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1115 Dragon St
Dallas, TX 75207
(214) 748-4233

Taboo Lounge is an eclectic speakeasy with an eye for art. There are Grecian statues near the front entrance, a stained-glass window in the back, and local artists' work blanketing the walls in between. The main space features exposed brick, ample seating, a well-lit bar area, and a healthy sized stage. The location and appearance is enough to give anyone pause. But if you take the plunge, you'll find that this lounge is an awesome, chilled-out space with an ultra-friendly staff and a rotating schedule of art shows, karaoke, and live music.

Samuel Lynne Galleries promotes a program of international emerging, mid-career, and blue chip contemporary artists, and is focused on cultivating and nurturing relationships between the gallery and its collectors. The gallery presents a dynamic exhibition schedule, actively engages world renowned curators, and hosts educational panels and artist video screenings. As an extension of the program, the gallery participates in major art fairs and stages off-site projects, exposing its significant collection to a variety of national art markets. Samuel Lynne Galleries' roster of internationally celebrated artists and sculptors includes Hans Van de Bovenkamp, Lea Fisher, James Gill, John Henry, JD Miller, Philip J. Romano, Tyler Shields, and David Yarrow.

Mary Tomás Gallery is a contemporary fine arts gallery offering collectors, designers and patrons exciting and visionary art. Located in the vibrant Dallas Design District the gallery space provides opportunities to inform, instruct and inspire art collectors. Since 2009, owners Mary and Alberto Tomás purposefully select artists for their gallery roster who encompass unique artistic styles and exhibit diverse backgrounds. Rotating exhibits feature regional, national and international artists whose works may be found in private, corporate and museum collections. Exhibits showcase painting, printmaking and sculpture. The gallery is engaged in the growth of Dallas’ reputation as a flourishing arts destination.

With work by Erika Blumenfeld, Renee Cox, Jeremy Couillard, Luke Dowd, James Geurts, Alexandra Gorczynski, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez, Anne Katrine Senstad, Mark Tribe, and lauren woods.

Craighead Green Gallery represents the finest in contemporary art from nationally and internationally recognized artists. Gallery director, Kenneth Craighead, and partner, Steve Green, opened the gallery in 1992 in the Dallas Arts District. Since that time, the two partners purchased a building and relocated the Gallery to the Design District. Scot Presley joined the Gallery as Assistant Director in 2002. Craighead Green is recognized as one of the finest contemporary art galleries throughout Texas and the Southwest, representing over 40 artists of all mediums. The Gallery focuses on contemporary paintings, photography and sculpture in a myriad of media and styles. Craighead Green represents mid to late career artists while continuing their promotion of emerging artists. The Gallery is a participating member of the Dallas Art Dealers Association and CADD, Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas.

Cohn Drennan Contemporary contributes to the cultural dialogue of the Dallas-Fort Worth region by partnering the gallery’s relationships with national and international artists and organizations with Texas artists of compatible and correlative sensibilities. The gallery’s curatorial projects with international museums and festivals provide a bridge between the next generation of Texas artists and the world. The gallery is a member of the Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas. Co-owner, Cohn Drennan, served as Director of the Wichita Falls Museum of Art at Midwestern State University, and as Deputy Director of the United States Department of State, Art in Embassies Program.

