Patron Dec/Jan Issue 2016/2017

Home in Harmony Dance Fever: Texas Ballet Theater & Dallas Black Dance Theatre The Nasher’s Composer-in-Residence

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TERRI PROVENCAL Publisher / Editor in Chief

We’ve had a wonderful year at Patron covering the breadth and depth of the arts in the area. We’re proud of our 2016 partnerships with some of the city’s finest events and organizations—Dallas Art Fair, TACA (The Arts Community Alliance), TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art, and Dallas Theater Center among many others.

The New Year always comes with great anticipation, but also uncertainty. No matter your beliefs, the arts are here to soothe, to nurture, and to rejoice in the creative spirit. In that vein, what could possibly offer more delightful abandon than dance? In this issue, we visit with two outstanding companies as the year completes and 2017 nears. In Delirious Release, Lee Cullum tells of Dallas Black Dance Theatre’s 40th year and the extraordinary professionals who make their award-winning contemporary modern dance performances possible. Texas Ballet Theater’s Jiyan Dai talks about strutting his stuff to music by the Rolling Stones in Rooster, choreographed by Christopher Bruce. Nancy Cohen Israel shares Dai’s past and present involvement in this modern classic ballet in Moving Like Jagger.

Offering a fresh take on musical performance, Soundings: New Music at the Nasher opens December 15 with Schulhoff, Reich and Wagner: Music From Yellow Barn. Nasher Sculpture Center will host Jörg Widmann, said to be “one of the great muses of our time,” as its first-ever composer-in-residence. Read of the much-lauded international series lineup, collaboration with Yellow Barn’s artistic director Seth Knopp, detailed by Steve Carter in Change of Season.

Music plays a central role in a home designed by Cliff Welch, originally inspired by Reid Mile’s Blue Note album covers and the entirely memorable home in Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest. In House in Blue Note, Peggy Levinson makes known the collaborative strength of designer Robyn Menter, art advisor John Runyon, and landscape architect Mark Mehdibegi in preparing the Welch home for its second owners, Deborah and David Michel, creators of Jay Jay the Jet Plane. On our cover, Blue Cube by Peter Alexander, an artist from the California Light and Space Movement, is alluring as it seemingly floats when viewed from outdoors beneath the night sky.

Sweet Shop shares the season’s finest jewels as interpreted by stylist Adam Fortner and photographer Chris Plavidal. Much to our amazement, Adam made his own spun sugar for our feature, adding a few treats from Chocolate Secrets, Bloom’s Candy & Soda Pop Shop, and Fuzziwig’s in NorthPark Center. Which brings to mind NorthPark Center’s inaugural class of Luxury Fashion Ambassadors. Each is photographed by Maxine Helfman for Charitably Chic, where Kendall Morgan describes the work of these local philanthropists and their united spirit of giving.

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We hope you enjoy Patron’s December/January issue as you spend time with family and friends—the last of this year and the first of next.

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FEATURES 56 DELIRIOUS RELEASE Always moving forward, Dallas Black Dance Theatre stimulates discovery. By Lee Cullum 60 HOUSE IN BLUE NOTE The modern architecture of a Cliff Welch-designed residence is enhanced by thoughtful interiors and a curated art collection. By Peggy Levinson 68 SWEET SHOP Find decadent gifts at the area’s finest jewelers.

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DEPARTMENTS 8 Editor’s Note 16 Contributors 24 Noted Top arts and culture chatter. By Shelby Gorday Of Note 36 OF A FEATHER LET'S FLY at SITE 131's first anniversary party honors the Purple Martin. By Terri Provencal Contemporaries 38 ART@THE ACADEMY Jesuit Dallas Museum enhances student life at college preparatory school. By Nancy Cohen Israel Fair Trade 42 BUILDING AS METAPHOR New York-based artist Enoc Perez reimagines Philip Johnson’s postmodernist designs. By Peter Doroshenko

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Performance 44 MOVING LIKE JAGGER Texas Ballet Theater to strut their stuff in Rooster this spring.

By Nancy Cohen Israel 48 CHANGE OF SEASON The 2016–17 Soundings: New Music at the Nasher lineup is brilliant, replete with its first-ever Composer-in-Residence. By Steve Carter 52 BROADWAY KIDS Musical Theater Conservatory prepares young actors for their debuts.

By Nancy Cohen Israel Space 54 GOOD TO GO A new showroom at Dallas Design Center uses nature’s bounty to create home furnishings. By Peggy Levinson

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STEVE CARTER In this issue, freelance arts writer Steve Carter previews the 2016–17 season of Soundings: New Music at the Nasher; it’s the seventh season for the acclaimed Nasher-based chamber music concert series.

Carter spoke with founder/Artistic Director Seth Knopp, and also visited with the series’ first-timeever composer-in-residence, Jörg Widmann.

“This story was great to work on,” Carter says. “Both Widmann and Knopp are worldclass musicians in their own right, and Widmann is a composer to be reckoned with.”

CHRIS BYRNE Chris Byrne is the author of the graphic novel project entitled The Magician (Marquand Books, 2013) as well as the book The Original Print (Guild Publishing, 2002). He is the co-founder of the Dallas Art Fair and the former Chairman of the Board of the American Visionary Art Museum.

Byrne currently serves on the American Folk Art Museum's Council for the Study of Art Brut and the Self-Taught, the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau Cultural Tourism Committee, as well as the Board of Directors for Dallas Contemporary.

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ANTHONY CHIANG This Dallas-based fashion and lifestyle photographer has a rich background that includes assignments overseas and frequent projects in Los Angeles, New York, and Miami. In this issue, Chiang used his hallmark lighting as an art form while training his lens on those directing or performing onstage.

He keeps the digital post-production to a minimum to allow for the most natural imagery. In Delirious Release, company dancers from Dallas Black Dance Theatre leaped exuberantly for the camera, laughing all the while with Chiang.

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NANCY COHEN ISRAEL Dallas-based writer Nancy Cohen Israel is an art historian whose work has appeared nationally in art ltd. and Lilith. She also wrote the essay for the recent catalogue, Deborah Ballard: Sculpture, published by Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden. In addition to her professional background in the visual arts, Israel is a lifelong devotee of dance and musical theater. For this issue, she was delighted to write about dynamic organizations among all three disciplines.

LAUREN CHRISTENSEN With more than 18 years of experience in advertising and marketing, Lauren consults with clients in art, real estate, fashion, and publishing through L. Christensen Marketing & Design. She serves on the boards of the Christensen Family Foundation and Helping Our Heroes. Her clean, contemporary aesthetic and generous spirit make Lauren the perfect choice to art direct Patron.

PEGGY LEVINSON Previously the showroom owner of BoydLevinson and Hargett Associates, Levinson is a design industry expert. A former design and style editor, Peggy explored a Cliff Welch-designed modern home reimagined for the creators of Jay Jay the Jet Plane. “The House in Blue Note is a wonderful example of what happens when a brilliant architect, talented designer, knowledgeable art advisor, and fully engaged client get together and create something—pure perfection.”

LEE CULLUM Dallas-based journalist Lee Cullum has worked in television, radio, newspapers, and magazines, editing, reporting, and presenting commentaries.

Her main focus has been on politics and public policy and, more recently, business and economics. She also has served on a number of boards involved in foreign relations. Her great joy, however, is the arts, and she writes about them whenever she can. In this issue she celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Dallas Black Dance Theatre, and traces its trajectory from scrappy upstart to national star.

KENDALL MORGAN Known for her singular style savvy, Kendall Morgan was perfectly poised to pen Charitably Chic. Here she caught up with high-profile local philanthropists who have been appointed as the first class to NorthPark Center’s Luxury Ambassador Program.

"This unparalleled group of movers and shakers contribute so much to our city with their tireless fundraising efforts. It was both fascinating and revealing to see what charities they gravitated to, and what they hope to achieve with their participating in this exciting new initiative.”

MAXINE HELFMAN Inspired by periods of art history, Helfman’s photographs reinterpret traditional works to a more contemporary point of view. “Our world and cultures are changing so quickly—we are witnessing the collision of past and present as populations shift. Our world has become so diverse that cultures are visually harder to define.” Inimitable in capturing singular human essence through her portraiture, Helfman was tapped to photograph local philanthropists in Charitably Chic.

CHRIS PLAVIDAL Chris Plavidal is a Fort Worth-based photographer who specializes in still-life imagery. In Sweet Shop, Chris collaborated with extraordinary stylist Adam Fortner to emphasize the season’s fine rings, necklaces, and bracelets from area jewelers.

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01 AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM Ongoing exhibits include: The Souls of Black Folk, featuring work from the Billy R. Allen Folk Art Collection, and Facing the Rising Sun: Freedman’s Cemetery, exploring the history of a once-flourishing North Dallas community. aamdallas.org 02 AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART Opening Nov. 5, works from the museum’s permanent collection are displayed in Horizon Lines. Animal by David Ellis introduces a new course of video installations through Jun. 4. Border Cantos Richard Misrach|Guillermo Galindo explores our US–Mexican border, through Dec. 31. Sam Francis: Prints showcases the artist’s colorful lithographs through Feb. 5. American Photographs, 1845 to Now, continues through Feb. 12. Abstract Texas: Midcentury Modern Painting features Texas artist contributions to mid-twentieth-century modernism, through Oct. 8. Gabriel Dawe’s site-specific installation, Plexus no. 34, is on view through Sep. 2, 2018. Image: James Boynton, Bird Trap, 1952, oil on canvas.

Courtesy of Harvell-Spradling collection and of Sharon Boyton. cartermuseum.org 03 ANN & GABRIEL BARBIERMUELLER MUSEUM An exciting new exhibition, examining crests and symbols of the warrior class and the powerful samurai clans that used them, will be opening this winter. The museum sponsors a Lunchtime Talk every Thursday at 1 p.m. Public Tours are every Saturday and Sunday at 1 p.m. samuraicollection.org

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04 CROW COLLECTION OF ASIAN ART Divine Pathways: South and Southeast Asian Art highlights the Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism influences on Asian art. Fierce Loyalty: A Samurai Complete is devoted to the art and culture of the Japanese samurai. Both are ongoing exhibitions. Explore the history across many cultures with Clay Between Two Seas: From the Abbasid Court to Puebla de los Angeles, through Feb. 12. crowcollection.org 05 DALLAS CONTEMPORARY More than 250 of Bruce Weber’s photos in Far From Home; Laercio Redondo’s installation, Past Projects for the Future; and Pedro Reyes’s exhibit, For Future Reference; continue through Dec. 18. Ross Bleckner, John Houck, and Bruce Weber will exhibit in Jan. dallascontemporary.org 06 DALLAS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM Rebirth After the Holocaust: Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp, 1945–1950, continues to highlight an untold story from Jewish history through Dec. 31. Film Screening: The Long Way Home runs in conjunction with the special exhibit the evening of Dec. 8. dallasholocaustmuseum.org 07 DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART Art and Nature in the Middle Ages features a diverse selection of European medieval art, beginning Dec. 4. Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Eg ypt displays masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum through Jan. 8.

Counterpoint, through Jan. 22, is the first presentation in three decades of Walter De Maria’s 1986 work, Large Rod Series: Circle/Rectangle, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13. Nicolas

Party’s Pathway transforms the main concourse through Feb. 5. The immersive installation Concentrations 60: Lucie Stahl will continue through Mar. 12. Modern Opulence in Vienna: The Wittgenstein Vitrine and Passages in Modern Art: 1946–1996 end May 28. Waxed: Batik from Java is featured through Sep. 10, 2017. Shaken, Stirred, Styled: The Art of the Cocktail explores the history of signature drinks, through Nov. 12, 2017.

Image: Lucie Stahl, Acid Rain, 2015, Inkjet print, aluminum, epoxy resin, 65.7 x 47.2 x 9 in. Courtesy of the artist and dépendance, Brussels, © Lucie Stahl. Photo by Sven Laurent. dma.org 08 GEOMETRIC MADI MUSEUM Juergen Strunck’s recent work is shown in A dance: color, symmetry, and paper through Jan. 22. geometricmadimuseum.org 09 KIMBELL ART MUSEUM Monet: The Early Years exhibits sixty works through Jan. 29. Benjamin Verdery performs on Dec. 8. Celebrate the weekend with After Hours at the Kimbell on Dec. 10. Presented

by The Cliburn, Nathan Gunn and Julie Gunn perform together on Jan. 26. Join the museum for Happy Hour every Friday from 4 to 7 in the Pavilion Café. Image: Claude Monet, Seascape, c. 1866–67, oil on canvas, 16.88 x 23.38 in., Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen. kimbellart.org 10 LATINO CULTURAL CENTER Join the LCC for a game of Loteria on Dec. 21. The group exhibition, There Goes the Neighborhood, continues in The Basement Gallery through Jan. 7. The center’s monthly movie screening, Cine de Oro, returns Jan. 18

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Sean P. Miller combines video and sculpture in Gazing Reflecting Unknown. Deep Purple includes new paintings by Joshua von Ammon. Both close with a reception, Dec. 10. the-mac.org 12 MEADOWS MUSEUM Both Modern Spanish Art from the Asociación Colección Arte Contemporáneo and The Festival Book for San Fernando: Celebrating Sainthood in Baroque Seville continue through Jan. 29.

Join Maite Barragán on Dec. 1 for a lecture titled Modeling Maternity to discuss the work of sculptors Ángel Ferrant and Alberto Sánchez. Those with early-stage dementia and their family members are invited to Re-Connections on Dec. 9 and Jan. 13. There will be an Afternoon Gallery Talk with Josh Rose on Dec. 9. Artist Ian O’Brien will host Drawing from the Masters on Jan. 15 and 29. Jed Morse hosts a lecture, Rafael Barradas and the Development of the Spanish Avant-Garde, on Jan. 19. meadowsmuseumdallas.org 13 MODERN ART MUSEUM FORT WORTH The work of Brooklyn-based artist KAWS shows in the blockbuster exhibition KAWS: WHERE THE END STARTS, through Jan. 22. FOCUS: Lorna Simpson tests views of racial and sexual identity, through Jan. 15.

