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NEW WEBSITE AND BLOG

2010-02-17T12:13:00.000-08:00

We now have a NEW website and blog !!!
This blog will stay up but will not be active so please start going to our new site to to read our blogs.
See you on the other side.

GLASSTIRE MENTION

2010-01-14T10:07:00.000-08:00

Glasstire mentions our forthcoming show by Michael Craig-Martin.

MICHAEL ROOKS NAMED CURATOR OF THE HIGH

2010-01-13T14:02:00.000-08:00

Michael Rooks has been named curator of modern and contemporary art at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. He takes over from Jeffrey Grove who is now the senior curator of contemporary art at the DMA.

LA MOCA HIRES JEFFREY DEITCH AS DIRECTOR

2010-01-12T09:14:00.000-08:00

Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art has confirmed that it has hired the commercial art dealer Jeffrey Deitch as its new director.
Deitch will take over from Jeremy Strick who left to become the director of the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas.
Deitch opened his gallery, Deitch Projects in 1996 and has had many cool exhibitions and worked with many artists.
Tyler Green conducts an interview with Mr. Deitch and talks about his future plans for the museum.
Deitch Projects will close by June 1st.

RYAN MOSLEY @ ALISON JACQUES

2010-01-08T08:39:00.001-08:00

Young Brit artist Ryan Mosley presents his first exhibition at Alison Jacques Gallery, London.
The show opens on January 12th and will run through February 13th.

Already acknowledged as one of the most distinctive of the ʻNewspeakʼ painters, British artist Ryan Mosley presents his first exhibition at Alison Jacques Gallery. Admired for what Art Review has described as ʻhyperfigurative psychocubismʼ, and an approach to painting which is at once both historical and fantastical, Mosleyʼs work simultaneously acknowledges a profound debt to the received genres and traditions of art history and an exuberant willingness to subordinate such categories to a uniquely personal painterly vision.

This exhibition develops Mosleyʼs ongoing fascination with the aesthetics and motifs of various chapters in the canon of art history, whilst being faithful to a visual vocabulary entirely of his own making. The Renaissance collages of Arcimboldo and Hogarthʼs morality tales, Degasʼs dancers and Gauguinʼs exotic landscapes, Ensorʼs carnivalesque and the coarse ebullience of Guston are among the differing images and cultural episodes from which Mosley draws inspiration and to which he pays homage. Yet these subversive stylistic echoes of past
masters, which are very often blended on the same canvas into dynamic art historical conversations, are not deployed simply to offer an idiosyncratic gloss on eras and artists which intrigue Mosley. Rather, they provide tools and contexts in which he can dramatise ad absurdum his interests in form and the fluid diffusion of narrative, and construct otherworldly scenarios and characters which are every bit as amusing, menacing, likeable and bewildering as the world we inhabit.

DALLAS CONTEMPORARY DELAYS OPENING

2010-01-07T13:00:00.000-08:00

Please ignore our last post because we have just received a call that the Dallas Contemporary has had to postpone their show for tomorrow night due to the lack of an occupancy certificate. It will be rescheduled for a future date. So sorry James Gilbert....we love you!!

JAMES GILBERT TO OPEN NEW DALLAS CONTEMPORARY

2010-01-07T09:14:00.001-08:00

The Dallas Contemporary announces their inaugural exhibition at their new location at 161 Glass Street.
L.A. artist James Gilbert will mount a scaled-down version of a tri-part detached Boeing 747. The fuselage will be large enough for viewers to pass through. It sounds very exciting.

The show opens tomorrow night (Friday 8th) from 7:30 onwards.

James will be in attendance so please come along and support the new Dallas Contemporary.

2010

2010-01-05T11:34:00.001-08:00

We're back and ready for action in 2010. Look out for our new website coming any day now and soon our new location.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

2009-12-23T09:43:00.001-08:00

We will be taking a little break over the holidays and will be closed from Dec 24 - Jan 4 2010
See you next year !!

SIMON STARLING @ CASEY KAPLAN

2009-12-17T13:09:00.000-08:00

Simon Starling's new show at Casey Kaplan is def worth checking out although it closes on December 19th. So only a few days to see it. We are watching him closely.

Simon won the Turner prize in 2005

NEW LOCATION COMING SOON

2009-12-16T13:57:00.001-08:00

Don’t panic if you see a “for lease” sign in front of the Goss-Michael Foundation world headquarters on Cedar Springs. The Foundation, created by Kenny Goss and George Michael, is on solid ground and getting ready to announce their move to new, bigger, better space in Dallas.

The February 2010 exhibition featuring renowned UK artist and teacher Michael Craig-Martin will be the last show in the old location.

Stayed tuned for more details regarding to the new GMF space and new website that will launch any day now ! !

TOP OF LIST @ DMN

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PHILLIP LAI @ MODERN ART

2009-12-16T09:22:00.000-08:00

Phillip Lai is one of our favorite artists right now. He has a fantastic new show up at Modern Art. The show is through 20 November - 19 December so only a few days left to catch this great show.

BEST EVENTS FOR WEDNESDAY IN QUICK

2009-12-16T09:11:00.001-08:00

Click here to read

MARC QUINN ARTLIES REVIEW

2009-12-11T08:12:00.000-08:00

Great review in Artlies click on image to read.

