Texas Twofer: Sargent and Sorolla
There are a few oil paintings in John Singer Sargent: The Watercolors, which opens Sunday at the Museum...
Dallas/Ft Worth
Are We World Class Yet?
If a few more logistical details come together, I may be in New York next week in time...
Too Much is ‘Never Enough’
One of the Dallas Museum of Art’s strongest collecting areas is art made after World War II, but because the DMA lacks permanent gallery space for those holdings, shows like Never Enough: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art represent a relatively rare chance to dive into them.
Drama in Dallas
Dallas struggles with its identity. If the three big cities of Texas were familial stereotypes, Dallas would be the middle child, stuck between its classy older sibling, Houston, and the cool, do-no-wrong youngest sibling, Austin.
Bigger Than Tut
Meadows Museum Revisits Sorolla’s Fleeting American Fame
Focus: Fred Tomaselli
The art of Fred Tomaselli is refreshing in its clean, clear, unreconstructed negotiation of technology.
Acting in Texas: Justin Locklear
Justin Locklear is currently appearing in Mike Bartlett's COCK at Second Thought Theatre in Dallas through Feb. 22. A graduate of Baylor University with a BFA in Theater Performance, Locklear's recent regional credits include Dreams of Slaughtered Sheep and Best Seat In Town with the Ochre House Theater, and T.N.B. With the Dead White Zombies.
New Opera for a New Millennium
Imagine: it’s an evening in Spring, and stars dot the city sky.
In Touch with the “Cave-Wall Mindset”
Dallas-based artist David Bates is the subject of a two-venue retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth and the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas.
Museum in Transition
One of my most powerful art memories of 2013 is visiting the traveling exhibition 30 Americans, which presented important works by contemporary African American artists, on July 4, a free day at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Adela Andea – Zero Degrees Celsius
In her current body of work, Conroe-based artist Adela Andea uses lenticulars.
Hopper Drawing & Robert Smithson in Texas
A little Edward Hopper goes a long way with me, though I can’t picture American art without him.