makings of Heatherwick Studio.

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Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Sunday, 05.11.14

Childlike, but Hardly Child's Play

New York Times

Mark Grotjahn's new work elevates mundane materials.

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Mark Grojtahn

Sunday, 04.20.14

Steering Commentary

Fort Worth Star Telegram

Artist Bettina Pousttchi studies American car culture and puts the petal to the medal for her exhibit at the Nasher.

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Bettina Pousttchi at Nasher Sculpture Center

Sunday, 04.13.14

Art Notes: German artist Bettina Pousttchi brings to Dallas her rare spin on history

The Dallas Morning News

Bettina Pousttchi grew up in Germany in a town called Mainz, which was once part of the Holy Roman Empire. Her father hails from Iran. Just as her lineage is a mixture of German and Persian, her art is influenced by photography, sculpture and architecture.

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Bettina Pousttchi at Nasher Sculpture Center

Saturday, 04.05.14

Review: Two dramatic works featured in Nasher’s Soundings concert

The Dallas Morning News

The concert presented Friday night at the Nasher Sculpture Center will surely be remembered as one of the year’s most extraordinary.

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Soundings: New Music at the Nasher

Friday, 04.04.14

An Urbanist Mastermind at the Nasher

Arts + Culture Texas

Bettina Pousttchi's Drive-Thru Museum Evokes Dallas' Automobile Row.

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Sightings: Bettina Pousttchi at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Tuesday, 03.04.14

Dallas center recognizes Houston artist

Houston Chronicle

Rick Lowe, the Houston "social sculptor" whose medium is people, has been named the first artist-in-residence of Dallas' Nasher Sculpture Center.

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Houston Artist Rick Lowe named Nasher's First Artist-in-Residence

Friday, 02.28.14

Nasher Sculpture Center records a first, naming Rick Lowe its inaugural Artist-in-Residence

The Dallas Morning News

The Nasher Sculpture Center named Rick Lowe its inaugural Artist-in-Residence. Now 52, Lowe was part of the Nasher’s 10-year-anniversary Nasher XChange project, for which he conceived a community art venture in Dallas’ richly diverse Vickery Meadow, where almost 30 languages are spoken daily.

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Rick Lowe named the Nasher's first artist-in-residence.

Sunday, 02.16.14

Bates, from both sides

The Dallas Morning News

Dual exhibitions underscore breadth of Dallas artist's scope.

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David Bates at Nasher Sculpture Center

Tuesday, 02.11.14

Five (Not So) Touchable Artworks at the Nasher's David Bates Retrospective

Dallas Observer

There's a cool museum collaboration happening between Dallas' Nasher Sculpture Centerand Fort Worth's Modern Art Museum and it's in the name of a local artist.

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David Bates at Nasher Sculpture Center

Sunday, 02.09.14

A Beautiful Brutality

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

A unique retrospective of renowned artists David Bates' paintings, sculptures and drawings fills two museums.

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David Bates at Nasher Sculpture Center

Saturday, 02.01.14

Bated Breath

Modern Luxury

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and Dallas' Nasher Sculpture Center offer art lovers two points of view with a joint exhibition of David Bates oeuvre.

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David Bates at Nasher Sculpture Center

Thursday, 01.02.14

Their Feats of Clay

Wall Street Journal

If sensational exhibition titles (such as “Treasures of…” are meant to lure us into museums, unassuming ones may also occasionally keep us at bay. I hope that’s not the case with an astonishingly beautiful exhibition now on view at the Nasher Sculpture Center here. “Return to Earth: Ceramic Sculpture of Fontana, Melotti, Miro, Noguchi, and Picasso, 1943-1963” consists of five miniature retrospectives of artists who worked in a variety of mediums, focusing on their work in ceramics.

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Lucio Fontana, Harlequin (Arlecchino), 1948

Thursday, 12.26.13

2013’s Best Museum Exhibits

Dallas Observer

In 2013, there was so much art in Dallas that it couldn't stay within the four walls of exhibition halls; the Nasher Sculpture Center placed public art all over the city as part of its Xchange program. And the entire Arts District was home to the one-night-only illuminated art exhibit Aurora.

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Katharina Grosse Untitled, 2013 Acrylic on soil, walls, ceiling, and canvas. Photo: Kevin Todora, co

Tuesday, 12.24.13

2013 in Review

D Magazine

The Nasher Sculpture Center pulled off Nasher XChange (and celebrated its ten year anniversary). The public art initiative features ten newly commissioned works of art by ten local and international artists and art collectives at ten different sites.

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Rachel Harrison’s Moore To The Point at City Hall Plaza

Thursday, 12.19.13

The Big Art Bangs of 2013

Fort Worth Star Telegram

“Nasher XChange,” Nasher Sculpture Centre, through Feb. 16. This celebratory experiment to mark the Nasher’s 10th anniversary certainly isn’t the prettiest or most even of exhibitions. It is ragged, sometimes sublime and other times silly, but it is successful because of the risk involved.