GEORGE MICHAEL SPECIAL SCREENING

2009-12-10T09:11:00.000-08:00

Heads up George Fans!! This is your chance to experience the singing sensation on the big screen, and do something good for those in need, too! All ticket sales benefit the Goss-Michael Foundation’s scholarship program. With funds raised, we will create a brand new scholarship for college students so they can continue their education and complete their degree. A portion of the proceeds will also be donated to the North Texas Food Bank. The doors will open at 6:45 and the feature will begin at 7:15.

GEORGE MICHAEL: LIVE IN LONDON

Special Screening

December 16, 2009

Studio Movie Grill, Royal Lane
Doors open at 6:45pm

Please purchase your tickets now through our online store

NEW WEBSITE COMING SOON ! !

2009-12-09T09:27:00.000-08:00

This month we will be launching our new website so please keep checking back with us.
Its going to be brilliant but not boombastic.

STEVE MCQUEEN TO DIRECT FELA

2009-12-09T09:10:00.000-08:00

Focus Features has picked Steve McQueen to direct Fela, a feature film based on the life of African musician and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti—the subject of the recently opened Broadway musical Fela!

McQueen, the British artist who made his feature directing debut last year on the Irish hunger strike with the drama Hunger, will write the script with Biyi Bandele, based on the Michael Veal book Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical Icon. The recent musical is not connected to the film project: Focus is basing its picture on a rights package consisting of screen rights to Fela’s music and his life story, plus Veal’s book.

Fela lived large—with some twenty-seven wives—and paid a high price for speaking out against oppression in Nigeria. In one attack on his home, Fela’s seventy-eight-year-old mother was killed after being thrown from a second-story window. Fela responded by placing her coffin on the steps of the Nigerian leader’s residence.

RICHARD WRIGHT WINS 2009 TURNER PRIZE

2009-12-08T12:22:00.000-08:00

Scottish artist Richard Wright is the winner of the 2009 Turner Prize.

For his main piece in the Turner Prize show he has filled a whole wall of a big gallery with a symmetrical abstract design that looks like a giant inkblot in a Rorschach test. Painted in gold leaf, it shimmers on an end wall, like a mirage that might disappear at any moment.

He is represented by Modern Institute Gallery

NEW CURATOR FOR FRIEZE 2010

2009-11-14T10:57:00.000-08:00

London-based Sarah McCrory has been announced as the new Curator of Frieze Projects, the unique programme of artists’ commissions which takes place annually as part of Frieze Art Fair.
McCrory is known for her support and work with emerging, young and underrepresented artists. In the past she has worked with artists including Charles Atlas, Nairy Baghramian, Spartacus Chetwynd, Enrico David, Donald Urquhart and Cathy Wilkes.

THE OBSERVER UK MARC QUINN & GMF

2009-11-10T11:49:00.000-08:00

Click here to read article.

TRACEY EMIN: ONLY GOD KNOWS I'M GOOD

2009-11-07T10:07:00.001-08:00

Tracey Emin opens a new show at Lehmann Maupin Gallery in NYC.

BRITISH ARTS COUNCIL OPPOSES LONDON MAYOR

2009-10-29T09:04:00.000-07:00

Boris Johnson and the Arts Council, London are battling it out. Earlier this month, the mayor was thwarted in his attempt to nominate a political supporter, Veronica Wadley, as head of the council. Critics including current Arts Council England head Liz Forgan said that Wadley had “almost no arts credibility,” while culture secretary Ben Bradshaw blocked the nomination, saying it violated conventions against cronyism.

Boris Johnson has refused to back down. After at first threatening to leave the post open, he has now started the search to fill the position from scratch, suggesting that he would pick Wadley if she applied again.

DALLAS SCORES AGAIN

2009-10-24T09:24:00.000-07:00

Good article in Art in America.
Dallas is an exciting place to be right now.

BRITISH ARTS COUNCIL SELECTS 12 ART PROJECTS FOR UK's 2012 OLYMPICS

2009-10-23T10:08:00.000-07:00

A giant human puppet of Lady Godiva and three thirty-foot crocheted lions are among the artworks selected to showcase British culture at the 2012 Olympics, reports the BBC. The selected artists and groups are: the Pacitti Theater Company, Shauna Richardson, Alfie Dennen and Paula Le Dieu, the Owl Project and Ed Carter, Anthony McCall and Fact, Brian Irvine and John McIlduff, Craig Coulthard, Lone Twin, Alex Hartley, Marc Rees, Imagineer Productions, and Leeds Canvas.

More than two thousand entries were received in what the Arts Council dubbed the most ambitious and wide-ranging art prize in the UK.

The twelve winning designs, from Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and the nine English regions, will share nearly nine million dollars. Each project is inspired by its location and celebrates the Olympic Games.

The twelve winning commissions will be developed across 2010 and 2011, among them a full-size football pitch created within woodland in the Scottish Borders and an environmentally sustainable watermill.

FEW PICS FROM FRIEZE

2009-10-23T09:50:00.000-07:00

Here are several highlights from the Frieze art fair in London that took place last week.

Walead Beshty at Thomas Dane

Nigel Cooke at Modern Art

Ed Kay at Dicksmith Gallery

Sarah Lucas at Sadie Coles

Eva Rothschild

Damien Hirst at Tate

TWO BY TWO FOR AIDS AND ART

2009-10-23T09:42:00.000-07:00

This weekend is the amfar 2x2 annual gala which is held at The Rachofsky House

There are some amazing artits on view and for purchase.

Click here to find out more about the charity.

Thanks to the phenomenal support of the participating artists, dealers, sponsors and patrons, Two by Two for AIDS and Art’s annual gala and art auction has raised $21 million in its first decade in support of amfAR’s AIDS research initiatives and the DMA’s contemporary art acquisition program. An eagerly anticipated event that quickly sells out, the benefit features a seated dinner for 400 guests with both a live and silent auction of major works of contemporary art and unique luxury items.

