James Sullivan: Dallas Morning News reviews Generations: 150 Years of Sculpture

Dallas Morning News   |   Jul 16, 2025   |   by Scott Cantrell

https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/visual-arts/2025/05/29/generations-at-the-nasher-shows-range-and-depth-of-the-museums-holdings/

The exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center is on view through August 24, 2025.

Johnny Floyd: Declarations of Freedom exhibition reviewed in Glasstire

Glasstire   |   Jul 16, 2025   |   by Megan Wilson Krznarich

https://glasstire.com/2025/07/14/hear-the-call-declarations-of-freedom-presented-by-the-national-juneteenth-museum-at-fort-works-art-fort-worth/

The exhibition, Declarations of Freedom, organized by the National Juneteenth Museum, is on view at Fort Works Art in Fort Worth through July 19, 2025.

Billy Hassell solo exhibition at the Bell County Museum

Jun 28, 2025  

https://www.bellcountymuseum.org/p/discover/current-exhibits

A Sense of Place: Art of Billy Hassell
On view July 8 - September 8, 2025,

Anthony Sonnenberg on view at the Indianapolis Museum of Art

Jun 21, 2025  

https://discovernewfields.org/events-exhibitions/resplendent-dreams-reawakening-the-rococo

June 6, 2025 - March 29, 2026

Resplendent Dreams: Reawakening the Rococo showcases work from three contemporary queer artists—Robert Horvath, Diego Montoya, and Anthony Sonnenberg—who were influenced by the Rococo period, a movement in European art, architecture, and design that developed over the first half of the 1700s. The artists draw on the Rococo period’s sense of frivolity and extravagance to create extravagant contemporary pieces, demonstrating how the past continues to resonate with their concerns and sensibilities today.

Guests will be captivated by a broad range of media and artistic practices, including an immersive watercolor room by Robert Horvath inspired by Rococo palace interiors, ceramic sculptures by Anthony Sonnenberg, and extraordinary gowns from Diego Montoya, who is known for his Emmy Award-winning designs for We’re Here and RuPaul’s Drag Race.

Margaret Meehan interview With Good Reason

With Good Reason   |   Jun 21, 2025   |   by Host: Lauren Francis

https://www.withgoodreasonradio.org/episode/brightness/?t=1680&autoplay=1#s1680

Our Stories, Ourselves

Margaret Meehan (University of Mary Washington)

Do you ever find yourself humming a favorite nursery rhyme to yourself or recalling a fairy tale to get through a tough time? Margaret Meehan says there’s a more sinister side to the classics. She remixes and explores those stories in her ceramic work to ask who were we taught to fear? To respect? How were we taught to be?

David Canright featured in Patron Magazine

Patron Magazine   |   May 30, 2025   |   by Terri Provencal

https://issuu.com/patronmagazine/docs/patron_s_june_july_issue?fr=sYTgzZTgzOTg1NTU

David Canright exhibition review: Dallas Morning News

Dallas Morning News   |   May 28, 2025   |   by Ben Lima

https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/visual-arts/2025/05/22/david-canrights-built-environments-explores-the-architecture-of-the-imagination/

"This is one of the most distinctive and memorable shows of the year."

Jeff Gibbons and James Sullivan in Nasher Sculpture Center exhibition Generations: 150 Years of Sculpture

May 20, 2025  

https://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/art/exhibitions/exhibition/id/2152?generations-150-years-of-sculpture

Generations: 150 Years of Sculpture

May 17, 2025 - August 24, 2025

Generations: 150 Years of Sculpture presents a new selection from the Nasher’s permanent collection offering conversations between works past and present about possibilities for sculpture across a century and a half. The period it encompasses spans two world wars, astounding technological innovations, dramatic changes to the earth’s environment, and increased movement across geographic borders for people of all kinds. All the while, artists have continued to find new ways to give form to concerns as old as humanity itself.

Conversations among the artworks fall into thematic groupings of sculptures and works on paper by artists of different generations. For example, contemporary artists such as Frances Bagley, Julian Hoeber, and James Sullivan share an enduring fascination for the human figure with historical predecessors like Auguste Rodin, Alberto Giacometti and Willem de Kooning. Artists exploring the role of the void in sculpture include Barbara Hepworth (in the garden) as well as Tony Cragg, Anish Kapoor, Tony Marsh, and Beverly Semmes, while Jonathan Borofsky, Jeff Gibbons, and Jean Tinguely consider sound and mechanical movement as elements of their work. Downstairs, sculptors ranging from Jean (Hans) Arp, Alexander Calder, and David Smith to Nairy Baghramian, Jody Pinto, and Matthew Ronay consider our connections to the natural world.

Generations also celebrates numerous recent acquisitions from individuals and foundations, and the Nasher's Drawing Forum, many on view for the first time. Of the 50 works in the exhibition, 22 were acquired in the last year, with 11 being a part of a major gift of 36 works from Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger--one of the largest gifts from a private family since the museum was founded--continuing the generosity and insight of Raymond and Patsy Nasher.

Generations: 150 Years of Sculpture is supported, in part, by Nasher Members and donors, The City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture, TACA, and the Texas Commission on the Arts.

Johnny Floyd included in the National Juneteenth Museum exhibition Declarations of Freedom

May 20, 2025  

https://nationaljuneteenthmuseum.org/

June 12, 2025- July 19, 2025

Gallery of Dreams, Fort Works Art and the National Juneteenth Museum present: Declarations of Freedom, a group exhibition of contemporary art and selected works to celebrate Juneteenth and its message. Curated by Dr. Lauren Cross and Christopher Blay, this exhibition features multiple artists from Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, and Fort Worth.

Declarations of Freedom is a powerful exploration of liberation in all its forms. It invites guests to delve into reimagined histories, the creation of new communities, the evolution of freedom over the past century, and the enduring power of personal and collective stories.

Opening Reception Thursday, June 12 from 6-9 PM