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Rick Lowe’s pop-up markets, part of the “Nasher XChange” exhibit, allow a diverse Dallas community t

Wednesday, 12.04.13

Return to Earth at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Arts + Culture Texas

Return to Earth: Ceramic Sculpture of Fontana, Melotti, Miró, Noguchi, and Picasso, 1943-1963

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Return to Earth at Nasher Sculpture Center

Tuesday, 12.03.13

Robert Wilson Discusses North Texas, Silence, and Career at Nasher Salon

Dallas Observer

Robert Wilson is a master of the silence. On Monday night as part of the Nasher Sculpture Center's Salon, he stood steps away from his director's chair staring into the audience before he repeated: "Theater 101, learn how to stand on stage."

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Artist and playwright Robert Wilson spoke as part of the NasherSALON lecture series on November 20th

Tuesday, 12.03.13

Starring Renzo Piano as Mick Jagger

Glasstire

Renzo Piano’s new building for the Kimbell Art Museum opened November 22nd to great acclaim and lots of fanfare, publicity, and eventing. His presence in Texas is manifest—The Menil Collection Museum building and Cy Twombly Pavillion in Houston, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, and now the Piano Pavillion in Fort Worth joins Louis Kahn’s revered main building of the Kimbell.

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Renzo Piano speaks as part of the NasherSALON speaker series

Saturday, 11.23.13

Soundings and Silences: a JFK Tribute in Dallas

Bachtrack

This weekend, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra marked the 50th anniversary of the assassination, barely a mile from the present-day Arts District, of US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

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The Brentano String Quartet performs One Red Rose on November 23rd as part of the Nasher Sculpture C

Wednesday, 11.20.13

Architect Renzo Piano Fills The House in Fort Worth And Dallas

Art & Seek

He may be an architect, but Renzo Piano attracted crowds like a rock star during his visit to North Texas this week. Around 2,800 people packed Will Rogers Auditorium in Fort Worth Tuesday night to see one of the world’s most sought-after architects. And Wednesday, Renzo Piano did it again, selling out the 225-seat Nasher Salon Series in Dallas.

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Renzo Piano speaks as part of the NasherSALON speaker series

Sunday, 11.10.13

Expansive Vision

The Dallas Morning News

The Nasher Sculpture Center is celebrating its first decade in a grandly generous manner that founding patrons Patsy and Raymond Nasher would surely endorse. Its Nasher XChange project has seeded locations in the Dallas area—both well known and very obscure—with art.

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Fountainhead by Charles Long sits on display at Northpark Mall as part of the Nasher’s XChange exhib

Sunday, 11.03.13

Music to Honor a President

Arts and Culture

This month across Texas, performing arts organizations are offering new works and classic favorites to commemorate the 50th anniversary of JFK assassination, and celebrate the life of the young president from Massachusetts who so captivated the country. As the Kennedys opened their doors to renowned musicians, opera singers, and conductors, it seems fitting to honor a fallen President with music.

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The Brentano String Quartet performs One Red Rose on November 23rd as part of the Nasher Sculpture C

Sunday, 11.03.13

Review Art Exhibit: 10 for 10

Fort Worth Star Telegram

The Nasher Sculpture Center’s commemorative project is as much about its far-flung Dallas settings as it is about the works that will draw viewers to them.

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Flock in Space, Ruben Ochoa

Friday, 11.01.13

XChange Rate: The Nasher Celebrates 10 years with 10 Artists as Diverse as its own Collection

Patron Magazine

The Nasher at 10 years! How extraordinary, now, to trace its beginnings back to the house that Ray and Patsy bought long before they built the collection that made them famous in the annals of 20th-century sculpture.

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Liz Larner’s X, 2012

Friday, 11.01.13

Go and Do Museums: Nasher Sculpture Center

The Dallas Morning News

One of the 10 remarkable “Nasher XChange” projects can be found in a pavilion designed by New York Artist Alfredo Jaar in the Nasher Sculpture Center’s outdoor garde. The piece called Music (Everything I Know I Learned the Day My Son Was Born), features recordings of the first cries of babies born in Dallas.

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Alfredo Jaar, Music (Everything I Know I Learned the Day My Son Was Born)

Thursday, 10.31.13

Nasher Sculpture Center Marks 10th Anniversary

Women’s Wear Daily

There’s a simulated fountain of money at NorthPark Center and a great mound of earth about nine miles south that have something in common: They are two of the 10 artworks commissioned to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Nasher Sculpture Center.

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Women’s Wear Daily reviews Nasher XChange and the celebration of the Nasher’s 10th Anniversary.

Wednesday, 10.30.13

Deep in the Heart of Texas

Art in America

Everything sprawls in Dallas, and the Nasher Sculpture Center's 10th-anniversary exhibition, "Nasher XChange," is even livelier and more capacious than a rodeo. The show is scattered over the length and breadth of the city among all socio-economic and ethnic enclaves (through Feb. 16, 2014).

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Nasher XChange is just as sprawling and lively as the city of Dallas itself.