Two by Two is such a successful event because it provides an opportunity to support two very worthy organizations. amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, has made great strides in essential AIDS research initiatives over the last 25 years, and Two x Two has become amfAR’s largest fundraiser in the United States. The Dallas Museum of Art has added over 70 major works of contemporary art to their permanent collection with Two x Two proceeds donated to their Contemporary Art Acquistion Fund. Two x Two is also the DMA’s largest annual fundraiser.

IRVING PENN 1917-2009

2009-10-08T08:44:00.000-07:00

Irving Penn, one of the twentieth century’s most prolific and influential photographers of fashion and the famous, whose signature blend of classical elegance and cool minimalism was recognizable to magazine readers and museumgoers worldwide, died Wednesday morning at his home in Manhattan.

Penn’s talent for picturing his subjects with compositional clarity and economy earned him the widespread admiration of readers of Vogue during his long association with the magazine, beginning in 1943. It also brought him recognition in the art world; his photographs have been exhibited in museums and galleries and are prized by collectors.

He was most famous for photographing Parisian fashion models and the world’s great cultural figures, but he seemed equally at home photographing Peruvian peasants or bunion pads.

A courtly man whose gentle demeanor masked an intense perfectionism, Penn adopted the pose of a humble craftsman while helping to shape a field known for putting on airs. Although schooled in painting and design, he chose to define himself as a photographer, scraping his early canvases of paint so that they might serve a more useful life as backdrops to his pictures.

Penn had the good fortune of working for and collaborating with two of the twentieth century’s most inventive and influential magazine art directors, Alexey Brodovitch and Alexander Liberman.

He studied with Brodovitch in Philadelphia as a young man and came to New York in 1937 as his unpaid design assistant at Harper’s Bazaar. But it was under Liberman, at Vogue, that Penn forged his career as a photographer.

TURNER PRIZE 2009

2009-10-07T12:59:00.001-07:00

TURNER PRIZE 2009

Tate Britain 6 October 2009 – 3 January 2010

The four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2009 are Enrico David, Roger Hiorns, Lucy Skaer and Richard Wright.

Enrico David has been nominated for his solo exhibitions How Do You Love Dzzzzt By Mammy? at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, and Bulbous Marauder at the Seattle Art Museum. Enrico David is a contemporary surrealist who creates rich and profoundly original painting, drawing and sculpture which are disconcerting, confrontational and beautiful.

Roger Hiorns for his solo exhibitions Seizure, Artangel commission, Harper Road, London and at Corvi Mora, London. Hiorns creates arresting sculpture and installation combining unusual materials. His exploration of chemical processes took spectacular effect in Seizure, in which a derelict flat in South London was filled with liquid copper sulphate, which after a period of time encrusted every surface of the space with blue crystals.

Lucy Skaer for her solo exhibition at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh and A Boat Used as a Vessel at the Kunsthalle Basel. Skaer makes drawings, sculptures and films which often take found photographic sources as their starting point. Rooted in reality, yet subjected to a process of elaborate transformation, Skaer's images hover in the space between recognition and ambiguity, figuration and abstraction.

Richard Wright for the work he exhibited in the 55th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh and his exhibition at the Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh. Wright creates subtle and exquisite wall paintings that respond directly to the architecture in which they are created. Often awkwardly placed in discreet locations, they combine graphic imagery and intricate patterning from sources as varied as Medieval painting, graphics and typography.

The Turner Prize award is £40,000 with £25,000 going to the winner and £5,000 each for the other shortlisted artists. The Prize, established in 1984, is awarded to a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the twelve months preceding 21 April 2009. It is intended to promote public discussion of new developments in contemporary British art and is widely recognised as one of the most important and prestigious awards for the visual arts in Europe.

For more info please click HERE

FRIEZE 2009

2009-10-06T09:32:00.000-07:00

Once again the social season is off and running and next week in London will be the annual art fair Known as Frieze. The Dates are 15-18 Oct click here for more info.

MODERN ART NOTES

2009-10-01T08:09:00.000-07:00

If you havent read Tyler Green's blog you REALLY need to set it as a favorite.
One of the best art blogs youll ever read.

ART THIS WEEK DOT COM

2009-09-30T10:31:00.000-07:00

Check out this link to see an interview with Marc Quinn.
Thanks to Lindey Walls and Richard Serrano for making this happen.

Pics of Marc Quinn Show

2009-09-26T09:54:00.000-07:00

PRE-ORDER SIGNED MARC QUINN CATALOGUE

2009-08-21T08:55:00.000-07:00

Call +1.214.696.0555 or email lindsey@gossmichaelfoundation.org for more details

WEBSITES WE LIKE

2009-08-07T09:21:00.000-07:00

Here are a few cool websites that we like to check out for art news and events:
Modern Art Notes
The Art Newspaper
Art Fag City
Glasstire
Artforum
Vernissage TV
Wallpaper
New York Magazine
Art & Seek

INTERNS FOR THE FALL

2009-08-04T08:37:00.001-07:00

We are now excepting applications for our Fall (September) interns positions.
We ideally have two interns that rotate days throughout the week and on Saturday.
If you are interested please submit your C.V. to either Lindsey or James @gossmichaelfoundation.org or call +1.214.696.0555

COURTAULD CONSIDERING DRASTIC CUTS

2009-07-31T12:32:00.000-07:00

The Courtauld Institute in London is considering drastic cuts to its three archives of images, including the Witt Library. From September, they would only open one day a week and effectively cease to collect. This proposal is causing great concern amongst art historians, as well as the art trade, since it is a major resource.

