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01 AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM Yanga: Path to Freedom in the Americas breaks ground by introducing new and existing materials in a direct and purposeful bilingual educational experience. Through Oct. 21. aamdallas.org 02 AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART Stephanie Syjuco: Double Vision is a site-specific commission and multimedia exhibition that investigate narratives of national identity. Through Jan. Art Making as Life Making: Kinji Akagawa at Tamarind offers a glimpse of life in a 1960s print workshop, through Oct. 30. Black Every Day: Photographs from the Carter Collection, opens Jun. 11 and explores more than 100 years of photographic representations of Black American experiences, through Sep. 11. Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano, Jun. 26–Sep. 11, pairs the splendor of glass goblets and mosaics with paintings and prints by the leading 19th-century American artists. Justin Ginsberg: Shaking the Shadow, Jun. 11–Sep. 25, sees Texas-based artist Justin Ginsberg create a glass sculptural work. Image: Fred Baldwin, Wendy Watriss, Saturday Night, gelatin silver print. Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas. Gift of the Texas Historical Foundation with support from a major grant from the DuPont Company and Conoco, and assistance from the Texas Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. cartermuseum.org 03 CROW MUSEUM OF ASIAN ART OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS JooYoung Choi: Songs of Resilience From the Tapestry of Faith introduces the Cosmic Womb multiverse and highlights some of its key characters and narratives. In creating a world that explores loss, healing, and growth based upon belief and faith in oneself, Choi expresses human resiliency and the strength that can be found through the power of storytelling. Through Sep. 4. Rare Earth: The Art and Science of Chinese Stones explores the ways that Chinese and Western cultures have celebrated the beauty of natural stones. Reflecting the educational mission of The University of Texas at Dallas to unite scientific and artistic thinking, this exhibition pairs works of Chinese art from the Crow Museum’s permanent collection. crowcollection.org 04 DALLAS CONTEMPORARY Houston-based sculptor Joseph Havel presents Parrot Architecture, an exhibition of wall assemblages and totemic bronze and resin 22
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sculptures made with the help of his pet African parrot, Hannah, during the pandemic. Lonnie Holley: Coming From the Earth is the selftaught artist’s first exhibition in Texas and features a new body of ceramic works. America, Nice Place marks New York–based artist Borna Sammak’s first museum show. Sammak’s new and recent works are on view, as well as a new exhibition design conceived by the artist. Natalie Wadlington: Places That Grow presents her richly colored figurative paintings that are heavily based on storytelling. All four exhibitions continue through Aug. 21. Image: Natalie Wadlington, Picnic at Night, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Dallas Contemporary. dallascontemporary.org 05 DALLAS HOLOCAUST AND HUMAN RIGHTS MUSEUM Courage and Compassion provides a 360-degree perspective of the World War II experience of Americans of Japanese ancestry. The exhibition honors people across America who stood up to recognize Japanese Americans as fellow citizens. Through Jun. 12. dhhrm.org 06 DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART Bosco Sodi: La fuerza del destino and Slip Zone: A New Look in Postwar Abstraction in the Americas and East Asia both continue through Jul. 10. Guadalupe Rosales: Drifting on a Memory, continues through Jul. 10. Rosales collaborated with Dallas-based lowrider artist Lokey Calderon to create an immersive work that nods to lowrider culture. Octavio Medellín: Spirit and Form, the first museum retrospective for the late sculptor, continues through Jan. 15, 2023. Spirit Lodge: Mississippian Art from Spiro is the first major exhibition dedicated to the art and culture of Mississippian peoples, on view through Aug. 7. Through Sep. 18, Cartier and Islamic Art presents over 400 objects from major international collections, including the Department of Islamic Arts at the Louvre Museum and the Keir Collection of Islamic Art on loan to the DMA. Image: Chase Kahwinhut Earles, Caddo, Horse Tripod Vessel (Deé-Tumbah Kah’-Wis), 2015, ceramic, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. dma.org 07 GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENTAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Waxing Poetic: Expressions in Cold Wax, a special exhibit at the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, features 35 new works by President George W. Bush, including cold wax renditions of floral arrangements, landscapes, birds, and more. Through Sep. 25 in Freedom Hall. bushcenter.org
