Inside the 2024 Dallas Art Fair - April 11, 2024
A marquee event in a city replete with world-class cultural offeringsRead More
In the heart of the downtown arts district, the Dallas Art Fair offers collectors, arts professionals, and the public the opportunity to engage with a rich selection of modern and contemporary artworks presented by leading national and international galleries. Thoughtfully curated exhibitions and innovative programming encourage lively conversations and close looking in a robust and rapidly growing arts community.
Fashion Industry Gallery
1807 Ross Avenue,
Dallas, Texas 75201
fashionindustrygallery.com
The Dallas Art Fair is located at the Fashion Industry Gallery in the vibrant Dallas Arts District. The 68-acre district is home to many world-renowned performing and visual arts organizations and some of our city’s most significant cultural landmarks including; The Annette Strauss Artist Square, the Belo Mansion, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Theater Center/Arts District Theater, Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Nasher Sculpture Center, Klyde Warren Park, the Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art, The Eye at The Joule, and the Fashion Industry Gallery.
The exhibition space is a 74,000 square foot mid-century modern building with customized booths, polished concrete floors, natural lighting, and a spacious lobby and intimate lounge.
The Dallas Art Fair Foundation's mission is to promote the appreciation of the arts in Dallas, Texas. Through the annual Dallas Art Fair Foundation Preview Benefit we have raised over two million dollars since inception for the beneficiaries. This year the beneficiaries are the Dallas Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center and Dallas Contemporary.
In addition to working with these institutions, the Dallas Art Fair Foundation started the Dallas Art Fair Foundation + Dallas Museum of Art Acquisition Fund in 2016. What started with $50,000 in 2016, doubled to $100,000 in 2017. To date, we have raised nearly $750,000 for the Fund to acquire over 45 artworks for the permanent collection at the Dallas Museum of Art from the Dallas Art Fair.
A marquee event in a city replete with world-class cultural offeringsRead More
The 16th edition of the Dallas Art Fair concluded with a resounding success, marked by vigorous sales, acquisitions by the Dallas Museum of Art, and enthusiastic participation from collectors and art enthusiasts worldwide. Kelly Cornell, Director of the Dallas Art Fair, expressed her delight, stating, “Our 16th edition affirms Dallas’s reputation as an exciting hub for art commerce, cultural dialogue, and spirited festivities.”Read More
As the 16th edition of the Dallas Art Fair closed its doors on Sunday, the echo of strong sales and the Texan art market’s continuous expansion was present. The fair featured 91 galleries at the Fashion Industry Gallery, a 74,000-square-foot mid-century building in the heart of Dallas’s downtown art district.Read More
Artists who made the cut are Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Thania Petersen, and JooYoung Choi.Read More
It’s said you can’t rush a Dallas collector through a sale, and it’s the Southern style to wait for a preview to end before closing.Read More
The Dallas Art Fair celebrates galleries in the U.S Southwest. This year artists share a penchant for wide open spaces and a focus on the natural world. Here are our highlightsRead More
The Dallas Art Fair Decided on 2024 Exhibitions Which Will Consist of 91 Shows Starting on the 4th of April and Ending on April 7.Read More
The Dallas Art Fair has announced the full list of exhibitors for the 16th edition of the fair taking place this April at the Fashion Industry Gallery (FIG) building. The 91 participating spaces (up from 88 in 2023) come from across Texas, the U.S., and the world — the gallery roster has representation from 17 countries and 49 cities.Read More
The Dallas Art Fair has named the 91 exhibitors that will take part in its upcoming edition, scheduled to run April 4–7 at the Fashion Industry Gallery.Read More
The Dallas Art Fair will take place in April at the Fashion Industry Gallery.Read More
Brandon Zech and Leslie Moody Castro break down the trends they found at the 2023 Dallas Art Fair.Read More
“From Dallas to Mongolia, these artists respond to our challenging contemporary moment with humor and beauty….”Read More
There are several art fair opportunities to visit in the Dallas-Fort Worth area this spring before the summer heat returns.Read More
The advisor and former director of Lehmann Maupin teaches us how Dallas collectors are different.Read More
