Dallas Art Fair Reveal

Dallas Art Fair lures nearly 100 premier exhibitors to 6th annual extravaganza

For Dallas art enthusiasts, there is no more important time of year than Dallas Arts Week, highlighted by the annual Dallas Art Fair that takes over the Fashion Industry Gallery. Now in its sixth year, the fair recently revealed the nearly 100 exhibitors — local, national and international — that will be onsite April 10-13.

“Since 2009, the Dallas Art Fair has grown to present a greater number of galleries and programs with each edition,” co-founder John Sughrue said in a statement. “It is a testament to our city’s institutions and collectors that the Dallas Art Fair has become the locus of a wealth of cultural activity each spring.”

The fair opens with an exclusive preview gala on April 10 — one of the most essential events on the Dallas social scene — which benefits the Dallas Contemporary, Nasher Sculpture Center and Dallas Museum of Art. During the preview, patrons get first dibs on works that appeal to both serious collectors and first-time buyers.

“Dallas-Fort Worth is chock-full of collectors who get it, and there’s an adventure to meeting them on their home turf,” Marlborough Gallery’s Michael Gitlitz told arts reporter Kendall Morgan last year. “It’s refreshing to meet people with big walls who aren’t afraid of art.”

Dallas Art Fair is only component of Dallas Arts Week programming, which launches April 4 with the revamped MTV RE:DEFINE, a benefit gala and auction that supports the MTV Staying Alive Foundation and the Contemporary. Notable exhibitions during that time include Julian Schnabel, Richard Phillips and Paula Crown at Dallas Contemporary; Fredrik Vaerslev at the Power Station; Bettina Pousttchi at the Nasher Sculpture Center; Thomas Lawson at the Goss-Michael Foundation; and Robert Smithson at the Dallas Museum of Art.

The preview gala takes place April 10, 7-10 pm. Tickets start at $250, and they can be purchased on the Dallas Art Fair website. The fair is open to the public April 11-13. Hours are Friday and Saturday, 11 am-7 pm, and Sunday, noon-6 pm. Tickets start at $25, and they can also be purchased online.

Professionals Day returns for its second year on Friday, April 11, 11 am-7 pm, when CultureMap Insiders can get free access to the fair. More details on that are coming soon.

Below is the full exhibitor list for 2014:

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Ambach & Rice
Ana Cristea Gallery
Anat Ebgi
Andrew Edlin Gallery
anna meliksetian │MJBriggs
Artspace 111
Barry Whistler Gallery
Beatriz Esguerra Art
Bill Brady / KC
Blackston Gallery
Brand New Gallery
C. Grimaldis Gallery
c.nichols project
CANADA
Carrie Secrist Gallery
Ceri Hand Gallery
Cernuda Arte
Charlie James Gallery
Churner and Churner
CLEARING
Coagula Curatorial
Conduit Gallery
Cris Worley Fine Arts
David Richard Gallery
DC Moore Gallery
Deborah Colton Gallery
DUTTON
Edel Assanti
Eric Firestone Gallery
Et Al
Franklin Parrasch Gallery
Future Gallery
Galerie Forsblom
Galerie Frank Elbaz
Galleri Urbane Marfa + Dallas
Gallery Henoch
GAMO GALLERY
Halsey McKay Gallery
Hionas Gallery
Hosfelt Gallery
Howard Scott Gallery
HUS Gallery
Jack Geary Contemporary
James Fuentes
Jeff Bailey Gallery
Jessica Silverman Gallery
Jonathan Viner
Josée Bienvenu Gallery
Kansas
KLAUS VON NICHTSSAGEND
Klemens Gasser and Tanja Grunert
Klowden-Mann Gallery
Koenig and Clinton
Laura Rathe Fine Art
Lennon, Weinberg Inc.
Lisa Cooley
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
Lynch Tham
M+B, Madison Gallery
Mark Moore Gallery
Marlborough Chelsea
Martos Gallery
Massimo De Carlo
MISAKO & ROSEN
Mixed Greens
Morgan Lehman Gallery
Nancy Hoffman Gallery
Nathalie Karg/ Cumulus Studios
Newzones
Nicelle Beauchene Gallery
OHWOW
Paradise Row
PITT Projects/ Division of Labour
RE Gallery
Ribordy Contemporary
Ro2Art
Salomon Contemporary
Talley Dunn Gallery
Taubert Contemporary
The Green Gallery
The Journal Gallery
Thomas Solomon Gallery
TRISTIAN KOENIG
Turner Carroll Gallery
Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden
William Campbell Contemporary Art Inc.
William Shearburn Gallery
Workplace Gallery
Zane Bennett Contemporary
ZieherSmith

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Lawsuit news

Artist sues FIFA for $25 million over painted-over Dallas whale mural

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Artist Wyland's Whaling Wall mural being painted over for a FIFA World Cup-related mural in Dallas.

The artist who painted a giant mural on a building in downtown Dallas of life-sized swimming whales has filed a $25 million lawsuit against soccer's international governing body and others, saying they illegally painted over his work to promote the city's upcoming World Cup matches.

The artist Wyland says he hand-painted the sprawling mural that covered roughly 17,000 square feet (1,580 square meters) across two of the building's walls.

The mural stood for nearly three decades before workers began painting over it last month, causing an uproar among residents who admired the mural's grand scale and message of ocean conservation.

The area’s World Cup organizing committee said in a statement that, in place of Wyland's mural, new artwork is planned "that captures this current historical moment and reflects the energy, unity, and global spirit surrounding the World Cup 2026.” It said a portion of Wyland's mural would be preserved.

Wyland filed suit Monday, June 1 in U.S District Court in Dallas saying that World Cup organizers, along with the building's owner and management company, painted over his mural without his consent or even notifying him. He says their actions violated a 1990 federal law passed to protect visual artists from destruction of publicly displayed works.

Wyland is seeking at least $25 million in damages. His lawsuit says world soccer's governing body, FIFA, and other defendants “hastily and irrevocably destroyed a civic landmark” to promote the World Cup.

“Though FIFA claims they were working to develop art for the host city, in truth, they defaced an historic fixture of the host city,” the artist's lawsuit says.

A FIFA spokesperson said Tuesday the federation “has no involvement in this whatsoever” and referred a reporter to the tournament's local organizing committee.

A spokesperson for the North Texas FWC Organizing Committee declined to comment. The committee isn't named as a defendant in the lawsuit.

A spokesperson for Slate Asset Management, which manages the building where the mural was painted over, said in a statement that local World Cup organizers asked Slate in March to donate the mural space for “a new public art installation.”

“Slate is not being compensated in any way for the use of the wall space and was told by the local groups that Mr. Wyland had been notified,” the management company's spokesperson said in an email.

Dallas is hosting more World Cup matches than any of the other sites in the event co-hosted by the U.S., Canada and Mexico, with nine matches set to be played at AT&T Stadium in suburban Arlington, home of the Dallas Cowboys.

Wyland's Dallas mural, titled “Whaling Wall 82,” was finished in 1999 and is among more than 100 similar murals known as Whaling Walls the artist painted around the world to promote the conservation of ocean life.

An online petition protesting the mural's destruction and calling for protecting of public artwork in Dallas has received more than 2,600 signatures.

Wyland's lawsuit alleges violations of the Visual Artists Rights Act, a 1990 federal law that protects artwork of “recognized stature” even if someone else owns the physical artwork.

A judge cited that law in 2018 when he ordered a property owner to pay a group of New York graffiti artists $6.7 million for whitewashing dozens of their spray-painted murals on buildings that once housed a factory in Queens. The ruling was upheld on appeal.

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