Stanley Whitney’s abstract paintings will be

featured in FOCUS: Stanley Whitney, opening Jan. 21. Highlights from the Permanent Collection continues through Feb. 5. Image: KAWS, COMPANION (PASSING THROUGH), 2010, metal structure, paint, fiberglass, 196.63 x 113.5 x 127.81 in. Collection of the Artist and Honor Fraser Gallery. themodern.org 14 MUSEUM OF BIBLICAL ART A Christmas Musical Program features DFW choirs and musical ensembles, Dec. 2–16.

Linda Stein�s Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females, continues through Dec. 16. The Labyrinth of the Spirit exhibits work by mosaic artist Verdiano Marzi through Jan. 8. Works

by Gib Singleton are housed in the Via Dolorosa Sculpture Garden. biblicalarts.org 15 NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER Kathryn Andrews: Run for President investigates American pop culture and power structures through Jan. 8. December’s Target First Saturday is Dec. 3. The Nasher hosts a Homeschool Workshop, Dec. 7–9. The Ultra-seeing Film Series brings music to life Dec. 11 and Jan. 8. The seventh season of Soundings: New Music at the Nasher begins Dec. 15 with Schulhoff, Reich, and Wagner: Music From Yellow Barn. Richard Serra: Prints pushes the boundaries of traditional printmaking from Jan. 28. Sightings: Michael Dean explores language, writing, and communication through photography, poetry, and other forms through Feb. 5. Image: Michael Dean, Lost True Leaves, installation view, courtesy of the artist; Herald St. London; Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo; Supportico Lopez, Berlin ©Michael Dean. Photo: Kevin Todora, courtesy Nasher Sculpture

Center, Dallas. nashersculpturecenter.org 16 NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM Online voting for the Jerry Ann Taylor Best Dressed NFR Award will be held Dec. 1–10.

Explore Pure Quill: Photographs by Barbara Van Cleve, through May 7. cowgirl.net 17 PEROT MUSEUM Navigate through the stars at First Thursday Late Night–Space on Dec. 1. Soar with birds during Discovery Days–Birds on Dec. 10.

The Birds of Paradise features a fascinating family of birds from New Guinea through Jan. 8. Watch a 3D film in The Hoglund Foundation Theater, A National Geographic Experience: Asteroid: Mission Extreme 3D runs through Jan. 8; Earthflight 3D, through Mar. 10; and Extreme Weather 3D, through May 25. Jan. 5: First Thursday Late Night–Robotics helps participants build circuits; Social Science–Creativity helps couples test their imagination; and the National Geographic Speaker Series begins with mountaineer Hilaree O’Neill: Point of No Return. Join the Winter Wonderland Sleepover on Jan. 7. Test problem-solving skills during Discovery Days–Forensics on Jan. 14. Giant Gems of the Smithsonian continues through Jan. 17.

Images from left: Beryl Aquamarine, 911 cts.; Flourite, 237.2 cts.; Yellow Scapolite, 176.7 cts. perotmuseum.org 18 TYLER MUSEUM OF ART Flora and Fauna opens on Dec. 11. Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Tom Golden Collection continues through Jan. 8. Monthly events include First Friday and Family Day. tylermuseum.org DECEMBER 2016 / JANUARY 2017

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01 AMPHIBIAN The Pleasure Trails by Sarah Saltwick presents an entertaining examination of women and a new female libido enhancement drug, Dec. 4–5. Nick Stafford adapted Michael Morpugo’s War Horse novel for the stage.

War Horse will broadcast via National Theatre Live on Dec. 7. The Threepenny Opera

by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill will also broadcast through National Theatre Live on Dec. 14–17. All screenings take place at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

Image: 2011 War Horse in the West End, cast

by Brinkhoff & Mîgenburg. amphibianstage.com

Kingdom” with Chinese dance and music company Shen Yun, Jan. 23–24. Vocalist Ellis Hall and the FWSO pay tribute to Ray Charles in Ray Charles, Motown, and Beyond, Jan. 27–29. From the musical team behind the hit movie, DRUMLine Live takes the stage Jan. 31. basshall.com

02 AT&T PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Spend the evening with Jay Leno on Dec. 6 at the Winspear Opera House. Comedian Mike Birbiglia takes the stage with his new stand-up, Thank God for Jokes, on Dec. 8. Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons will perform at the Winspear on Dec. 18. Tony Award winner, The Book of Mormon, will run Dec. 20–31. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is finally coming to Dallas from Jan. 11–22. Kristin Chenoweth brings The Art of Elegance Tour to the Winspear on Jan. 25. Image: Original Broadway Company, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Photo: Joan Marcus, courtesy of AT&T Performing Arts Center. attpac.org

05 DALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE The skills of DBDT and DBDT: Encore! are showcased in Black on Black, Dec. 9–10. The 29th Annual International Conference & Festival of Blacks in Dance will be held Jan. 25–29. dbdt.com

03 BASS PERFORMANCE HALL The holiday season starts with Cirque Dreams Holidaze, Dec. 3 – 4. UNT’s seven-time, Grammy-nominated One O’clock Lab Band performs Dec. 9 and 12. Michael Martin Murphey’s Cowboy Christmas takes the stage Dec. 19. Chip Davis’s Mannheim Steamroller Christmas returns Dec. 29. Robert Earl Keen and his band will keep you in the holiday spirit on Dec. 30. The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra performs music from The Legend of Zelda on Jan. 7, followed by Tchaikovsky’s Pathetique, Jan. 13–15. Annie returns Jan. 17–22. Explore the culture of “the Middle 26

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04 CASA MANANA Casa Mañana’s Merry Little Christmas Party benefiting the arts and education outreach programs is Dec. 17. Find out who will deliver presents when Santa retires in Santa Claus: A New Musical, through Dec. 23. casamanana.org

06 DALLAS CHILDREN’S THEATER Kathy Burks Theatre of Puppetry Arts presents an interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker through Dec. 21. Join Charlie Brown through Dec. 21 for a holiday celebration in A Charlie Brown Christmas.

Celebrate the 10th anniversary of Dallas’s Lone Star Circus with La Fête! Dec. 27–Jan. 1. Junie B. Jones is back in Junie B. Jones is Not a Crook, beginning Jan. 20. dct.org 07 THE DALLAS OPERA Six of the world’s most promising women conductors appear together to conduct the Linda and Mitch Hart Institute for Women Conductors Performance. The first performance will be at UNT on Dec. 4 and the second performance will be at the Winspear Opera House on Dec. 10. The Robert E. & Jean Ann Titus Art Song Recital Series and TDO present world-renowned tenor Michael Fabiano at the Dallas City Performance Hall on Jan. 22. dallasopera.org

08 DALLAS SUMMER MUSICALS Broadway Christmas Wonderland takes you on an adventure with Santa and your favorite Christmas songs, Dec. 6–18. An American soldier and a French woman search for a new beginning in An American in Paris, opening Jan. 31. Image: Robert Fairchild & Leanne Cope, in An American In Paris. Photo: Angela Sterling. dallassummermusicals.org 09 DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The most wonderful time of the year begins with DSO Christmas Pops, Dec. 2–18. DSO Family Christmas delights Dec. 3. The brass and percussion of the DSO and the Lay Family Concert Organ join together for A Big Brassy Christmas & Organ Extravaganza, Dec. 5, with a DSO On the Go performance at Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church, Dec. 8. Grammy-winner Dianne Reeves dazzles with Christmas Time is Here on Dec. 8. Join Jim Curry on Dec. 23 for a holiday tribute to John Denver in Rocky Mountain Christmas.

Ring in the New Year with the DSO and your favorite Strauss waltzes and Vienneseinspired revelry on Dec. 31. Dukas’s magical poem is paired with other works by French composers in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Jan. 5–8. Beethoven 8 will be performed Jan. 12– 14. Mingle with the musicians during Remix: From Prometheus to Prokofiev, Jan. 20–21.

Tony-award winner Jason Alexander joins the DSO for show tunes and comedy on Jan. 27–29. mydso.com 10 DALLAS THEATER CENTER The beloved classic, A Christmas Carol, delights audiences through Dec. 28. What you know about your co-workers could change your life in Gloria, Dec. 7–Jan. 22.

Pastor Paul’s small congregation has grown into a mega-church over the past 20 years, and today he has a new sermon to deliver that will throw his flock for a loop in The Christians, opening Jan. 26–Feb 29 at Kalita Humphries Theater. dallastheatercenter.org

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08 11 EISEMANN CENTER A Band Called Honalee showcases a modern take on folk music Dec. 10. Enjoy the immersive experience of The Hip Hop Nutcracker, an eveninglong production with dancers, a DJ, and a violinist, Dec. 23. E.B. White’s classic novel, Charlotte’s Web, is brought to the stage Jan. 15. The original stars of American Bandstand will be back for a performance on Jan. 27. eisemanncenter.com

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12 KITCHEN DOG THEATER In the regional premiere of Feathers and Teeth, 13-year-old Chris faces her worst fears when a mysterious woman moves into her home and turns her perfect family life upside down, on Dec. 17. kitchendogtheater.org 13 MAJESTIC THEATER Fans of British comedy must see John Cleese and Eric Idle in Together Again at Last…For the Very First Time, Dec. 1–2. Singer-songwriter Josh Garrels will perform Dec. 8. Internationally acclaimed comedian Jim Jefferies brings The Freedom Tour to the Majestic Dec. 9. The Polyphonic Spree brings their 15th anniversary tour to the stage Dec. 10. Red Bull’s dance company Flying Bach performs Jan. 14– 16. NBC’s only female to win Last Comic Standing, Iliza Shlesinger performs stand-up comedy Jan. 21.

The hit PBS Kids series Odd Squad hits the road with its first tour, Odd Squad Live!, Jan. 22. Actorcomedian Adam DeVine will visit the Majestic Theater Jan. 31. dallas-theater.com 14 TACA The 2017 TACA Grant Awards will be held at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre on Jan. 9. Save the date for the 2017 TACA Silver Cup Award Luncheon on March 7. taca-arts.org 15 TEXAS BALLET THEATER TBT takes you to the kingdom of sweets with Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker at the Winspear Opera House on Dec. 2–4 and at Bass Performance Hall, Dec. 9–11, 15, 17–18, and 21–24. The Nutty Nutcracker offers laughs from start to finish with a twist on the holiday classic, at Bass Performance Hall on Dec. 16. texasballettheater.org

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17 16 THEATRE THREE The Poteet Family is threatened with a massive blizzard that could tear the family apart in Day Light, through Dec. 11. The revival of last year’s hit, A Christmas Carol: The Radio Show continues through Dec. 11. Start the New Year off with the annual Theatre Too production of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, opening Dec. 29. Follow Mabel and Roscoe as they take off for Hollywood in Laugh, Jan. 5–29. theatre3dallas.com 17 TITAS Jessica Lang Dance returns to Dallas on Dec. 9 with a new program featuring stunning work in collaboration with Steven Holl. Pilobolus brings their new show, Shadowland, to North America after sold-out performances in Europe and Asia.

Shadowland combines a mix of dance, circus, concert, and shadow theater, Jan. 13–14. Experience the future of dance as Bridgman|Packer Dance blurs the line between reality and imagination on Jan. 27–28. Image: Jessica Lange, Spectrum Photo: Takao Komaru. titas.org 18 TURTLE CREEK CHORALE Join TCC for A Not So Silent Night on Dec. 8–11 for an updated arrangement of some of your favorite holiday classics. turtlecreekchorale.com 19 UNDERMAIN THEATRE From the soundboard to director instruction to back-stage headset gossip, get behind the scenes of how a show is created in 10 Out of 12 through Dec. 3. undermain.org 20 WATERTOWER THEATRE Lauren Gunderson tells the story of famed astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who entered the male-dominated world of science and academia.

Silent Sky explores the magic of the universe in a journey of love, science, and conviction, beginning Jan. 20. watertowertheatre.org

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01 ALAN BARNES FINE ART Works by British impressionist landscape master, Matthew Alexander, are on display through Dec. 31. alanbarnesfineart.com 02 ANDNOW This gallery presents the work of emerging and mid-career artists of international esteem including Jeff Zilm, Michelle Rawlings, and Dan Colen. Currently on display, the work of Noah Barker is presented in An Arrival in the DDF. andnow.biz 03 ARTSPACE111 Artists William Greiner and Nancy Lamb are paired in Near & Far & Up & Down.

