The Dallas Art Fair, the satellite Arts in the District, at least 11 other opening receptions at galleries around town — it’s a pretty serious weekend for visual arts lovers.  Don’t overlook  the free opening ceremonies at Dallas Contemporary Saturday night. (You may recall that the Contemporary was scheduled to open in January, but there were delays.)

I headed over to Glass Street this morning and got an early look at the inaugural exhibit, James Gilbert’s Warnings & Instructions. Gilbert says his work is focused on issues of  identity, privacy and security: “part hazardous, part playful, part disaster, part playground.”  It takes about two seconds for that to come through in this installation of thin pink plastic sewn into life vests, a life raft, an airplane’s hull and wings.

Gilbert did all the sewing himself – some 14,000 yards of plastic.

For entire story see the Kera blog:
http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/02/05/dallas-contemporary-opens-this-time-for-real/