Monday, 10.28.13

Art and Technology merge at UT-Dallas’ Nasher XChange exhibit

Advocate

The Nasher Sculpture Center recently opened its Nasher XChange, a public art exhibition of 10 newly commissioned, contemporary sculptures placed at 10 sites around the city. One of those sites is in Far North Dallas at the University of Texas at Dallas.

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The Advocate highlights Liz Larner’s Nasher XChange piece at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Sunday, 10.27.13

Public Sculpture is Home on the Range in Dallas

Real Clear Arts

Dallas likes to think of itself as an arts city, what with the growing Dallas Arts District, which includes the Dallas Art Museum, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra, the Dallas Opera, the Texas Ballet Theaters, and much more.

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Nasher XChange adds to Dallas’ arts city status.

Sunday, 10.27.13

Hundreds show up for ‘Curtains’ call

Denton Record-Chronicle

About 500 people turned out Oct. 19 to help Denton’s Good/Bad Art Collective create a 28 minute infomercial, Curtains, that will air locally and nationally in late November.

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Hundreds show up for Good/Bad Art Collective’s opening of CURTAINS during Nasher XChange opening day

Friday, 10.25.13

In Dallas, 10 Sculptures for 10 Years

New York Times

A LOT of museums celebrate important anniversaries with special exhibitions in their galleries, but not the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. For its 10th year, it is going much bigger — to all of Dallas. It has commissioned 10 public sculptures by 10 artists at 10 diverse locations around the 385-square-mile city, all on view as of Oct. 19

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The New York Times covers the opening of Nasher XChange.

Friday, 10.25.13

A citywide celebration of public art, Nasher XChange marks the center’s 10th year. Do the works justify the ambitious project?

Dallas Voice

When the Nasher Sculpture Center announced early this year that it would commemorate its 10th anniversary with Nasher XChange a citywide, 10-site art project — the only museum-sponsored event ever of its kind in the U.S. — it was met with raves for its ambition. Now that the project has officially opened, it can be fairly called a worthy and wonderful idea, even though individual projects do not fulfill the early promise.

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Dallas Voice reviews Nasher XChange and its 10 sites throughout Dallas.

Thursday, 10.24.13

Nasher Installation is a luminous new architectural addition to the Arts District

The Dallas Morning News

The good news: The Dallas Arts District has an exceptional new addition to its architectural collection. The bad: it’s temporary.

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The Nasher offers a luminous new addition to the Dallas Arts District.

Thursday, 10.24.13

Nasher XChange: The VIP Tour

Glasstire

Last Saturday, The Nasher Sculpture Center arranged to have media and VIPs tour the sites of the Dallas-wide Nasher XChange public art exhibit. We rode around visiting 8 of 10 sites in three tour buses.

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Glasstire rides along with the Nasher on a VIP tour of all Nasher XChange sites on opening day.

Thursday, 10.24.13

Babies Cry and Critics Cheer for Alredo Jaar’s Temporary Pavilion at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas

Blouin Art Info

When the Nasher Sculpture Center commissioned 10 artists to erect public sculptures across Dallas as part of its 10th anniversary celebrations, the Chilean-born, architect-trained artist Alfredo Jaar turned to the city’s newborn babies for inspiration.

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Critics cheer for Alfredo Jaar’s temporary pavilion at Nasher Sculpture Center as part of Nasher XCh

Wednesday, 10.23.13

The High Five: Artist’s Nasher XChange Project is a “Poetic Gift” to Dallas

Art & Seek

“A poetic gift to the community:” D magazine profiles Rick Lowe, an artist on a mission to change one of Dallas‘ worst neighborhoods for the better. Lowe’s project, Trans.lation: Vickery Meadow is part of Nasher XChange, in which 10 artists have installed 10 pieces of public art across Dallas. ?Lowe‘s contribution is to help the residents of Vickery Meadow—a diverse community located less than a mile from NorthPark Center, one that includes 35,000 immigrants and refugees from more than 120 countries—organize a pop-up outdoor marketplace. That is his installation, the magazine reports.

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KERA’s Art+Seek calls Rick Lowe’s Nasher XChange Trans.lation: Vickery Meadow a poetic gift to Dalla

Tuesday, 10.22.13

Dallas artist’s work at Paul Quinn College arouses memories, emotions

The Dallas Morning News

Vicki Meek of Dallas describes herself as a visual arts activist. Indeed, she frequently uses her creative hands and vision to arouse memories of and emotions about significant experiences and historical nuggets important to local and national black history and culture.

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Vicki Meek’s Nasher XChange project captures the history of Bishop College.

Tuesday, 10.22.13

Return to Earth at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Glasstire

How to say this? Oh, yes: ceramics make me lusty.

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Glasstire’s review of Return to Earth.

Monday, 10.21.13

Nasher Sculpture Center’s XChange program shines light on new artwork

CultureMap Dallas

As part of its 10th anniversary celebration, the Nasher Sculpture Center officially unveiled the 10 works from its Nasher Xchange program on October 19. The 10 works by 10 different artists are located in 10 different spots around Dallas, the first citywide museum-organized public art exhibition to ever occur in the United States.

