Winter 2009
David Hickman and Eliseo Garcia at Childrens Medical Center
Here are pictures from the Garden at Children's Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. David Hickman has three dragonflies, and Eliseo Garcia has carved the children's story wall in limestone at left.
David Hickman Dragonfly - images provided by the artist
Their works compliments each other and it is a lovely Garden by two Texas State Artists.
Pan American Art Projects bites the dust
Joining Gerald Peters in me-too-ing into Dragon Street Art District just as the Recession recessed, Pan American Art Projects closes at the end of this year. Like Gerald Peters, they had much nicer, more luxurious digs before they moved to Dragon, and the parking was better, although PanAm's director may fare better than GP's who banished itself back to Santa Fe.
Now I'm wondering how The Contemp will fare. The Meadows Foundtion offerred that name-changing organization space to get established many years ago with the proviso they stay less than that, so they pretty much gotta move to new digs. Dragon Street is not the nicest art neighborhood in Dallas.
Thornwood Gallery
The Thornwood may also be in that same financial boat. Unlike Gerald Peters and Pan American, however, they suck as a gallery and apparently deserve their fate, although there's plenty other galleries in the vicinity that suck worse.
Last year, the Contemp was braying
about how close they'll be to Dragon Street. I wonder if maybe they
could have found a better, less expensive place farther from the devouring
Dragon. I can only assume the inside has changed. But there's a lot
of it for an organization that's dependant upon the kindness of strangers
who might be as poor as they get.
Part of the crowd of 135 at
the PAC-WE Flash Mob Performance Rally for Health Care.
Our Community
Performance Art page has more than 30 pics of that Sunday Event.
Dallas artist Ann Huey's latest, all-original Halloween animation is Skellikin Feet on YouTube.
Dallas artist Martin Delabano singing The Bear Song on YouTube.
DARts Supporting Member Kapil Dixit was named Nepali Personality of the Month for October 2009.
The Bath House Cultural Center has lost 50% of its budget and may lose one of its staffers. There is a community effort afoot to mail out 3,000 fundraising letters and set up fund-raising events. More info when it becomes available.
It hardly seems likely that who might leave will be Enrique Enrique Fernández Cervantes, since he is now running art at The Bath House Cultural Center and the Latino Culture Center art shows, too. I figure if he can pull that off, keep both centers running, he ought to, when this economical mess is over, get a lot more money and a better job, running one of the two.
I'm fonder of the Bath House than the
LCC, but Enrique is a talented guy who is much loved in his community,
and he will be mightily appreciated whatever he does next.
Summer 2009
Initial Panic
When some cut in finances is initially announced, people tend to panic. Oh, gosh. What will we do, if that happens. Then it happens, and it almost always works out better than before, almost no matter what. When it was announced that the City Arts Program was going to be taken over by the Dallas Public Library, first I wondered what idiot savant bureaucrat thought that one up. Then I decided it was probably a good time to change who's running the CAP. I mean, how could anyone do a worse job?
Some of those people are wonderful. But whoever's in charge is not and never will be. It's always got more to do with politics than with art. Mighten it be a good enough time to have it run differently? To give money to the smaller, more independent, upstart organizations that need it just to get started instead of the big already well-endowed mega-orgs who probably should be supporting themselves by now?
In Europe they treasure art and artists. In the U.S., we the people clearly do not, and the gummint blames art for our ills. But then they gotta blame somebody else. A couple weeks after the initial panic, we learned that the Library wasn't going to run it, after all. That the City Arts Program gets to keep their bailiwick. What a surprise. Mixed emotions here.
I'm not a fan of the government paying arts organizations any more than I am of governments paying banks or oil companies or anybody else who should be supporting themselves. Although I love the idea of the government or anybody paying artists to make art. It is a job, after all. And the government needs art more than most peoples.
But I'd love to see somebody else distribute public money for the arts. If only for the sake of doing it differently and changing it around for again a little while.
— J R Compton
CADD's Downtown Experiment Fails, but CADD Lives
CADD ArtLab Drive-by 9 1 09
Just earlier the day (August 31 2009) the news came out that CADD's downtown Art Lab was closing, I'd been wondering how they could possibly keep open a gallery down there where the parking is anything but easy (even when it's free), where few go unless they work there, and then they work and go home. Downtown Dallas has been a dying place as long as I've been acquainted with it.
Many more people live there now, but any quick trip to downtown Fort Worth is a harsh reminder of what a real downtown can be like, and Dallas' just isn't.