“If you look at the way Texans dress, you know what kind of work they like,” one attendee of the Dallas Art Fair said of other buyers present at the VIP preview. Which is to say, bold and colorful as a tropical bird. Read More
The “Eye,” a sculpture by Chicago-based artist Tony Tasset, already provides an eye-popping attraction in the sculpture garden across the street from The Joule Hotel on Main Street in downtown Dallas. Read More
Despite the fair’s more sedate, distinctly Southern pace, local and international dealers reported plenty of sales during the VIP previewRead More
As the Dallas Art Fair opens to the public, 'CULTURED' spotlights five pieces, and artists, who are not to be missed this year.Read More
“Community” was the word of the weekend at this year’s Dallas Art Fair (April 21-24) as art dealers, gallery owners, artists, and enthusiasts alike all flocked to the thriving metropolitan city. EDITION by Modern Luxury helped kick things off, first with The Mark Of Artistry. Part mixer and part art-driven experience in partnership with Maker’s Mark, it took place at the Joule Hotel’s Midnight Rambler.Read More
William Sarradet and Brandon Zech discuss the Dallas Art Fair’s return to normal.Read More
There’s a sense that Dallas is becoming much more important than it has been. Rents and real estate are up, the food scene has gained complexity, more and more languages are spoken, the arts venues are top-notch, the art we see is more inclusive and international, the museum plans a major expansion and it seems the Dallas Art Fair has grown into one of the most important in the country.Read More
Dallas Museum of Art Acquires 10 Works From Dallas Art Fair – The 10 works include a 2022 self-portrait by Kohshin Finley and a 2021 painting, The Wall, by Jessie Homer French, both from Various Small Fires galleries. The museum also acquired Sarah Awad’s painting Quiet Friend/Silent Earth (after Rilke) (2022) from Night Gallery. (Press release)Read More
An influx of new collectors and a fundamental appreciation of art make the Dallas Art Fair stand out in the art fair ecosystemRead More
The Dallas Art Fair and the Dallas Museum of Art today announced that ten artworks from this year’s fair will be added to the museum’s permanent collection. The acquisitions were funded by the sixth Dallas Art Fair Foundation Acquisition Program, an annual gift from the Dallas Art Fair Foundation that places works from the fair into the DMA’s collection.Read More
View all 10 artworks collected by the Dallas Museum of Art at the Dallas Art Fair. Read More
A great list of events happening during Dallas Arts Month!Read More
The Dallas Art Fair kicks off as the single busiest week for the Dallas contemporary art world of the calendar year! Read More
“The Dallas art market has been on a sharp incline in recent years, and since the pandemic we have seen Texas’s population skyrocket, with more and more people relocating here from places like New York and California,” said Kelly Cornell, the Dallas Art Fair Director. “We have seen this positively impact the arts and collecting in Dallas. With that in mind, we are ready to be back in full swing this April and stage the full-size, high-quality fair collectors and galleries expect from us.”Read More
With an increasing number of people relocating to Texas from places like New York and California, Dallas Art Fair director Kelly Cornell recently remarked in Artnet, Dallas' art scene is on the cusp of a major expansion.Read More
The Dallas Art Fair kicks off Thursday, April 21 for its 4-day run at the Fashion Institute Gallery (F.I.G.) in the Dallas Arts District. National and international galleries will display a range of artworks, including paintings, sculpture, video and installations by modern and contemporary artists.Read More
At the Dallas Art Fair press preview, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) announced its acquisition of ten works of art, three of which are by Texas artists. These acquisitions are made possible by the Dallas Art Foundation + Dallas Museum of Art Acquisition Fund, which was established in 2016. Read More
The signature event of Dallas Arts Month transforms the city into a hotspot for arts programming and events. Here are the best places to frequent.Read More
With Dallas Art Week quickly approaching, Carolina Alvarez-Mathies, Dallas Contemporary’s deputy director and soon-to-be executive director, gives insights into what to see while in town.Read More
The director of the April event says the city is ‘becoming a major arts hub.'Read More
For its 14th edition, the Dallas Art Fair is back in full swing with a focus on Texas’s rapidly expanding art scene.Read More
Dallas Arts Month is a tangible sign that the city's arts community is resilient and continues to be creative and dynamic.Read More