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CultureMap Dallas highlights Nasher XChange and the 10 artworks throughout the city of Dallas.

Saturday, 10.19.13

Nasher Unveils Sculptures Throughout Dallas

NBC DFW

The Nasher Sculpture Center is unveiling 10 public sculptures placed throughout the city of Dallas. The museum is marking its 10th anniversary this year by commissioning the works. The exhibition of sculptures, called "Nasher XChange," is being unveiled Saturday. The works will be on display through Feb. 16.

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The Nasher Sculpture Center unveils 10 public sculptures to celebrate the center’s 10th anniversary.

Friday, 10.18.13

In Nasher XChange, The Nasher Comes to a Neighborhood Near You

KERA News

One of the biggest art shows of the fall might be taking place in your neighborhood. That’s because 10 public artworks commissioned by the Nasher Sculpture Center will be open to the public beginning Saturday.

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Nasher XChange puts art in 10 neighborhoods throughout Dallas.

Friday, 10.18.13

Nasher Sculpture Center Celebrates 10th Anniversary

CBS DFW

To celebrate its tenth anniversary, the Nasher Sculpture Center is presenting a city-wide exhibition, Nasher XChange. This art exhibition consists of 10 newly-commissioned public sculptures by contemporary artists at sites throughout the city of Dallas. Director of the Nasher Sculpture Center, Jeremy Strick, shared with CBS 11News why they are breaking out of the museum.

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Nasher Director Jeremy Strick shares with CBS 11 News information regarding the Nasher’s 10th Annive

Friday, 10.18.13

The Nasher (In Your Neighborhood)

Art & Seek

One of the biggest art shows of the fall might be taking place in your neighborhood. That’s because 10 public artworks commissioned by the Nasher Sculpture Center will be open to the public beginning Saturday. It’s part of an effort for the Nasher to have an impact beyond its downtown space.

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Nasher Sculpture Center brings art to your neighborhood with Nasher XChange.

Thursday, 10.17.13

This Week’s Visual Art: Ten Years of the Nasher Sculpture Center

D Magazine

This Saturday the much-anticipated Nasher XChange exhibition opens at locations around Dallas. The show is one part of an unprecedented and enormous number of new works of public art opening in Dallas this weekend. The Nasher’s project, however, is a singular achievement, both in terms of the stature of the artists involved and the variety and number of locations around Dallas that will be included.

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D Magazine offers a preview to Nasher Sculpture Center’s 10 year anniversary and exhibition, Nasher

Thursday, 10.17.13

Everything You Need to Know about XChange, the Nasher’s Massive City-Wide Art Project

Dallas Observer

Dallas still faces a few hurdles before it can achieve its culture-hub destiny. The biggest of those are public perception and readiness: Until we want to be a city that engages with art, we'll continue courting an international audience rather than a unified local one. How do we do it? Increased accessibility.

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The Dallas Observer gives readers everything they need to know about Nasher XChange.

Sunday, 10.13.13

Nasher Hones its Mission

The Dallas Morning News

Saturday is a big day in the history of the Nasher Sculpture Center. The arts district anchor is celebrating its 10th anniversary by launching what its director Jeremy Strick calls the first citywide, museum-organized art exhibition in the country.

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The Nasher director Jeremy Strick announces Nasher XChange on February 20th, 2013

Wednesday, 10.09.13

‘Starchitect’ Renzo Piano and Visionary Artist Robert Wilson Will Speak at the Nasher

Dallas Observer

He created the Nasher's gorgeous housing. (Yes, the one currently getting melanoma from Museum Tower's death ray.) He designed the Kimbell's sexy new wing. He's even been called a "starchitect" -- a side effect from winning the acclaimed Pritzker Prize. And for the Nasher's 10-year anniversary, super stud structure designer Renzo Piano will speak at NasherSalon on Wednesday, November 20, at 2 p.m.

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Renzo Piano and Robert Wilson will be part of Nasher Sculpture Center’s NasherSalon series.

Tuesday, 10.01.13

Where Change Lives

FD Luxe Magazine

The Nasher Sculpture Center’s transformative director lives like the works: quietly, yet speaking volumes. One intellectual makes her case.

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Jeremy Strick, director of the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas

Monday, 09.30.13

Nasher Springs Ceramic Surprise

The Dallas Morning News

Nasher shows underappreciated works from Picasso, Miro and others.

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Return to Earth at Nasher Sculpture Center

Saturday, 09.28.13

Review: In the Nasher’s ‘Return to Earth,’ 20th-century masters undertake the third dimension

DFW.com

“Return to Earth: Ceramic Sculpture of Fontana, Melotti, Miró, Noguchi, and Picasso, 1943-1963” contains more than 70 works created during the post-World War II years, from 1943 to 1963. Responding to the upheaval the artists had witnessed and personally experienced during the war, they found a great release of pent-up emotion when they turned to working in clay.

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DFW.com reviews the Nasher’s Return to Earth ceramics exhibition.