Muzeion More than a gallery, it’s a state of mind. If art had a Hall of Fame, it would be what you see for sale at Muzeion. From ancient Egyptian sarcophagi to a stingray leather necklace with Aztec flint that belonged to the Matisse collection, Muzeion is a wonderland of one-of-a-kind art. With sculptures in bronze that seem to still be liquid, masks and terracotta figures that have silently watched the centuries come and go, and decorated human skulls that still resonate with energy, Muzeion literally brings the best of both contemporary and ancient worlds when it comes to art. Royal jewels, the emperor’s clothes, and gold figures from a time before Columbus sailed the ocean blue are comfortably hosted in a space that transcends time. Art outlives us. But we can foster it for a while on its journey. When you take home a piece from Muzeion, you are housing a piece of art that belongs to humanity, a piece with intrinsic value. Every piece at Muzeion comes backed with our in-house guarantee of quality and authenticity. Now you can rest assured that you are buying more than art when you make your purchases at Muzeion. You are taking home history. Depending on their provenance, some of our pieces come with passports, European community papers, and the results from thermoluminescence or carbon-14 testing done in Europe. Muzeion prides itself on offering unique art. Part of our heritage includes offering pieces available for purchase that have never been copied or duplicated. When you take home a piece of art from Muzeion, you are guaranteed a hand-made, unique piece. From pre-Columbian pieces to contemporary art, each piece is its own creation. Diversity sets us apart in a world of art that connects us. The pieces we offer for purchase at Muzeion come from all over the world and range from 2000 B.C. all the way to present day creations. We understand that the provenance of the pieces contributes value to the art itself. We offer museum quality pieces from renowned collections such as Matisse, Rockefeller, and Dr. Ruth Lax, as well as pieces that have been displayed in celebrated museums, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

We SCOUT the world to carefully curate our modern and vintage home decor collections. Our Howell St location is open Mon - Sat 10am-5pm. Follow us @ twitter.com/ScoutStudio Instagram: scoutdesignstudio Contact us: 214-741-2414 [email protected]

It is with enormous pride and excitement that I am able to announce that the gallery of John Robert Clark Antiques is open for business. Featuring fine antique furnishings and works of art, dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, with a strong emphasis on the Neoclassic Period of the late 18th, early 19th Century, John Robert Clark Antiques showcases articles that have incredible provenance to collectors and designers. About John Robert Clark John Robert Clark has had the privilege of being in the Antique and Design industries in Dallas for over twenty years. He has an incredible passion and intellectual interest for art, antiques and design, and thoroughly enjoys working with designers and collectors. Clark has been featured in multiple publications, including Architectural Digest, Veranda and Modern Luxury, and has sat on a few of the advisory boards for local publications throughout the years. About John Robert Clark Antiques With much excitement and fanfare, the gallery of John Robert Clark Antiques, situated in the design district, has been warmly welcomed as John Robert Clark is well-known and respected by an array of antique dealers in the Dallas area. Music, fresh flowers and candles create a visually dramatic, warm and welcoming environment in this well-balanced gallery, displaying a vast collection of very fine, rare antiques of museum quality, of which John Robert Clark has expansive knowledge of.

CYDONIA is a contemporary art gallery dedicated to supporting careers of emerging artists whose practices have cultural and historical insight, conceptual rigor, or they are an original voice within their generation. CYDONIA programming unites our stable and supporters through co-operative practices that underlie an imperative towards posterity. We value art as a cultural good related to praxis and discourse.

Art, Antiques, Modern Design and Cool Stuff. Griffin Trading is an antique furniture and decorative arts gallery located on the edge of downtown Dallas in the Dallas Design District. Expect the unexpected, with a showroom full of unique and eclectic pieces from the 18th Century to the 21st Century. Where fine Antiques meet Modern Design and Contemporary Art meets Curiosities of the past. Once inside you’ll see and experience a cache of timeless treasures that embody quality, craftsmanship, design and high style. Hours Monday - Saturday 10-5:30

EMBREE & LAKE is located at the center of the Dallas Design Center. We offer 18th and 19th century French and Continental Furniture as well as a few reproduction pieces.

