The Amon Carter American Art Museum in Fort Worth has a sculpture on display by Alexander Phimister Proctor. The sculpture there is not controversial like one by the artist removed last year from Lee Park in Dallas. The small sculpture of a big cat (Panther) in the gallery doesn't bring about the same emotions as … Continue reading Do You Know Art When You See It?
It looks like HUD Secretary Ben Carson's staff ordered an expensive reproduction of a reproduction sideboard. He's taking some heat from the purchase. A CNN reporter noted the old dining room furniture couldn't be salvaged. It was very old, from the 1960s! I thought this might be a great time to point out how many … Continue reading Antique Sideboard Options for Ben Carson
There was a time when you couldn't leave the house on a Sunday without tripping over an antique show or two. They were held on rooftops, in barns, in private homes, church basements, hotels, and convention centers. Collecting antiques was really big in America and Dallas was no exception. Walk through the Dallas Museum of … Continue reading Are Antique Shows in Dallas A Thing of the Past?
Philadelphia-made arts and fine crafts will be on display in a special loan exhibit at the Philadelphia Antiques Show this April. “Philadelphia Collects Philadelphia” will feature the work of Philadelphia furniture makers and fine and decorative artists, as well as porcelain and silver items from the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s collection. The special exhibit promises … Continue reading Philadelphia Collects at the Philadelphia Antiques Show
Colorful, life-sized and vibrant are words that may describe the artwork of Ann Wood. They may not, however, describe what you expect from a gallery show called Deathbeds on view at Kirk Hopper Gallery in Dallas. Most of the works on view, as was explained at the gallery, were created after the death of the … Continue reading Knowing Life: The Works of Ann Wood at Kirk Hopper
Classical music is a hard genre to enter if you don't know much about it. Rock, pop, country and even jazz organized by performers. Classical music is most often organized by composer. As a novice, I tend to look for music by performers and secondarily composers, orchestras or conductors. Still, I had no idea who … Continue reading When Virgil Fox Met the Wanamaker Organ
Seeing paintings in a gallery is often a treat. Yet there is nothing like a visit to an artist studio to get the feel for an artist's work. Source material and inspiration combines with additional explanation of the process. Sarah Williams illuminated nocturnal scenes of the beautiful and seemingly mundane are undoubtedly painstaking to produce. … Continue reading Studio Visit: Sarah Williams
Bastrop is one of those towns with a sizeable artist community. Among them are Vicky Balcou and Tina Woodruff, who we met up with at R.A. Green Mercantile in Bastrop for their show titled “Old Friends, New Directions." We had known Vicky from the Texas Art Expo shows in Fort Worth where many of her paintings … Continue reading Vicky C Balcou and Tina Woodruff
But Jimenez spare no mercy on how the public should see him and his legacy, with the ultimatum of death. He had been no strangers to controversies – Determined to move his art out to the public, he worked on fiberglass monuments for many commissioned public installation by mixing high art with popular, and sometimes low, art. But here , unlike his provocative, rapturous public work, he presented him as an aging man, frail and vulnerable, staring outward. The double imagery that blends the living with the dead is striking, because it is visually uneasy. It is uneasy, because it is true, like his other public work that has been criticized as vulgar, violent or politically incorrect.
Sue Severson’s posthumous exhibition at Gallery 321 isn’t something you would expect in Hollidaysburg, a quintessential Pennsylvania place famous for its Victorian architecture and small town charm. Through her work, Severson brings the big city bustle to the mix. Reflective Subway Car by Sue Severson Severson was not a native. A Brooklynite who went to … Continue reading Big Cities in A Small Town — Sue Severson Exhibition at Gallery 321, Hollidaysburg PA
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