Once thriving with used and new bookstores, newsstands, haberdashers and hubcap shops — as it was in the early 60s, the day and night life down downtown has steadily dwindled. The Contemporary Art Dealers Association, in direct competition with DADA (Dallas Art Dealers Association) bought into a large, gotta-be-expensive place downtown to show work from member galleries.
Always seemed a contradiction of a contradiction, a gallery that galleried gallery artists once removed. Now, after one year of the noble experiment, they are "regretfully" announcing "the end of the collective gallery Art Lab, effective with the closing of the current exhibition on September 3." In that year, they "received almost 7,000 visitors, opened six exhibitions, and hosted numerous education programs."
We proclaimed their beginning, attended the grand opening, partied along with the Vernissage (and part two) that summer, documented placement of one of Mark Collop's 2D deer near there and have mixed feelings about them leaving that space, essentially a gallery of galleries.
The press release continues that "CADD will continue to be a leader in the art community creating new programs focusing on other education endeavors including art tours, lectures, studio tours and collector home tours," and we look forward to those. They're not quitting, just quitting the space that had to be tying them down.
I remember when DARE (the nonprofit organization that didn't really become The MAC, although it's closer now than it ever was before) decided that we absolutely did not want to bog us down with a space, then we found a space that was way too expensive to own and operate and got thoroughly bogged down in it. It's easy to do. DARE mostly died that way. I wish CADD more luck.
CADD's was an experiment. It failed. CADD lives. —J R Compton
There is an online Memorial dedicated to former Dallas artist Wayne Amerine who died Monday August 3 2009. He was cremated, and his ashes go to Kansas, where he was born. Another former Dallas artist, TJ Mabrey, remembers Wayne's "beautiful folded, painted paper images — chosen for inclusion in the first-ever exhibit in the then brand new Dallas City Hall. "Exquisite!" and she asks, "Who — who saw them — can forget his black and white painted cows and the ladies who rode them?"
"The Ice House Cultural Center will be closing in September 2009, as we prepare for our transition to the Oak Cliff Cultural Center in 2010. For over a decade, the Ice House has provided Oak Cliff and the surrounding communities with diverse art and cultural experiences. We are grateful to the patrons and artists that have supported the center over the years and we hope that you share our excitement as we look towards a new era of artistic and cultural opportunities at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center.
The Oak Cliff Cultural will be located at 223 E. Jefferson Blvd., next door to the Texas Theater. The center will include an art gallery, a multi-purpose studio and some classroom space. Stay tuned for updates on the opening of the new center."
R Boland Running Spiral in
the Old Casket Factory
June 21 2003 J R Compton photo
Former Dallas artist Robert Boland (whose superb Running Spiral performance was one of the most impressive pieces of Performance Art in Dallas Art History) who now makes video and sculpture in Austin, Texas has accepted the prestigious Fullbright grant to research pilgrimage rituals and engage with the contemporary art community in Kyoto, Japan for a year.
"To renew the rich landscape of authentic, independent art that has been the life blood of Deep Ellum for years, this year’s mural projects will follow in the footsteps of previous mural art projects in this beloved historic neighborhood. Phase I of the 2009 Mural Project will be the Good Latimer Corridor Murals. This phase will introduce murals along the Good Latimer/DART rail line in the very area that the Good Latimer Tunnel Murals have been buried. Dart line passengers will exit the Deep Ellum rails and be welcomed with murals from the following Phase I artists: Luke Harnden, Cathey Miller, Sergio Garcia, Mark Nelson, Brian Crawford, Amber Campagna, Issac Brown, Issac Davies, Tyson Summers, Judith Lea Perkins and Frank Campagna." from Kettle Art — Murals will begin along the corridor in July and August 2009.
Friend and longtime DARts Member James Michael Starr told me that "Two art & culture blogs started up just in the past couple months. KERA's Art&Seek was first, then more recently Renegade Bus. KERA has been less confrontational than the Bus (confrontational is good), but to different degrees they've each honestly addressed issues about the art scene here. Recent conversations have centered around Road Agent owner Christina Rees's article about Dallas art and collectors in State of the Union, Part 1, on Glasstire and D Magazine's Art Slam."
