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Amon Carter Adds Important Still Life to Its Collection

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The Amon Carter Museum of American Art has added an important painting to its collection.  Peaches and Grapes in a Chinese Export Basket (1813) by Raphaelle Peale (1774–1825) was recently purchased in memory of the museum’s founder Ruth Carter Stevenson (1913–2013). The painting will be on view beginning July 29 in the main gallery. Considered the first American still-life … Continue reading Amon Carter Adds Important Still Life to Its Collection

Regional Talents Shine at Artspace 111 in Fort Worth

Artspace 111 Fort Worth Selfie with Anne Weary, Vera Barnett and Eric Miller
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The first regional juried exhibition at Artspace 111 opened on June 20. It limits its geographical scope to artists residing in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Louisiana. Although including neighboring states opens the door to more talent, majority of the participants are local. Dr. Ron Tyler, former director at the Amon Carter Museum of American … Continue reading Regional Talents Shine at Artspace 111 in Fort Worth

Dallas Artist Explored Concepts of Strangers and Alienation

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Maryanne Meltzer's work is somewhat of a stranger in the art circuit today, yet not so long ago her work received accolades near and far. Somewhat forceful in her paintings and refined in her printmaking, Meltzer often explored the topics of strangers and alienation. Her artwork filled the walls of her North Dallas home. Large paintings in a … Continue reading Dallas Artist Explored Concepts of Strangers and Alienation

An Appetite for Food Art Now at the Amon Carter

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There's an amazing show featuring the best still life paintings spanning more than a century currently at the Amon Carter in Fort Worth. It's not just still-life paintings in the exhibition Art and Appetite, it was also a reason to bring in some blockbusters like Edward Hoppers Nighthawks and Norman Rockwell's Freedom from Want, but … Continue reading An Appetite for Food Art Now at the Amon Carter

Gaultier at DMA: From Sidewalk to Catwalk

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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.