I'd like to think modernity is transcendent of tribalism. I'd like to think the modern era arose from a clash of cultures, a dynamic explosion of diverse ideas that came together principally in America's big cities. I'd like to think modernity represents a clean break from the past. What I'd like to think clashed with … Continue reading A Clash With The Cult of Modernity
Not everyone knows what to expect when they are invited to the Dallas Art Fair. One guest was expecting something more like the Fort Worth Arts Festival. Another went to the Deep Ellum Arts Festival by mistake but realized their error only when they couldn't find the correct booth number (the heavy metal music should have also … Continue reading Dallas Art Fair, 2017 Edition
Two exhibitions have brought Japanese art to the city of Dallas. It is a welcome change from shows like the staid flower paintings of Bouquets at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA). These two exhibitions, one at DMA (Between Action and the Unknown: The Art of Kazuo Shiraga and Sadamasa Motonaga) joined The Mary Baskett Collection of Japanese … Continue reading East Meets Texas, Part 1–Mary Baskett Collection of Japanese Fashion at the Crow Collection of Asian Art
![By Lauren Meyers (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Hotel Texas: An Art Exhibition for the President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy](https://artique503.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/4497b-texas_state_hotel.jpg?w=500&h=300&crop=1)
Senior Curator of European and American Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, Oliver Meslay told a crowd of docents assembled at the museum Monday that it wasn't the easiest exhibit to put together, nor the most obvious. Rather the need for Hotel Texas: An Art Exhibition for the President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy … Continue reading Oil and Canvas, Art for Jack and Jackie
The Dallas Morning News is reporting that the city's museum of art is interested in purchasing a work by da Vinci. Dubbed "Spooky Jesus" by ArtInfo.com, the painting is currently in possession of the Dallas Museum of Art, but not on public view. Properly referenced as Christ as Salvator Mundi, it was re-attributed to the artist last July and … Continue reading Museum Could Pay $200 Million for “Spooky Jesus” by da Vinci
The current exhibition George Grosz’s Flower of the Prairie at the Dallas Museum of Art centers at four oil paintings and seventeen watercolors by the artist, commissioned by Leon Harris Jr. in 1952, to celebrate department store A. Harris & Company’s 65th anniversary. These works, nonetheless, were not what Grosz was famous for. Grosz, who fled … Continue reading George Grosz’s Dallas in 50’s
The threat of tornadoes and hail in North Central Texas kept us from a trip to Lincoln, Nebraska to see the collection of paintings by Ralph Blakelock. While the storms proved damaging in Oklahoma and Iowa, they stayed away from Texas and allowed for two trips over the weekend to the Dallas Art Fair. Held … Continue reading Into the Dallas Art Fair
Americana Week has begun. Yesterday perhaps the first event of the week was a gallery talk at Keno Auctions ”American Still Life Painting in the 19th Century,” with Dr. William H. Gerdts. There’s a good deal of excitement and enthusiasm around Americana Week this year. The American Wing Galleries are re-opening at the Met and … Continue reading Into Americana Week
Jean Paul Gaultier’s fashion world is rebellious, revolutional, and to some extent, revolting. These flashy, funky, decadent garments, by eliciting comments from viewers, annotate and challenge our societal views of self-expression through fashion - whether it is about injecting feminism into masculinity for boy toys with kilts, skirts or bra cups, or fetish leather suit with suggestive bondage and sex staging, or print patches of religious iconography/the Eiffel Tower or tattoo-like; loom large his personal statements. And his idiosyncrasy overwhelms both visual elements and sartorial achievements such as textural layers of plain or graphic or seamless assembly of different material as if they were organically grown together.
This Saturday the Dallas Museum of Art offered a lecture on dining rooms. When I mentioned this to a friend the response was "could you tell us what is wrong with ours." Well, I don't know if I could have taken away just that, but it was informative none-the less. The title of the lecture … Continue reading The Craftsman Dining Room in Context
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