After a reduced fair in November of 2021, the Dallas Art Fair will be returning in full swing in April.Read More
Now in its 14th edition, the Dallas Art Fair has earned a reputation for the international crowd of galleries it tends to attract. With galleries hailing from New York to Singapore, the 2022 fair looks to continue to that trend. Read More
The Dallas Art Fair has announced the exhibiting spaces for its upcoming April edition. This year’s roster includes 85 galleries, which is a significant increase from the 58 galleries in last year’s reduced-capacity fair, but down from previous fairs (the 2019 event featured 95 exhibitors). Read More
Despite the ongoing restrictions due to the pandemic, many art fairs hope to go ahead this year. Here's our pick of the key ones to visitRead More
The Scene and the SeenRead More
Glasstire recaps the greatest hits of the November Dallas Art Fair. Mentioning works from William Campbell Contemporary, Ruiz Healy Art, Karma, and more!Read More
Dallas Morning News recaps one of the statement pieces chosen for the Dallas Art Fair Foundation Acquisition Program for the Dallas Museum of Art.Read More
Dallas Art Fair Director Kelly Cornell took a break from the fair's opening day to chat about the challenges and rewards of her role.Read More
Here’s what’s different this year and what visitors can expect to see at the event.Read More
Yesterday, at the opening of this year’s Dallas Art Fair, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) announced its most recent round of acquisitions from the event, funded by the Dallas Art Fair Foundation Acquisition Program. For this fifth year of the program (which began at the 2016 fair), the museum had a budget of $100,000.Read More
It’s often said with a smirk that Texas is its own country, and that its inhabitants tend to do things their own way. This is no less true for the art scene down in Texas, as I learned at the VIP opening for the Dallas Art Fair on Thursday, November 11. The crowd trickled in at a leisurely pace, and Houston dealer Bill Arning noted to me that often, the local collectors come to the VIP opening, take it all in, let it simmer for a few days, then return on Sunday with their offers—things just happen a little slower down south.Read More
Artsy reveiws the local and international galleries participating in November's fair, including Cris Worley Fine Arts, Oliver Francis Gallery, Saenger Galeria, Luce Gallery and more!Read More
The fair returns in-person this weekend. Here’s what’s different and what you can expect to see.Read More
For each installment of the Dallas Art Fair, curators of the Dallas Museum of Art along with local collectors choose work to add to its holding through the Dallas Art Fair Foundation Acquisition Program, now in its fifth year. Read More
Art aficionados now have a way to continue supporting their favorite galleries in town with a new digital marketplace to purchase from. "Started by Dallas Art Fair, Culture Place is a digital marketplace for contemporary art collectors to discover, connect, and buy from galleries across the region, augmented with artist studio visits, conversations, and other online programming," said the Culture Place website.Read More
The Dallas Art Fair has announced the launch of culture place, an online site connecting galleries to collectors. Watch video here!
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Like every other business that's had to pivot during the coronavirus pandemic, artists, gallerists, and those who support them have had to innovate, too. Out of that creativity, the team behind the Dallas Art Fair has launched a new digital marketplace for contemporary art collectors to discover, connect, and buy from galleries across Texas.
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Yesterday, the Dallas Art Fair launched Culture Place, an online art market and platform for Texas galleries that will function as a virtual version of the annual art fair year-round. The new website follows the first-ever online Dallas Art Fair in April, which was a response to the physical event in April being postponed to October. Read More
Dallas Art Fair has announced the launch of Culture Place, Inc., an online site that connects galleries to art collectors. Although Texas-centric, regional galleries from neighboring states are also featured, along with weekly online studio visits and conversations. Read More
Dateline Dallas. The art market is about to get far more interesting — with a proven Texas entity boldly entering the lucrative world of art commerce.
The revelation came in with an email touting a venture launched by one of the most respected, and successful, boutique art fairs in America.
