Bodies at Rest
Smug.”“Literal.”“Impervious to multiple interpretations.”“Susceptible to parody.”“Self-parodic.”“The Old Guard’s new clothes.”
And there you have just a few of the thoughts that popped into my head...
Big Shoes to Backfill
Architect Ames Fender’s grandfather is Wyatt C. Hedrick, the man who’s most responsible for the way that much of Fort Worth looks — he...
Emirati Art
Past Forward: Contemporary Art from the United Arab Emirates is a national traveling show of multimedia works that makes its North Texas stop at...
It Figures
Fort Worth is pretty lucky. We don’t have to deal with all of that art-world drama and hand-wringing over “good” versus “bad” art or,...
Welcome to The Art Issue
I can hear you now. “The Weekly’s selling out, brah!” And, indeed, you’d have every right to be startled by our fancy cover. But...
Semigloss: Sparkling Prose
Fort Worth new media artist Bradly Brown has had the kind of “urban artsy” college-and-career trajectory that the twentysomething characters on an HBO show...
Sharing a Constructive Spirit
Modernism is sexy. And not just because Mad Men is set during the period of the style’s apex, the early 1960s, though there’s no...
Portraitist of the City
As a photographer, Peter Feresten was a lot of things: documentarian, historian, teacher, artist.
He also was incredibly prolific, as befitting a wearer of many...
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...
Ebbing Tide
Be afraid, Fort Worth. Be very afraid.
Late last year, the Fort Worth City Council decided to decrease funding for the nearly 50-year-old Arts Council...