Saturday, 09.21.13

Nasher Sculpture Center honors 10 with all-star exhibit of avant-garde ceramics

Culture Map Dallas

There’s no denying the Nasher Sculpture Center is marking its 10th anniversary in an extraordinary way. In addition to the city-beautifying Xchange program, the museum is making its birthday more engaging for sculpture aficionados with “Return to Earth,” a rare opportunity to view ceramic works by some of the 20th century's most significant artists.

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The Nasher’s Return to Earth exhibition offers a rare opportunity to view ceramic works by some of t

Saturday, 08.31.13

Art Notes: The Nasher picks City Hall for 10th XChange site

GuideLive

Officials for the Nasher Sculpture Center took to the steps of City Hall last week to complete the lineup for the Nasher XChange program, which celebrates the center’s 10th anniversary this fall.

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Thursday, 08.29.13

Rachel Harrison to Design Nasher XChange's Final Piece

Dallas Observer

The Nasher Sculpture Center has announced that New York-based artist Rachel Harrison will design the tenth and final project in the Nasher XChange, the first museum-organized, citywide art exhibition in the country, running from October 19 through February 16, 2014.

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Monday, 08.26.13

Demolition of Oak Cliff home clears way for public art commissioned by Nasher

GuideLive

The rubble of an abandoned Oak Cliff home that came tumbling down Monday will be used to build up a public piece of art. The Nasher Sculpture Center revealed the property on Exeter Avenue as the ninth of 10 Nasher XChange exhibits across the city, a celebration of the center’s 10th anniversary.

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Thursday, 08.22.13

Nasher XChange Visits NorthPark

art & seek

It’s only fitting that the Nasher Sculpture Center would commission one of its XChange projects for NorthPark Center. Ray Nasher no doubt earned a tidy sum on the shopping center he built, which surely provided some of the money to buy all that art that eventually became the Nasher Sculpture Center.

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Monday, 08.19.13

Nasher Goes Back To School For XChange Project

art & seek

Vicki Meek is probably best known locally as the manager of the South Dallas Cultural Center. But she’s also an accomplished artist in her own right. And as such, she’s been chosen by the Nasher Sculpture Center to produce one of the 10 projects that will make up its XChange series this fall.

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Thursday, 08.01.13

Collective Unconscious

FD Luxe Magazine

Just in time for the Nasher Sculpture Center’s big birthday, the notorious Good/Bad Art Collective is working together again—after a rather long hiatus. You’ve been warned.

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The Denton-based Good/Bad Art Collective created CURTAINS, part one-night event, part exhibition and

Monday, 07.29.13

The wild Good/Bad Art Collective reunites for the Nasher Sculpture Center’s big birthday

FD Luxe

Just in time for the Nasher Sculpture Center’s big birthday, the notorious Good/Bad Art Collective is working together again — after a rather long hiatus. You’ve been warned.

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Saturday, 07.27.13

Nasher XChange welcomes its latest addition — a baby girl

GuideLive

Sloan Harper Elolf lay sleeping in her mother’s arms Friday afternoon, oblivious to the hubbub going on around her. It’s that way when you’re a newborn. Sloan was born at 12:29 a.m. Friday at Methodist Dallas Medical Center, weighing in at 6 pounds, 2 ounces.

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Wednesday, 07.24.13

Nasher Sculpture Center unveils newest artist in XChange exhibition

CultureMap Dallas

The Nasher Sculpture Center has commissioned artist Liz Larner to create an original piece for the University of Texas at Dallas as part of Nasher Xchange. Larner's is the fourth sculpture announced in the 10-piece 10th anniversary series, which opens in fall 2013.

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Sunday, 07.07.13

Another Dallas Public Art Project: Nasher XChange Announces Site III

Glasstire

In celebration of its 10th anniversary in October, the Nasher Sculpture Center announced that it has commissioned ten public art works at ten diverse sites throughout Dallas. While they have released the names of the ten artists, specific project plans are being announced one at a time throughout the summer.

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Monday, 06.24.13

The Nasher Sculpture Center’s Citywide Public Art Initiative Begins to Take Shape

FrontRow

The Nasher Sculpture Center has slowly begun to unveil the ten public art projects that have been commissioned as part of the museum’s tenth anniversary celebration. Each Friday for the past two weeks, the Nasher has announced the proposed location artists have chosen for their work. What is still unclear, though, is just what shape the final forms of the artworks will take.

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Saturday, 06.15.13

Nasher project takes flight

Dallas Morning News

Children released pigeons at Dallas’ Trinity River Audubon Center on Friday after the announcement that the Nasher Sculpture Center had commissioned a sculpture by Ruben Ochoa to be placed at the Audubon center. The sculpture will be part of the exhibition called Nasher XChange.

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Gracefully twisted metal poles and exposed concrete on site at Trinity River Audubon Center

Saturday, 06.01.13

Art Notes: German artist Katharina Grosse opens show at Nasher

Dallas Morning News

German artist Katharina Grosse’s three-piece show at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Wunderblock, will feature an installation of dirt paths blasted with acrylic spray paint. Katharina Grosse was 20 when she discovered she could paint. Her mom suggested she “follow somebody on an excursion,” which led to sitting in a single spot for eight hours, painting a willow tree.

