Luck of the Draw?
In early 2006, local artist Paul Milligan and some other artistically inclined fanboys started an informal group, Stumblebum Studios, mainly to have a virtual...
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...
High on Art
For the past three decades, the Fort Worth Art Dealers Association has been putting on Gallery Night, one evening in the spring and one...
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...
Alarming Heights
Fact: There are more important examples of Modernist and contemporary public architecture in Fort Worth — three — than in any other Texas city,...
Where the Wild Things Are
In art, theater, music, literature, film — basically, any artistic discipline — there are themes, and then there are themes.
The fog of war?...
Damn, Dirty Apes
Never mind the bollocks.
No, seriously. Never mind the bollocks — and the severed limbs, and the homicidal monkeys, and the ugly faces twisted into...
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...
Show Offs II
They just don’t stop making art in Texas, which is why you can’t go wrong with a show devoted to up-and-coming new talent.
That’s...
Gorgeous as Hell
Amon Carter Museum’s nature photography exhibit, Regarding the Land: Robert Glenn Ketchum and the Legacy of Eliot Porter, on view until early January, offers...
