E-mail the editor with positive, negative or other comments or feedback to anything on this site or in Dallas art. Tell what page you are referring to. Sign it or don't sign it or use a fake name, if you'd prefer. Note if you do not want your letter published, although simply not signing it is better for DallasArtsRevue, which thrives on opinions. Letters will only be edited for space and sense. If you're mean or stupid, we won't edit, at all.

April 8 2008

J R -

In your article Verse & Eggs [actually, Tats, Sistahs, 50/50, Verse & Eggs, you describe "Ann Huey and Julia McLain-Echol's silly, Easter-themed Eggsabition" and show photos of Ann's work, but don't provide any example's of Julia's work. This "two chick" collaboration was a long time in the making. Even if you have no verbiage that you wish to express, at least there should be some balance of visuals.

Julia McLain Echols - cropped per attachment

(attachment for your convenience)

Thanks,
- Chris

Chris,

I am the editor/publisher of DallasArtsRevue, which means I'm who gets to decide what images and words go on this site. When I review a show, I do not necessarily show images of everyone in the show, just the pieces I am drawn to or am interested in. There is no such thing as "a balance of visuals." The Dallas Morning News, Art Forum and I share the concept that we only publish the images we want to. Perhaps you do not understand the concept of an art review.

I decided some time ago, not to go out of my way to put down work I don't like, although I have and express my own opinions forthrightly. There are dozens of shows every month I see but don't even comment on.

I've seen that image previously, and I do not wish to publish it.

; j r

March 28 2008

Dear J R,

Thank you for your review of my piece, which was shown earlier at the Critic's Choice Show and also, more recently my smalls at Haley-Henman.

You have no idea how heartening something like that can be! Thank you!

How did we get you in this town anyway? Was it plain, insane luck?

Best,
Beth Mahey

I've been in the Dallas area since 1962, when I started college at University of Dallas. After that it was mostly inertia and the need to not move again after moving nearly every year growing up.

Since I am an artist and like most every other artist, crave attention for my work, I do know precisely how heartening something like that can be. My art doesn't sell, or I can't seem to sell it, so a little attention, a few words in the media would be fabulous.

Glad I could help.

March 23

Brainstorming the Contempt,

After attending the “Artist Open Mic Nite” I was disappointed to learn it was less about listening to artists and more about how the contemporary can better serve the local collectors to fill their coffers. It appeared to be a staged forum for the airing of previously discussed ideas.

unsigned

March 19 2008

I feel the same way about The Contemp.
I truly enjoy your website. Nice work.

Thank you,
Greg G

March 4 2008

J R,
Regarding the questions in the latest feedback letter, no one is given a license proclaiming them an artist ... or an art critic. If I didn't respect you and your web site, I wouldn't be a member. I find "food for thought" in your writing, even when I don't agree. Your web site vicariously takes me to galleries, art walks, etc. that I often don't have time to visit. It is one of my resources for keeping abreast of the Dallas art scene.

The recognition you received from your current solo exhibit of your bird photographs at the Bath House Cultural Center is long overdue.

Keep on keeping on.
Jeanne Sturdevant

February 11 2008

You are so prententious [sic] and your reviews are so worthless as to have no value at all. Can you deal with reality?

Your narrative about your searching the local art scene is so sophmoric [sic] as to generate no comments and the screaming answer is one that is non-responsive.

Why should anyone talk to you - when you are such a jerk?

I only hope your readers realize you know absolutely nothing about art and your report is from the eyes of a wanna-be who has no talent at all.

So get real and get a real job (hahahahahaha)

And write your polemic [sic], without hesitation, and go down in history for - how stupid and ignorant you really are.

Bless you.
Regards,
Susan

Susan, meet Scooter, whose letter was far more scurrilous a polemic.
 

J. R.,

You did a piece on me several years ago after coming to my studio when I lived in Dallas. I'm very grateful for it and it led to several shows around the Dallas area.

Since that time, I have relocated to New York, my work has moved in an entirely different direction and am preparing for my first solo show in Manhattan. I'm wondering if it would be possible for you to remove the piece or at least the images of those first paintings I made from DallasArtsRevue? I know this seems like a strange request, but because they tend to be the first thing to appear via internet searches I have had to explain them numerous times to more collectors, curators and gallerists. Thank you so much for writing the article and for your consideration in removing the images at the very least.

Jason Roskey

This smacks of historical revisionism. I am opposed.

I replied:

I don't think so. It's history. The pieces are clearly marked by date. I talk about seeing something in the work that would grow to something else. I think it's too valuable to just trash. I am in no way responsible for what comes up in Internet searches, but you can pay somebody like Google to take your new web site, page, whatever, to the top.

Glad to hear you are succeeding. I knew you would.

Then I suggested he send larger images of more recent work, so the history would continue, obviating need to stamp out the past. He's considering.

January 15, 2008

You say you liked Wayne Loucas' Black Dog, Cerillos, NM sepia print best, yet you presented it on this site the way you think it should have been done. It's not your work now is it? It's disrespectful to alter in any way someone else's work as part of your criticism. I may fully agree with you but I certainly can't make that judgment based on what is here because I'm not given the chance to see it in full. Not liking something and writing about it is one thing; changing it is altogether something else and nothing short of presumptuous.

Guy Reynolds
Photo editor
The Dallas Morning News
508 Young St.
Dallas TX 75202
214-977-7911

 

i had to alter the stupid thing because it presented problems the way I shot it. no piece of art is ever presented in its original

size, color, contrast, texture, shape or anything else.

you ever see a work of art mangled into tiny little dots at 53 lpi in some stupid newspaper. talk about disrespectful

My story was written very soon after the opening. if you really wanted to see the piece in its original

size, color, contrast, texture, shape or anything else

you could have gone to see it

; j r

Then, after careful consideration, I removed the offensive image and stuck with my criticism.

 

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