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Mounds of brightly spray painted earth cover the gallery floor at Nasher Sculpture Center

Wednesday, 05.01.13

Sculpted Serenity

Texas Highways

Designed by the Priztker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano, the 55,000 square foot Nasher Sculpture Center in downtown Dallas is best described as translucent. The thoughtful design infuses the space with a light that transports the viewer into a sort of spiritual embrace with the art.

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The Nasher Sculpture Center transports the viewer into a sort of spiritual embrace with the art.

Wednesday, 04.10.13

Art Review: Mashup Mockup: Nathan Mabry at the Nasher Sculpture Center

D Magazine

L.A. as a metropolitan area is ripe with such transitions, wealth to poverty, lush gardens into desert, mountains down to what Reyner Banham called the Plains of ID, and it is fitting that Mabry sculpts here, for his work involves grand intersections, historical mash-ups spanning hundreds, if not thousands, of years.

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Nathan Mabry’s Sightings exhibitions open at Nasher Sculpture Center

Monday, 04.01.13

Worth the Drive

360 West

It is sculpture inspired by sculpture: Los Angeles-based artists Nathan Mabry’s Process Art (B-E-A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E) is a group of six figures that plays on Augste Rodin’s late-19-century The Burghers of Calais-only Mabry’s work includes a pirate, a bulldog and a bear. Its part of Nasher Sculpture Center’s “Sightings: Nathan Mabry” outdoor exhibit, April 13-July 7.

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Sightings: Nathan Mabry at the Nasher is worth the drive.

Monday, 03.25.13

The Nasher will Screen Three Amigos, Life of Pi and Moonrise Kingdom

Dallas Observer

The Nasher released its Summer/Fall schedule of ‘til Midnight events today. The late night series is Dallas staple that pairs live bands, great movies and free admission on the third Friday of each month. The next six are a strong collection, from Bringing Up Baby to Moonrise Kingdom and Life of Pi, you have a lovely blend of new and old.

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‘til Midnight at the Nasher will screen Three Amigos, Life of Pi and Moonrise Kingdom.

Thursday, 03.21.13

Five Reason to Go See British Broadcaster Matthew Collings at the Nasher Tonight

Dallas Observer

After stops in Fort Worth and Denton, British artist, culture critic and broadcaster Matthew Collings ends his North Texas tour at the Nasher Sculpture Center tonight. Here are five reasons he’s worth your time. He’s a tastemaker. You might learn something. He doesn’t care about popularity contests. His series, This is Civilization, is utterly confusing. He’s a “maverick” in every sense that Sarah Palin is not.

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British Broadcaster, Matthew Collings will speak at the Nasher’s 360 Speaker Series.

Friday, 03.01.13

Art Appreciation

Dallas Child

To one child, the amorphous artwork inside Dallas’ Nasher Sculpture Center titled “Balls Congo” could resemble a faceless octopus with bulbous tentacles. Another might see the ceramic piece as a flower or even a peeled banana. No matter how you look at this or other works in the Ken Price Sculpture-A Retrospective, there is no right or wrong answer.

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See many things in Ken Price’s ceramic sculpture on display at the Nasher.

Friday, 02.22.13

Dallas Museum Unveils Project for Public Art

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

For its 10th anniversary, the Nasher Sculpture Center has commissioned 10 artists to make public artwork for 10 city neighborhoods, first city-wide museum-organized public art effort in the United States. Nasher director Jeremy Strick introduced the Nasher XChange program Wednesday, noting that the Roman number X is 10.

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Nasher Sculpture Center announces plans for public art exhibition in celebration of its 10th anniver

Thursday, 02.21.13

Nasher to Place 10 Sculptures Throughout Dallas

Yahoo! News

The Nasher Sculpture Center is marking its 10th anniversary this year by commissioning 10 sculptures to be placed throughout Dallas. Officials of the museum announced Wednesday that the exhibition, called “Nasher XChange”, will be in place from Oct. 19 through Feb. 16, 2014. The museum marks its 10th anniversary on Oct. 20.

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Nasher announces public art exhibition to celebrate 10 years.

Wednesday, 02.20.13

Nasher Sculpture to Spill Over to Rest of Dallas

Dallas Business Journal

The Nasher Sculpture Center today announced an initiative to push art out of the Dallas Arts District and into other parts of Big D. The exhibition, called Nasher XChange, will consist of 1- newly-commissioned public sculpture by contemporary artists. It will be on view from Oct. 19, 2013 through Feb. 16, 2014, and more than $1 million has already been raised for the effort. The public art program will mark the sculpture center’s 10th anniversary.

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The Nasher Sculpture Center will commission 10 new works to celebrate its 10th anniversary.