That would be the Dallas Art Fair, now in its 12th year, a Texas-founded and Texas-headquartered fair that every spring stands at the epicenter of Dallas Arts Month, crafting a scene spun around its hub at Fashion Industry Gallery, steps from the Dallas Arts District.Read More
Today, the Dallas Art Fair has launched Culture Place, Inc., a digital marketplace for contemporary art collectors to discover, connect, and buy from galleries across the region, which will be augmented with weekly artist studio visits, conversations, and other online programming.Read More
One of the first US fairs forced to postpone back in March, the Dallas Art Fair is now launching Culture Place, Inc., a year-round website that will host a rotating group of roughly two dozen Texas-based (and some Texas-adjacent) galleries. Invited dealers will refresh their artworks every 60 days and are able to use Culture Place even if they have not participated in the fair before.Read More
The Dallas Art Fair scored such a surprising amount of success with its virtual edition this past spring that event organizers are now launching a permanent digital platform. Today, the company behind the Dallas Art Fair launched Culture Place, a year-round online marketplace with an emphasis on regional dealersRead More
In the run-up to Frieze, Magenta Plains showed on the Dallas Art Fair’s online viewing room and Smith is grateful to the organisers of both events for changing tack and keeping “some semblance of normalcy” to the art market calendar. “Our artists have been preparing their work around these fairs,” she says.Read More
On Tuesday, the Dallas Art Fair presented its first edition of online viewing for a total of 84 exhibitors from Texas and elsewhere. As an attempt to remediate the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the digital platform serves as an opportunity for potential buyers to preview the works available among the fair’s numerous dealers, before the live fair’s twelfth edition, which has been shifted to October 1-4, 2020.Read More
This means that the Dallas Art Fairs’s online edition (a preface to its rescheduled IRL edition in October) is full of A-grade material, which helpfully allows you to see how the format fares in handling A-grade material. It really makes you aware of the capabilities and limitations of the interface in a way that prints, editions, décor-forward work, and examples by known quantities doesn’t.Read More
The Dallas Art Fair is back this week for its 12th installment and its first time as a virtual fair after the physical event, slated to take place April 16-19 at Fashion Industry Gallery, was rescheduled for October 1-4. The Dallas Art Fair Online includes 82 galleries from across the world–the majority of the group of 94 exhibitors would have been in Dallas this weekend. Read More
The Dallas Art Fair has taken a hybrid position in response to the coronavirus: it has stuck to its original dates of April 14-23, but only online, postponing the physical fair to October 1-4. Here’s a choice of six works you can see and buy in advance at dallasartfair.com/online should you happen to have the requisite amounts to hand…Read More
While the 12th edition of the Dallas Art Fair has been postponed until October 1 – 4, a new online platform launched this week, when the fair was originally scheduled to take place. Featuring 84 regional, national and international galleries, the online site, which runs through April 23, offers the opportunity to purchase works—with several pieces listed as sold or reserved on opening day—and encourages viewers to make curated selections to share on social mediaRead More
What our critics are reccomending this week: Dallas Art Fair and more!Read More
The Dallas Art Fair is back this week for its 12th installment and its first time as a virtual fair after the physical event, slated to take place April 16-19 at Fashion Industry Gallery, was rescheduled for October 1-4. The Dallas Art Fair Online includes 82 galleries from across the world–the majority of the group of 94 exhibitors would have been in Dallas this weekend. Read More
Texas is full of great designers and makers, and new things are happening every day in the Lone Star State. To help you keep up with all the design news and goings-on in the area, AD PRO is here with what you need to know this week.Read More
The art world continues to expand its online offerings. But following the example of Art Basel Hong Kong, [Dallas Art] fair is hosting online viewing rooms where collectors can digitally preview and purchase exhibitors’ offerings.Read More
As the physical world shuts its doors, more and more visual art businesses are responding by expanding on virtual spaces. For example, the Dallas Art Fair, rescheduled to October, will still present patrons the opportunity to get a taste of the originally slated April fair with the announcement of eighty-two galleries participating in Dallas Art Fair Online.Read More
As people around the globe turn to arts and crafts as a way to pass the time at home, those who work in the industry are scrambling to make up for financial losses due to coronavirus-induced closures. Museums and galleries have shuttered their doors, and art fairs and public events have either been canceled or postponed.Read More
Art Market: Dallas Art Fair Goes Online – While the physical fair has been postponed until the fall, the Dallas Art Fair is launching an online edition from April 14 through April 23. The digital event will offer collectors the chance to preview works from participating galleries and even, if they are so inclined, place reserves or make purchases in advance. (Glasstire)Read More
While the 12th edition of the Dallas Art Fair has been postponed until October 1 – 4, a new online platform launched this week, when the fair was originally scheduled to take place. Featuring 84 regional, national and international galleries, the online site, which runs through April 23, offers the opportunity to purchase works—with several pieces listed as sold or reserved on opening day—and encourages viewers to make curated selections to share on social media.Read More
From April 14-23, 2020, the Dallas Art Fair will present Dallas Art Fair Online, a new platform allowing collectors to digitally preview and purchase works from participating galleries before the upcoming twelfth edition, which has been rescheduled to October 1-4, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A new platform from the Dallas Art Fair has the art online for digital preview and purchase. Dallas Art Fair Online runs April 14-23, 2020, and presents works from participating galleries before the fair’s rescheduled twelfth edition, which had been reset from this spring to October 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Dallas Art Fair will release the list of participating galleries on April 7, 2020.Read More
Earlier this month, the Dallas Art Fair said it would postpone its upcoming edition, scheduled for April 16–19, until October as way to stymie the spread of the new coronavirus (Covid-19). Now, its organizers said they would launch an online viewing room called the Dallas Art Fair Online.Read More
Texas is full of great designers and makers, and new things are happening every day in the Lone Star State. To help you keep up with all the design news and goings-on in the area, AD PRO is here with what you need to know this week.Read More
Due to rising concerns around coronavirus (COVID-19) in Dallas, we’ve already seen the Dallas St. Patrick’s Parade get cancelled, as well as several other events that bring in large crowds of people [including Dallas Art Fair].Read More
In response to the World Health Organization (WHO)'s announcement that COVID-19 is now a pandemic, the Dallas Art Fair has made the decision to reschedule its 12th edition to October 1-4, 2020.
