The Umbrella Man
Gustave Caillebotte is the forgotten man of the Impressionist movement. This artist counted Monet, Degas, Renoir, and Pissarro among his friends and supported them...
Jesse’s Girls
Jesse Sierra Hernandez has finally arrived.
The fortysomething painter started out nearly two decades ago as a sort of scenester-slash-bon vivant-slash-autodidact who was arguably more...
Ugly, Beautiful, Pretty, Kitsch
In 2009’s Untitled, the curator of a contemporary gallery sells abstract paintings from her back room because if her clients knew she sanctioned that...
Autodidacts
The last time I wrote up a show at the Amon Carter Museum, I wasn’t overly impressed and speculated that the lack of access...
Exhibitionists on the Move
Exhibitionists, a recent pop-up art show at Shipping & Receiving, featured some familiar names, but it mainly served as a platform for new, emerging...
Princes and Queens
In 1849, the painter Gustave Courbet scandalized the French art world with “A Burial at Ornans,” a huge work that depicted an ordinary peasant...
Culture
Solo Female Dancer
Critic’s choice: Carolyn Judson
A principal dancer with Texas Ballet Theater, Judson took advantage of two huge opportunities to shine last season: as...
The Modern’s Teen Art Project
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth welcomes nearly 180,000 visitors a year. Several hundred come as students participating in educational tours, and countless...
Extensive Archives
This past Tuesday morning was like any other at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. A few visitors were trickling in to see...
100 Years of Painting
It’s taken 50 years, but two of Fort Worth’s most outstanding (and still living) modern painters will finally exhibit their work together. On Saturday,...