William Greiner expresses a sense of place through a series of paintings, prints, and collages titled Near & Far, while Nancy Lamb puts her candid subjects on display through photography in her new collection Up & Down. Dec. 8–Feb. 4. artspace111.com 04 BARRY WHISTLER GALLERY During the season of celebration, Barry Whistler will feature Tangled Up In Blue, including the work of a dozen artists including Martha Groome, Mark Williams, Otis Jones, Lorraine Tady, Tom Orr, John Wilcox, Luke Harnden, and others. Dec. 3– Jan. 28. barrywhistlergallery.com 05 BEATRICE M. HAGGERTY GALLERY Poets, Painting, and Paper: Post-World War II American Avant-Garde Art ends Dec. 16. The gallery will host the 2017 University of Dallas Regional Juried Ceramic Competition beginning Jan. 18. udallas.edu/offices/artgallery 06 BEEFHAUS ART BEEF is a collective of Dallas-based artists who produce site-specific installations, exhibitions, and events utilizing vacant commercial and public spaces throughout the city to cultivate challenging dialogue

concerning the status and function of art. beefhaus.org 07 CADD Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas’s Third Thursday Holiday Happy Hour will be on Dec. 15 at Holly Johnson Gallery and Cris Worley Fine Arts. CADD’s next Third Thursday Happy Hour will be held Jan. 19 at Ro2 Art. caddallas.net 08 CARLYN GALERIE Celebrating our Religious Holidays in Dec. is followed by the festive theme of Winter’s White in Jan. carlyngalerie.com 09 CARNEAL SIMMONS CONTEMPORARY ART Lisa Cardenas’s Silence Is Home and Yelizaveta Nersesova’s exhibition entitled WOMAN/ DRIFTER/EARTH/BODY run through Feb. 11. Image: Yelizaveta Nersesova, Nocturnal Warmth, charcoal and acrylic on paper, 39.5 x 29.5 in. carnealsimmons.com 10 CHRISTOPHER MARTIN GALLERY Featuring a new photographic series, Vitreous Air by Christopher Martin is reminiscent of his paintings, sublime and contemplative explorations of color and composition that coax layers of imagery, light, reflection, and pigment; only here, the artist uses light and the camera as tools of abstraction. christophermartingallery.com 11 CIRCUIT 12 CONTEMPORARY A group show featuring new works by Angela Kallus, Brian Porray, David Ryan, and Philip Denker titled Union Pacific ends Dec. 31. Opening Jan. 7, Lucas Martell: New Works features the artist’s recent body of work through Feb. 11. Image: Angela Kallus, American Beauty, 2016, acrylic paint on canvas over panel, 4 x 16 ft. circuit12.com

12 CONDUIT GALLERY Clown Ambulance, by Dallas-based intermedia artist Jeff Gibbons, shows video, painting, and sculpture, opening Dec. 3–Dec. 31.

New photographs by Susan kae Grant chronicle her time spent in England in 2016.

Denton-based painter Steven J. Miller will exhibit his small-scale landscape paintings.

Both shows open Jan. 7. conduitgallery.com 13 CRAIGHEAD GREEN GALLERY Peter Burega’s oil abstractions and Kelsey Irvin’s mixed-media collages are on view through Dec. 30. Paintings, drawings, and sculptures by Jay Maggio, Marty Ray, Carolyn McAdams, Marci Harnden, and others are shown in Small Things, through Dec. 30. Dallas photographer, Carolyn Brown, presents The Tombs of Swift. Chris Mason’s wire sculptures appear in The Climbers. Local artist, Pamela Nelson, shows her new work on paper in Paper Trail. All three exhibits open Jan. 7. Image: Carolyn Brown, Staircase of Names (detail), photographic print, 40 x 60 in. craigheadgreen.com 14 CRIS WORLEY FINE ARTS Anna Elise Johnson creates 3D collages by layering mixed media and political imagery between transparent sheets of acrylic, in Inner Workings through Dec. 31. A solo exhibition

by Murielle White features the artist’s colorful mixed-media paintings inspired by her diverse, multicultural background. The exhibition opens Jan. 7. crisworley.com 15 CYDONIA GALLERY The first solo exhibition for local artist Sydney Williams opens Dec. 10 with a reception and runs through Jan. 7. Williams is the second artist in an exhibition year featuring all female artists. Image: Sydney Williams, Untitled (I), 2016, concrete, steel, 30 x 30 x 40 in. Image courtesy of the artist and CYDONIA, Dallas. cydoniagallery.com DECEMBER 2016 / JANUARY 2017

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13 16 DADA Dallas Art Dealers Association is comprised of leading art dealers, commercial galleries, nonprofit art spaces, and cultural art centers. dallasartdealers.org

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17 DAVID DIKE FINE ART DDFA starts the year off with the annual Texas Art Auction featuring turn-of-the-century to mid-century Modern Texas Art. The auction will take place on Jan. 21 with a preview Jan. 16–20. daviddike.com 18 ERIN CLULEY GALLERY Dallas-based artist Zeke Williams’s work is shown in Flagrant, through Dec. 17. Anna Membrino: Views opens Jan. 7 through Feb. 11. Image: Anna Membrino, Lady, 2016, acrylic and oil on canvas, 72 x 60 in. erincluley.com 19 FWADA FWADA will host a show for the Weatherford Art Association at the Atrium Gallery at UNTHSC, Dec. 5–Jan. 31. The WAA has 85 members and is celebrating their 50th year as a nonprofit. fwada.com 20 GALERIE FRANK ELBAZ This esteemed Parisian gallery has opened a temporary space across from the Dallas Contemporary on Glass St. Work from Blair Thurman will be shown at the gallery through Dec. 20. galeriefrankelbaz.com 21 GALLERIE NOIR Gallerie Noir is an interior design showroom and art gallery known for its understated chic style with an eclectic edge, currently showing Katy Hirschfeld, Camomile Hixon, Tatiana Gerusova, and Daniel DiazTai. gallerienoir.com

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22 GALLERI URBANE Paintings, Process, Materials, Textures, featuring visiting artists Heather Bause, Anna Kunz, Eric Shaw, Bradley Biancardi, and Stephen D’Onofrio, continues through Jan. 1. Two solo exhibits open on Jan. 7: Lindsey Landfried’s Skyline Drive in Gallery One and Mel Davis’s A MIRROR, A WINDOW, A POOL in Gallery Two. galleriurbane.com

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09 23 THE GOSS-MICHAEL FOUNDATION The GMF presents a group exhibition that highlights Texas-based artists, opening Dec. 1 through Jan. 13.

Image: Jenaro Goode, The Record, 2015, oil, acrylic, and house paint on canvas, 51 x 40 in. g-mf.org 24 HOLLY JOHNSON GALLERY James Drake’s solo show of collages made from found materials are featured in Flocking Shoaling Swarming (Blue Kiss), through Dec. 23. Optic Energ y features Dion Johnson’s paintings and works on paper, through Feb. 4. Douglas Leon Cartmel’s new work studies the ocean in WHITE NOISE, opening Jan. 7. Image: Dion Johnson, Sonic Sky, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 80 in. hollyjohnsongallery.com 25 JM GALLERY Jay Bailey’s watercolor paintings, Doug Gray’s ceramic works, and Susan Perkins’s fiber and paper sculptures aesthetically interplay in a collaborative exhibit running through Dec. 17. jmgallery.org 26 KIRK HOPPER FINE ART Artist Frances Bagley’s new site-specific piece, entitled The Lay of the Land, runs through Dec. 22 with an artist talk on Dec. 3 at 3:00 p.m. kirkhopperfineart.com 27 KITTRELL/RIFFKIND ART GLASS Ornament Extravaganza, a celebration of light and color, continues through December. Image: Ornaments

by Michael Trimpol. kittrellriffkind.com 28 KRISTY STUBBS GALLERY Through Jan., Masterworks Of The Turn Of The Century, an exhibition of works for sale by renowned artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, includes Damien Hirst, David Bates, Frank Stella, Jim Dine, and Roy Lichtenstein, among others. A closing reception is planned for Jan. 26. stubbsgallery.com 29 LAURA RATHE FINE ART Curvilinear presents new works by acclaimed artist duo, Stallman, and renowned metal sculptor, Matt Devine through Dec. 31. The gallery presents renowned Texas artists, Roi James and Katherine Houston, in New Works, opening Jan. 7. laurarathe.com

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15 30 LEVEL GALLERY LEVEL Gallery presents Tramaine Townsend’s first solo show, Terminus. Terminus features 12 portraits of familiar strangers through photographic prints and video projection. There will be an opening reception Dec. 8. Through Jan. 21. level-gallery.com 31 LILIANA BLOCH GALLERY The Trinity River Project is a collaboration between Marcos Lutyens and Laray Polk, featuring a story told through journalism, performance, and the visual arts.

Through Dec. 30. lilianablochgallery.com 32 LUMINARTÉ FINE ART GALLERY ART Instinct features the work of Keiko Gonzalez that highlights the human need for creating and consuming. In addition to Gonzalez’s large-scale abstract paintings, works by Jeff McClung and Cristina de Castro are displayed through Jan. 28. luminartegallery.com 33 MARTIN LAWRENCE GALLERIES Martin Lawrence Galleries will host an Erté Christmas Event on Dec. 15 in the evening. There will be an opening reception and meet-the-artist event for Liudmila Kondakova on Jan. 26. martinlawrence.com 34 MARY TOMÁS GALLERY Interior designer Charlotte Comer curates Layered Tones, through Dec. 10. Impressionist painter Patrick Lee and glass sculptor Yumiko Kimura are featured in Rotation, opening Dec. 17–Jan. marytomasgallery.com 35 PHOTOGRAPHS DO NOT BEND Fabio Del Re of Brazil presents Morandi, and Kazz Morishita of Japan presents Moonlight Serenade, both through Dec. 31. pdnbgallery.com 36 THE POWER STATION Pietro Roccasalva’s Who Shot Mr. Burns? exhibition continues at The Power Station through Dec. 16.

Live from Culture Hole inaugurates the second season of artist and musician Gregory Ruppe’s Culture Hole series, featuring Bruce Blay on Dec. 10 and Jake Meginsky on Jan. 14. powerstationdallas.com

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Richard Misrach | Guillermo Galindo

September 24 through December 31, 2016

Admission is free. #amoncartermuseum Richard Misrach (b. 1949), Cabbage crop and wall, Brownsville, Texas, 2015, Cosecha de coles y el muro, Brownsville, Texas, 2015, inkjet print, © Richard Misrach, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, Pace/ MacGill Gallery, New York, and Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles Border Cantos: Richard Misrach I Guillermo Galindo was organized by the artists in conjunction with participating museums.

37 THE READING ROOM Nine Inch Will Please a Lady: Romance and Ribaldry in the Literary Vernacular of Scotland, a text installation by Darren Jones, continues through Dec. 10. An exhibition of unusual archives by Mason Bryant opens on Jan. 14. thereadingroom-dallas.blogspot.com 38 RO2 ART Jeanne Neal: ITER ATIONS ends Dec. 6. Paradise vs.

Utopia: Disputed Ideals features a group show curated by Randall Garrett in partnership with Freefall Festival, through Dec. 17. Bernardo Vallerino: Pedacitos de Paz continues through Dec. 17. Ro2art.com 39 RUSSELL TETHER FINE ART RTFAA represents the June Mattingly Estate through Dec. 31. Mattingly, a contemporary art critic and collector, founded Mattingly Baker Gallery, DADA, and many prestigious local artist associations and was sought after for her expertise in contemporary art. russelltether.com 40 SAMUEL LYNNE GALLERIES The work of international wildlife photographer, David Yarrow, continues to display through Jan. 7. Known for his unique brand of volatile and off-handed celebrity photography, Tyler Shields, recognized as “Hollywood’s favorite photographer,” will exhibit Jan. 7–Feb. 18. samuellynne.com 41 SITE131 FOUND, continuing through Dec. 18, features the work of artists Robert Larson, Benjamin Terry, and Longhui Zhang, all of whom depend on discarded substances to make their art. SITE131 celebrates its 1st anniversary on Jan. 21 with LET’S FLY, featuring 10 Purple Martin birdhouses designed by area architects and artists. site131.com 42 SMINK Young Brooklyn painter, Robert Szot, continues at SMINK with BEAUTY CULTURE through Dec. 12. sminkinc.com 43 SOUTHWEST GALLERY Known for its robust collection of contemporary and

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24 Western Art, SWG will host Kent Wallis’s annual oneman show on Dec. 10 from 1:00–5:00 p.m. The show displays the artist’s paintings, imbued by the blending of romantic realism and impressionism. swgallery.com 44 TALLEY DUNN GALLERY Ted Kincaid’s publication, The Trinity Portfolio, is a series of fifteen photographic meditations on the Great Trinity Forest in Southeast Dallas on view in the middle gallery and running concurrently with Robyn O’Neil: Castle Elementary and Aaron Parazette: Irregular Quadrilaterals through Dec. 17. talleydunn.com 45 VALLEY HOUSE GALLERY Showing Dec. 3–Jan. 7, the Valley House Holiday Exhibition presents gift-sized paintings, works on paper, and sculpture, with a selection of significant works by Early Texas artists. A second exhibition of paintings and sculpture is by Mississippi artist Miles Cleveland Goodwin titled The Maze. Opening reception on Jan. 14. Image: Miles Cleveland Goodwin, My Mama, oil on canvas, 34 x 24 in. valleyhouse.com 46 WILLIAM CAMPBELL CONTEMPORARY ART John Holt Smith’s solo show Cellular Level has been extended through Dec. 3. An exhibition featuring Carol Benson titled Outside / In opens Dec. 8 and continues through Jan. 14. Kris Cox’s show will open Jan. 19. williamcampbellcontemporaryart.com AUCTIONS 01 DALLAS AUCTION GALLERY DAG presents the opportunity to acquire Philip Maia’s Eurpoean investment art and antiques on Jan. 25 and 26 at absolute auction. dallasauctiongallery.com

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02 HERITAGE AUCTIONS Heritage Auctions offers a series of art and collectable auctions, including The Personal Property of Shirley Temple Black Estates Signature Auction, Dec 6; Fine European Art Signature Auction, Dec. 7; East & Orient Company Collection Decorative Art Signature Auction, Dec. 10–11; American Indian Art Signature Auction, Dec. 13; and The Gentleman Collector Estates Signature Auction, Jan. 19. ha.com

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LET’S FLY at SITE 131’s first anniversary party honors the Purple Martin.

Nearly a year ago the exploratory nonprofit art space known as SITE131 opened on Payne Street in the Design District. Co-founded by Joan Davidow and her son Seth, on Saturday, January 21 at 7:30 p.m., the arts-motivated duo encourages guests to preen their feathers and attend the gallery’s first anniversary party in homage to the native songbird, the Purple Martin.

