Posts Tagged ‘painting’
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The Modern Touts DiebenkornBig Ticket
What is it about Richard Diebenkorn’s Ocean Park Series that is so damn intoxicating? The vague colors (perfectly undecided, like a person who thinks too damn much)? The geometries evoking landscapes? The thick but lighter-th...
New Poussin in Town
Big TicketLast week, the Kimbell Art Museum announced to great fanfare its $24 million acquisition of Nicolas Poussin’s “The Sacrament of Ordination.” In gratifyingly speedy fashion, the work goes on display this week.
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ? 20 Forget the canvases! The Amon Carter Museum’s current exhibit, The Allure of Paper: Watercolors and Drawings from the Collection, showcases the museum’s works on paper, which range from Edward Everett’s stately s...
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Dotty Zamora has spent most of her career painting in the rough medium of wax emulsion, but a recent trip to Italy has inspired her to take up painting in oil. You can see the fruits of her labors in her current show at Upstair...
Navigating Through Fort Worth
Local non-famous authors contribute to an online flash fiction collection inspired by the Modern’s recent Vernon Fisher exhibit.ANTHONY MARIANI
Though it recently came down at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, K-Mart Conceptualism by Fort Worth multimedia artist Vernon Fisher lives on through a community writing project initiated by the museum. Navigating By the Sta...
The Houses that Benson Built
Fort Worth artist Carol Benson sees the archetypical house as much more than a structure — or concept.JIMMY FOWLER
Fort Worth painter Carol Benson has a show up now at William Campbell Contemporary Art of paintings of houses, and since she grew up in the 1950s in a small East Texas town, we could be forgiven for thinking that we’re in Tho...
Sarah Green Does Jackass
The stars of the laugh-out-loud show and movies are the subjects of a Fort Worth artist’s digital paintings.JIMMY FOWLER
How many artists can say they have work in the private collections of Van Cliburn and the late President Gerald Ford’s family as well as those of Henry Rollins and Johnny Knoxville? Fort Worth’s own Sarah Green, 51, is a Br...
Sarah Green Does Jackass
The stars of the laugh-out-loud show and movies are the subjects of a Fort Worth artist’s digital paintings.JIMMY FOWLER
How many artists can say they have work in the private collections of Van Cliburn and the late President Gerald Ford’s family as well as those of Henry Rollins and Johnny Knoxville? Fort Worth’s own Sarah Green, 51, is a Br...
How Vernon Fisher Came to K-Mart Conceptualism
The Fort Worth artist is the subject of an invigorating career survey at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.ANTHONY MARIANI
Fort Worth artist Vernon Fisher figures he escaped the bland certainties of a traditional rural Texas life through a crack in the façade between Protestant denominations –– his mom was a Baptist and his father a Methodist....
Adios to an Art Collector …
StaticStockyards businessman and art collector A.C. “Ace” Cook died Monday after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 74. And, as was his fashion, the old horse trader got the final word. “Horse trader” applies to mos...