More than three million images are kept in London’s Somerset House and are currently open to the public every weekday. The plan is that the libraries would open only one day a week. The Witt Library holds around two million photographs and reproductions of paintings that are pasted onto thin card and stored in file boxes, classified by national school, then artist, and finally subdivided by iconography. Covering the period from 1200AD to the present, 70,000 artists are represented. The library’s origins go back to the image collection begun by Sir Robert Witt, who bequeathed it to the Courtauld in 1952.

The Conway Library is a similar collection, covering architecture, sculpture and some decorative art. Begun by Lord Conway, it was donated to the Courtauld in 1932 and now comprises around one million images.

The Photographic Survey records paintings, works on paper and sculptures in private historic collections (mainly those of aristocratic families) in England, Wales and Ireland. It began in the early 1950s, in association with New York’s Frick Art Reference Library, and now covers nearly 600 collections.

SATURDAY SKETCH DAY

2009-07-30T13:46:00.001-07:00

SATURDAY SKETCH DAY AT THE GOSS-MICHAEL FOUNDATION ON AUGUST 15

New Summer Hours Begin August 4

The Goss-Michael Foundation announces Saturday Sketch Days on specific weekends during its 2009 summer and fall exhibitions. On select Saturdays, from 2 – 3 p.m., attendees will have the opportunity to experience a brief tour of the current exhibition hosted by a Goss-Michael Foundation staff member and sketch their impressions of the featured works.
The first scheduled date is Saturday, August 15. Attendance is open to those ages 12 and older, and all minors must be accompanied by an adult. Free of charge, the event it limited to the first 20 people to register and is open to groups by reservation only. Reservations can be made by calling 214-696-0555.

PROJECT SPACES & GALLERIES

2009-07-29T12:52:00.000-07:00

Here is a list of some of our favorite project spaces, galleries and non-profits in London which we think are doing some really cool things at the moment.
If you are in London this summer please stop by at least one or two and say the GMF said hi !!
Hexprojects
Chisenhale Gallery
Paradise Row
Herald St.
The Approach
Cubitt
Hollybush Gardens
Limoncello Gallery
Dicksmith Gallery
Hotel
Alison Jacques Gallery
Museum52
Vilma Gold Gallery
Modern Art
Studio Voltaire
Swallow St.
LUX
Sadie Coles Gallery
Laura Bartlett Gallery
Seventeen
Maureen Paley

MARC QUINN SHOW SEPTEMBER 24 - JANUARY 23, 2010

2009-07-29T12:32:00.000-07:00

The Goss-Michael Foundation is pleased to announce an exhibition of sculptural works by one of the most influential British contemporary artists: Marc Quinn.

The GMF has partnered with The Rachofsky Collection, one of the world’s foremost private collections, to produce an exceptional survey of Marc Quinn’s sculptural works throughout the last decade. Through the collaboration between these two prominent private collections, the GMF and the Rachofsky Collection hope to contribute to Dallas’ rise into the ranks of influential contemporary art capitals.

The GMF and the Rachofsky Collection bring together a strong array of Quinn’s works dated from 1998 to present. Utilizing both traditional mediums such as bronze and marble, in addition to more innovative materials such as ice, blood, insulin and DNA, Quinn breaks the boundaries of historical sculpture-making. The works included in the exhibition comment on the modern preoccupation of eternal preservation of the self and explore Quinn’s obsession with the unpredictability of the human body and the dualisms that define human life, such as: spiritual and physical, surface and depth, cerebral and sexual.

The Rachofsky Collection has contributed Marc Quinn’s signature piece, Self II (1998), which has become famously known as The Blood Head. This frozen sculpture of the artist’s head is made from ten pints of his own blood, taken from his body over a five month period. Juxtaposed in the space is the Goss-Michael Collection’s, Sky (2006), a frozen representation of Quinn’s child created from the birth placenta and umbilical cord.

Amongst several sculptural works in the exhibition is another of Quinn’s most important pieces: Alison Lapper and Parys (2009), a 7ft high marble sculpture of Quinn’s dear friend Alison Lapper. Born with no arms and shortened legs, she is powerfully depicted sitting with her son Parys. Again, Quinn challenges traditional parameters and social standards for immortalizing beauty in white marble, elevating instead on a tall plinth an unconventional sitter. A version of this sculpture was on prominent display on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in front of the National Gallery (London, 2005).

The show will run from September 24 - January 23, 2010

CERITH WYN EVANS

2009-07-28T09:38:00.001-07:00

Lorcan O'Neill Gallery in Rome will show new work by British artist Cerith Wyn Evans.

EXPLORING PRIVATE UNIVERSES WITH JAMES COPE AT THE DMA

2009-07-16T13:48:00.000-07:00

Associate Curator James Cope of The Goss-Michael Foundation will give a gallery talk on the current exhibition Exploring Private Universes.
Date: Wednesday 22July

Time: 3:00

Location: Dallas Museum of Art

We hope to see everyone there.

For more information please click here

DASH SNOW DIES AT 27

2009-07-14T14:03:00.001-07:00

RIP
He's not British but worth some honorable respect.
Dash Snow, grandson of Christophe de Menil died on Monday night of a drug overdose in New York.