For the occasion titled LET’S FLY, area architects have been tasked to craft 11 Purple Martin birdhouses as these high-flying aerialists are largely dependent on humansupplied housing. Known as second-cavity nesters, early Native Americans hung dried, hollowed gourds for these insect-eaters before erecting wooden, multi-compartment units to provide communal lodgings. Joan Davidow says of her inspiration for the event, “I wanted to give each of my sons’s families Purple Martin houses for their yards…a clever, bird-aware way to deal with mosquitoes…and it’s not easy to find contemporary-designed ones.”

Creating the dwellings for SITE131’s jubilee are local draftsmen: Jim Cinquemani, Mark Domitaux, David Droese, Don Gatzke, Nick Glazbrook, Peter Goldstein, Richard Klein, Kevin D Parma, Nicholas Rawlings, Hunter Roth, and Ron Wommack. Dallas Morning News architecture critic Mark Lamster will jury the apartment-style abodes and award the official SITE131 trophy designed by Sean Springer. “I'm playing with a subtle spinoff of Brancusi's Bird In Space because birdhouses capture the idea of just that,” says Springer of the trophy he’s designing. During the evening, Heritage Auctions takes the lead as design and art-savvy attendees are invited to ante up for the Purple Martin houses. Rounding out the event, another 40-some talented artists will address themes of space, sky, birds, and the universe.

“SITE131 is a fledgling institution, just now taking flight.

How perfect we should celebrate our first year by engaging the community to fly with us,” Joan Davidow enthused. And guests will be judged for best-feathered attire. “What fun it will be. Get your feather ready!”

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Sarah Graham, Salvazana Imperialis, 2012, lithograph, edition 3/25, 48 x 86 in. Printed by Michael Wentworth, Paris

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or over five hundred years, the arts have been at the core of an Ignatian education,” asserts the Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas’s website. Through dynamic arts programs and a museum filled with work that would be the envy of any institution, that tradition continues to thrive at the North Dallas campus. The litany of luminaries in the collection, from Georges Braque and Diego Rivera to Claus Oldenburg and Dale Chihuly, among many others, is astounding.

The Jesuit Dallas Museum was incorporated as a non-profit institution in 1986. It is an entity apart from the school and is governed by its own Board of Trustees. The vision of Clyde LeBlanc, enhanced by alumnus Frank Ribelin’s extraordinary gift of largely contemporary Native American art donated in 1988,

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helped establish this as a collection of importance. Several of Ribelin’s friends, Stanley Marcus among them, donated work to the school in his honor. The collection, comprised of paintings, sculpture, and works on paper, continues to grow largely through gifts from artists and those affiliated with the school.

An acquisition committee adheres to a collection policy when considering new work. The museum’s director, Elizabeth Hunt Blanc, is spearheading the process for accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums.

Blanc’s goal is to bring greater exposure to this collection of over 500 works. “We are trying to do outreach to more museums,” she explains. The museum began an exchange program with the Perot Museum of Nature and Science at the

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Clockwise from left: Diego Rivera, Untitled Landscape, pencil on paper, 6 x 8 in.; R.C. Gorman, Navajo Code Talker, 1978, cast bronze, EP 1/10; Jose Orozco, The Bell Ringer, oil on board, 24 x 36 in.

beginning of 2015 with their first loan, Sarah Graham’s Salvazanas Imperialis. More recently, Jesuit sent Lee N. Smith’s The Lightning Field to the Perot. The school’s two Chihuly works on paper were loaned to the Tyler Museum of Art earlier this year.

And Blanc makes certain to install the collection strategically.

The school recently acquired a monoprint by David Bates, given by a family in memory of their son. “I wanted to do an exhibition of Texas artists,” she says. To that end, work by other prominent Texans in the collection, such as Robert Rauschenberg and Bob Stuth-Wade, flanks Bates’s work. She also worked with Russell Tether Fine Art to borrow early Texas paintings as a way to fill in gaps.

Blanc and her team of 25 docents offer tours of the collection on a variety of subjects, ranging from world cultures, history, literature to geometry. The enormous range of work available to them, spanning five continents and 25 countries, supports the diversity of these programs. Among the prominent Native American artists in the collection, for example, are R.C. Gorman, John Nieto, Amado Peña, Fritz Scholder, and Ed Singer. The roster of Mexican artists includes David Siqueiros, Rufino Tamayo, José Orozco, and Francisco Zúñiga.

Pamela Nelson and Jesús Moroles are other prominent local artists in the collection. Jesuit can also boast of graduates Nic Nicosia and Chris Lattanzio. Lattanzio’s work also has a permanent place in the

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museum. Further enhancing the collection are annual juried show winners such as Michael Tole, Lucrecia Waggoner, and Sharon Neel-Bagley.

From its genesis, the museum has been committed to the local art community. In 1988, Heri Bert Bartscht designed the Stations of the Cross for the chapel. These bronze works, spread out across the white wall of the apse, put a modernist spin on the Bible. Bartscht was a dynamic force in the Dallas art world from the 1950s until his 1990 retirement from the University of Dallas and the sculpture program that he established there nearly 30 years prior.

Viewed as a teaching tool, the art in the Jesuit Museum is fully integrated into the school’s curriculum. And with Blanc’s thoughtful curating, it works holistically academically as well as with non-academic lessons. For example, Dallas-based painter Johannes Boekhoudt will have a January exhibition at the school. Blanc met Boekhoudt at the opening of his exhibition at the Museum of Biblical Art last spring. His expressionist paintings have a strong element of social justice and spirituality to them. In many ways, they are a visual manifestation of the school’s motto, “Man for Others.” With school seniors fanning out across the city to do community service work on Wednesday afternoons, social justice is a mandate of the curriculum.

In addition to Boekhoudt’s work, Blanc is also using this as an opportunity to install a small exhibition devoted to the Works Progress Administration, the Depression-era program designed to put artists back to work. It will serve as an inspiration for drawing students and a tangible connection to the past for history classes. As an extension of what is happening on the walls, the school is mounting a production of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.

The museum’s mission is ambitious, “To enhance the educational experience of students and the broader community through awareness, appreciation, and passion for art.” Through its efforts and the school’s dynamic curriculum, that worthy goal is being realized. P

Clockwise from top left: Johannes Boekhoudt, Under the Rain, 2016, oil on canvas, 48 x 60 in.; Lee N. Smith, The Lightning Field, 1997, 54.5 x 84 in.; Pamela Nelson, Afterlife Spinner, 2003, mixed media, 8 ft. dia.

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FAIR TRADE

BY PETER DOROSHENKO

BUILDING AS METAPHOR

New York-based artist Enoc Perez reimagines Philip Johnson’s postmodernist designs.

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allas Contemporary will present an upcoming exhibition with New York-based artist Enoc Perez in a citywide project that will place his artworks within various Philip Johnson buildings locally. Focusing on painting, sculpture, and architectural space, the exhibition will be the first time an artist has focused on Johnson’s designs and buildings. The artworks and various locations will be a seminal examination between modernist architecture and contemporary art. Enoc Perez will also make an impression this spring at the Dallas Art Fair with Peter Blum Gallery.

Peter Doroshenko (PD): Your finished paintings are very layered and complex; what process do you involve in the making of your paintings?

Enoc Perez (EP): Process for me is the best way in which I can relate to New York painting. From Robert Rauschenberg to Andy Warhol, to more recently Christopher Wool and Phillip Taffe, they all use various techniques of printmaking to produce painting.

This is almost exclusively a New York phenomenon. I use my own version of printmaking in which I apply the oil paint to the canvas using sheets of paper with the oil paint applied on the back of the paper, then I draw on to the paper transferring the oil paint to the canvas, like carbon paper. The end result is a completely printed image. The layering and surface mounting are the result of this process—a combination of time and message.

PD: How do you choose a building to be the focus of a painting? Is it a personal investigation and later an orchestration into a unique setting?

EP: The buildings I choose to paint are generally selected by my instinct. I don’t necessarily look for buildings that are in the architectural canon. My instinct or interest in a building is directly connected to my history, my knowledge, and ideas. They are vehicles and metaphors. The paintings are the incarnation of those ideas and interests. For example, years ago I made paintings of hotels in my home island, Puerto Rico. I chose them because they were cool, they were also part of my own history, and I also understood them as beacons of colonialism. So it is never simple, even though I like to make it look simple.

PD: Is there an overarching story being told through the final works? Is it historical, social, or political?

EP: I am now working on a few bodies of work right now, Top: Enoc Perez, The Beck House, 2016, oil on canvas, 98 x 200 in. Left: Enoc Perez, The Beck House, 2016, oil on canvas, 90 x 128 in. Opposite: Peter Doroshenko, photograph by Day, Kyiv

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like casitas, which is the vernacular for people’s, homes in Puerto Rico. Other directions include American Embassies and paintings of Philip Johnson buildings. These subjects are all inevitably political, historical, and social. It has become urgent especially in recent weeks for artists to address these issues directly and without fear. I don’t see how art cannot be political especially after World War II. PD: What taboos are you trying to break with your artwork?

EP: My own stupid taboos. Those that were taught to me and have no reason for existing.

PD: You have been able to carve an important place for your work; what effect do you see your work having on the larger art world?

EP: I hope I have; whatever has happened is because first and foremost I’m committed to my work. I never thought of larger implications. One thing that I can tell you is that from the beginning I wanted to be considered as a New York artist, not relegated to the Latin American Art intellectual and economical isolation. In that way I’m still fighting, but I know that I am a New York artist, and that is important to me being Puerto Rican.

And I hope that my fight makes it easier for the next Puerto Rican. Like my buildings, I’m not in the canon, yet. P

ABOUT PETER DOROSHENKO Peter Doroshenko is Executive Director at Dallas Contemporary. Before his arrival in Dallas, Doroshenko was president and artistic director of the PinchukArtCentre, Kiev. He has held director and curator positions over the past twenty years, including Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead; SMAK—Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent; inova (Institute of Visual Arts), Milwaukee; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; and Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse. In 2007 and 2009, he was commissioner of the Ukrainian Pavilions at the Venice Biennale. In 2010, Doroshenko was the co-curator of the Busan Biennale in South Korea. Doroshenko has organized numerous one-person exhibitions over the years and has written or contributed to several books and numerous exhibition catalogues on artists. In 2010, Doroshenko published a monograph on collectors who have constructed their own personal museums entitled, Private Spaces for Contemporary Art. P DECEMBER 2016 / JANUARY 2017

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Moving Like Jagger Texas Ballet Theater to strut their stuff in Rooster this spring.

This page: Jiyan Dai performs in Rooster. Photograph by J. Shelton Photography. Courtesy of Tulsa Ballet.

Opposite: Jiyan Dai in Texas Ballet Theater’s performance of Petite Mort by Jiri Kilyan. Photography by Ellen Appel

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here is something inherently classical about ballet. From the dance etiquette that dictates what dancers wear, to a mentorship system in which older dancers pass the canon of choreography to younger ones, tradition is at the heart of this discipline. However, as with every art form, it continues to evolve.

While Sugar Plum Fairies and dashing princes will always delight audiences during holiday productions of The Nutcracker, dancers and choreographers are constantly propelled by the creative urge to keep their art current and relevant.

And so it is that after the curtain comes down on Texas Ballet Theater’s production of The Nutcracker, the company will accelerate rehearsals for their March production of Rooster & Smith & Scher. Smith and Scher are both world premieres, choreographed by Garrett Smith and Avi Scher, respectively. And that makes Rooster, choreographed

by Christopher Bruce and first performed in 1991, the classic work on the program. It features ten dancers performing to the music of the Rolling Stones, the classical music equivalent for the baby boomer generation. Dancers strutting around, Jagger-style, to eight of the band’s songs, is meant to be every bit as evocative of that era as The Nutcracker’s national dances are to 19th century Imperial Russia.

In TBT’s upcoming production, Jiyan Dai is the only dancer to have performed in Rooster previously. Jiyan arrived from China in 2012 to dance with the Tulsa Ballet. He was in that company’s 2014 production of Rooster, prior to his arrival in Fort Worth later that year. It is a demanding work for a variety of reasons. “I think the big challenge in Rooster is the acting. All the movements are quite hard. You have to learn to walk like a chicken (in the signature piece),” says Jiyan. “The company is up to the challenge,” he says, “especially under the tutelage of its Artistic Director Ben Stevenson.

Ben teaches us a lot about dancing but also how to create character.”

While his own training in China was largely centered on classical

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This page: Jiyan Dai as Escamillo in the Texas Ballet Theater 2016–2017 season-opener Carmen. Photography by Amitava Sakar. Opposite: Leticia Oliveira portrays the Spanish gypsy vixen Carmen while Jiyan Dai steals her heart as the dashing toreador Escamillo. Photography by Amitava Sakar

ballet, he and his fellow dance students also learned various forms of traditional Chinese dance. That experience, he says, “helped me with acting and body movement more than classical ballet.”

The focus on character development is one for which Stevenson is well known. For Jiyan, working with Stevenson is the most exciting aspect of dancing with the company. “In China, everyone knows of Ben Stevenson and how great he is. He is a legend in China,” he says. Stevenson made his first visit there in 1978 as part of a cultural exchange program. At the time, he was artistic director of the Houston Ballet. For many years, he returned regularly to teach at the Beijing Dance Academy where, in 1985, he also created the Choreographic Department at the Academy.

Stevenson has set standards of excellence for Texas Ballet Theater since his arrival in 2003. He is also committed to introducing audiences to new work while still offering them the classical canon. In addition to his constant reimagining of works such as The Nutcracker, he also works with choreographers who are redefining the medium. Opening the season with a program that included the American premiere of Carlos Acosta’s Carmen with Christopher Wheeldon’s Danse à Grande Vitesse and ending it with a production of Alice in Wonderland that he choreographed, Stevenson provides something for everyone while still pushing the envelope of

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what ballet can be.

