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Our Email address has changed!   DARts' latest email address is  jcompton@tx.rr.com
 

Full-resolution files of images used on DallasArtsRevue may be available for $70 each delivered via email attachment. Images are copyright by J R Compton but purchaser may use for portfolio purposes. Publication on paper or online must credit "DallasArtsRevue.com photo by J R Compton." Same credit online with link.

 

Honest criticism
is hard to take,
particularly from

a relative, a friend,
an acquaintance
or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones

 

Dallas Arts Revue does not sell art or find galleries or jobs for artists.

No one here gets paid, so don't ask for a job.

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 - You may have art in your home that you are unaware of!

PM Summer, of 500X in the early 1980s
 
 

The Easy Way to send us Calendar information

Send your information in this precise order, in one paragraph, in the text of an email:

Show title, names of all artists in paragraph form separated by commas [but with "and" before the last one], gallery name, opening times, date, month, through closing month date (not year)

Use the following example for your submission:

new Channeling Other Worlds - Valton Tyler at Valley House, opening 6-8:30, Friday, January 22, through February 20

Your submission must include names of all artists in the show.

DO NOT USE ALL CAPS. No abbreviations anywhere.

Include address only if your gallery is new to DallasArtsRevue — it is not already listed on the Gallery Information page.

Only use "new" if the show has not yet opened.

 

Attach up to a 5 x 7-inch JPEG of art that is in your show — with caption in the following order:

artist   title    year    medium     size
 

Use the following example for your image caption:

Fred Flintstone   Rock Hard   2010   mud on board    67 x 26 inches
 

Do not include any punctuation or spacebar spaces in image file names.

Send all information in the text of an email to graphicanna@sbcglobal.net

Thanks,
Anna Palmer

DallasArtsRevue Policies

Submission Guidelines 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 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.

If you expect me to see your art, follow the instructions in the pink box above (The Easy Way). When I want to see art, I want to see art my readers can see, too.

If I don't like it or it doesn't pique my interest or attention, I probably won't write about it. I used to, but I don't go out of my way to say something negative anymore. If it's in my way though, or I'm reviewing the whole show, look out.  

Generally, the words "I" and "we" on this site refer to the founder / Editor / Publisher and CMFIC J R Compton


 

FEEDBACK (subhead)

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.

 
 

Favorite journalism quote

Mark Twain Quote: "Ours is a useful trade with all its lightness and frivolity, It has one serious purpose, one aim, one specialty, And it is constant to it: The deriding of shams, the exposure of pretentious falsities, The laughing of stupid superstitions out of existence. And that who so is by instinct engaged in this sort of warfare Is the natural enemy of royalties, nobilities, privileges and All kindred swindles — and the natural friend of Human rights and human liberties."
 

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.
 

My other fave J quote
 

Stony Burns quote: "We only print the facts, but sometimes the facts aren't true."

 

Stony was the Publisher of Dallas NOTES from the Underground before I was.
 

Types of Submissions

Editor/Publisher
E-mail

Visit my online

My personal website

See my

or

 

If you want to phone,

Some who have helped

"J R Compton
jcompton@tx.rr.com

Resume and Exhibition List

JRCompton.com

DARts Member Page.

The Amateur Birder's Journal

Movie Reviews

E-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 October 28, 2005

Mumbling Aliens with An Affection for Pink
J R and Anna - Halloween 2005

See 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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Optimize your monitor

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colorbars

If you can see the edges of these grays and colors — especially in the black and magenta scales,
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.
 

Another Grayscale

calibration bars
 

from www.stanstudio.com/calib.html

from www.stanstudio.com/calib.html
 

    grayscale

from www.dpreview.com

Step Example from dPr
 

Monitor Calibration

from Imaging-Resource.com
 

Photo Friday Monitor Calibration Tool

from PhotoFriday.com
 

monitor cal

from http://www.jasc.com/support/kb/articles/monitor.asp
 

DisplayCalibration.com

from DisplayCalibration.com, where you'll find instructions
 

from saf.bio.caltech.edu/cal.html

from http://saf.bio.caltech.edu/cal.html

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

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