Tuesday, 01.01.13

Ken Price Review

Art LTD

From the outset of his extraordinary career, Ken Price liked to push boundaries of what clay- and LA art- could be. From his early mounds and his provocative eggs of the 1960s, through his playful cups and geometries, to the curvaceous, organic, sumptuous freeform sculptures for the last two decades, Price continued to dazzle, challenge, and seduce with roguish good humor and startling technical prowess.

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Ken Price: A Retrospective dazzles viewers.

Monday, 12.31.12

The Year of Ken Price

Glasstire

My first and likely only prediction for visual art in 2013: thanks to the retrospective that was organized by and debuted at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Ken Price will lose his cult status and be embraced by the unwashed masses, and perhaps even by Michael Kimmelman.

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Ken Price: A Retrospective at the Nasher Sculpture Center.

Saturday, 12.01.12

The Art of Imitation

D Moms

The best candidates for an art imitation are childlike in some way: playful, simply constructed and timeless. The Irish-born, London-based artist Eva Rothschild has a show this fall as part of the Nasher Sculpture Center’s Sightings series; she’s a perfect match for this kind of project.

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London-based Eva Rothschild will be part of the Nasher’s Sightings series

Thursday, 11.01.12

Rediscoveries: Modes of Making in Modern Sculpture will steal your attention

Arts + Culture

Rediscoveries: Modes of Making in Modern Sculpture, the recent show at the Nasher Sculpture Center, is glorious. Piece by piece it steals your attention until you find yourself at the epicenter of a metaphorical canopy from which you’re unable to escape.

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Rediscoveries: Modes of Making in Modern Sculpture will steal your attention

Wednesday, 10.24.12

Sculpture Fundraiser

Dallas Morning News

The Nasher Sculpture Center will hold its first family fundraising event on April 28 from 1 to 4 p.m. Co-chairs Lucy and Steve Wrubel and Megan and Brandy Wood say that Great Create will engage families’ artistic sides while raising money for the Nasher’s educational initiatives.

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The Great Create at the Nasher Sculpture Center will serve as a fun fundraiser and connect artists w

Monday, 10.01.12

Price is Right

Time Magazine

Every so often the world wakes up and decides that an artist who’s been around for a while, and is even widely admired, is actually something more – like indispensable.

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Time Magazine Price is Right

Monday, 08.27.12

Fearsome Faces and “Cuddle on the Tightrope” in Texas

Travel + Leisure

One of the cultural highlights in London this spring was the exhibition Lucien Freud: Portraits, which encompassed seven decades of the work of one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, and arguably the greatest postwar portraitist.

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Ernesto Neto’s Cuddle on the Tightrope

Wednesday, 08.01.12

Pages and Pages of Urinals

D Magazine

: How the Nasher came to own the biggest, baddest book ever to come out of Dallas. Artist Andrew Underwood had little luck with Dallas’ commercial galleries. His research-based works often combine drawings and multimedia.

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The Nasher comes to own the biggest, baddest book to ever come out of Dallas

Friday, 07.27.12

The Nasher Nets a Winner

Dallas Morning News

Wanna feel like a kid again, instantly? Go spend 10 or 15 minutes climbing around in the “Cuddle on the Tightrope (Kink)” exhibit at Nasher Sculpture Center. The installation, by Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto, resembles a colorful, articulated caterpillar winding its ways through the space.

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Neto’s Cuddle on the Tightrope at the Nasher will make you feel like a kid again

Friday, 07.27.12

Dallas isn t just for cowboys and oil tycoons

USA Today

It might seem strange in a city with the Dallas Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center and many galleries to find big-name artist in a shopping mall. Raymond Nasher (of the eponymous sculpture center) built Northpark Center to display major works of art.

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Get Cultured in Dallas

Sunday, 07.08.12

Immerse Yourself in “Kink”

Dallas Morning News

Soon after the opening of his show at the Park Avenue Armory in 2009, Ernesto Neto threw New York critics the equivalent of a curveball with art that defied the conventional molds. One critic labeled it “art that loves you back.”

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Immerse yourself in Ernesto Neto’s Cuddle on the Tightrope (Kink)

Friday, 06.01.12

Nick Cave Heard Review

Artillery

In his production “Heard,” Nick Cave requires two puppeteers each for 30 horses made of raffia strangers with 20 miles of it required for each suit.

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Nick Cave’s Heard visits the Dallas Arts District

Friday, 06.01.12

Beyone Abstract

Arts + Culture

Ernesto Neto is a contemporary Brazilian artist widely known for spectacularly huge sculpture that invoke adjectives like “seductive” and “glorious” - they’re meant to awaken our primal selves by inviting interaction.

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Ernesto Neto’s work is meant to awaken our primal selves by inviting interaction

Friday, 06.01.12

Museum Mania

Dallas Morning News

One of the best-kept-secrets of summer is how much fun it can be for kids to slip away to museums. Yes, museums – especially when they set aside regular free and activity-packed days that make learning a blast.

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Kids can spend the summer enjoying activity-packed days at Dallas museums

Sunday, 05.20.12

Crowds Hooked on Crochet

Dallas Morning News

There are many reasons to go downtown, not the least of which is Ernesto Neto’s flamboyant exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center, which is not so immersed in invading light that it’s forgetting how to stage a cool new show.