Lucia Simek's Crash Bam Slam in Renegade Bus discusses the f.i.g. and D Magazine's D Art Slam, but so does this site's Editor J R Compton's illustrated take on that lowly, turd-encrusted event in Art Here Lately, and all of this is again mentioned in the latest ThEdblog.
member DARts Supporting Member Heather Gorham is featured in an online feature story on Art & Seek, where there's also a five-minute video of her and her work from KRLU in Austin.
new Real FX Creative STudios and Brad Oldham's design for DART's new Deep Elm Rail Station. but with a URL like that I was expecting the gateway art that replaces the now buried Good Latimer Underpass. Everything's a commercial.
The Kimbell Art Museum has acquired Michaelangelo's earliest known painting, The Torment of Saint Anthony (1487-99). The full story is in the Dallas Morning News website.
North Lake College art teachers Marty Ray and fellow teacher Chris Fulmer are designing two stations along Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) stations on the Orange Line from downtown Dallas to Irving and North Lake College in late 2012.
Click Member's links to see their work.
Eliseo at work
Haley-Henman artist Eliseo has been named Texas State 3D Visual Artist for 2009
member Sonia King's Nebula Chroma, her newest wall at Children's Medical Center of Dallas, won an international Spectrum Award for Design and Detail. The brightly colored mosaic wall in the main lobby continues her long relationship with Children's. (Her first four mosaic walls at Children's Medical Center also won a Spectrum Award in 2006.) The Spectrum Awards recognize creativity and excellence in the use of tile and are sponsored by the Tile Council of America, the Association of Ceramic Tile Manufacturers of Spain, Assopiastrelle (the Italian tile association), the National Tile Contractors Association and the Ceramic Tile Dealers Association.
Former Dallas painter Dave Lambert's tribute to the late Dallas artist George deMerle is online at www.indigodave.com/demerle.html
The Creative Arts Center's Spring Schedule is online
The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture's Spring 2009 Catalog of Course and Events is available via www.dallasinstitute.org
Centraltrak introduces 14+1: 14 Minutes of Fame and 1 to Keep, their criticism site accessible through this link. Cursor over the hot pink panel in the center of the menu and click. Link dedicated to critical thinking on the arts and politics. Centraltrak has decided to go green and publish their exhibition essays online at 14+1 in lieu of printing paper brochures to accompany their exhibitions.
KERA has limited video of some programs, including Art:21, available online
See Richard's Member page for examples of his work.
member A video of Rita Barnard's Tribute to the Fallen that was exhibited at the Bath House Cultural Center and at UTD, and will be at North Lake College through October 15, that was produced by Enrique Fernandez Cervantes is on YouTube.
DallasArtsRevue Supporting Members Nancy Ferro and Bob Nunn have paintings in the first edition of Studio Visits magazine, now available.
Click links to DallasArtsRevue Supporting Members like Rita Barnard, Nancy Ferro and Bob Nunn to see their work on their Member Pages.
Helping celebrate EASL's 15th Anniversary, the 2007 EASL Coloring Book has work by 64 area artists ready for coloring, available at Craighead Green, Conduit, David Dike's Dallas gallery and maybe 500X for $10 each.
Sometimes, if EASL's official website is down, they may refer people to the EASL page on DallasArtsRevue at www.DallasArtsRevue.com/EASL.shtml. They never tell me when that happens. Oh, and if you call EASL, don't get excited about them contacting you back quickly. It can take months, but it can be worth it. I know. I wrote about them saving my bacon on their site.
2009 Moss/Chumley Award
The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University has announced that David W. McCullough is the recipient of the 2008 Moss/Chumley Artist Award. The award is given annually to an outstanding North Texas artist who has exhibited professionally for at least 10 years and who has a proven track record as an active community advocate for the visual arts.
David McCullough was selected for his body of work in painting and mixed media, some of which creatively incorporated ceramics and photography. McCullough received his MFA from the University of Dallas in 2007 and is presently working towards his doctorate. He has exhibited extensively in Texas and in other areas of the Southwest and is represented in numerous museums, including the Indianapolis Museum of Fine Art and the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha. He has been actively working and participating in the Dallas arts community for over 30 years, and his role as an advocate for artists in the area includes public lectures at all local universities, the personal mentorship of local artists of varied media and participation in exhibition of other artists' works at the Dallas Visual Art Center, the Dallas Contemporary and Contemporary Art Center.
The jury included Elizabeth Hunt-Blanc, Deputy Director of the Meadows Museum; Amanda Dotseth, Assistant Curator of the Meadows Museum; and Cheryl Vogel of Valley House Gallery in Dallas.