EVA ROTHSCHILD @ TATE BRITAIN

2009-07-14T09:31:00.000-07:00

If you are in London this summer you should visit the Tate Britain to see Eva Rothschild's installation, click here for more info.

ARTLIES MAGAZINE SOLD AT GMF

2009-07-10T09:04:00.000-07:00

The Goss-Michael Foundation is one of the few places in Dallas to carry Artlies.
Come and pick up a copy. First 10 people through the door this Saturday get a free T-shirt as well.
Artlies Mag $7.00

FIRST 10 GET A T-SHIRT

2009-07-09T09:54:00.000-07:00

This Saturday 11th the first 10 people to visit the Foundation will get a free T-shirt.
Hours 11:00-4:00
Group Show: EAT ME - DRINK ME

YINKA SHONIBARE & ANTONY GORMLEY 4TH PLINTH

2009-07-08T13:20:00.000-07:00

This summer, sculptor Antony Gormley invites people to help create an astonishing living monument. He is asking the people of the UK to occupy the empty Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, a space normally reserved for statues of Kings and Generals, in an image of themselves, and a representation of the whole of humanity. This is taking place from 6 July to 14 October 2009.

The Fourth Plinth is in the north-west of Trafalgar Square, in central London. Built in 1841, it was originally intended for an equestrian statue but was empty for many years. It is now the location for specially commissioned artworks.

'Nelson's Ship in a Bottle' by Yinka Shonibare MBE will follow Antony Gormley's One & Other on the Fourth Plinth.

Yinka Shonibare proposes to make a scale replica of Nelson’s ship, HMS Victory, in a giant glass bottle. The ship’s magnificent sails will be produced in richly coloured and patterned textiles, which Shonibare buys from Brixton market in London. They are assumed to be African but in fact the fabric was inspired by Indonesian batik design, mass produced by the Dutch and sold to the colonies in West Africa. By the 1960s the material was popularly assimilated in Africa and became symbolic of African identity and independence. Shonibare says his piece will reflect the story of multiculturalism in London today, which began as a result of Nelson’s victory at the Battle of Trafalgar: ‘For me it’s a celebration of London’s immense ethnic wealth, giving expression to and honouring the many cultures and ethnicities that are still breathing precious wind into the sails of the UK.’

RIP

2009-06-26T13:02:00.000-07:00

A FEW PHOTOS OF EAT ME - DRINK ME

2009-06-20T11:54:00.001-07:00

EAT ME - DRINK ME DALLAS MORNING NEWS

2009-06-19T09:58:00.001-07:00

GROUP SHOW JUNE 18TH 6:30-8:30

2009-06-05T08:44:00.000-07:00

On June 18th from 6:30-8:30 please join us to celebrate the opening of EAT ME - DRINK ME
This whimsical line EAT ME – DRINK ME is taken from Lewis Carrol’s iconic tale Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and has been the starting inspiration of a group show that proposes to transform the galleries into a place of reflection, introspection, and a cabinet of curiosities. This exhibition evokes the fascination in the history of art, and even more in today’s contemporary art of fairy-tales, fables, and folk-laws that can be traced back to Greeko-Roman mythology in which they tried to use the supernatural to interpret natural events and to explain the nature of the universe.
Combining painting, sculpture, and video in a 21st century palette the GMF curatorial team introduces ten artists to this fascinating dialogue and attempts to make sense of humanity’s need for myth.

Please RSVP by calling: +1 214-696-0555 or email: lindsey@gossmichaelfoundation.org

GMF & TODAY MARKS THE BEGINNING

2009-06-03T13:03:00.000-07:00

GMF & ARTLIES PARTY

2009-05-21T09:25:00.000-07:00

RICHARD PATTERSON ON ARTFORUM CRITICS PICKS

2009-05-06T09:20:00.000-07:00

Check out Richard Patterson's review on the Artforum website here.
If you havent seen the show yet, hurry up !!

TURNER PRIZE SHORT LIST UNVEILED

2009-04-29T12:39:00.000-07:00

Organizers of the Turner Prize have named the four artists competing for the $37,000 award, given annually to a British artist under fifty.
Finalists are Roger Hiorns, Enrico David, Lucy Skaer, and Richard Wright.
Sculptor Roger Hiorns famously deployed thousands of gallons of liquid copper sulfate to turn a derelict London apartment into a cavern of blue crystals. Visitors had to wear protective clothing to visit the work, titled Seizure. Enrico David, an Italian-born artist, creates installations, sculptures, and drawings inspired by everything from traditional crafts to twentieth-century Surrealism. Lucy Skaer makes drawings, sculptures, and films and often incorporates found photos, while Richard Wright is a painter who cites architecture as a source of inspiration for his pieces.
The winner will be announced December 7.

GMF HOSTS YOUNG ARTISTS PROGRAM @ DMA

2009-04-25T09:56:00.001-07:00

NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK @ GMF

2009-04-25T09:43:00.001-07:00

We hosted a small gathering for the North Texas Food Bank on Wednesday.
The North Texas Food Bank was established in 1982 to address the critical issue of hunger in the North Texas area by securing donations of surplus unmarketable, but wholesome, foods and grocery products for distribution through a network of charitable organizations dedicated to feeding the hungry in 13 North Texas Counties, including Dallas, Denton, Collin, Fannin, Rockwall, Hunt, Grayson, Kaufman, Ellis, Navarro, Lamar, Delta and Hopkins. In the first year of operation, the Food Bank distributed 400,000 pounds of food.

Members of the North Texas Food Bank's organizing committee became advocates with members of the Texas Legislature for the passage of the Good Faith Donor Act, which protects donors from liability of donated product. With the passage of this act in 1983, many potential donors began actively donating.