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Ernesto Neto’s exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Thursday, 05.03.12

Learning to Crawl to the Top

Fort Worth Star Telegram

The Nasher Sculpture Center – after almost 10 years in operation – has finally deemed a North Texas artist worthy of exhibition.

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Dallas artist Erick Swenson’s exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Tuesday, 05.01.12

A Lone Star Reborn

Endless Vacation

A profile of Dallas arts and culture.

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Arts and Culture in Dallas, Texas

Sunday, 04.22.12

Scavenging for Life’s Meaning

Dallas Morning News

At 39, Swenson is a master of small-scale sculpture, as evidenced by his three-piece “Sightings” on view at the Nasher Sculpture Center through July 8.

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Sightings: Erick Swenson is on view at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Sunday, 04.22.12

Erick Swenson

Fort Worth Star Telegram

The Nasher Sculpture Center – after almost 10 years in operation – has finally deemed a North Texas artist worthy of exhibition.

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Dallas artist Erick Swenson’s exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Tuesday, 04.10.12

Rossellini at Nasher Tonight

Dallas Morning News

Model, actress and director Isabella Rossellini will speak at the Nasher Sculpture Center tonight. In addition to a successful modeling and acting career, Rossellini’s true passion is filmmaking.

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Model, actress and director Isabella Rossellini will speak at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Sunday, 04.01.12

Napa and Noshes at the Nasher

Papercity

A Greek tragedy by Euripides may have inspired the Nasher Sculpture Center’s latest exhibition, Elliot Hundley: The Bacchae, but there was nothing tragic about the 1,000 person exhibition-opening party the Nasher threw in Elliot Hundley’s honor.

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Elliot Hundley: The Bacchae opening party

Sunday, 04.01.12

Heads Up

FD Luxe

His work repels and compels- in the same instant. Like the proverbial train wreck, you can’t stop looking. You are at once horrified and saddened.

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Erick Swenson at the Nasher is his first museum show in Dallas

Friday, 03.09.12

Nasher Gives Wing to Spring

Dallas Morning News

This time of year at the Nasher is particularly special. This month’s ‘Til Midnight at the Nasher event, on March 16, will be free in honor of spring break; what a perfect chance to introduce your kids to the glories both of art and the outdoors.

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‘til Midnight at the Nasher

Friday, 03.09.12

Elliot Hundley at Nasher Sculpture Center

Park Cities People

Photos of Elliot Hundley’s opening at the Nasher Sculpture Center

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Photos of Elliot Hundley’s opening at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Thursday, 03.01.12

Elliot Hundley

FD Luxe

Photos of the opening of Elliot Hundley.

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Elliot Hundley opening reception at the Nasher

Thursday, 03.01.12

The Sound of Salience

D Magazine

Thanks to a quiet couple from North Dallas, the Nasher hosts the most important musical program in the city. Now in its second season, Soundings: New Music at the Nasher has produced this city’s most exciting and intelligent musical programming.

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Soundings: New Music at the Nasher

Thursday, 03.01.12

Snail Story

Papercity

We’re enthralled with Erick Swenson. The Whitney Biennial exhibited, Saatchi Collection sculptor, qho lives in our own midst (we even once made his Wild Lower Level Gallery.

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Erick Swenson at the Nasher

Sunday, 02.26.12

Big-Name Buildings

Dallas Morning News

In a city craving high profile prestige, Santiago Calatrava, designer of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, is just the latest in a series of “starchitects” tapped to design signature structures.

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“Starchitects” design structures in Dallas

Thursday, 02.09.12

A Myth's Modern Update

Dallas Morning News

Elliott Hundley’s take on “The Bacchae” is complex and multilayered. In an age of overstimulation and sensory overload, Los Angeles artist Elliott Hundley thrives interpreting a fifth-century B.C. tragedy.

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Elliot Hundley’s “The Bacchae”

Thursday, 02.02.12

So Much to See

Fort Worth Star Telegram

Artist Elliott Hundley’s work, a veritable bacchanalia of textures and found objects, pays fitting tribute to its ancient source material.

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Elliot Hundley at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Wednesday, 02.01.12

The Human Condition

Patron

Sculptor Erick Swenson’s astonishingly lifelike naturalistic creations can be grisly, nightmarish, and befuddling and some say, anthropomorphizing. The artist’s East Dallas studio is in a quiet state of burbling disarray of molds, maquettes, models and a menagerie of polyurethane resin animals-in-progress.

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Sightings at the Nasher Sculpture Center features Dallas artist Erick Swenson

Thursday, 12.01.11

My Office: Jeremy Strick

D CEO

Nasher Sculpture Center Director, Jeremy Stick gives D CEO’s Glenn Hunter a tour of his office.

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Jeremy Strick Nasher Sculpture Center
Nasher Sculpture Center
2001 Flora Street
Dallas, Texas 75201
214.242.5100
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