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How to Look at Art
Story + Photographs by J R Compton
Us Looking at Us Looking At Art - Children
Playing
with the Bath House Binoculars on the Back Porch
This is a story about a lot of different art we saw on the Dallas Art Dealers Association (DADA)'s Spring Gallery Walk, beginning with our coverage of a panel discussion supposedly on the topic of How to Look at Art and a Chat & Chew also at The MAC, where we checked out all the Dallas (!) art there, then set off our own subset of the 2008 Walk, while the How to Look at Art theme runs all through our visits of The Afterimage, El Centro College, UNT students showing photographs in U-Haul trucks on Dragon Street around from PDNB, Kettle Art owner Frank Campagna's new space and guys in black & white stripes in the Dragon Street area, flowers, snow, owls, a Peter Ligon watercolor at Dahlia Woods and a fruitful visit to Jesus Chairez' moving sale.
We concluded our busy day at the Bath House, where I photographed these kids looking through the high-power binoculars. The whole long story of our day of art is mixed with personal experiences, remembrances, chair dancing, wild poetry, serious art criticism and more than two dozen photographs — with the theme, How to Look at Art winding over, under, around and through it all.
David Everett - Great Horned Owl, 2007
polychromed mahogany - 21 x 9 x 10.75 inches
one of several birds we saw along the Walk.
Visiting the Fort Worth Community Arts Center - with many very different sorts of art in one place — a historical show, a best of their open show show, and the EASL thank-you show, all in one big, busy place.
Cynthia Brants - Acropolis at Glen Rose, 1989 - oil on linen
an historic show of the Fort Worth Circle artist at
the Fort Worth Arts Community Center
Barnstorming The Contemp – gathers artists to brainstorm new uses for their new building.
The DARts Art Calendar keeps adding images & events
Tats, Sistahs, 50/50, Verse & Eggs - covers a tattoo show at the Kettle, Sistahs at the South Dallas Culture Center, 50 works by 50 artists at the Soda in Oak Cliff and Verse and Reverse and Ann Huey and Julia McLain-Echol's Eggsabition at the Bath House Cultural Center.
Emotionally abused and battered, Grad students see hope! - Dave Hickey at UTD in 2003
new Unsolicited Art — a new, free for all page that needs the one best piece of art you made this year. More than 100 readers have hit this page, and I have received zeo (0) art. What gives?
For awhile there, I was all het up about ThEdblog and updated often, then I lost track but lately am thinking would be a good place to park all those images I make but don't want to write stories around. Perhaps I should mention my previous relationship with EAT ART, which served a similar function for a long time before I abandoned it for something else. Another omnibus art series abandoned is (was?) my Midnight Rambles, although some of my stories since are, despite whatever else I've titled them, glorified rambles.
I know if I mention Lee Harvey Oswald or, especially, boobs, that page will defy all logic and grow enormously popular, but I'd prefer only regular DARts readers knew about it, although maybe some of those idiot interlopers will stop and smell the art.
Jim Dolan writes about Teresa Elliott's portratis of cows in The Strange Familiar
and Katja Zimmerman's Bill Traylor Beyond Plagiarizing shows an artist ripping Bill off.
Recently Updated DARts Pages:
Since I mentioned EAT ART, I went back and updated all those elderly pages. Fascinating to see how much I've learned about formatting web pages in the last few years. Then I did the same with the endlessly fascinating (?) Midnight Rambles, and that's enough for another little while.
I've just seen and reviewed a couple Art-related Movies and am about to delve into several others; D-Art 2005 Member Show; Modalities of the Visible (Brookhaven's then-new gallery space) in 2002; The Fort Worth Art Dealers Association's 2002 Gallery Night Extravaganza; and I'm still adding artists to the Fierce show, though that can't go on much longer.
The Editor was one of 11 arts writers choosing 18 works by 13 artits in Pix2 - The Critics' Choices
Wallpaper & Other Repeating Patterns - a tour of diverse galleries showing new work, much of it involving repeating patterns.
Art Conspiracy 3 shows artists making art and it getting auctioned in Artists Arting at ArtCon3
The Fierce Page is helping to organize an exhibition called FIERCE! at 14th Street Gallery in Plano this July.
The Dallas Contemp's New Building reminds of us D-ART's checkered and their often re-writen history.
Showing Process, Again - The 15th Annual White Rock Lake Artists Studio Tour in 100 pictures and packed with process.
After here, links move to the Reviews Index
Contributors
The oft-updated Arts Calendar of shows, lectures, tours and other Dallas art-rleated events
Index of Subindexes - all our departments
Art Crit - index of stories about art
Art Spaces - places that have art
The Aesthetic Crisis Center has hundreds of links to visual, animated, interactive, art and political sites.
Art Movies Reviewed & thousands of other movies reviewed
ThEDblog follow The Editor's thoughts, issues, activities and plans for and about this site.
Index of Supporting Members' art pages
The Reviews Index lists most of our stories.
Small Sculpture in Texas - stories about 3-D art
Submission Guidelines - How to send us stuff
Visual Art Groups in Texas
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A Simple Introduction to this site.
The Site Map is an index of indexes, some of which have been updated this century
Dallas-area Visual Art Groups
The whole long story about that spring day of art goes in and out of How to Look at Art but there's a short poetic essay called Didactic Exposition — a third of the way down the page that says what I think is how we relate to art.
Schools, Universities & Classes
How to Design & Distribute Invitational Postcards
Art Services and I Want
I Want - Readers want; I post
Lost Artists - people looking for artists
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including The Great Six-pak Duck Rescue1,103 movies reviewed
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