The North Texas Food Bank is a certified member of America's Second Harvest National Food Bank Network. America's Second Harvest, the nation's largest domestic hunger relief organization, solicits food and grocery products from national suppliers for distribution through 200 certified Food Banks nationally. America's Second Harvest also provides Food Banks with operational standards, training, support and inspection, and educates the public and government officials about the nature and solutions to the problem of hunger in the U.S.

JEREMY DELLER/CREATIVE TIME GMF/SMU IMAGES

2009-04-15T11:55:00.000-07:00

Here are a few pics from the Jeremy Deller/Creative event.
Thanks to everyone that came out and supported us.

THE OLD STATE ART AUCTION BENEFITTING GMF

2009-04-15T11:30:00.001-07:00

The Old State House of Design and Development, a web hosting company, will raise money for the Goss-Michael Foundation. The event will take place on April Thursday 16th from 7:30-11:30. For imforamtion please click here.

GMF HOSTS JEREMY DELLER AT SMU 4-11-09

2009-04-03T14:45:00.001-07:00

Date: 4-11-09
Time: 10:00a-1:00p
Location: SMU (near flag pole at the end of Bishop St)
The Goss-Michael Foundation is pleased to announce that it will host It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq, a new project by Turner Prize-winning British artist Jeremy Deller commissioned and produced by Creative Time and the New Museum. The project will encourage public discussion of the history, present circumstances, and future of Iraq through unscripted, nonpartisan conversations in cities across the country.
Jeremy Deller conceived It Is What It Is to stimulate unmediated dialogue about Iraq, and our relationship to it as people and as a nation. “I have read a ton of books and articles about the war but short of going to Iraq itself there is no substitute for meeting someone who has actually lived, or been there, hence the core part of this project,” said Deller. To this end, over 30 people with a variety of first-hand experiences of the country were available for conversations with thousands of visitors during the project’s installation at the New Museum in New York, from February 10 to March 22. A complete list of these experts is available here. On March 25, the project will began a three-week road trip by RV from New York to Los Angeles, during which time the artist and guest experts Jonathan Harvey (an Iraq war veteran and recently demobilized Psychological Operations platoon sergeant) and Esam Pasha (an Iraqi refugee, artist, and former translator for the Chief Advisor in the British Embassy of Baghdad) will visit at least 10 cities nationally. This road trip will broaden and deepen the dialog begun in New York, extending the conversation to diverse audiences across the country.

JEREMY DELLER

2009-03-19T12:56:00.001-07:00

Over a six week period at the New Museum in NYC, British artist Jeremy Deller has invited journalists , Iraqi refugees, soldiers, and scholars to share their thoughts of the last ten years in and out of Iraq. At the end of March, "It Is What It Is : Conversations about Iraq" will travel across the US from NYC to LA, with conversations held at ten public sites along the way.

Stay tuned for more information regarding this project and check out these websites for more info here and here.

RICHARD PATTERSON ON KERA

2009-03-10T12:16:00.000-07:00

Click here to watch the Richard Patterson interview on KERA.

RICHARD PATTERSON ON KERA

2009-03-05T12:28:00.000-08:00

Friday 6th at 7:30pm Richard Patterson will be on KERA's television show THINK with Krys Boyd.
If you miss it, it will air again on Sunday 8th at 11:30am.

WALLPAPER ONLINE

2009-03-03T13:31:00.000-08:00

Check out Wallpaper online here to see Richard Patterson at the GMF in full force.
Thanks to Tony Chambers and Hugo Macdonald at Wallpaper for their help and support.

RICHARD PATTERSON & TOBY KAMPS IN DISCUSSION AT THE DMA

2009-02-25T12:29:00.000-08:00

We hope everyone can come.

STUDENT ART CONTEST

2009-02-21T09:42:00.001-08:00

Congratulations to everyone who entered the GMF student art contest.

The GMF art contest is now in its third year and has gone from 34 entries last year to 136 this year!

David Molay was the winner and his work of art will be framed and added the the Kenny Goss & George Michael Collection and exhibited along side previous winners in the GMF.

DALLAS ART FAIR PARTY

2009-02-14T10:05:00.000-08:00

The Dallas Art Fair was a huge success for everyone. The dealers where happy, the event organisers were happy, collectors happy, everyone happy !!
We where so honored to be asked to host a cocktail reception for everyone involved. It was also the last chance to see our current exhibition by Sarah Lucas. Here are a few pictures from the night.

ART CONTEST

2009-02-12T10:19:00.000-08:00

Lindsey installing our wonderful entries for the art contest which will be on display from today.

Winners will be announced on Sat 14th at 2:00.

Our guest judge Joan Davidow, director of the Dallas Contemporary.

RICHARD PATTERSON CATALOGUE

2009-02-05T08:39:00.000-08:00

In 1997 Anthony d'offay published the Thomson catalogue for Richard Patterson's exhibition. They are extremely hard to find but we have managed to get our hands on 30 signed copies which are available for $25.00 If you are a fan of Richard's work this catalogue is a must have.

RICHARD PATTERSON EXHIBITION

2009-02-04T09:48:00.001-08:00

Opening reception Feb 20th from 6:00 - 8:00pm
Exhibition Feb 21st - April 30th.

Please RSVP to info@gossmichaelfoundation.org or call 214-696-0555

Richard Patterson will also be giving a talk at the DMA with Toby Kamps, head curator of the CAMH.