Frank Moss and Jim Chumley were Dallas art dealers who made outstanding contributions to the visual arts in North Texas during the 1980s. The pair operated the Nimbus Gallery on Routh Street from 1980 to 1987 and the Moss/Chumley Gallery at the Crescent from 1986 to 1989, where they showcased numerous new artists. The Moss/Chumley Memorial Fund was begun in 1989 by Frank Moss and the Meadows Museum as a tribute to Jim Chumley; Moss's name was added to the memorial fund upon his death in 1991. Established in 1995, the Moss/Chumley Award is given in their memory. The award is open to artists working in any medium who reside in one of the 11 North Texas counties: Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Parker, Rockwall, Tarrant, and Wise. Past recipients have included Catherine Chauvin, Kaleta Doolin, David Dreyer, Susan Kae Grant, David Hickman, Tracy Hicks, Bob Nunn, Sherry Owens, Ludwig Schwarz, Noah Simblist, Janet Tyson, Marie Van Arsdale, Mary Vernon and Marilyn Waligore.
For additional information or to obtain an entry form, please visit the Museum's Web site at www.meadowsmuseumdallas.org.
The Texas Biennial Again
The Texas Biennial has announced their "Solo Artists," a term that baffled me throughout their abstruse online, digital application process (a term never explained that I could find). Apparently, they've selected "more focused, solo shows awarded to individuals representing North, South, East and West Texas. Their curator "took a concentrated examination of the art making in Texas and culled (?) a list of 35 artists to seriously consider for the solo exhibitions." picking "artists who, in one way or another, embody the creative ingenuity that makes our state so exceptional."
Included are North - Lee Baxter Davis, Greenville; South - Jayne Lawrence, San Antonio; East - Kelli Vance, Houston and West - William Cannings, Lubbock.
This is to weird to synopsize: "The Texas Biennial
is delighted to introduce these new artists and their specific modes
of working with the Texas community. In response to the number of studio
visits conducted with artists in all stages of their career, the Texas
Biennial sought fit to pay homage to one great, pioneering artist who
has made significant contributions to Texas art. Michael Duncan has
chosen Kelly Fearing for this 2009 honor. During our grand opening in
March, the Biennial will introduce and re-familiarize some with this
artist’s life, work and process in juxtaposition with the 72 other
selected Biennial artists." Wonder who he is.
The
Texas Biennial opens 2-4 March 6 at
the Mexican American Cultural Center at 600 River Street in Austin,
Texas. The only way I know that is because I entered their competition,
hoping they would finally communicate with me about openings and other
associated TX BI events. I didn't get in, but I'm sure somebody from
around here did, and I know that I cannot depend on the TX BI people
to tell me. I've written extensively about the TX BI exhibitions,
interviewed the event's founders, publicized every morsel I've found,
pleaded with them to send me regular PR, all to naught. So this is
a giant step forward, despite me not getting accepted, which was an
awe-fully long shot anyway, through April 11
After the first exciting, Austin-area centric, community-based TX BI, they dumped all their community-involved curators (and most of their worker bees) and skyrocketed to have only veddy professionals judging. Big disappointment for this writer. I loved the dynamics of true community involvement. Thought they should have stayed funky, free and unique. Keep Austin Weird, indeed.
They never have, unfortunately, got anywhere near professional quality publicity, which task continues to escape them. What I see of their PR is indifferent. They called recently asking if I thought they should do a press conference here and maybe Houston to announce the local winners. I doubted any local press would attend such an event. I doubted even I would. Seemed like a big waste of time and money, which has to be in short supply. I suggested next time they instead do a press party to announce the event, maybe scare up more local entrees.
9 artists were accepted from Dallas, and 1 each from Arlington, Denton and Fort Worth (!), 6 from San Antonio, 8 from Houston and 27 from Austin proves they're still getting the word out in their own bailiwick, and failing miserably everywhere else.
There are not three times as many good artists in Austin as in Dallas or Houston. Houston, for those who may not know, is Texas' largest and most art-intense city (and also happens to be the fourth largest city in the United States). Dallas is second in Texas. Austin may be fifth.
Who got accepted into this elite exhibition is less surprising than who did not. Hard to know who did not enter, of course, or who got in last time but didn't think the process professional enough to subject oneself to the ordeal again. That I recognize names for all but two artists from this area is disquieting. If this exhibition were successful at attracting artists beyond Austin, there should be many more unknown DFW-area artists revealed thereby.