In the case of Rooster, there are also personal connections. In 1989, Stevenson invited Bruce to be a resident choreographer with the Houston Ballet. In 1994, Bruce became the artistic director of The Rambert Dance Company, Britain’s premiere contemporary dance troupe. While he stepped down from that position in 2002, he continues to work with the Houston Ballet as an associate choreographer. Jiyan had the opportunity to work with Bruce on Rooster when he performed it in Tulsa.

The upcoming program is significant for a variety of reasons.

Jiyan points out that Rooster and Scher go beyond pure movement and dance by telling stories. “It makes audiences think,” he says.

According to Vanessa Logan, who became the company’s executive director in September, “Our two new world premieres will demonstrate on a national and international level that our dancers really shine whether they are dancing in a classical, neo-classical, or contemporary genre.”

Logan was attracted to the company by this commitment to the classical and contemporary. As she began her dance career in education, so she continues to be strongly committed to access and enrichment. She cites TBT’s CityDance program as critical to providing both. “I have seen the power of dance to enrich

OCTOBER 9, 2016 THROUGH JANUARY 29, 2017 classrooms. And creating after-school programs is important for the development of children and for the development and advocacy of dance.” CityDance reaches over 1000 students a year throughout the DFW area. The program puts professional ballet teachers into public schools, where they offer children free five-week sessions of introductory ballet classes. Upon completion of the program, each student receives two complimentary tickets to a TBT performance at Bass Hall. In fact, Logan’s own introduction to dance began in a similar way, first by seeing a production of Swan Lake on PBS and then later when a local dance company came into her elementary school. Ultimately, she says, “Our goal is to bring community together in real time at the theater.”

Programs such as the upcoming performance can make that happen. Between the athleticism and the aesthetics, and strong story ballets for which the company is known, audiences of all kinds can relate to these works. Jiyan concludes, “I think this production is really fun because we have Rooster and two world premieres. The two new pieces will be a challenge for the dancers, because they have never been done before. This production will really be interesting because no one has seen the work.” As this vibrant company continues to prove, contemporary ballet is not an oxymoron. P

More than 90 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper demonstrate the most important aspects of modern Spanish art and shed light on the global connection between Spanish art and other international modern art movements.

This exhibition has been organized by the Meadows Museum and the Asociación Colección Arte Contemporáneo in collaboration with Acción Cultural Española. BBVA/Compass is the main Supporting Corporate Sponsor, with the special collaboration of Técnicas Reunidas, S.A.; Fundación Aon España; Fundación ACS; and Gas Natural Fenosa. A generous gift from The Meadows Foundation has made this exhibition possible.

Promotional support provided by Óscar Domínguez (Spanish, 1906-1957), Untitled, 1947. Oil on canvas.

Asociación Colección Arte Contemporáneo, Museo Patio Herreriano. © 2016 Oscar Domínguez / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.

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CHANGE OF SEASON The 2016–17 Soundings: New Music at the Nasher lineup is brilliant, replete with its first-ever Composer-in-Residence.

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ithout a doubt, one of Dallas’s most revered musical crown jewels is the Nasher Sculpture Center’s trailblazing concert series, Soundings: New Music at the Nasher. This month Soundings embarks on its seventh season, with five intriguing and challenging concerts scheduled between December and April. Under the knowing artistic directorship of Seth Knopp, this season represents a watershed moment for the series, with the April arrival of Soundings’s firsttime-ever composer-in-residence, Jörg Widmann. Munich-born Widmann is a phenomenon, internationally acclaimed both as a groundbreaking contemporary composer and as a clarinet virtuoso.

With a creative aesthetic that spans the avant-garde, classical, romantic, and other eras, Widmann is the perfect choice to be Soundings’s inaugural composer-in-residence, the very personification of the series’ unique orientation of blending innovation and tradition.

Soundings’s founder and Artistic Director, Seth Knopp, and Widmann have worked together before, and their mutual admiration is palpable. In the summer of 2015, Widmann was in residence at Yellow Barn, the Vermont-based chamber music center; Knopp has been its artistic director since 1999. “Jörg’s residency at Yellow Barn was really transforming for the festival, and we became very good

friends,” Knopp recalls. “He seemed to be drawn to the kind of programming that was done there and very willing to come to Dallas to spend time there, both with his work and with his playing.” For his part, Widmann enthuses, “My experience at Yellow Barn was one of the happiest times of my life. I spent several weeks there—I was composing a lot, and the sheer level of preparation of all the musicians was really amazing. And with someone like Seth, and his spirit—he lived it. It was a pure pleasure.”

Widmann’s Soundings residency is sculpted to highlight his versatility over three nights of concerts. Friday, April 7th’s 7:30 performance at the Nasher is Widmann himself in a bravura solo clarinet recital. He studied clarinet with Gerd Starke in Munich and with Charles Neidich at the Juilliard School, and he continues to concertize with major orchestras around the globe. “His playing is so transformative in its beauty,” Seth Knopp rhapsodizes, “It’s quite wonderful. He’s a complete musician, the likes of which we rarely encounter today. In that way he’s particularly inspiring, because he speaks music so instinctively. His relationship with music is immediate and direct, to a very unusual degree.” Widmann adds, “In my solo recital I’ll be playing different pieces from the 20th century, and in particular, pieces that were written for me by contemporary

This page: Seth Knopp is the artistic director of Yellow Barn. Photograph courtesy of the artist. Opposite: Jörg Widmann is the Nasher Sculpture Center’s first composer-inresidence. Photograph by Marco Borggreve.

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Clockwise from left: American composer John Cage, courtesy of the artist. Erwin Schulhoff was a Czech composer and pianist. Photograph courtesy of the artist’s estate. Late German composer Richard Wagner. Photograph courtesy of the artist's estate.

composers. So it’s a very personal program. You don’t hear a lot of solo clarinet recitals—it’s very special.”

Shifting musical gears, the next night’s concert is a different stripe of special, featuring Widmann’s complete cycle of five string quartets. While they’re played frequently as individual quartets, it’s unusual to hear them back-to-back in concert. Germany’s acclaimed Minguet Quartett, who recorded the entire cycle last year, will be performing the works. Widmann based each of the quartets on one movement of a classical quartet: the first is an introduction, the second, the slow movement, the third is a scherzo, the fourth, andante, and the fifth quartet is a fugue. “It’s really a challenge to play them all in an evening,” Widmann acknowledges. “That’s very special, for a composer in general, but for me in particular to hear these five quartets. And it’s special for an audience too because it’s a journey you make together in this piece.” Astonishingly diverse, the quartets explore and expand the boundaries of the genre, swinging from absurdity to somber, elation to introspection— they’re ambitious, demanding, revealing, and rewarding. “They’re so incredibly different,” Knopp says, “and it gives you a sense of his universe, how varied and how connected all the different parts of his musical personality are. But through all the varieties of his music, his voice is unmistakable.”

The closing matinee concert of the residency, Sunday, April 9th at 2:00, is a coup: it’s the North American premiere of Widmann’s first song cycle, Das Heisse Herz. Written for piano and baritone voice, on this occasion that of William Sharp, the cycle’s eight songs are settings of poems by Clemens Brentano, Klabund, Heinrich Heine, Peter Härtling, and selections from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, a three-volume work of German folk poems collected in the early 1800s. Widmann explains that the texts all deal with different aspects of love—new love, as-yet-to-be love, unrequited love, and so forth. “I created a new story by combining these things,” he says.

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centuries made a lot of sense to me. And the oldest texts are the most radical! That’s an important aspect of what I’m doing—when I go back to the music or poetry of the past I don’t do it in a nostalgic way. Independent from the fact of when it was written, there can be conversation between the centuries.”

Although Jörg Widmann’s residency represents the capstone of the season, the first two Soundings offerings for 2016–17 are also don’t-miss, revelatory programs. Music from Yellow Barn: Schulhoff, Reich, and Wagner opens the season on Thursday, December 15, and it’s emblematic of what Soundings does best: fusing unlikely

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musical bedfellows into a provocative concert experience. While Steve Reich’s iconic Different Trains (1988), Czechoslovakian composer Erwin Schulhoff’s controversial Sonata Erotica (1919), and Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder are disparate at first glance, the Holocaust casts a variously telling shadow over the program’s parts.

Then on Saturday, February 18th, Soundings presents John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes; the work is a seldom-heard-in-its-entirety masterpiece performed by pianist Boris Berman. The 16 sonatas and four interludes are performed on a prepared piano—it’s a hypnotic journey informed by Cage’s fascination with Indian music and thought. All in all, with the richness of the musical tapestry, the stellar launching of its composer-in-residence initiative, and the unswervingly sagacious guidance of Seth Knopp, Soundings: New Music at the Nasher for 2016–17 will make a season to remember. P Left: Acclaimed Russian pianist Boris Berman. Photograph courtesy of the artist. Right: Steve Reich was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2009. Photograph courtesy of the artist.

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BROADWAY KIDS

Musical Theater Conservatory prepares young actors for their debuts.

Doug Miller is the force behind the Musical Theater Conservatory at Dallas Children's Theater Academy.

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uality arts education programs for children abound in North Texas. Increasing this bounty is the addition of the Musical Theater Conservatory, under the skilled direction of Doug Miller, to the Dallas Children’s Theater Academy. Miller’s roots with the DCT began in the mid-1990s, as an actor. He then spent several years directing shows on their main stage as well as their acclaimed national tours.

Making its debut in August 2014, the conservatory’s immediate success suggests that it fulfilled a need in the community. There are currently 120 students attending weekly Musical Theater classes. The curriculum is organized by age and experience. It is a rigorous training program that includes improvisation, scene study, ear training, musical theater history, choreography, and audition techniques. In addition to offering professional tools for aspiring actors, the classes include life skills, such as vocal projection, leadership skills, and confidence building. “It is an intense program that builds on itself every year,” Miller says. It also provides young actors the opportunity to continue honing their craft through high school. “The ultimate goal,” Miller says, “is for the students to have a taste of what the world of musical theater is really like.”

The Musical Theater Conservatory enhances the Dallas Children’s Theater Academy, which offers a variety of performance classes for younger children as well as a Teen Conservatory for middle and high school students. Sensoryfriendly classes for special-needs students are also available.

“There was a need for this in our community, and we’re glad to be doing this at the Children’s Theater,” Miller says.

Named one of the best children’s theaters in the country

by TIME magazine, DCT distinguishes itself in a variety of ways. In addition to providing professional theater to its young audiences, DCT also caters to groups that might not otherwise be exposed to theater. Every run offers one performance accompanied by American Sign Language and one sensoryfriendly performance. For the latter, accommodations such as turning the sound levels down and keeping the house lights on a little brighter make theater accessible to a larger population.

Miller says these audiences are especially appreciative for the experience.

Now in its 32nd season, DCT continually innovates. This year’s holiday line-up includes A Charlie Brown Christmas on its main stage, the Baker Theater. DCT is presenting the Southwest premiere of the show, complete with a new script.

Miller is calling it a play with music. More significantly, he adds, “For the first time ever, we will have a full combo band to accompany the show.” It will run concurrently with Kathy Burks Theatre of Puppetry Arts’ The Nutcracker, performed in DCT’s Studio Theater.

“What I like about DCT is that every show has a message,” Miller says. Since school groups comprise much of their audience, their shows provide students with unique perspectives and offer them a way to communicate on a wide range of topics.

Between creating meaningful experiences for their audiences and opportunities to develop as artists, DCT continues to use the power of theater to change lives. P

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BY PEGGY LEVINSON

GOOD TO GO

A new showroom at Dallas Design Center uses nature’s bounty to create home furnishings.

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ptly branded as Made Goods, the name says it all when it comes to this trade-only showroom in the Dallas Design Center. The artistic team are founders Oscar Yague and Chris DeWitt who design home furnishings with a classic sense of line and proportion and execute them using natural materials in fresh and exciting ways. Yague, designer for Anthropologie in the early years of expansion, helped the ultra-popular brand grow from fourteen to 150 stores, working on design, sourcing, and buying. His focus was on materials and proportion for the wide range of home furnishings, while making sure the products were long-lasting and classic. He brought that same sensibility of good design used with unusual and exotic materials to Made Goods.

Now, when even highly manufactured, big-box, home-furnishings brands have special “artisanal” collections, each item in Made Goods is handmade and can be custom-sized and -finished to the designer’s specifications in small factories found in Southeast Asia, Europe, South America, and North America. Artists using nature’s bounty of natural stones, shells, and native textiles create products for the home in tactile finishes with great depth and unusual colors.

For example, the Fulton tray set is made of spiraling Vertagus shells set in resin that create a dizzying three-dimensional effect.

Paper-thin, refined goatskin in an unusual turquoise color covers the Kell stool. Stacked oyster shells in plaster resin make the sculptural shape of the Raina column lamp. Other new finishes include crystal stone found in the mountains of the northern Philippines, natural onyx from a banded variety of chalcedony, fully sustainable and ecofriendly mango wood, and the T’nalak trays of laminated Philippine tribal wear. In other words, a natural science museum can be found within these walls.

Rob Genter of REES Architecture designed the light-filled expansive space in the Dallas Design Center using Philip Jeffries’s wall coverings and Abrash rugs for color and texture. It is the first showroom to also showcase sister companies Pigeon & Poodle (fine home accessories like bath accessories, frames, and barware), and Blue Pheasant (mix-and-match tableware). Manager Ramon Longoria says, “The response from the interior design community has been quite positive. The fact that most pieces can be bought off the floor is a huge bonus; many times, the last pieces on a project to be selected are that perfect mirror or table that make the room sparkle. And we are the only source in the Dallas Design Center for high-end desk accessories, barware, and bath products that designers look for to complete their design projects.” The mix-and-match tableware has the same handmade quality of all the pieces in the line. It looks like it is fresh from the kiln, but, in fact, is quite user-friendly in the modern home.