Talk: Feb 26th, 7:00pm at DMA Horchow auditorium.

Free to public but seating is limited so get there early.

DALLAS ART FAIR

2009-02-03T12:15:00.001-08:00

More than 30 national art dealers from 12 cities will be exhibiting in the first annual Dallas Art Fair this weekend. The private view is this Thursday from 6:00-10:00pm.
For more information and to buy tickets click here.

SAATCHI TO LAUNCH TV SHOW

2009-01-30T09:07:00.000-08:00

Charles Saatchi, the collector who brought many of the "YBA's" to prominence in the 1990's will host the BBC2 series.
Artits over the age of 18 can apply here
Serioulsy !!!

DAVID CHIPPERFIELD - MENIL FOUNDATION

2009-01-30T08:50:00.001-08:00

The Menil Foundation has hired David Chipperfield Architects, a firm with offices in London, Berlin, Milan, and Shanghai, to design a master plan the museum will use to carry out its expansion. The firm’s past projects include the Neues Museum in Berlin the master plan for the Penn Museum in Philadelphia and the BBC HQ Scotland in Glasgow.

BBC HQ with commissioned sculpture by Scottish artist Toby Paterson

Interior of BBC HQ Scotland.

SUPPORT OUR MISSION

2009-01-24T11:23:00.000-08:00

Although the Goss-Michael Foundation is a private institution, whose operational costs are generously covered by the Platinum Trust, your donations play a vital role in providing the funding needed to support our educational programs. It is through your donations that we are able to offer scholarships to students, not only in the DFW area, but also statewide who would like to continue their art education at the college level. Your support also enables GMF to share its collection and programs with visitors from around the world, helping the widest possible audience understand and enjoy contemporary art. With your help we are supporting and inspiring the artists of tomorrow and we thank you for partnering with us to accomplish these goals.
Please visit our website here and click on contact, then click on Support our Mission to found out how to donate.
Previous donors:
Stacey Verbeek
Allen Roeseler
Ruth Francis
Andrew Grimes
Brett Lee
Pilar Quintana
Bianca Van Tilburg
Katherine Kidd
Harold Nix
Laura Maar
Nancy DeWaard

SARAH LUCAS VIDEO

2009-01-16T10:06:00.001-08:00

SARAH LUCAS REVIEW IN MODERN PAINTERS

2009-01-14T13:07:00.000-08:00

Modern Painters magazine has reviewed our current exhibition by Sarah Lucas. It is featured in the new Feb 2009 issue!!

Click on the image to read it.

And if you still haven't made it by to see the show maybe you will now.

LAST DAY FOR ART CONTEST ENTRIES

2009-01-10T10:02:00.000-08:00

Today is the last day to submit art contest entries. We are open until 4:00 today!!

We have already received over 70 entries already!!

The finalists will be shown in the Foundation from Feb 12th and the winner will be announced on Feb 14th at 2:00pm.

We hope to see all students and family and friends on Feb Sat 14th !!
GOOD LUCK

BRITON OF THE YEAR

2009-01-06T09:21:00.000-08:00

Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum has been named Briton of the Year by The Times of London. Joining the museum in 2002 when it was nearly $7 million in debt and had closed one-third of it galleries MacGregor has since helped restore the museum to an attraction that now receives more than six million visitors a year.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

2009-01-02T09:17:00.001-08:00

Stop by and get a badge...

PICTURES FROM GIFT DRIVE

2008-12-20T11:01:00.001-08:00

Thanks again to everyone who helped support our gift drive for the Dallas Homeless Alliance, you're the BEST.
Thanks to our star photographer Bruno, you take great pics!!

SUCCESS

2008-12-19T09:28:00.001-08:00

Last night was a great success and we now have two big boxes full of winter clothes for the Dallas Homeless Alliance !!
Thanks to everyone who donated and joined us last night, the GMF had a fun time.

TONIGHT

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FRIENDS OF GMF

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To all our friends and family that have supported us over the last year thank you all so much.
No need to mention names, you know who your are.
Have a wonderful holiday and a very merry Christmas.

ROUND UP

2008-12-12T10:06:00.001-08:00

Tis the season and the new year will soon be upon us all.
Bringing the year close to an end here is a round up of our exhibitions to date.
Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Sarah Lucas.
Watch out for 2010 we have some stellar show lined up!!
Tracey Emin

Sarah Lucas

Damien Hirst

Tim Noble & Sue Webster

GMF BADGES

2008-12-11T08:57:00.000-08:00

Fun Fun Fun we are making badges, pins or whatever you want to call them.
Come in and get one !!

Our dear friend and gallery owner Brian Gibb of The Public Trust Gallery was generous enough to loan us his badge maker. Check out his gallery.

Badges in the making.

Make a donation and get a badge.

WRAP UP THE YEAR WITH GOOD CHEER

2008-12-05T15:05:00.000-08:00

NEW SARAH LUCAS T-SHIRTS

2008-12-04T09:18:00.001-08:00

We Do it With Love T-Shirts by Sarah Lucas are now in stock but are in a limited edition of only 100 so you better grab one fast!!
100% cotton America Apparel available in S, M, L, XL
$30.00 + tax

Call us at the usual number +1-214-696-0555 or website here.

NEW T-SHIRTS

2008-12-03T12:20:00.000-08:00

"I am a piece of work" new T-shirts have arrived.
100% cotton American Apparel and limited edition of 250 available in S, M, L, XL
$20.00 + tax

Two colours of light and dark grey.

You can get one by either calling us at +1-214-696-0555 or visiting our website here.