A unique gallery in the Downtown Dallas Design District featuring ultra detailed, Large Format, high resolution panoramic photographs in Extreme Detail of landscapes and city skylines from around the USA and other parts of the world. www.crawshaygallery.com

Established in 1989 as a showcase of fine design and furniture, SMINK has become a purveyor of fine products for living. We have gathered great manufacturers to us that represent the products of many famous designers – Minotti with the work of Rodolfo Dordoni, Living Divani with the work of Piero Lissoni, Porro with Lissoni, Massaud, Pillet, Rennie, and Kettal with Patricia Urquiola, Jasper Morrison, and Dordoni, Simon/Estel with the work of the great Carlos Scarpa. These are the great minds of the modern age – all of whom pursued the elegance of perfect design.

Samuel Lynne Galleries promotes a program of international emerging, mid-career, and blue chip contemporary artists, and is focused on cultivating and nurturing relationships between the gallery and its collectors. The gallery presents a dynamic exhibition schedule, actively engages world renowned curators, and hosts educational panels and artist video screenings. As an extension of the program, the gallery participates in major art fairs and stages off-site projects, exposing its significant collection to a variety of national art markets. Samuel Lynne Galleries' roster of internationally celebrated artists and sculptors includes Hans Van de Bovenkamp, Lea Fisher, James Gill, John Henry, JD Miller, Philip J. Romano, Tyler Shields, and David Yarrow.

Craighead Green Gallery represents the finest in contemporary art from nationally and internationally recognized artists. Gallery director, Kenneth Craighead, and partner, Steve Green, opened the gallery in 1992 in the Dallas Arts District. Since that time, the two partners purchased a building and relocated the Gallery to the Design District. Scot Presley joined the Gallery as Assistant Director in 2002. Craighead Green is recognized as one of the finest contemporary art galleries throughout Texas and the Southwest, representing over 40 artists of all mediums. The Gallery focuses on contemporary paintings, photography and sculpture in a myriad of media and styles. Craighead Green represents mid to late career artists while continuing their promotion of emerging artists. The Gallery is a participating member of the Dallas Art Dealers Association and CADD, Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas.

CYDONIA is a contemporary art gallery dedicated to supporting careers of emerging artists whose practices have cultural and historical insight, conceptual rigor, or they are an original voice within their generation. CYDONIA programming unites our stable and supporters through co-operative practices that underlie an imperative towards posterity. We value art as a cultural good related to praxis and discourse.

PAIRING ARTISTS: SITE131 proposes as its core pursuit to spotlight the concept of pairing — presenting new art from America and abroad side-by-side with new works by Texas artists. By coupling bright, emerging talents who deal with similar concerns, the art audience sees novel connections and finds a unique context for understanding contemporary art in new ways. ENTERS DALLAS ARTS SCENE: SITE131 faces the dramatic Calatrava bridge and dynamic Dallas skyline as an energetic contemporary artspace. A hub for major private collections, Dallas also boasts five Pritzker-awarded buildings, popular Art Fair, and the largest fundraising auction of contemporary art in the U.S. Located near downtown in Dallas’ Design District, developers and visionaries are quickly expanding its design and living opportunities. COMPLEMENTS OTHER DALLAS ART SPACES: SITE131 complements Dallas’ art community which includes an encyclopedic art museum with strong contemporary collection, modern sculpture center, artist-run spaces, large and intimate private spaces, commercial and university galleries, and an artists’ residency program. DUAL VISIONARIES: Building an audience based on artwork epitomizes the vision of arts professional Joan Davidow. As director/curator at Dallas Contemporary and Arlington Museum of Art and McDermott Curatorial intern at Dallas Museum of Art, Davidow built her 30-year arts career in North Texas on the concept that all ages from all walks of life can appreciate and understand art of the 21st century. Her multiple careers in the art world include her role as an arts educator inventing a nationally awarded Art Think program, master’s professor at Southern Methodist University, commentator on KERA public radio, art collector, and philanthropist who donated her art collection to the University of Texas at Dallas. Entrepreneur and art collector Seth Davidow now focuses his skills on investing in and managing commercial properties in transitional core neighborhoods surrounding Uptown and downtown, including the thoughtful restoration of this exceptional mid-century specimen. He envisions SITE131 as the perfect symbiosis, anchoring its design district commercial space with a new contemporary art attraction, but also creating with his mother a venue to engage her passion for unveiling new art and making contemporary art accessible to other collectors.