Co-founder Chris DeWitt explains, “We strive to be the source for unusual materials. Skins and shagreens, leathers and snake skins, bone and metalwork, resin, wood, and bamboo—we’re the spice that goes into a room—the fun, unusual, artisan pieces that you mix in.”P All designed by Made Goods: Fulton tray set with cut vertagus shells set in resin; Harlow nesting tables in sand; Kell stool in turquoise vellum; Eada side table in cool gray faux shagreen; Radley tray set in cool gray faux shagreen with walnut veneer; Lafeu cocktail table in cool gray faux shagreen.

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Delirious Release

Always moving forward, Dallas Black Dance Theatre stimulates discovery.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time.

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hat was Martha Graham speaking, and if ever a dancer moved to the music of her own moment it was Martha Graham.

Her sweeping gestures and bare feet, pulsing below dark whipsawed skirts, thrillingly theatrical, signaled the end of an age ruled by tulle and tutus. Dance was formal and fixed in space no matter how intricate the pirouette, hiding more than it revealed.

In its place, there arrived a new discipline, tethered to an anguished honesty but driven to delirious release.

No one revered Martha Graham more than Ann Williams who, 40 years ago, founded the Dallas Black Dance Theatre and grew it into a company of youthful maturity, ready for anything. Housed on Ann Williams Way in a building that once was the Moorland YMCA, a beacon for the African American community, the DBDT is itself a beacon for an art that Graham herself called “discovery, discovery, discovery.”

Discovery indeed is the raison d’être of Tiffany Rea-Fisher, dancer, teacher, choreographer, and now artistic director of Elisa Monte Dance in New York. Monte at one time performed with Martha Graham, and now Tiffany Rea-Fisher is carrying the torch into new territory, incorporating the current craze for customization into B-Side, a work commissioned by Ann Williams to celebrate DBDT’s 40th anniversary.

Zion Pradier, Jasmine White-Killins, and Kimara Wood in Matthew Rushing’s Tribute. Photographed by Sharen Bradford

Dallas Black Dance Theatre dancers in choreographer Tiffany Rea-Fisher’s The B-Side. From left to right: Michelle Hebert, Alyssa Harrington, McKinley Willis, Jasmine White-Killins, Kayah Franklin, and Hana Delong. Photography by Sharen Bradford, The Dancing Image.

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BY LEE CULLUM PHOTOGRAPHY BY SHAREN BRADFORD AND ANTHONY CHIANG

Dallas Black Dance Theatre dancers Kayah Franklin and Sean J. Smith in a duet section of Tiffany Rea-Fisher’s The B-Side. Photography by Sharen Bradford, The Dancing Image.

Tiffany’s germinal idea was to bring silent disco into the theatre.

Instead of dancing in a warehouse, as some disco-goers now do, wearing headphones and moving in their own way to their own music, each member of the audience at the Wyly had a headset and a trio of tracks from which to choose, written by composer Michael Thurber in Motown, acoustic and electronic versions. Treatments were different but the beat was the same, with all three written for a single dance.

“I played all the instruments myself,” Michael explained by phone from New York—“guitar, bass, keyboard, drums, organ.

Then I set them on a multi-track.” Fresh from doing bass with the house band on the Late Night Show with Stephen Colbert, Michael strove to create “songs that sound like real blues of the ‘60s and ‘70s.”

It was the Motown track that Tiffany brought to Dallas for a week of rehearsals. She had been at it for only two days when I stopped by to see how things were going. I expected something rudimentary,

far from fully developed, but to my surprise, the dancers had it down perfectly with only the final polish left to finish. “How could they work so fast?” I asked Melissa Young, associate artistic director of DBDT. Her answer: “It’s because Tiffany got here knowing exactly what she wanted.”

When there was a break, Tiffany rushed over to say hello.

Definitely the most petite person in the room, size two if that, this sunny Californian, married to her former dance partner who works now at Merrill Lynch, has about her a natural grace, at ease with her talent, nothing forced. Even so, she was not one to waste a minute.

Each run-through was recorded so Tiffany and her assistant, Thomas Varvaro, could review the tapes during lunch or at night and be ready to fine-tune at the next session.

Finally that afternoon, I saw all four sections of B-Side: first the six women dancers, happy, witty, having fun; then the men arrived and it turned sultry, insinuating; complications ensued culminating in a vivid duet by a lean, tautly sinewed Canadian named Sean Smith DECEMBER 2016 / JANUARY 2017

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From left to right: DBDT company members Sean J. Smith, Hana Delong, and Kayah Franklin in foreground during rehearsal.

DBDT: Encore! Artistic Director Nycole Ray (left) watches her company members rehearse in rising excellence with Lailah Duke, Christen Ashley Williams, and Eduardo Castrejon in the foreground.

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and radiant Kayah Franklin from Sacramento, generating between them a sexual tension so astonishing their colleagues applauded.

But suddenly the whole studio erupted in rapturous movement— flamboyant dancers flying across the floor, expansive, exuberant.

Everything was resolved in joy.

There’s a second company, DBDT: Encore!, led by Nycole Ray, a dancer of high drama whom I watched on YouTube before our interview. What I saw was a rumination on The Edge of My Life So Far, commissioned for Nycole from choreographer Bruce Wood. “He trusted my decision-making,” she said. “He gave me freedom to do what felt natural. He asked if I wanted a solo or a partner.” She chose a solo and delivered such a tour de force I thought her character, moving with the zeal of a gymnast across, beneath, and on top of an everyday table, must be on the edge of total collapse.

Not so. Nycole saw that table as the locus of her life, where she and her husband Steven Ray, a tech guy, work, eat, talk, and look after their two-year-old son, Essex. She saw the table as the internal battlefield where she must fight to make it all work together, all the time.

Bruce Wood has since died, so last May Nycole choreographed a tribute to him called Above and Below, danced on a stage-sized, billowing carpet of light, creamy silk—channeling Martha Graham perhaps, who can never be denied. Nycole saw in her creation the continuing inspiration of Bruce Wood, a creative spirit animating the efforts on earth below.

Where else does she turn for inspiration? “What inspires me is the music,” Nycole replied. “I listen to it over and over again.

I get images I try to create. [I ask] how does the music make you feel as a dancer? That emotion will come out…It doesn’t matter about a technical step if there’s nothing behind it. You’ve got to feel something.”

She sounded a bit like Ms. Williams, as they all call her at DBDT. It used to be “Miss Ann” according to Melissa Young, DBDT’s associate artistic director, who explained that the founder put great stock in the intellect of her dancers. “You can be talented,” Melissa reported Miss Ann as saying, “but who are you as an individual?”

“No nonsense,” Melissa continued; “very confident in her opinions, her desires, she always expected the most out of everyone; would accept nothing less. ‘Dancers come a dime a dozen, and I’ve got a dollar.’” So said Miss Ann, as Melissa remembers her.

Ms. Williams is no less far-sighted today than she was then. She has worked hard to raise money, start a school, refurbish a building, and build a staff to make sure that DBDT lives on long after her.

She is looking for a new artistic director (the last one lasted only a year) and thanking fate for sending her Zenetta Drew, a business whiz who’s been so busy collecting national awards these past few

months it’s hard to see how she copes with her own life on the edge.

But she does.

Zenetta Drew learned all that managing oil revenue at ARCO at a time when money was rolling in from Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. She got married, divorced, and in between had two daughters and left ARCO to look after them. But she found a new life at DBDT, where a twice-weekly volunteer commitment— no more, she insisted—stretched into 12-hour days every day, and she was hooked. Three phone calls in curious succession, one each from Mayor Annette Strauss, Caroline Hunt, and Ruth Altshuler, inquiring about Ms. Williams who was laid low by a bad auto accident, persuaded Zanetta Drew that DBDT was where she was supposed to be. The company has flourished financially ever since.

That doesn’t mean Ann Williams isn’t determined to raise $1 million to endow her dancers and those to come. She looks ahead, knowing that, as Martha Graham wrote, “looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward.” Ann Williams, Zenetta Drew, and Dallas Black Dance Theatre always go forward. P

Top: From left to right: Dallas Black Dance Theatre Founder Ann Williams and Executive Director Zenetta S. Drew watch DBDT rehearsal. Bottom: Seated from left to right: Claude Alexander III, McKinley Willis, and DBDT Associate Artistic Director Melissa M. Young. Center on the sides: (left) Michelle Hebert and (right) Hana Delong. Standing left to right: Alyssa Harrington, Kimara Wood, Jasmine White-Killins, Zion Pradier, Kayah Franklin, Keon K. Nickie, Sean J. Smith, and De’Anthony Vaughan.

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aking inspiration from both the unforgettable house in Alfred Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest” and the classic Blue Note album covers by Reid Miles, the modern house that Cliff Welch designed in 2008 has all the classic properties of a Welch-designed residence—his use of natural woods, stones, and finishes constructed in horizontal lines intersected by vertical rectangles with abundant light sources. David and Deborah Michel had chosen Welch to build and design a new home when the Chapel Hill house became available. Says David Michel, “Our plan was to design a home from scratch, but when we toured the Chapel Hill property, we absolutely fell in love and bought it from the original owner. Cliff has a knack for embedding warm, livable spaces with classic modern architecture. His use of natural woods—Ipe mahogany ceilings, Khaha mahogany cabinetry, and Sapele-trimmed windows—is stunning. Natural light from the clerestory windows throughout the main living area floods the terrazzo floors with gentle, indirect light.

Every room is distinct and inviting.”

The Michels then began creating their own unique home with their insights, lifestyle, art, and furniture.

Working with the talented team of Cliff Welch, designer Robyn Menter, art advisor John Runyon, and landscape architect Mark Mehdibegi, their collaboration is a measured study of light and space with focus on the Michel’s private collection of established and emerging artists. Being relatively new to collecting modern art, the Michels turned to John Runyon to help them in their search.

“I was introduced to John Runyon by other modern art collectors who spoke highly of him. Our relationship began with him getting to know our tastes; I love sculptural art specifically, and am drawn to bold colors and tactile textures. We’ve sought out artists who have works in major museum collections, but who may also be early in their development. We’ve also searched for pieces that will be strikingly beautiful in the spaces where they will live. John narrows the field and presents us with many artists who reflect our sensibilities, and when we find a work we love, we know it.”

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Custom fire pit designed by Michael Mehdibegi with Richard Shultz for Knoll rocking chairs and chaise lounges.

HOUSE IN BLUE NOTE THE MODERN ARCHITECTURE OF A CLIFF WELCH-DESIGNED RESIDENCE IS ENHANCED BY THOUGHTFUL INTERIORS AND A CURATED ART COLLECTION.

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Toko wall vase in steel and bronze patina from David Sutherland.

journey. I merely channeled their taste and spirit. We selected artworks that responded to the Cliff Welch architecture and, most importantly, what turns them on as collectors. I knew they were serious and committed when accepting my first proposal—a major Liam Gillick wall installation. This is a serious museumquality work in dialogue with serious architecture, a perfect fit.

That first Gillick acquisition provided the momentum and trust to continue the journey.”

With visual notes from the graphic design of Blue Note album covers from the 1950s, Welch designed a house that is actually two structures connected by a bridge—one house for private quarters and the other for public spaces. The glass-walled bridge floats over a courtyard flanked by two matching river birches. Peter Alexander’s Blue Cube is the focal point and seems to reflect the blue of the sky in the rectangle above. The serene space deceptively

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hides the extensive construction design of a foundation in bedrock with steel beams allowing the house to seemingly float in space.

The ceiling beams align the two structures and cantilever out to allow the roof to provide shade and protection from brutal Texas heat and weather.

The public space is an open floor plan flooded with light accented by the perfect positioning of the Michels’s growing art collection. Laddie John Dill’s argon-tube sculpture, Light Sentence, is inset into the wall, creating multiple light refractions in the space above and around the main staircase. Runyon informs, “We toured the Dallas Art Fair. That resulted in deeper exploration and acquisition of artwork from the California Light and Space movement, dating back to the 1960s. Shortly following, we acquired (work by) Mary Corse, Laddie John Dill, and Peter Alexander, prominent members of Light and Space, some of whom the

Clockwise from top left: Master bedroom with Mary Corse, Untitled, acrylic and glass microbeads, 2000, 40 x 40 in. Above the fireplace: William Daniels, Untitled, oil on board, 2013, 39 x 32 in. Dining room features a marble table by Drainert from Scott + Cooner, Coco armchairs by Matteo Grassi.

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Michels have visited and developed a personal relationship with.”

A wall of stack-back glass doors in the dining room creates a treehouse effect, with a mirrored wall on one end reflecting William Daniels’s Untitled. Daniels’s technique involves creating a sculpture of aluminum foil and reproducing it in oil, a painting of reflective light somewhere between abstract and figurative. MaiThu Perret’s Everywhere Real glazed ceramic rectangle gives nod to the Blue Note theme throughout the house. Says Runyon, “The Michels have acquired notable younger artists exhibited in and collected by important museums internationally, for example MaiThu Perret, Ricky Swallow, and William Daniels.”

A Brazilian quartzite table by Drainert from Scott + Cooner with Matteo Grassi chairs dominates the space, but floats on a stainless steel base. A dividing wall of dark, iron-spot brick separates the dining and living rooms. The living room has two seating areas divided by a floating cross-hatch, stainless steel bench designed by Menter. “That bench is probably how I got the design job with the Michels,” says Menter. “The previous owners had a floating wall that divided the room and views. When they asked me what I would change—I said I would remove the wall.

Then I came up with the built-in bench idea to address the cutout in the travertine floor.” On the bench are assorted art books and a blue-painted, model airplane.

