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01 AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM Through Feb. 15, AAM presents Sepia: Past. Pride. Power, an exhibition of Black politicians, community leaders, and entertainers from Sepia magazine; and The History of the Prairie View Interscholastic League: Black High School Sports in Texas in the Era of Segregation, an exhibition of the players, teams, and impact and dominance of Black high school sports in Texas, when racial segregation forced African Americans to create their own interscholastic sports league. Scope and Content: The Sepia Photographic Archive is one of the most valuable resources of Black achievement and joins the museum’s permanent collection. aamdallas.org 02 AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART Sandy Rodriguez in Isolation features 30 new works on paper created by the Los Angeles–based painter through Apr. 17. Stephanie Syjuco’s multimedia installation transforms images of renowned works from the Carter’s collection and investigates narratives of national identity. See Stephanie Syjuco: Double Vision through Dec. Newly acquired photographs by Ansel Adams, Edward Steichen, Dorothea Lange, Marco Breuer, Edward Weston, and others are on view for the first time at the Carter in Beauty and Life: The Finis Welch Collection, Feb. 20–May 8. ¡Printing the Revolution!, organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, explores the rise of Chicano graphics within these early social movements and the ways in which Chicanx artists since then have advanced innovative printmaking practices attuned to social justice; on view Feb. 20– May 8. Image: Aaron Siskind, Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation #99, gelatin silver print. Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas. Bequest of Finis Welch, © Aaron Siskind Foundation. cartermuseum.org 03 CROW MUSEUM OF ASIAN ART OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS The Crow Museum of Asian Art inspires and promotes learning and dialogue about the arts and cultures of Asia through exhibitions, research, and preservation of their collections, artistic and educational programming, and visitor experience. crowmuseum.org 04 DALLAS CONTEMPORARY Through Feb. 13, Cell Grids, Peter Halley’s first exhibition in Texas in more than fifteen years, presents a unique series of paintings made from 2015 to the present. Ilya & Emilia Kabakov’s Paintings 26
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about Paintings resembles an outdated and rundown museum, incorporating never-before-seen paintings, interactive works, and installation. Shilpa Gupta’s installation For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit: 100 Jailed Poets is the artist’s first solo exhibition in America in over a decade. dallascontemporary.org 05 DALLAS HOLOCAUST AND HUMAN RIGHTS MUSEUM Courage and Compassion provides a 360-degree perspective of the WWII experience of Americans of Japanese ancestry while exploring the relevance of these events today. The exhibition honors people across America who stood up to recognize Japanese Americans as friends, neighbors, and fellow citizens. Through Jun. 12. dhhrm.org 06 DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART Slip Zone: A New Look in Postwar Abstraction in the Americas and East Asia continues through Jul. 10, along with Bosco Sodi: La fuerza del destino. Naudline Pierre: What Could Be Has Not Yet Appeared is on view through May 15. A recently acquired painting, Sam F. by Jean-Michel Basquiat, remains on view in the main concourse through Feb. 22. 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 and uses sound to replicate the aural experience of cruising in East LA. Van Gogh and the Olive Groves ends Feb. 6. Octavio Medellín: Spirit and Form, the first-ever museum retrospective for the late sculptor, runs Feb. 6–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 Mar. 13–Aug. 7. Image: Damion Jay McGirt, Muscogee, Beaded bandolier bag, 1998, North American Southeast, cloth, beads.. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. dma.org 07 GEOMETRIC MADI MUSEUM Selected works from Austin-based artist Larry Akers featuring kinetic sculptures will be on view through Mar. 3 in GeomeKinetica. geometricmadimuseum.org 08 GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL CENTER The Continual Struggle: The American Freedom Movement and the Seeds of Social Change by artist Brian Washington documents the civil rights movement through 25 pieces on view in Freedom Hall at the Bush Center through Mar. 27. On view at the Food and Fiber
