Dallas Art Fair x NorthPark Center Tour

The Dallas Art Fair and NorthPark Center are pleased to announce their new partnership which will feature guided tours and discussions of the internationally celebrated art collection on site and available to all. Leigh Arnold Tuesday, September 20th 6:30 - 7:30 pm Leigh Arnold joined the Nasher Sculpture Center in 2013. She has assisted in the research and development of exhibitions and publications including Nasher XChange, David Bates, Mark Grotjahn, and Melvin Edwards: Five Decades. More recently, she has worked with artists Kathryn Andrews, Mai-Thu Perret, and Piero Golia. In addition to her work at the Nasher, Arnold was guest curator of Robert Smithson in Texas and co- curator for DallasSITES: Charting Contempo- rary Art, 1963 to Present, both 2013 exhibitions at the Dallas Museum of Art. Her publications include: DallasSITES: A Developing Art Scene, Postwar to Present (2013), Robert Smithson in Texas (2015), Private Words: Selected Works of John Wilcox (2016), and Sightings: Mai-Thu Perret (2016). Arnold received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Dallas in May 2016 after completing her disserta- tion on Robert Smithson’s unfinished works in Texas and beyond. Frank Elbaz Tuesday, October 25th 6:30 - 7:30 pm Frank Elbaz is a Contemporary Art Gallery owner based out of Paris, France. Mr. Elbaz began his art career in 1988 when he moved to Tokyo, Japan as a private modern art-dealer and consultant. He remained in Tokyo for a decade while establishing relationships with artists from around the world. Several of the artistic relationships cultivated were based in New York and Los Angeles and were influential in Mr. Elbaz’s decision to return to France and open his own contemporary art gallery space in Le Marais, Galerie Frank Elbaz. The contempo- rary art gallery promotes the work of international artists that push aesthetic boundaries in conceptualism. The gallery is currently expanding its global reach through the participation of international art fairs as well as a temporary program in the United States during the fall of 2016 based in Dallas, Texas. Justine Ludwig Tuesday, November 22nd 6:30 - 7:30 pm Justine Ludwig is the Director of Exhibitions/ Senior Curator at Dallas Contempo- rary. In recent years she has curated exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, the Tufts University Art Gallery, and the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. Her research interests include memory, new media, architecture, economics, and the aesthetics of globalization. Ludwig holds an MA in Global Arts from Goldsmiths University of London.