the art brothel of dallas - luther
Last night seemed, to me, a landmark night for Dallas. Tucked away on the road less traveled, just off the strip in Deep Ellum, opened the new location of the Art Prostitute storefront, and it is everything that it should be.
AP, as far as I can ascertain, is a national art publisher/promotions/ magazine/everything company (collective?), blessing our little D-town with it's only store. Having moved just from it's old location in Denton, the new location is wildly stylish, outlandishly hip, and shockingly tasteful. Consisting of not only a top notch art space, and an uber-cool shop front (containing everything from one-off artist handbags to graphic-novels I have only dreamed of getting anywhere within 500 miles), but also secretly housing a behind-the scenes workspace. The night was ideal, with a rotating full house, a stellar DJ set by :Sob3er: (peering down from over the 25' back wall), and free Ketel One and Redbull flowing; the full range of the Dallas/Fort Worth/Denton crowd was in force. Ironic Mustaches stole the evening for me, but other highlights included both ends of the eves-dropping-art-critique spectrum (complete idiot to people who make me feel like a complete idiot), and a one man dance-dance revolution (pictured below).
The Dave Kinsey art was remarkable (I've been a fan for a while), and the evening seemed to usher to the ten-o-clock finish line much too fast; if not for the drinks, we might have even found the after party, which sounded rad. I see last night as a good step for Dallas, and for the declining Deep Ellum. I still hold DE close to my heart, and I will hold Art Prostitute even closer if they can somehow save it. I liked AP when they repped some of my favorite artists, and when they had one of the illest booths at Flatstock, and when I wore their free pins that I got somewhere, but now I can safely say that I think they are a potential crowning glory to our scene, and I very much look forward to their next step.
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