OPEN TUESDAY TO SATURDAY 12 - 5 PM + BY APPOINTMENT. Gallery Member of CADD (Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas) & DADA (Dallas Art Dealers Association) Focus: Carneal Simmons Contemporary Art seeks to advance artistic excellence, innovation, and creativity to enrich the quality of life for individuals and communities at large through the placement and exhibition of contemporary art. Mission: Our gallery and advisory are guided by our commitment to promoting contemporary art, serving clients art needs with the highest level of ethics and professionalism, making contemporary art accessible to the public through exhibitions and educational events, and fostering an environment where arts flourish and enhance the experience within residences and public spaces.

Dallas Contemporary is a non-collecting art museum presenting new and challenging ideas from regional, national and international artists. The institution is committed to engaging the public through exhibitions, lectures, educational programs and events.

Sun to Moon Gallery has been providing finely crafted photographic prints by contemporary American photographers to businesses and individual collectors since 2001. Featuring a wide variety of prints, including large-format color landscapes, seascapes, abstracts, architecturals & more, plus hand-crafted bromoil and encaustic prints, platinum prints, platinum/palladium over gold leaf prints and traditional black & white prints. Fifty or more prints are on display, with many more in the back room.

Beaux Arts, a Dallas Design District art gallery specializes in antiquarian prints and rare maps from the 16th-19th centuries. An Art Framing Studio is available on site.

LuminArté Fine Art Gallery, conveniently located in the Dallas Design District, represents and promotes international and national mid-career artists, whose works are exhibited in private, corporate and museum collections all over the world, while nurturing regional emerging artists. LuminArté Fine Art Gallery continues to embrace the local art community by showcasing regional artists, hosting an artist in residence program, and by providing workshops and continuing education opportunities. In addition, the gallery provides art placement and interior design consultation, presenting collectors, designers and corporate clients with a diverse array of artwork in a variety of media, styles and techniques.

Cosmo/Martin Martinez is a performing Artist since 1990 doing shows in front of a live audience on the streets,weekend markets & The famous Pecan Arts Festival in Austin Tx. Cosmo was reaching bigger events across the Nation and in 1995, Cosmo set Shop in The Historical West-end Dallas TX. In 1996, School presentations began and were contracted to shows and perform in various school across the U.S.A to promote education and following your dreams. In 1999, Cosmo opened a Studio in Dallas at the Market building until 2005. in 2002 Cosmo was Recruited by The Space & Rocket Center to perform on there grounds through 2010 and acquired a contract in 2002 to perform at the NASA family annual gathering , In 2010, The Star-Wars Exhibits contracted Cosmo to touch up the Exhibits @ Alabama, Houston, Santa Anna Cal & Wichita Kansas. 2010 Six Flags over Texas Contract Cosmo to open Spring Break & other event . 2012 cosmo performs @ Home Land Security Department on Bring your Daughter & Sons to Work day . Cosmo is been in this field for more than 20 years and have giving lots of entertaining to a great varieties of audience please follow my journey as I continue to work hard for your Support, Thank you & enjoy your visit with Cosmo Universal Art .

Circuit12 Contemporary is one of Texas’ most innovative and unique art spaces, specializing in a range of contemporary and post digital works; investigating modes of abstraction, figuration and beyond. Located in the Dallas Design District, we strive to provide a unique platform for ambitious emerging to mid-career artists. Pushing boundaries and bridging gaps; we ever question and dispute the limitations of common ways of looking. Specializing in works post 2000, C12 exhibits a wide scope of new media projects, in addition to invigorating 2D and 3D works.