With more and more governments across the world calling for large-scale gatherings of people to be canceled and postponed in face of the continued spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19), three major art fairs—one in Buenos Aires that is considered to be among Latin America’s premier fairs; one in Cologne, Germany, that is a destination for collectors; and one in Texas—said they would postpone this year’s editions.Read More
The Dallas Art Fair is postponing its twelfth annual event until October due to the World Health Organization’s declaration of a pandemic. The fair shared the decision on Thursday morning following Wednesday’s announcement of a 30-day travel ban between the U.S. and Europe, which would make it nearly impossible to execute considering the global nature of the event. It was scheduled for April 16-19; it will now happen on October 1-4. The event will still take place in the Fashion Industry Gallery in October, and tickets purchased for April will be valid for the new dates. Read More
What started as a trickle of cautious announcements from art-market events about monitoring the coronavirus situation has now become a full-on wave of postponements and cancellations. A spate of major international fairs was officially called off or rescheduled today, including ArteBA, the Dallas Art Fair, and Art Cologne.Read More
The Dallas Art Fair has announced its list of exhibitors for this year’s event. The fair will feature 94 local, national and international exhibitors. Ten Dallas and Fort Worth galleries will participate in the curated exhibition. A special exhibition will also showcase the talents of more than two dozen Lone Star artists. The four-day festival offers patrons the opportunity to explore modern and contemporary artworks from around the world. Dallas Art Fair will run April 16-19 at the Fashion Industry Gallery (F.I.G).Read More
The annual Dallas Art Fair, now in its 12th year, has announced its exhibitor list and special programming for 2020. The fair will take place April 16-19 at its usual digs: Dallas’ Fashion Industry Gallery (f.i.g.), downtown in the museum district. There are 96 listed exhibitors (one more than in 2019); most exhibitors are returnees, including Karma (New York), Marlborough (New York and London), and Perrotin (Paris, New York, Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong and Shanghai).Read More
The annual Dallas Art Fair, now in its 12th year, has announced its exhibitor list and special programming for 2020. The fair will take place April 16-19 at its usual digs: Dallas’ Fashion Industry Gallery (f.i.g.), downtown in the museum district. There are 96 listed exhibitors (one more than in 2019); most exhibitors are returnees, including Karma (New York), Marlborough (New York and London), and Perrotin (Paris, New York, Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong and Shanghai).Read More
The Dallas Art Fair announced the full lineup for 2020 this morning, including a list of 94 international exhibitors and the addition of a special exhibition focused on the current practices of North Texas artists. The fair returns to Fashion Industry Gallery for its twelfth year from April 16-19, the heart of Dallas Arts Month.Read More
“We are delighted to see so many loyal galleries returning for 2020 and especially pleased to see a great number with experimental, curated, or solo presentations,” said fair director Kelly Cornell. Read More
12th Edition to Welcome 72 Returning, 22 New Exhibitors, and Special
Exhibition Dedicated to North Texan Artists this April 16-19, 2020Read More
The roaring ’20s are upon us, and there are enough art fairs on the calendar to keep everyone prosperous.
Kicking off the year is the sophomore edition of Frieze Los Angeles, followed closely by the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in Cape Town and ARCO in Madrid. Then, April showers bring… a lot more fairs, from São Paulo to Switzerland.
To help you keep track, we’ve compiled a running list of everything that’s going on in the first half of the year. Check back for part two as more fairs release dates for the second half of the year.Read More
On Thursday afternoon during the Dallas Art Fair, a man in a 10-gallon hat walked into a hotel bar in downtown Dallas, ordered a glass of $300-a-bottle scotch with “one rock” (a single ice cube), and lifted his cell phone to his ear.