A Google Instant [this] Site Search for any but one of the bold black names below, reveals many mentions — some quite laudatory and with extensive images — on these pages. Only two of the DFW-area artists have not been exhibited on DallasArtsRevue.
Linked names below are not DARts Members but they link to DallasArtsRevue pages. Some of these names are linked to pages of links.
Christie Blizard (Lubbock), Justin Boyd (San Antonio), Leigh Brodie austin Susan Budge (San Antonio), Marc Burckhardt (Austin), Jeanne Cassanova (Houston), Susan Cheal (Denton), Catherine Colangelo (Houston), Beau Comeaux (Houston), Andy Coolquitt (Austin), Paula Cox (San Antonio), Adrienne Cullins (Austin), Celia Eberle (Dallas), Heyd Fontenot (Austin), Angela Fox (San Antonio), Kana Harada (Dallas), Jeannette Hernandez (San Antonio), Juan J. Hernandez (Dallas), Simeen Ishaque (Dallas), Jules Buck Jones (Austin), Kathyrn Kelley (Houston), Natalie Kleinecke (San Marcos), Helen Kwiatkowski (Belton), Ryan Lauderdale (Austin), Jane Lawrence (San Antonio), Paula Leighton (Austin), Anne Longo (Lubbock), Ivan Lozano (Austin), Christa Mares (Austin), Mona Marshall (Austin), Tom Matthews (Edinburg), Carolyn McAdams (Valley View), Mary Morse (Austin), John Mulvany (Austin), Olga Nicalaevna Porter (Houston), Katy O’Connor (Austin), Dawn Okoro (Houston), Kim Cadmus Owens (Dallas), Harmony Padgett (Arlington), Jamie Panzer (Austin), Justin Parr (San Antonio), Katie Pell (San Antonio), Gladys Poorte (Austin), Anila Quayyum Agha (Houston), William Rosshirt (Austin), Winter Rusiloski (Ft. Worth), Cody Scrogum (Austin), Charlotte Smith (Dallas), Morgan Sorne (Austin), Keith Allyn Spencer (El Paso), John Spriggins (Dallas), Mary Stengel (Austin), Raychael Stine (Dallas), Barry Stone (Austin), John Swanger (Austin), James Talbot (Austin), Terri Thomas (Austin), Raymond Uhlir (Austin), Paul Valadez (Edinburg), Kelli Vance (Houston), Marilyn Waligore (Dallas), Jade Walker (Austin) and Vivian Wolfe (Austin)
Just entering was a tech-heavy booger taking hours of my time and energy as I tried to figure out what the hell they were trying to say with the words they used. How'm I supposed to know if I'm entering a group show or a solo show? Do I even get to decide?. I hope it'll be easier as they ease into online entering technology, and that they figure out terminology that means something to those who enter as well as those who booger up the entering process. My congratulations to anyone who entered and actualy got in.
If their notification that I did not get in is any indication, they ran a full 6 weeks behind schedule notifying artists of their status.
I also hope that some day they will finally put me on the P R list, but I won't hold my breath.
Check out our other major stories about this event:
The 2005 Texas Biennial — Index of 7 pages of coverage of the first TX BI
Putting the Bi in the Texas Biennial — The Second Texas Biennial
Andy Hanson photographing
me photographing him. We shared a
darkroom at the Dallas Times Herald in the early 70s when we
were
staff photogs there. Photo & caption from Salon
du FIT in 2004.
Longtime Dallas photographer, chronicler of arts and social events and collector Andy Hanson died last week. Andy and I shared a darkroom at the Dallas Times Herald what seems like several lifetimes ago, and he has photographed me, and I him, many times over the years. Several of the online links about him include: http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2008/10/22/andy-hanson-rip/. There's a great photo of him and one of his photographs on the Dallas Morning News Shopping Blog; the same picture appears on a personal account in UnFair Park. I'll miss seeing him at openings and social events.
Thanks to photographer Sheila Cunningham for the links.
CADD (Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas) Artlab, a 4,000 square foot gallery next to Neiman Marcus downtown and the new Joule Hotel opens 11-8 Saturday September 20, noon - Curator's Walk-through with CADD Director Anne Lawerence; 2 pm - Artist's Talk by RustyScruby of PanAmerican ArtProjects; and another curator's walk-through at 4 and an art show by Ted Kincaid, Kristin aLucas, Kenda North, Ludwig Schwarz, Allison V Smith "and many more."