The Perot Museum of Nature and Science is a natural history and science museum located in Dallas, Texas. It consists of two campuses: the primary campus located in Victory Park, and a secondary campus in Fair Park. The Victory Park campus museum was named in honor of Margot and Ross Perot. The current chief executive officer of the museum is Colleen Walker.BackgroundHistory June 6, 1936 – Dallas Museum of Natural History was opened to the public as part of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exhibition. September 20, 1946 – Dallas Health Museum was founded by a group chartered as the Dallas Academy of Medicine. The Dallas Health Museum was renamed as the Dallas Health and Science Museum in 1958. It was later renamed to the Science Place in 1981. 1995 – Dallas Children's Museum was founded. In 2006, museum CEO Nicole Small oversaw the uniting of the Dallas Museum of Natural History and the Science Place and the Dallas Children's Museum at Fair Park. Following the merger, the museum was located in three buildings in Fair Park, featuring an IMAX-style theater, a fully functioning planetarium, an extensive exhibit hall, and its own on-site paleontology lab.On June 1, 2014 the Perot Museum of Nature and Science welcomed a new CEO, Colleen Walker.The museum was relocated on December 1, 2012 to a new facility in Victory Park. The former Science Place Building and Planetarium were closed, with the building for the former Dallas Museum of Natural History converted into a second campus for the Perot Museum.

Cris Worley Fine Arts is a contemporary art gallery and advisory firm dedicated to promoting the careers of artists and providing clients with the finest art consulting services. The gallery specializes in innovative Texas artists in all stages of their career and selected national artists of note. Cris Worley Fine Arts represents many international artists, currently living and working in the United States, making this a rich and culturally diverse gallery program. Tues – Sat, 11 to 5 and by appointment

Since its establishment in 2005, Holly Johnson Gallery has devoted itself to the representation of emerging, mid-career, and internationally known artists from throughout the U.S. Located in Dallas’ Design District, the gallery program reflects a broad range of twentieth century ideas appealing to collectors with diverse interests. Artists work in a variety of media including painting, drawing, photography and sculpture. The gallery is a founding member of CADD - Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas. Gallery Artists Include: John Adelman, Terry Allen, David Aylsworth, William Betts, Anna Bogatin, Todd Camplin, Rebecca Carter, Theresa Chong, Matthew Cusick, Dornith Doherty, James Drake, Jacob El Hanani, Tommy Fitzpatrick, Christopher French, Raphaëlle Goethals, Geoff Hippenstiel, Otis Jones, Janaki Lennie, Sharon Louden, Michelle Mackey, Antonio Murado, Mike Osborne, Kim Cadmus Owens, Matthew Rich, David Row, Margo Sawyer, Bret Slater, Kim Squaglia, Gael Stack, William Steiger, Richard Stout, Jackie Tileston, Randy Twaddle and Casey Williams.

The new, world-class, adrenaline-rushing, mind-blowing, cooler-than-cool Perot Museum of Nature and Science is now open... right here in Dallas. Our roots date back to 1936, with the opening of the Dallas Museum of Natural History in historic Fair Park, which would later merge with the Science Place and the Dallas Children’s Museum in 2006 to create the Museum of Nature & Science. The Museum of Nature & Science in Fair Park which houses our historical wildlife dioramas and active paleontology lab will remain a part of the Perot Museum, giving visitors the chance to see not only our new Museum in Victory Park but also our historic Museum in Fair Park.

This free and open to the public museum offers an introduction to the fascinating world of the samurai while presenting an intimate viewing experience of their spectacular armor and accoutrements. One section within the exhibition highlights helmets from around the world. Admission is free. The traveling exhibitions of The Ann & Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum: The Samurai Collection have showcased a variety of works from the family’s collection, which has been built over a span of twenty five years. One hundred and forty pieces from the collection, including suits of armor, helmets, masks, and weaponry are currently on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston through August 4, 2013. The pieces were previously on display at the Musée de la civilisation in Québec City and the musée du quai Branly in Paris.