“That is the most important piece of art in the house,” says David Michel. It is the original model for the TV series “Jay Jay

the Jet Plane” that was created by the Michels in 1994, ran for several years on PBS, and is still in worldwide syndication. Ricky Swallow’s Red Pipe with Smoke provides a colorful juxtaposition to the blue airplane. The Japanese orange accent color on the fireplace wall complements the natural wood color of the Brazilian Ipe of the ceilings, the mahogany cabinets, and the rosewood frames of the classic Eames chairs facing the fireplace. Emil Lukas’s Sound of Spinning #1360 is beside the fireplace. The Pennsylvania artist is noted for compositions that suspend the viewer between seeing and understanding—what looks like an overexposed photograph on texture is actually thread secured by nails over a painted wood frame. Likewise, the conceptual Liam Gillick work, Divided Progressed on the other end of the room, creates the same visual question. Seen from different angles, the powder-coated aluminum elements seem to shift shape and color.

A seamlessly integrated Bulthaup kitchen fronts the other seating area with Boss swivel chairs by Flexform and a comfortable sofa from the Bright Group, perfect for TV watching. But a television is nowhere to be seen. Dallas Extreme developed a fantastically inventive method to hide a television—a projector in the kitchen creates a 90-inch television by projecting on an automatically lowered window shade on the back-facing windows.

The same chairs by Matteo Grassi as in the dining room surround the custom breakfast table, allowing for maximum dinner-party seating when entertaining.

Living room with a sofa from the Bright Group and Boss swivel chairs by Flexform from Scott + Cooner; Honda Syoryu, Tango, 2013, woven rattan; On the far wall: Liam Gillick, Divided Progressed, powder-coated aluminum, 2012, 71 x 68 in.

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Clockwise from top, in the stairwell: Laddie John Dill, Light Sentence, 1971, argon, 70 x .5 in.; Mai-Thu Perret, Everything Real, glazed ceramic, 2013, 19 x 15 in. Laddie John Dill, Light Sentence, 1971, argon, 70 x 5 in. On the fireplace wall: Emil Lukas, Sound of Spinning #1360, 2014, thread over painted wood frame, 32 x 26 in.

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Above: Glass-enclosed bridge features a pedestal with Peter Alexander’s Blue Cube, in turquoise resin, 2015, 8 x 8 x 6.5 in., and a steel and walnut bench by Harris Rubin. Left: Cliff Welch’s exterior features Brazilian Ipe wood and dark iron spot brick.

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The front courtyard has matching river birches.

The white, concrete, terrazzo floors and natural wood throughout the public areas extend into the private quarters, creating a seamless transition. The master bedroom is calm and uncluttered, creating a serene atmosphere. An acrylic and glass micro-bead work by Mary Corse faces the built-in bedframe designed by Welch. Mary Corse is a member of the maledominated Light and Space art movement of the 1960s. She is best known for her experimentation with radiant surfaces in minimalist painting, incorporating materials that reflect light, such as the glass microspheres seen here.

The outdoor living space blends seamlessly with the inside terrazzo floor, brick wall, and Ipe ceiling extending out over the upper deck, furnished with Richard Schultz’s 1966 rocking chairs in a celestial-blue powder coat. Landscape architect Mark Mehdibegi crafted the outdoor spaces with its Ipe mahogany deck and bench, horsetail perimeter, and a two-million-year-old petrified-wood sculpture. An ethereal blue-tile water wall seems to connect the pool with the sky above, and White Rock Lake beyond—fully grounding the home into the natural setting all around. P

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Opera length 12–16.1mm cultured South Sea white, golden, pink, and Tahitian pearl necklace with a diamond ball clasp exclusively at William Noble Rare Jewels, Highland Park Village; Shimmer gumballs from Candy Factory at NorthPark Center.

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Harry Winston cascading drop diamond necklace set in platinum with 158 diamonds weighing a total of 23.2 carats exclusively through Harry Winston, Highland Park Village; Pink rock candy from Fuzziwig’s Candy Factory at NorthPark Center.

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Arunashi fire opal and diamond ring exclusively at Forty Five Ten. Custom bonbons by Chocolate Secrets.

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Bachendorf's 18K yellow gold cuff bracelet with round diamonds weighing 3.64 ctw exclusively at Bachendorf’s; Eiseman Collection Italian dome gold ring wire in rose gold, brown diamonds exclusively at Eiseman Jewels, NorthPark Center; Eclat 18k pink gold bracelet, rose-cut sapphires and diamonds: 55 sapphires 67–69 cts and 27 rose-cut diamonds 2.83 ctw available exclusively at Stanley Korshak.

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Vintage Buccellati pendant, pink sapphires, orange sapphires, emerald and golden sapphire center exclusively at Eiseman Jewels, NorthPark Center.

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Rings from left to right: 33 ct sugarloaf tanzanite set in 18k white gold with 1.86 ctw of baguette-cut diamonds and 1.21 ctw of pave-set, round, brilliant-cut diamonds exclusively at William Noble Rare Jewels, Highland Park Village; Goshwara 32 ct, translucent purple polished amethyst ring exclusively at Eiseman Jewels, NorthPark Center; de Boulle Estate Collection, Bulgari ring, Columbian emerald 10 ct and diamonds 2.10 ctw, set in platinum exclusively at de Boulle; Bachendorf's platinum and 18k yellow gold ring with oval pink tourmaline weighing 5.45 carat and 2 trillion-shape diamonds 1.19 ctw; Bachendorf's platinum pink topaz and diamond ring with cushion pink topaz weighing 10.09 ctw, two trillion-shape diamonds 0.99 ctw and 42 round diamonds 0.33 ctw; Stick from Blooms Candy & Soda Pop Shop.

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SHARON KHAZZAM vibrant multistone and Baby Diamond Necklace; SHARON KHAZZAM vibrant multistone and Baby Diamond Bangles, all available at Ylang 23, Plaza at Preston Center; Jelly Belly jelly beans from Fuzziwig’s Candy Factory at NorthPark Center.

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CHARITABLY CHIC Influencers shine the spotlight on their favorite causes with the new NorthPark Center Luxury Ambassador program.

Philanthropy has always been a hallmark of the city we live in, and Dallasites are famed for giving back with a generous combination of money, time, and spirit.

Launching this December, the new NorthPark Luxury Ambassador Program allows those who have refined charity into an art the opportunity to garner further exposure for their favorite causes. Conceptualized by NorthPark co-owner Nancy Nasher and chaired by Kimberly Schlegel Whitman, the program is a logical extension from the legendary shopping center’s “50 Years of Giving” birthday celebration in 2015.

Says Whitman, “When I came on board, this is something they proposed to me that I could spearhead, and I loved the idea of it. Of course, I love anything that has a philanthropic angle. This is a neat way for NorthPark to get to the root of the people that keep (the center) alive, these wonderful and active shoppers.”

Starting with a list of 100 influencers, Whitman

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helped narrow the first year’s final roster down to 12 participants (two more of which you’ll find on patronmagazine.com), a task that initially seemed as daunting as these magnanimous multitaskers settling on a single cause. “It was so hard to narrow it down, but these are people we really felt like we could kind of guess what nonprofit they would pick,” says Whitman.

“They are very active in two or three nonprofits, but they’re very devoted to those. We picked people who really want to make a difference.”

Each yearlong ambassadorship offers the opportunity to partner with NorthPark for events such as shopping nights that will benefit their favorite North Texas nonprofit institutions. However, the goal remains quite singular according to its chairwoman: “We want to be supportive of the ambassadors and their nonprofit needs. I hope the program always evolves to be relevant to what’s going on in our city.”

THE CHARMING CHAIRWOMAN Kimberly Schlegel Whitman In her role as NorthPark’s official Lifestyle Ambassador, Kimberly Schlegel Whitman sets an elegant standard. This author, entrepreneur, and editor-at-large of Southern Living Magazine brings a mix of innovation and etiquette to everything she does, including defining the future of the shopping center’s new charitable program.

When musing about what lies ahead in the coming year for the first collective of Luxury Ambassadors, Schlegel Whitman says, “We want to be really creative: the ambassadors have had interesting ideas of things we can do together. Our goal is to highlight the work they’re doing.”

For her own cause, Schlegel Whitman has selected the North Texas Food Bank, where she has served on the board as well as co-chaired the Food 4 Kids program, which helps address the issue of childhood hunger by sending children home with a backpack filled with nutritious food every Friday during the school year. “It’s such an amazing organization, and my favorite component is Food 4 Kids. It’s a letter-writing campaign, and there aren’t events (held) around it, so I’m really excited to be able to spread the word,” she says. “When I co-chaired the program, my son who was really young at the time didn’t understand. To be able to open that conversation meant a lot, and when people open their letters, I hope they’ll have the conversation with their families too.

(Nutrition) is just a basic human need, and I’m excited to bring a little bit of awareness to the program.”

Author, entrepreneur, and editor-at-large, Kimberly Schlegel Whitman serves as NorthPark Center’s official Lifestyle Ambassador. Styled by CH Carolina Herrera.

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THE POWERHOUSE PHILANTHROPIST Cindy Rachofsky One-half of one of the world’s most significant art couples, Cindy Rachofsky has helped raise $67+ million to date for both amfAR and the Dallas Museum of Art. Her tireless commitment to the fight against AIDS is only part of the story, as Cindy and her husband Howard have an indelible influence on the international art market. Everyone’s eyes are on what the couple chooses to display in both their Richard Meier-designed house as well as the 18,000-square-foot The Warehouse, a space founded in conjunction with their late friend, Vernon Faulconer.

Having received amfAR’s “Award of Courage” in 2009 for her work, it isn’t surprising to learn Rachofsky’s charitable favorite is her own TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art benefit, which she co-founded 18 years ago. Occurring each October, the sold-out gala auction, preview party, and awards brunch are all can’t-miss events and crucial fundraisers that help drive both AIDS research and the contemporary art collection of the Dallas Museum of Art. “This is something that my husband and I do together, which is part of the reason it remains so much fun,” she says. “It allows the museum to acquire incredible works of art they wouldn’t have, and it’s also raising money to find a cure for AIDS. How could you say ‛No’ to that?”

Having hosted an event at the NorthPark Valentino boutique to benefit 2015’s TWO x TWO, being a part of the Ambassador program seemed a natural progression for Rachofsky. “There’s a synergy between what they do and what (NorthPark) cares about and stands for,” she explains. “Their passions and ours are completely aligned. This partnership would make sense to anybody in the art world with the wonderful art collection NorthPark shares within their walls.”

Flawlessly styled, Cindy Rachofsky is co-founder of TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art, raising more than $67 million in the past 18 years.

Styled by Roberto Cavalli.

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THE HAUTE HUMANITARIAN Nancy C. Rogers There’s no denying that the presence of Nancy C. Rogers guarantees a soiree’s success. The wife of Mary Kay co-founder Richard Rogers, she could light up a room with only her innate charm and best-dressed reputation—but that’s not this generous patron’s style. Instead, Rogers instills a supportive foundation to everything she lends her name to, from co-sponsoring shows for the likes of local designer Charles Smith II to co-chairing events for organizations such as the Family Place, the Genesis Women’s Shelter, and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. It’s not so much about the art behind philanthropy as it is the heart for Rogers, whose work in so many areas makes the city’s charitable engine run.

Her role as the gala chairman of TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art for the past two consecutive years makes this fundraiser for amfAR and the Dallas Museum of Art the ideal cause for her to highlight. “This is the second year I have (had) the honor and privilege of chairing this event,” she says. October’s spectacular 18th installment was further ignited by Ricky Martin’s performance and a celebrity appearance by Zoe Saldana. Raising over $7.5 million, a work by artist honoree Laura Owens realized $1.2 million under the gavel. Rogers continues, “amfAR plays a vital role in AIDS research and is dedicated to ending the global AIDS epidemic, (and) the Dallas Museum of Art plays an integral role in the local and global community as an essential place for all ages to enjoy various mediums of art, programs, films, concerts, and lectures.”

For two consecutive years, Nancy Rogers served as chairman for TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art. Styled by Salvatore Ferragamo.

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THE FUNDRAISING PHENOMS Lynn and Allan McBee The Bridge Homeless Shelter. The Dallas Women’s Foundation. The Dallas Historical Society. The Trinity Trust. These are but a few causes that have benefited from the incredibly busy Lynn McBee. Honored with many awards for her charitable work (not to mention her impeccable dress sense), McBee and her husband, Operating Company vice president Allan, aren’t ready to slow down any time soon. Worthy causes are their raison d’être, so you know the couple would select the organization that most keenly deserves their time and energy. It just so happens this particular foundation aligns with many of Lynn’s interests as well. “There are so many charities I support, but for me the Young Women’s Preparatory Network was kind of a no-brainer,” says this seventh-generation Texan, who currently serves as the Network’s Chief Executive Officer. “I’m a woman scientist, and developing girls to go into STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) careers and be leaders in the home or boardroom are very important to me. It’s giving girls who don’t have an opportunity to change the trajectory of their family. Research has found if you educate a woman, they will change things and make them better for their family.” Partnering with public schools across the state of Texas to operate the largest network of all-girl college prep schools in the country, the organization allows students of all backgrounds and economic statuses to excel. A hundred percent of the graduating class of 2016 was admitted to college. “It’s showing the public schools a model that could do tremendously powerful things,” adds Allan McBee. “The cause is so important: if you don’t educate, it’s over and done.”P

A comely couple, Lynn and Allen McBee are active in voluminous philanthropic organizations including the Young Women’s Preparatory Network. Styling for Lynn Mcbee by Roberto Cavalli; Allan McBee is styled by Canali

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THE ARTISTIC AMBASSADOR Chris Byrne Dallas Art Fair’s co-founder, Chris Byrne helps bring the global art world to the city each April, inspiring a surge of parties and pop-ups that makes the fair and the satellite exhibitions surrounding it one of the most culturally pivotal weeks of the year. Byrne is also the author of the tour de force graphic novel The Magician, intricately produced with 12 books and found in prestigious national collections including the Library of Congress and The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Thomas J. Watson Library. He remains active in organizing lectures and gallery shows in New York, Miami, and beyond.

