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Galleries new to DallasArtsRevue Check your monitor Personal InvitationsAll Dallas artists and galleries should email calendar information to us. Use the guidelines in pink box below, or email Anna, and she'll help prepare your listing.
DARts' latest email address is jcompton@tx.rr.com
Full-resolution files of images used on DallasArtsRevue may be available, delivered via email attachment. All pages, images, stories and everything else on this site are copyright 2010 and before by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved.
Publication of these photographs either on paper or online must credit "DallasArtsRevue.com photo by J R Compton." with this link. Permission to use any of these photographs must be in writing.
“Honest criticism
is hard to take,
particularly from
a relative, a friend,
an acquaintance
or a stranger.”
Dallas Arts Revue does not sell art or find galleries or jobs for artists.
Don't asl for a job. There ain't one.
We won't do your research or find a place to show or sell your art. That's your job.
We provide information. You do your own due dilligence. Your own Dada duty.
Current DallasArtsRevue Supporting Members are the only artists we keep up with. We do not keep up with artists mentioned on these pages. If the story mentions a gallery or art space, contact them instead.
If you lose an artist, go to the Lost Artists page.
My standard reply about the value of any art is that it is determined by what you can get for it. There is no instrinsic financial value of art objects, gold (the price changes every day) or pressed latinum.
PM Summer, of 500X in the early 1980s
The Easy Way to send us Calendar information
Send your information in this order in one paragraph, in the text of an email: Show title, names of all artists in paragraph form separated by commas, gallery name, opening times, date, month, through closing month date. Use the following example for your submission:
DO NOT USE ALL CAPS. No abbreviations or punctuation. Include the space's address only if is new to DallasArtsRevue and not already listed on our Gallery Information page. Attach up to a 5 x 7-inch JPEG of art that is in your show and include this caption information in the text of the email in this exact order:
This is an example of an image caption:
Name the jpeg file with your name and the title (or a short version of the title), but do not include any punctuation or any spacebar spaces in the image file name. Send all information in the text of an email to graphicanna@sbcglobal.net . Thanks, |

— J R Compton
DallasArtsRevue Policies
Submission Guidelines are just above or on its own page.
Show your fancy JPEG documents with all the pictures and words stuck forever in pixels to your friends. For publication here, paste your information as text in the text of an E-mail, and E-mail it to me.
You can add images in there, too. But not images of the words we need, like dates and artists' names. When we create calendar items, we cut from emails and paste the information on the calendar page. If we can't cut and paste it, we'll delay retyping it.
Name email subjects and attachments intelligently. We get a dozen "Press Release," "art" or "Art Show" attachments a week. Which show? What artist? Be specific. Or your information will get lost.
If your request for a Link Exchange does not involve a site related to art, especially Dallas art and artists, we will not reply.
How to submit Calls for Entry, jobs and competitive exhibitions is on top of the Artists Opportunities Page.
Instructions for entering (everybody gets in) our Online Self-Portrait Exhibition are on that section's index page.
Instructions for Becoming A Supporting Member of this site — and getting up to 2 member web pages and have your name linked to your member page every time you inform us that you are in a show or art event — are on the How to Join DallasArtsRevue page.
Unless you are a close personal friend or a Supporting Member of DallasArtsRevue, sending me a personal invitation without a link to somewhere I can see some of your work is a waste of time. When I need to look at art, I look at the DallasArtsRevue Calendar page or listen to Anna, who manages that page. If your show is not listed there, I won't know about it.
I decide whether to look at someone's latest art in some art space from seeing work that artist has done before. If you think I'll want to spend time tracking down your art, you're wrong. If you make it easy, and link your invitation to some of your art, it is at least possible I'll bother.
I often go to shows whose artist piques my interest, no matter where you've got a show. But the only way to pique my interest is to show me the artwork.
Please go through your bother and get your show listed on our calendar. Follow the instructions in the pink box above (The Easy Way) and get your show listed.
If I don't like it or it doesn't pique my interest or attention, I won't write about it. I used to, but I don't go out of my way to say something negative about art anymore. If it's in my way though, or I'm reviewing the whole show, then it's fair game.
Generally, the words "I" and "we" on this site refer to the founder / Editor / Publisher J R Compton.
Positive, negative or malevolently mean-spirited, we love your Feedback. The management assumes that Letters to the Editor are for sharing, and we love to publish negative feedback. If you don't want to see your opinions or complaints published on our Feedback page, don't send them.

Site Indexes you might find useful
A Simplified Introduction to the Pages of DallasArtsRevue
The Site Map / Contents : Indexes + Subindexes; Writers, Popular Features, How Tos, Views, Resources
Contents: The almost exact same page as the Site Map, only this one is color-coordinated.
Stony was the Publisher of Dallas NOTES from the Underground before I was.
Exhibition Publicity + PR — We're picky about what info we need and how you send it. Read the pink box above.
Exhibition Invitations — There's certain information we really need. Hint: The DARts Calenadar is arranged chronologically by end date. Read about it on our Submissions Guidelines Page before you send it to us, so you'll be sure we can use it. Or just read the pink box above.
Please name Images intelligently and provide all the necessary caption information.
Membership page images and information are in a different category.
What most people see when J R's around. Photograph and
rubber stamp Copyright 2004 by Andy Hanson - All Rights Reserved.
Andy was my darkroommate when we both
Staff Photographers for the Dallas Times Herald in the early 1970s.
Galleries new to us should email us with a list of:
open times
physical address
director's name
phone number
E-mail and web address
driving instructions (or a map, if needed)See the Gallery Information Page for examples or to see if you are already listed.
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“The Function of criticism
should not be confused
with the function
of reform.”— Roger Zelazny, Home is the Hangman, 1975
Editor/Publisher
Visit my online
My personal website
See my
or
If you want to phone,
Some who have helped
"J R Compton
jcompton@tx.rr.comE-mail me first.
Anna Palmer Art Shirer Ken Shaddock James Michael Starr Michael Helsem
Jim Dolan Katja Zimmerman Norman Kary Kathy Dello Stritto,Yes, there are way too many men and not nearly enough women who contribute to this publication. If you'd like to write for DallasArtsRevue.com, contact the editor via the link near the top of this page.
Mumbling Aliens with An Affection for Pink
J R and Anna - Halloween 2005See also
Site Index - an elderly list of all the then-current directories on this humongous website.
The DARts Resource Index, which lists these and other pages you may wish to be included in:
Art Groups Artists with Web Sites Mail-Servers & Sites Media
Museums & Art Centers National Links Schools & Classes
Support this site.
Become a Supporting Member to get your own web page,
entry in DARts shows & other benefits, or sign up as a DARts Subscriber for
full access to all of DallasArtsRevue's information pages.See our Index of Supporting Members' Pages
To see who has already joined, click the Index link at the top of that page.
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your monitor is adjusted about as well as mine is. Don't worry about the too-subtle yellow scale.
The links under the following images may contain more specific instructions on calibrating your monitor.
I'll start you off with this one, that my iMac passed with flying colors and tones. No sense stealing that image to stick here, when it looks so good and works well right where it is, which is at http://photographerusa.com/screencheck/index.html.
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I collect these things. If you know of another one, please send a link to it.
More monitor — and camera — calibration information stories online:
Monitor Calibration
Digital Focus: Calibrate Your Monitor by Dave Johnson
wikiHow's How to Calibrate Your Monitor
Calibrating Your Monitor
Making fine prints in your digital darkroom; Monitor calibration and gamma by Norman Karen
Calibrate Your Monitor by Jacci Howard Bear
and
Calibrate Your Digital Camera
Neutral References for Digital Camera Calibration