Texas
Sculpture Association's 25th Anniversary Celebration Symposium opens
with gallery receptions at Gerald Peters and Craighead-Green Friday
September 19, continues with a Symposium at the Nasher Sculpture
Center Saturday September 20 and concludes
with tours and a picnic at the Texas Sculpture Garden in Frisco Sunday
September 21, 2008
The symposium at the Nasher Saturday, September 20 will feature Texas sculptor James Surls and speaker Dr. Edmund P. (Ted) Pillsbury. A panel discussion, "Collecting, Public Art and Sculpture Trends" moderated by Gail Sachson. Panelists will be Thom Andriola, Ashley Tatum Casson, Margaret Robinette, and Kevin Vogel. A reception hosted following the symposium at Bryan Tower Lobby Gallery, with Winning Works curated by curator Gail Sachson. TSA events continue Sunday, September 21, at Hall Office Park in Frisco with a sculpture tour and barbecue luncheon. A juried TSA exhibit, “Art: Off the Wall,” will be at Haley-Henman. Registration is $150 per person and includes the all events. Visit www.txsculpture.com for registration information, or contact Nan@nan-art.com.
See our stories about the Texas Sculpture Garden in 2007 and 2001.
members all
the names Art
in the Metroplex, juried by Art in America conributing
editor Eleanor Heartney with artists Paul Abbott, Samuel Beck, Lou
Chapman, J R Compton,
Matthew Cusick, Mark Doerfler, Ann Ekstrom, Steve Fisch, Jon Flaming,
Jacque Forsher, Paul Harris, Sharon Jacobus, Lola Kantor, Norman
Kary, Richard Lane, Susan
Lecky, Patrick Lewis, Frank Lopez, Sara Lovas, Roma Misra, John
C.Moore, Jan Partin, Nathan Porterfield, Don Radke, Teresa Rafidi,
Eddy Rawlinson, Jason Reynaga, Matt Sacks, Joel Sampson, Diane Sikes,
Libby Slone, Jerry Smith, James
Michael Starr and Sarah Tune at TCU's J.M. Moudy Building opening
Friday, September 19, Lecture by juror 7:00 p.m., Awards 8:00 p.m." One
source says there are 11 artists in the show. Another says 11 Fort
Worth artists, 13 from Dallas and some from other places to a total
of 37 artists. through October 1
9 from Dallas. 9 from Fort Worth. 3 from Richardson. 2 from Plano. One each from Weatherford, Lewisville, Southlake and Denton
Thanks to Karen Weinman for sending me a list of names and cities.
Heretofore, the AIM folk never publicized artists' names, though I've been after them to send a list of artists for more than a decade, they just won't. So if you ever get in this nice, little DFW-area competitive exhibition — the only one of its kind, really, don't expect those bozos to promote your name, although the grand prize winner gets their art's picture and name on the prospectus the next year. I've got in this show seven times now, and the publicity for doing so is dismal.
spring/summer 08
"Art&Seek is
a service from KERA for North Texas and beyond that includes radio news
reports, television programs and a website at artandseek.org. The Web
site launches Wednesday, May 28, 2008. The first featured Art&Seek
television program is Recapturing Cuba: An Artist’s Journey, a
co-production of KERA-TV, which airs May 28, 2008 at 8:30 p.m. In June,
Art&Seek presents A Conversation with Bill Lively, hosted by Lee
Cullum. At artandseek.org you’ll
find feature stories written by KERA’s Arts Reporter Jerome Weeks
and contributors and related stories and headlines from National Public
Radio. Join the discussion on the Art&Seek blog, check out insights
from our guest bloggers – arts professionals from around North
Texas – and tell us what you think."
I caught a longish, thoughtful, gentle art review by Jerome Weeks on KERA-FM Friday. First art review I've heard there in a long time, although Joan Davidow's fiancé said she still did those for that station sometimes.
EASL's Art Heist 2008 at ArtSpace 111 in Fort Worth August 23
See our exclusive coverage of the 2006 Dallas Art Heist
Dallas artist photographer Tom
Jenkins, 54, died from a heart attack Sunday night. frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/07/07/tom-jenkins-rip/ www.tomjenkins.net/.
The memorial service was at The MAC on July
14.
This artist deduction bill (S.548) would give artists the right to deduct the fair market value of their work when donating it to a charity.
