Summer Screens
French Toons The French animator Jean-François Laguionie stocks his latest animated film with characters who know they’re living inside a painting, in Le Tableau (The Painting). In this wryly inventive parable, a kingdom within a painting is divided into three castes: the impeccably colored Alldunns, the incomplete Halfies, and the barely [...]
In Motion
Bree Hafen is young, case energetic, creative, and ready to show the dance world who she is as...
Books for a Summer Day
Architecture of Seduction As the 1960s became The Sixties, architect Horace Gifford executed a remarkable series of beach houses that transformed the terrain and culture of New York’s Fire Island. Growing up on the beaches of Florida, Gifford forged a deep connection with [...]
Engineered to Please
New media. It is the hottest trend in the art world. But what happens when that new media, which in this case includes flashing LED lights and music generated by uniquely written computer code, also includes Wal-mart issue pots and pans and Tupperware? In the case of Joel Sampson’s [...]
Another World
The work of husband-and-wife team, price Jimmy and Dena Katz, is colorful – in every sense of the...
Happy Daze
We’re reaching an exciting time in contemporary art for many reasons, not the least of which is a...
New Texas Talent 2013: Jane Radstrom
Jane Radstrom is an Austin figurative artist in the best of the classical tradition, but with a unique...
New Texas Talent 2013: Chad Michael
Chad Michael is an emerging metroplex artist whose painting Release the Balloons! III will be included in the...
Cuellar for (Arts District) Mayor
Catherine Cuellar is a familiar name to many in Dallas. Cuellar began her career as a freelance pop...
State of Summer Arts
Size Matters Lifelike invites a close examination of artworks based on commonplace objects and situations, which are startlingly realistic, but often made of unusual materials in unexpected sizes. Organized by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, this international, multigenerational group exhibition features 75 works from the [...]
Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop
In photography circles, the decades-long debate continues between darkroom and digital. Purists argue that the richness, warmth and depth of a print brought to life through the marriage of negatives, positives, paper and chemicals still cannot be achieved by even the most drool-worthy of high-tech, archival-quality inkjet [...]