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...
Classy Stuff
The private art collections into which New York City’s legendary Metropolitan Museum of Art digs for gems to borrow and exhibit usually belong to...
Dat ‘70s Show
As far as places to get an MFA in studio art go, the University of North Texas is all dat. Texas Christian University and...