We artists are always asked to donate work to charitable causes for fundraising purposes but when our work is auctioned, the buyer gets the benefit of being allowed to deduct their contribution above the market value, whereas the contributing artists and artisans can only deduct the amount of the material costs of creating their work (the cost of paint, canvas, clay, paper...)
This bill is non-partisan and fair. Please click on this link and simply by typing in your zipcode, a letter of support will be sent to your senators and congresspersons.
http://capwiz.com/artsusa/issues/alert/?alertid=9521951 — submitted by Julia Echols
http://capwiz.com:80/artsusa/issues/alert/?alertid=9521951 — Two
minutes is all it takes to tell congress you support the arts and
art education.
The
latest update on this bill.
Norwood Flynn presents Artful Wednesdays, open "late" till 7 pm for Wednesdays in March for wine, cheese and, one supposes, art
member Modern Dallas Luxury Magazine has a story about DARts Member Norman Kary in the current edition available free at local galleries.
Afterimage Gallery owner/director Ben Breard has notified us of a 3-minute, video of the late Fort Worth photographer Peter Feresten's work, and narrated by him, on YouTube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV6uGSiwL3c&mode=related&search by StarryDynamoFilms
KERA (FM, TV) "is launching a multimedia, community-based arts initiative in late May that will bring unprecedented attention to the arts in North Texas.
Unified under the name Art&Seek, the project includes the upcoming launch of a new Web site developed as a gathering place for the arts. The site will include an automated calendar where organizations can post their own events as well as original Web content provided by KERA staff and community partners. In addition, the site will be home to the Arts+Culture blog where artists, curators, performers and other arts professionals contribute to discussions about what’s happening in the arts in North Texas. In addition, KERA will provide expanded coverage of the arts on its public radio and television stations through interviews, reviews and special programs."
See for yourself at www.kera.org/blogs/culture/?p=452#more-452 about Houston's Rowhouses that DallasArtsRevue published three years ago. See DARts contributor, Dallas artist Tracy Hicks' 13 Stories logging his participation — especially very short stories Spine and Tadpoles at the Rowhouses.
ArtCast is interviews with artists and art-related folk
"The Arts need a strong voice in this years elections. There may be artists on your mailing list that are unaware of what we can do to increase funding for the arts - if we lobby our candidate of choice - now. And then support the Arts Action Fund. More about Americans for the Arts." — submitted by TJ Mabrey
Latino Culture Center Media & Development Coordinator Gabriela Bucio leaves February 8 to work in Mareting in Atlanta, Georgia.
Art Conspiracy donated $14,500 to St. Anthony's Community Center in Dallas. See our story of Artists Arting at ArtCon3 for this annual acution to benefit a nonprofit community art organization.
Former McKinney Avenue Contemporary Director Elizabeth
Hunt is the new Deputy Director of The Meadows Museum at SMU.
It's a scam. It's a scam. It's always a scam! If you get emails from South America or Nigeria or Irving, Texas promising to send you a "certified cashier cheque" (or other wording) for your art or your boat or your Sousaphone, pay attention. It is very possibly — if not likely — they are attempting to scam you.
The classic format involves them sending you a check for more than you agreed to charge. You are expected to go to a bank, cash the (probably bogus) check and send the difference back to the thieves who are preying on your desire to sell art.
That said, many people see something on the internet and assume it is for sale, even if no price is mentioned. They flail about attempting to buy it or multiples of it. There are legitimate buyers of art out there, and they may contact you, and you may do business with them. But pay attention. Google the phrasing they use, and you'll find pages warning about scams. I googed "certified cashier cheque" and found More internet scams, Wedding Photographer, Musical Instrument Sales and Fraud Attempts on your Classified Advertisements.
Warning: If it involves you cashing checks, then sending the difference between what you earned and what they sent you, it's a scam. Beware! You will be prosecuted. The Nigerians are out of reach of the short arm of the law.
Norwood Flynn presents Artful Wednesdays, open "late" till 7 pm for Wednesdays in March for wine, cheese and, one supposes, art
I caught a longish, thoughtful, gentle art review by Jerome Weeks on KERA-FM Friday. First art review I've heard there in a long time, although Joan Davidow's fiancé said she still did those for that station sometimes.
new EASL's Art Heist 2008 at ArtSpace 111 in Fort Worth August 23
See our exclusive coverage of the 2006 Dallas Art Heist
winter 07-08
Dallas sculptor John Snygg (stories in Small Sculpture in Texas and J R's Collection on this site) died from cancer February 28. The funeral was Monday March 3, and the obituary should appear in the Saturday March 1 Dallas Morning News. There is talk of a memorial exhibition of John's kinetic sculptures at a future date.
