Power Trip
No matter how long, notated, and well written an artist’s statement is, his or her art –– to paraphrase Sir Duke –– don’t mean...
Culture 2012
Top Five Local Artworks
“Beaded Egg” by Michael Bane
In recreating in photographic detail several dozen strings of multicolored beads shaped to form an oval, Bane...
Bass Master
So Fall Gallery Night happened last Saturday. Masses of people packed Fort Worth’s multiple galleries and impromptu art spaces, sipping on boxed wine, noshing...
Geography, Class
Painter Mark Smith, 60, came by his love of the natural world early. As a kid, he spent equal time in the countryside near...
UT Acquires Four Byrds
Fort Worth photographer and Fort Worth Weekly contributor Byrd Williams IV represents the fourth generation in a family of professional photographers dating back to...
Frank’s Smarter
Though multimedia artist Christopher Blay definitely has a signature style, the 44-year-old Fort Worthian had something of an epiphany last week, when he attended...
Second Annual Visionary Awards
Here’s a conundrum: How can Fort Worth have such an incredible array of art-related institutions and not be an “art town”? (At least not...
Enlightened by the Dark
Anyone who’s checked out conceptual artist Janet Morrow’s current show Ambiguous Belonging at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center was probably intrigued and a...
Amon Carter’s Sargent
Two exhibits opened last Sunday: the sprawling The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Clark at the Kimbell Art Museum and the...
McAn’s Implied Landscapes
Photographer, sculptor, and mixed-media canvas artist Robert McAn says that if you look hard enough at some of his work, you can probably find...