“Oh, don’t worry about it, honey,” I heard him say. “I’ll just send the plane to get ’ya.”Read More
On Friday, journalists and fair exhibitioners were coaxed away from the hustle and bustle of the main engine of the Dallas Art Fair and shepherded into the homes of major patrons and facilitators of the city’s art scene.Read More
Last August, when the emergent art collecting couple Joe and Kristen Cole moved from Austin to Dallas, they wanted to find a home where they could showcase their developing collection. They are of a new generation of Texas art patrons and buy work by living artists who don’t necessarily have overwhelming market heat in New York and London. The artists they collect are often young women whose work might never end up on the walls of the more staid older guard of the city’s collecting class.Read More
Texas’s leading fair brings together nearly 100 exhibitors, and eyes were on the fresh talentRead More
These patrons come from across the Lone Star State, and their collecting interests vary widely.Read More
Your de facto cheat sheet to this weekend's fair, which features nearly 100 galleries from across the world.Read More
Picture your typical metropolis skyline. The skyscraper to your left that demands your attention is intimidating—there’s perhaps nothing more aesthetically contrary to the vulnerability of the human body than a towering edifice of glass and steel. Reflected in that glass, though, are slightly warped but nonetheless perfect mirror images of the buildings that stand opposite.Read More
The Dallas Art Fair opens to the public on Friday, April 12, after a glamorous benefit preview on April 11. This year’s edition will take place at the Fashion Industry Gallery (f.i.g.) in the Dallas Arts District through April 14. The Dallas Museum of Art also announced this morning the names of the artists whose works it will acquire as part of its $150,000 Dallas Art Fair acquisition fund: Sheila Hicks, Don Dudley, Arcmanoro Niles, Samuel Levi Jones, Nobutaka Aozaki, Emmanuel Van der Auwera, Maja Ruznic, and Dike Blair. Nearly 100 exhibitors from over 30 different cities across the globe will take part in the fair, including Carbon 12 (Dubai), Altman Siegel (San Francisco), Erin Cluley Gallery (Dallas), and Ghebaly Gallery (Los Angeles), will join newcomers Sadie Coles HQ (London), Lisson Gallery (London, New York), and Blain|Southern (London, Berlin). I quizzed Dallas Art Fair director Kelly Cornell about the 2019 edition of the Dallas Art Fair, its new year round exhibition space 214 Projects, and how it has evolved since she since she climbed the ranks as an assistant.Read More
The Dallas Art Fair is now in its eleventh year, and four years ago, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) launched an annual initiative to purchase works on display at the fair for its permanent collection. It’s called the Dallas Art Fair Foundation Acquisition Program, and its annual budget has grown from $50K in its first year to its current (and last year’s) budget of $150K. During a fair preview, the DMA’s curators/directors walk patrons around the fair to pick the works. The program is funded with a grant.Read More
Even before the crowds descend and the booths bearing prestigious gallery names from all over the world are declared open for business, the Dallas Art Fair had some grand gestures to make. On Wednesday evening, under an endless Texas sky that evoked the opening credits of Friday Night Lights, patrons, collectors and dealers congregated to celebrate the grand opening of River Bend, a new multipurpose cultural space in the city’s Design District. Already home to Erin Cluley Gallery, And Now gallery, it also houses the Dallas Art Fair’s new exhibition space, 214 Projects, as well as the Dallas Art Fair offices. This hub, a project of real estate developer Brook Partners, is anticipating the growing popularity of the cultural center in which it resides, creating more space for both cultural and commercial ventures.Read More
The Dallas Art Fair opened to VIPs Thursday morning, with nearly 100 galleries offering their wares to visiting collectors as waiters prepared lavish spreads of Texas delicacies such as macaroni and cheese topped with smoked brisket. And at a press conference that kicked things off, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) announced it had cherry-picked eight works at the fair for its permanent collection, courtesy a $150,000 grant provided by donors.Read More
As part of a $150,000 acquisition program coinciding with this week’s Dallas Art Fair, the Dallas Art Museum added eight artworks to its collection by artists showing at the fair. The selected works are by Sheila Hicks, Don Dudley, Arcmanoro Niles, Samuel Levi Jones, Nobutaka Aozaki, Emmanuel Van der Auwera, Maja Ruznic, and Dike Blair.Read More
Friday
Dallas’ most expertly curated art event is back for its 11th year at the Fashion Industry Gallery, 1807 Ross Ave. The 2019 Dallas Art Fair celebrates more than a decade of groundbreaking, eye-catching cultural happenings with 74,000 square feet of exhibitions from nearly 100 prominent and up-and-coming galleries — including first-time exhibitors Sadie Coles HQ of London; Lisson Gallery of New York; and Blain|Southern of London and Berlin. Local galleries (including And Now, Conduit Gallery, Cris Worley Fine Arts, Liliana Bloch and more) will be there, too. Read More
How Texas' First Art Fair Grew Up and Stayed True to its Hometown.Read More
