Seeking at Artspace 111
Artspace 111’s location on Hampton Street is as far east as you can go and technically still be downtown, and Fort Worth’s multistory buildings...
Just Looking: TCU’s Kick A** and Take Names
In the 1930s, a group of critical theorists known as the Frankfurt School grappled with the cultural implications of technological advances in film, radio,...
Nina Chanel Abney’s Presence
Just two blocks away from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Stuart David’s “In Full Swing” hangs in the lobby gallery of the...
Just Looking: Arnoldo Hurtado’s Artscream
As much as he is a visual artist, Arnoldo Hurtado is also a traveler –– across both place and time, and from tradition to...
Shaping Our Heritage
Landscape architect Lawrence Halprin (1916-2009) had been established in private practice for 20 years in San Francisco when he was invited to Fort Worth...
Social Sculpture
Darryl Ratcliff is an award-winning artist, curator, and writer whose work addresses how cultural activities transform communities. He was the inaugural artist-in-residence at Trans.lation...
Trio
What if it were possible to separate colors from nature, drape them on a clothesline, and look at them when they had dried? Ellen...
Western Memories
There are two concurrent exhibitions of photography at Fort Works Art right now. In the street level gallery is Laura Wilson’s Photographs in the...
Life Unplugged
Painter Sam Swihart’s “Cosmetic I,” “II,” and “III” is a grotesque series of black-and-white portraits depicting morbidly disfigured faces. The three male subjects are...
Beautiful Industry
A mural contest by Trinity River Distillery recently drew sharp criticism, largely because the pay is “$1,000 in whiskey.”
“How is an artist going to...
