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Dallas Contemporary goes global with Google's Street Art Project

In its latest move toward global domination, Google is venturing into the world of street art. The Google Cultural Institute, which collaborates with museums here and abroad to put artwork online, launched the Street Art Project on June 10. Of the 30 collections included, only a handful are in the United States, and only one — Dallas Contemporary — is in Texas.

As its name suggests, the Street Art Project highlights works of street artists, including those who have been featured in galleries and ones whose work literally resides on the streets.

Dallas Contemporary's contribution to the project includes two recent exhibitions: JR: Inside Out, which ran January 11-March 9, 2014, and FAILE: Where Wild Won't Break, which ran September 21-December 22, 2013.

JR: Inside Out was a participatory art project featuring a series of large-scale photographs that lined the walls and floor at the gallery. Those photos, a method of exploring personal identity, have been pasted on buildings, walls, streets and other unconventional surfaces around the world by the artist.

The exhibit by FAILE, a collaboration between Brooklyn-based artists Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller, featured a large-scale outdoor mural and a 14-foot-tall tower inside Dallas Contemporary, among other works. FAILE's works blend low and high culture using iconography and visual imagery.

The Street Art Project launched with just 30 partners, but organizers expect that to grow exponentially in the months and years to come.

This is the second time in recent months that Google has partnered with area institutions, as several Dallas-Fort Worth museums joined the Google Art Project back in February.

Dallas Contemporary's FAILE exhibit will be featured in Google's Street Art Project.

Photo courtesy of Dallas Contemporary

Dallas Contemporary's FAILE exhibit will be featured in Google's Street Art Project.

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Netflix House will debut in Dallas with murals from acclaimed artist

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Jeremy Biggers at Netflix House

A long-awaited immersive venue is opening in Dallas, and it will debut with local art on its walls: Netflix House, a year-round exhibit revolving around Netflix shows and movies, will open at Galleria Dallas on December 11, with two murals from award-winning Dallas multi-medium artist Jeremy Biggers.

Netflix House is an immersive dive complete with merchandise store, film house, arcade, and restaurant-bar. When it opens, Dallas will be the second location in the U.S., following Philadelphia, where it debuted in November 2025, also with murals from a local artist.

A graduate of Booker T. Washington High School for Performing and Visual Arts, Biggers is a renowned artist whose murals can be found spashed on walls across Dallas. Many, such as the Selena portrait on the wall outside Top Ten Records at 306 S. Bishop Ave., have become local landmarks.

He's a logical choice, having worked with a number of corporations including Nike, Adidas, the Dallas Mavericks, and IBM, for whom he created the "THINK" mural in their Dallas corporate office. His works have also been exhibited nationally, including a 2024 solo exhibition "be safe out there bro" at Band of Vices, a gallery in Los Angeles.

"Being chosen to be the artist to paint this mural, it would have been a disservice to myself, as well as the art scene in the city, not to try to infuse myself into it," he says.

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Biggers did two murals featuring his interpretation of Netflix figures including the Squid Game Young-hee doll, characters from KPop Demon Hunters and megahit series Stranger Things, plus Pandy and DJ Catnip, the best friends in the interactive series Gabby’s Dollhouse.

Both murals are intensely colored works that incorporate Biggers' signature motif: a grid of polka dots spread across the image.

One is on the exterior of Netflix House, at the parking entrance, a colorful collage of characters, measuring 38 feet x 50 feet — the tallest mural Biggers has tackled. He painted it with aerosol; it took him two months to complete.
The other is on the interior, on the mall side entrance of Netflix House, measuring 57 feet x 12 feet — a study in moody blacks and blues, with accents of neon-red that give it a 3D effect.

“I'm trying to tell the story of Netflix, and the story of where Netflix has been historically, where Netflix is headed in the future, and then also infusing my own narrative and my own language visually into that story,” he says.

“They could have opened this anywhere, so for Dallas to be one of the very first locations — that’s a testament to us as a market, as consumers of arts and consumers in general," he says.

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