This edition of Whitewaller Dallas celebrates the tenth edition of the Dallas Art Fair. It’s been incredible to follow the story of Dallas’s art scene over the past decade. Dallas is home to some of the top museums in the country—such as the Nasher Sculpture Centerand the Dallas Museum of Art—as well as some of the most prominent collectors of contemporary art—like Howard and Cindy Rachofsky.Read More
The Dallas Art Fair is Texas’s answer to Art Basel, with a four-day-long program of art openings, parties, and happenings. Of all the events on the calendar, the Dallas Contemporary museum’s Spring Gala is arguably the most glamorous and played host to a stylish crowd of art lovers this past Friday night. “There’s a really authentic connection between fashion and art in this town,” said Kristen Cole of Forty Five Ten, who cochaired the gala. “We actually dress many of the big art collectors who are here tonight.”Read More
In Dallas in 2019, April has come to mean the launch of Dallas Arts Month, whose anchor is the Dallas Art Fair, which is celebrating its 11th straight year. Read More
Dallas' Stephen Lapthisophon has made an enormous contribution to his adopted city's creative scene as an artist, teacher and mentor. Now the Dallas Art Fair has named him its artist/educator honoree for 2019. Read More
As collectors flocked to Manhattan’s west side for The Armory Show last week, a coterie of 32 galleries affected by the abrupt cancellation of the Volta satellite fair took over part of mega-dealer David Zwirner’s West 19th Street complex and a vacant space on West 21st Street. The upstart fair, dubbed Plan B, was born out of necessity. Zwirner, 1969 Gallery’s Quang Bao, artist payment platform RiSBE, members of the Volta team, and collector Peter Hort and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation banded together to find a solution to an extreme and unfortunate situation. But in doing so, Plan B’s organizers also demonstrated the flexibility, inventiveness, and cooperation that many smaller and mid-size galleries increasingly rely upon as they try to find creative ways of staying in business. Read More
The Dallas Art Fair is fast approaching its 11th birthday. But before it stages its 11th edition starting April 11, it's moving in an interesting new direction, opening its very own venue in the Dallas Design District. Read More
Dallas Art Fair
When: April 11–14
Where: Dallas
A range of local and international galleries—including New York’s Perrotin and CANADA—will show at the Dallas Art Fair, which is located in the midcentury Fashion Industry Gallery in the Dallas Arts DistrictRead More
ART MARKET
Dallas Art Fair Gets a Year-Round Space – As art fairs worldwide seek to differentiate themselves, the Texan art fair is opening a permanent space where invited dealers can exhibit work throughout the year. Called 214 Projects, the new enterprise will be housed in a 2,500-square-foot exhibition space in Dallas’s Design District. (ARTnews).Read More
The Dallas Art Fair may only last a few days, but its impact on the city certainly goes beyond one party-filled weekend. With the 11th edition on the horizon, the fair is establishing a permanent presence in town. This morning, the event’s organizers announced a new exhibition space and cultural venue called 214 Projects, set to open on Saturday, March 2 in the Design District.Read More
The Dallas Art Fair announced today that it will open a new 2,500-square-foot permanent exhibition space in Dallas’s Design District on Saturday, March 2. The venue will host artists and galleries, beginning with Belgium’s Harlan Levey Projects, which will mount the inaugural exhibition, “Emmanuel Van der Auwera: White Noise.” Called 214 Projects, the space will allow the organization to explore new programming possibilities that extend beyond Dallas Art Fair’s duration. “Dallas is a city with a rich cultural landscape,” the fair’s director, Kelly Cornell, said in a statement. “Our exhibitors and their artists can now become a much bigger part of it. Directing this space will strengthen our relationships with them and give them the platform to connect with the city on a deeper level.” Spearheaded by Dallas Art Fair chairman John Sughrue, 214 Projects is part of Brook Partners Inc.’s River Bend redevelopment of seventy thousand square feet of space along 2025 Irving Boulevard, which will soon welcome Erin Cluley Gallery, among other businesses. “It has been a decade of hard work to bring the fair to where it is now,” Sughrue said in a statement. “Now that we are in our eleventh year, it’s the right time for us to expand our ground and enter the next phase. We want to give our partners more space for artistic opportunities and at the same time give back to the city.” Read More
The Dallas Art Fair began as a fairly regional expo with 35 exhibitors, but it’s become an important and decidedly international affair, with nearly 100 galleries participating in its tenth edition in 2018. In April 2019, it will welcome three powerhouse London galleries exhibiting for the first time: Lisson Gallery, Sadie Coles HQ, and Blain | Southern.Read More
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know this Tuesday, January 29.Read More
The Dallas Art Fair, which will be held from April 11 to 14 at the Fashion Industry Gallery in the Dallas Arts District, has revealed the exhibitors participating in its 11th edition—nearly 100 in total, from 30 cities across North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.Read More
Is everything bigger in Texas?