PDNB exhibiting artists Peter Brown and Kent Haruf were featured in an interview on KERA's Think program last week, discussing their book, West of Last Chance. You can view their interview with Kris Boyd on KERA's podcast website. Another PDNB-er, David Graham's exhibition in Pittsburgh was featured in the February 28 Dallas Morning News and is available online.
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500X' recent P R person has moved away, leaving behind shambles in several long-term press relationships — for a change, I wasn't the only one she feuded with. Sure hope their next press personage does a better job. When a gallery takes an arts writer off their press list for daring to express opinions, it's obvious professionalism is not a goal.
DARts Member Warren Harris will teach photography classes in January and February at Cedar Hils Visual Expressions' new classrooms. The classes are every Wednesday for six weeks, beginning January 9 and February 20. Schedule here.
Beware of large-print inkjet printing companies in general. Many have lousy reputations. Nobody wants to say anything specific but several sources have mentioned Dragon Street's ArtiZen in this regard — making extra copies without telling the artist, not paying artists for work sold, damaging original artwork, etc. No single artist wishes to complain, but there's a general malaise. -JRC
Margaret Robinette has retired from the City Arts Program, and though The City may not have noticed, the Dallas art community will. Margaret was the kindness and human face there who knew what was going on and gave time to explain to those of us who were curious or confused. A gentle woman who was in it for the community. She will be missed.
The Kettle celebrated its second birthday with a UTube Myuvie.
Heard that George deMerle died. They don't make artists like that anymore — self taught & theory-free: his later sculptures, of fluorescent-painted gossamer, were deliberately ephemeral, impossible to reproduce, and of an unearthly beauty. From graywyvern:
George De Merle invented his own medium, vinyl webbing blown across wire armatures and spraypainted in fluorescent tones; and has brought it to such perfection that the pieces he makes nowadays, one or two a year, seem eerie lifeforms from an alien continuum. Yet their passionate human origin gradually unfolds as you ponder, in the illumined darkness, this indescribable complexity and unfathomable beauty that is, after all, part of the world we live in. (Since the technique is both fragile and impossible to photograph, visiting de Merle's latest in his Irving studio is less like museum-going, than being privileged to witness a rare natural phenomenon, an aurora or double circular rainbow. by Michael Helse
summer 07
Mulcahy Modern, which used to be on 8th Street
in Oak Cliff, is closed for the summer while they relocate to a new
space to open in the fall.
Texas State Artists of the Year
member James Michael Starr blogs on Hotels By City, a revenue-generating travel web site, where he writes short short stories each week about art-related events in the Dallas area.
The Dallas Morniing News no longer has an art critic or a regular art column. Neither does The Observer.
rumor "The Arlington Museum is closing or restructuring. Apparently they were having funding issues and could not overcome them. Not sure what's going to happen from this point," a friend told us recently, after talking with a very reliable source.
Informative online vid about Tunnel Vision with nice visuals of the wildly diverse art that once graced the walls of the Good-Lattimer Tunnel and what that place looks like now.
No M Street / Lakewood Art Tour this year this year, maybe one in April 2008, says organizer Silia Thornton.
member Long-time (the longest) DallasArtsRevue contributor Michael Helsem (his member page and his reviews) has a new book, Almucantar: Folksongs, lays, and chanteys of World War 4, a selection from his ghazal-blog Diwan: A Wind. It is available from www.lulu.com/content/715006.
before that
Angstrom Gallery on Parry is not dead, their current show, of and pertaining to the Minnesotal Muliphasic Personality Inventory 2TM tests we all took in high school to determine our personality is there (although it sounds like a traveling show and some who've seen it said it wasn't as good as their usual fare -JRC) through October 23. They are promising more shows.
questionable Studio 2600 is seeking art to go on their walls, but at least one Dallas-area artist smells something funny. See our feedback page for more information.
"art zombie is
moving to los angeles..next week (insert record screech here) — yes
an unanticipated move and the web site has yet to be updated, but hopefully
friday night.. I plan to break the news — I was so ready to rock
this gap in dallas.. but now beverly hills.. — awaits. — hopefully
if logistics are kind in the future, dallas won't be forgotten by me
anyway.
carrie
aka
art zombie"
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