But the time and energy he spends in Dallas is exemplified by his work with Dallas Contemporary, Byrne’s chosen beneficiary for the NorthPark Ambassador program.

Completing his second three-year term on the museum’s board (and second year serving as part of the Executive Committee), Byrne hosted a cocktail reception for Bruce Weber to benefit Dallas Contemporary.

He also established an artist-in-residence program in his East Hampton home, the former working studio and dwelling of Elaine de Kooning, to introduce a program to further the mission of this Glass Street institution. Resident artists, selected with the help of DC’s senior curator Justine Ludwig, have included Sadie Laska, Joe Bradley, and Kim Jones (Sharon Engelstein and Aaron Parazette will be in residence this coming year). “I’ve really enjoyed working with Peter (Doroshenko) and Justine and watching this local kunsthalle’s exhibits and programs develop and progress—Black Sheep Feminism was a highlight.”

The Dallas Art Fair kicked off early this fall with tours of NorthPark Center’s celebrated art collection, led by curators Leigh Arnold and Ludwig as well as the Parisian gallerist Frank Elbaz.

Dallas Contemporary board member, Chris Byrne, is an artist, curator, and cofounder of Dallas Art Fair, who offers an artist’s residency in his East Hampton home. Styled by Canali.

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THE CEREBRAL COLLECTOR Christen Wilson Famed for her one-of-a-kind style and enviable art collection, California-girlturned-Dallasite Christen Wilson embraces couture and contemporary works with an envelope-pushing eye all her own. Equally at home in a well-worn rock tee as she is in a Dior ball gown, she embodies an effortless cool.

Co-chair of the Tate Museum’s North American Acquisition Committee, Wilson also sits on the board of the Whitney Museum in New York and is a chair of the Nasher Sculpture Center’s advisory committee—all while raising three children.

Having divided her time at NorthPark between shopping and perusing the worldclass collection of painting and sculpture, Wi lson cites M ichael Cra ig -Mar t i n’s Untitled (Umbrella) and Untitled (Headphones), Liam Gillick’s Developmental, the LEGO store, and Valentino as favorite must-sees during any visit.

Nancy Nasher and her husband and business partner David Haemisegger’s contemporary collection makes NorthPark unique among American shopping sites; Wilson’s choice of the Nasher Sculpture Center as her selected beneficiary brings her role as a Luxury Ambassador full circle. “There is nothing in Dallas like seeing sculpture and art in the beautiful garden at the Nasher Sculpture Center,” Wilson explains. “The Nasher Sculpture Center has a global reach and has amazing curators and director, and The Nasher Prize has taken Dallas to a whole new level in the international art world.”

The ever-chic international art patron, Christen Wilson, serves as chair of the Nasher Sculpture Center’s Advisory Committee. Styled by Roberto Cavalli.

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THE REGAL LEGAL Kathleen Wu An advocate for women in the workplace, a winner of the “Women of Spirit” Award from the American Jewish Congress, and winner of the Justice David Wellington Chew Award from the State Bar of Texas, powerhouse lawyer Kathleen Wu is a fixture on “Best Lawyer” lists—both locally and nationwide. Known for her work in diversity and inclusion, this New-Yorker-turned-Texan takes a personal approach in her propensity for giving.

“I was adopted and a foster child in foster care,” she explains. “A lot of amazing things that have happened in my life are a credit to how I was raised and the generosity others have given me along the way. I’ve been given so much, when you get to a phase in your life you have the opportunity to give back, I look for places where I can really add value and have impact.”

For Wu’s Ambassadorship, she’s narrowed down her choice to the United States Tennis Association Foundation, where she serves on the board. The organization, which brings tennis and education together to change lives, reaches more than 225,000 under-resourced youth throughout the country, awarding scholarships, providing grants, and helping develop skills both on the courts and in the classroom. “It brings tennis to kids who are under-represented and under-served,” says Wu. “The focus is really on creating the whole child using tennis as a vehicle. It helps keep them safe and become productive citizens.”

Wu says one of her earliest memories was standing outside a tennis court in her local park, watching with interest but not enough confidence to ask for lessons. Because of her work, a new generation of kids won’t have to stand on the sidelines, in the playground, or at the halls of learning. “Ninety percent of the recipients of (USTA) scholarships attend college for four years, and the Dallas program is one of the most successful ones in the country,” says Wu. “It’s combining health and fitness with education, and I get to see how we can strategically improve people’s lives—both on the national level and here in South Dallas.”

Kathleen Wu is at the top of her game as an attorney while supporting the United States Tennis Association Foundation. Styled by CH Carolina Herrera.

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THE DYNAMIC DIRECTOR Joyce Goss Executive director of the Brit-centric The Goss-Michael Foundation, Joyce Goss has helped establish a world-class collection of contemporary art in Dallas, enriching the local community in the process. But the achievement that remains closest to her heart is the success of the stellar event she founded with her brother-in-law, Kenny Goss—MTV RE:DEFINE. With over $7 million raised to date for the Dallas Contemporary and the MTV Staying Alive Foundation, the annual exhibition and auction is one of the most anticipated evenings on the social calendar— not only for the top-notch people watching an opportunity to bid on covetable, collectible works, but also for the possibility to help educate in the prevention of HIV and AIDS around the globe.

“MTV RE:DEFINE benefits two important organizations that are near and dear to my heart,” explains Goss. “As a founding member of the event, it’s been an honor to watch (it) become one of Dallas’s most unique and, I think fun, fundraising events. The Ambassador program gives me the opportunity to spotlight MTV RE:DEFINE, the organizations that benefit from the annual fundraiser, as well as the artists and individuals that graciously donate their art and time.”

Goss says being an Ambassador aligns with her cause in more ways than one: the opportunity to perhaps show a new group of NorthPark customers what RE:DEFINE is all about, and a way to align two remarkable collections through her participation. “I so admire Nancy Nasher and David Haemisegger for their contributions to the arts, education, and to the City of Dallas. When asked if I would like to be involved, I jumped at the opportunity,” muses Goss. “And I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the remarkable art collection in NorthPark Center—where in the world will you find amazing works of modern and contemporary art installed in a carefully designed shopping mall with beautiful landscaping and luxury boutiques?”

Executive Director of The Goss-Michael Foundation, Joyce Goss cofounded MTV RE:DEFINE, benefiting the MTV Staying Alive Foundation and Dallas Contemporary. Styled by Salvatore Ferragamo.

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THE ACOUSTIC ALTRUISTS Ellen and Don WInspear There couldn’t be better ambassadors for The Dallas Opera than philanthropists Ellen and Don Winspear, and they’re not shy about sharing how they feel about this most refined of art forms. “We open the doors to operas to our friends that haven’t been exposed to it,” says Don, who co-chaired the organization’s last two opening galas with his wife. “Not only do we bring our friends and family to the opera, but every year people come up to us and ask us if we were to see one opera a season, what one would it be? It illustrates people’s willingness to put their toe in the water and experience it for the first time.”

Don comes by his passion organically, as his father and mother lent their monikers (and a generous endowment) to the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center downtown. His wife Ellen’s parents were founding patrons, so for her their Ambassador charity is “a way to honor my parents and their friends who have passed on.” The couple admits they have many charities “near and dear” to their hearts, but the arts organization’s 60th birthday and innovative programming (not to mention the fact NorthPark is a presenter of The Dallas Opera’s First Sight fashion show) made it an obvious selection.

“For an arts organization to last that long and be such a prominent institution is really, really remarkable,” says Don Winspear.

“It’s a celebration of not only the longevity of the company, but also the tremendous partnership with NorthPark. This is a real opportunity for them to help showcase The Dallas Opera and bring it to light as a potential arts destination.” In case you were curious, the Winspears say The Turn of the Screw is a can’t-miss production in March 2017.

Pivotal arts patrons, Ellen and Don Winspear’s names are synonymous with The Dallas Opera.

Styling for Ellen Winspear by Mulberry; Don Winspear is styled by Canali.

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Cindy Rachofsky, Lord Harry Scrymegeour at TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art Photography by Kevin Tachman

2016 TWO x TWO FOR AIDS AND ART GALA & AUCTION PRESENTED BY HARRY WINSTON AND CADILLAC PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRUNO AND KEVIN TACHMAN

Dr. Agustín Arteaga, Gavin Delahunty

Marco Perego, Zoe Saldana

Howard Rachofsky, Thomas Keller, Jamie Niven

Federica Fanari, Prabal Gurung, Rosie Assoulin, Nasiba Hartland-Mackie, Lisa Moore, Max Assoulin

Michael Patrick, Will Cromley, Eneuri Acosta, Andrew Lipman

Ricky Martin

Jeny Bania, Tim Headington, Nancy Rogers

Quinn Tivey, Melissa Ireland

Eric Muscatell, Federica Boido, Brian Kelly

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TWO x TWO FIRST LOOK PRESENTED BY FOSSIL AT THE RACHOFSKY HOUSE PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRUNO

Lucy Wrubel, Robyn Siegel, Kary Brittingham

Alberto Lombardi

Rachel Roberts, Ceason Childress

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Lindsey Collins, Jana Paul, Christen Wilson

Sharon Young, Cindy Rachofsky

Todd Fiscus, Ceron

Meghan Looney, John Runyon, Melissa Ireland

Jill Elliott, Taylor Tomasi Hill, Brian Bolke

Barbara Buzzell, Sam Saladino

Nell Langford, Amy Wendt, Valerie Bell

ROBERTO CAVALLI LUNCHEON AT THE HOME OF CINDY SCHWARTZ PHOTOGRAPHY BY THOMAS GARZA

Laree Hulshoff

Heidi Dillon, Taylor Cooley

Capera Ryan

Ceason Childress, Susie Corrigan

Cindy Schwartz, Michele Lafield

Joyce Goss, Robyn Siegel

TWO x TWO BRUNCH HONORING LAURA OWENS AT THE WAREHOUSE PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRUNO

Howard Rachofsky, Cindy Rachofsky, Nancy C. Rogers

Eric Muscatell, Carlos Gonzalez-Jaime, Catherine Rose, Dr. Agustín Arteaga

Laura Owens, Gavin Brown, Gavin Delahunty

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BRUCE WEBER ARTIST PORTRAITS AT NORTHPARK CENTER PHOTOGRAPHY BY THOMAS GARZA

Peter Doroshenko

Rosa Langley, Rachel Roberts

Mimi Sterling, Nancy Nasher, Gae Whitener

Bruce Weber Artist Portraits

MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH 3200 Darnell Street, Fort Worth, Texas 76107 • 817.738.9215 www.themodern.org

Major support for KAWS: WHERE THE END STARTS is generously provided by the Texas Commission on the Arts, with additional support provided by the Kleinheinz Family Endowment for the Arts and Education and from the Fort Worth Promotion and Development Fund.

KAWS, COMPANION (RESTING PLACE), 2013. Painted aluminum. 60 1/2 x 63 × 80 inches.

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Taylor Zakarin, Kristin Gibbons

Caleb Mathern, Justine Ludwig, Abby Lockett

2016 TACA CUSTOM AUCTION GALA AT THE ROSEWOOD MANSION PHOTOGRAPHY BY DANA DRIENSKY

Dean Fearing, Gayle Halperin

Mark LaRoe, Rebecca Young, Diane LaRoe

Clay Cooley

Kimberly Serrano

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BY CHRIS BYRNE DRAWING BY SCOTT NEWTON

GALLANT CRUSADER Sir Richard Branson makes a stop in Dallas to christen the coming Virgin Hotel.

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n a courtly gesture with a regional twist, Texas-style, Sir Richard Branson arrived on horseback, Miss Texas in tow, for the Virgin Hotel groundbreaking in the Dallas Design District on October 17. Most know Branson as the British magnate who founded Virgin Records, Virgin Airlines, and Virgin Mobile, but the knight actually began his business career at the age of 16, when he launched a magazine called Student for an audience who was opposed to the Vietnam War. I had a chance to visit with the businessman and philanthropist at the propitious occasion.

Chris Byrne (CB): Dallas is a city long on philanthropy and we know you and your Virgin brand are associated with many charitable endeavors.

Sir Richard Branson (SRB): It’s very important to assimilate into a community. We’ll obviously try to help people who are raising money and have as many functions as we can to help them raise money.

CB: Do you plan to activate Virgin Unite events here when the hotel is opened?

SRB: You can’t build a building or run a business in a city unless you actually look after the local community, unless you give back. Virgin prides itself on doing that in all our properties; like in our property in Africa, we’ve drawn a circle around it, and we set up clinics, we set up schools, we set up adoption places, and we made sure all the communities surrounding it are looked after. Dallas will be no exception.

CB: You've mentioned the importance of the lessons you learned through sports and specifically tennis—do these insights still influence your approach to business?

SRB: With the right attitude and the right team, anything can be accomplished. In September, a group of us including my children participated in the Strive Challenge. I’ll share what I wrote about the experience because this recent experience ties perfectly with your question.

CB: It's difficult to even remember a pre-Internet music industry. The moment you chose to sell Virgin Records seems prescient in retrospect...how difficult was this decision to make at the time?

SRB: Selling Virgin Records to EMI for $1 billion was one of the most painful things I’ve ever had to do. We’d built the company from scratch and just signed people like Janet Jackson and The Rolling Stones.

We did it to keep our other businesses going, specifically Virgin Atlantic. It was a sad day, but without it we wouldn’t be where we are today. In 2006 we started Virgin music festivals in the US—at a time when the Internet was disrupting the way we listen to music, but also got people craving live music experiences.

Our music festival was a brilliant way to introduce Americans to the Virgin customer experience as Virgin America was just starting to launch service across the US. It is encouraging that our brand is able to evolve with tech trends to anticipate what people want.

CB: Thank you. Virgin Hotel will complete the evolution of the Dallas Design District as a visitor-friendly area for art and lifestyle enthusiasts. P

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