With 92 exhibitors per year and only a decade-long history, the Dallas Art Fair isn’t the grandest stop on the international art market circuit. But its 10th annual edition, which ends Sunday, showed how an increasingly prominent network of public institutions and private collections have turned the fair into a Texas institution, and an important fair for the country.Read More
The Dallas Museum of Art has acquired several works from the Dallas Art Fair.
For the third year in a row, the Dallas Art Fair Foundation Acquisition Program has selected works from artists exhibiting at the Fair for the museum's permanent collection. The grant, made possible with funding from the foundation as well as private donors, has tripled in size since 2016, from $50,000 to $150,000.Read More
They say that everything is bigger in Texas, and that also includes pride for the United States of America. For a handful or so of the 100 art dealers that exhibited at the 10th edition of the Dallas Art Fair, which runs through April 15th at the Fashion Industry Gallery, the American flag also served as a works of art that carried a form of social commentary on the state of the Trump’s America.Read More
A white wall interrupts the line of stately oversized McMansions on Preston Road in Dallas, behind which lies a home that looks like it was airdropped in from outer space: a box-like, ultramodern Richard Meier-designed home that belongs to Howard Rachofsky and his wife, Cindy, the collectors who have helped more than most to elevate this oil and gas kingdom to a hotbed of contemporary art.Read More
A decade on, the Dallas Art Fair is holding its own and looking toward an even bigger future. Read More
The Dallas Art Fair began inauspiciously. As co-founder Chris Byrne once said, it unfurled its sails in 2009, "three months after the world ended," referring to the Great Recession, the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
Ten years later, the fair is on a roll, having inspired Dallas Arts Week and now Dallas Arts Month.Read More
Dallas-born Isaac Lyles and Olivia Smith discuss starting up their Manhattan galleries and exhibiting at Dallas Art Fair. Read More
A work called Eyes as Bright as Diamonds commissioned by the classical music festival from Berlin/New York artist Jen Ray winds down the radial staircase of the Meyerson for the first time on April 11, during the Dallas Art Fair. It centers a woman who sings. That singer will be pop artist Sarah Jaffe, who got her start in Denton and Dallas and was just a presenter honoring Cindy Wilson and Kate Pierson of the B-52s at the 2018 She Rocks Awards.Read More
We count on Texas-founded Glasstire, one of America’s leading online sources for art world insiders — and those who want to be insiders — for hot type and incisive dialogue. Beginning in 2015, Glasstire morphed its annual fundraiser from an art auction format into something more lasting and impactful.Read More
The dust has settled and the figures are in, and Texas’ Super Bowl of Art, the Dallas Art Fair, has successfully wrapped year nine. Record attendance — 14,500 art aficionados including some of Artnews Top 200 Collectors in the World, a bounty of sales, a few gallery titans, impressive international dealers, and hometown exhibitors that did Dallas proud — all made the weekend and its buildup as exciting as the Big Game for the art set.Read More
Everything's bigger there—or whatever—but the relatively intimate Texas art fair offered unparalleled access to local artists and global emerging creators.
Having spent a lot of time in mid-size American cities as of late, I posit the question: is there a corner of our United States where artists aren't fostering vibrant...Read More