BRITISH ARMY AND ART

2008-12-03T09:42:00.000-08:00

The British Army is offering to help create a museum in Basra, which would be set up by the Iraqi authorities in one of Saddam Hussein’s palaces. British military planners have codenamed the project Operation Bell, after Gertrude Bell, the archaeologist who helped establish the Baghdad Museum in 1926. Assistance is also being offered by the British Museum, but all parties stress that this is an Iraqi venture.

The museum project was initiated by Major-General Barney White-Spunner, who commanded the IIIrd Division. On the Iraqi side, it is supported by Dr Mufid al-Jazairi, chairman of the cultural committee of the Iraqi parliament. The project has already been approved by the Ministry of Antiquities and Tourism, and has now gone to prime minister Nouri al-Maliki for a final decision.

MARK LECKEY WINS TURNER PRIZE

2008-12-02T09:48:00.000-08:00

Mark Leckey was named winner of the 2008 Turner Prize.

Leckey was presented with the prize by Nick Cave at a ceremony at Tate Britian in London.

His piece Cinema-in-the-Round shows the artist lecturing in a deadpan voice on the nature of the filmed image in popular culture, referencing everything from Georg Baselitz, James Cameron, and Felix the Cat to the episode of The Simpsons when Homer goes out into the human world.

YMCA DALLAS TURKEY TROT

2008-11-26T12:23:00.000-08:00

Come give your support and see the Goss-Michael Foundation crew and friends run the Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning !!!

Who's going to win??? placing bets now.

FAREWELL

2008-11-26T11:00:00.000-08:00

Last night the troops gathered together to bid farewell to two of Dallas' finest curators, Suzanne Weaver and William Rudolph of the DMA.

Suzanne will be off to a new and exciting post as chief curator at The Speed Art Museum in Kentucky and William will be off to The Worcester Art Museum as Curator of American Art.

All here at The Goss-Michael Foundation wish you well in your posts.....CHEERS

45 YEARS TODAY FOR JFK

2008-11-22T09:38:00.000-08:00

The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty fifth president of the U.S. took place on November 22, 1963.

X marks the spot
If you believe that Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK then its possible to believe that John Lennon was there playing Imagine on his piano with Elvis backing him up on Guitar.

This photo was taken just seconds after the shots were fired.

Route they took.

Rifle found in book depository.

There may not have been photoshop back in those days but there was photo-manipulation, his hands and that gun look a little dodgy to me.

ON A ROLL

2008-11-21T13:24:00.001-08:00

We are on a roll with our talks.
This post is a bit late but better late than never.
London Dealer Sadie Coles talks about Sarah Lacus and her work.

TALK AT THE MAC

2008-11-20T10:07:00.001-08:00

Last night James Cope gave a talk at The MAC.
Here are a few pics

TALK AT THE MAC

2008-11-13T12:06:00.001-08:00

Wednesday November 19th @ 6:30 Location The MAC
James Cope of the Goss-Michael Foundation will discuss British contemporary art and its significance in today's art world.
Seating is limited so please arrive early.

MORE ART LESS POLITICS

2008-11-05T11:38:00.001-08:00

The Greek philosopher Plato argued that all conventional political systems were inherently corrupt and that the state ought to be governed by an elite class of educated philosophers.
Not following every single blog on the planet today we are not going to mention the elections, instead we are going to focus on our new show by Sarah Lucas.
Please come by and see her fantastic exhibition.

SARAH LUCAS OPENING PARTY

2008-11-01T10:15:00.000-07:00

Its been a very busy few weeks and to top it off we had our opening night preview for Sarah Lucas.
Another great turn out by all.

Warren Weitman and Eve Reid of Sothebys.

Joyce Goss, Eric Nelson and Ana Pettus.

John and Amy Phelan.

Charlie Wylie with Christen and Derek Wilson.

Glenn Fuhrman and Amanda Steck.

Gallery owner Sadie Coles and Jane Eva Cooper.

Richard Catron and John Wilkinson.

Kenny Goss and Aphrodite Gonou.

GMF WELCOMES AMFAR 2 X 2

2008-10-31T14:15:00.000-07:00

We hosted a great party to launch the 2x2 amFAR week with guest speakers Kenny Goss, Richard Metzner and Rowena Johnston.
We had an amazing turn out...well done everyone.

Kenny Goss and Howard Rachofsky.

Alden and Janelle Pinnell.

Artists Dan Perfect and Fiona Rae.

Faisel Halum with Gallery owner Christina Rees and artist Richard Patterson.

Jim Bordelon, Gary Tigges and Cordey Lash.

Kenny Goss.

Richard Metzner and Kenny Goss.

Rowena Johnston and Niki Thomas.

Howard Rachofsky, Ana Petus and Filippo Tattoni-Marcozzi.

2 x 2 = FUN

2008-10-29T10:06:00.000-07:00

Last week was lots of fun as it was the 2x2 for aids and art benefiting amFAR and the Dallas Museum of Art. This year was the 10 year special, held (as always) at The Rachofsky House.
Above is great picture of Jenny, Jessica, Chris Gonzalez and Nikki. You go Chris surrounding yourself with Beauty !!

Pilobolus getting tech with the shadows.

Nikki and Jenny....Bless

Howard and Cindy Rachofsky.

The Thursday night was the First Look preview, which was so much fun. The Polyphonic Spree played. They are the best band in Dallas hands down.

Nikki, Vinnie Deegan, James and Jessica having a good time.

Jessica and Chris Gonzalez.....Bless