Art-Friendly Social Distancing
Fort Worth arts groups are accustomed to reinvention. Before COVID-19 derailed Spring Gallery Night and assorted show openings, venerable museums like the Amon Carter...
Stairway to Heaven
Early-’80s Madonna throws off a smoldering, over-the-shoulder look filled with youthful defiance. Debbie Harry tosses her Marilyn Monroe mane of bleached blonde hair back...
Avedon’s Texas?
There’s nothing uniquely Texan about Avedon in Texas, especially if we exclude the two images of gentlemen in cowboy hats, including “Cotton Thompson,” a...
Shaping Our Heritage
Landscape architect Lawrence Halprin (1916-2009) had been established in private practice for 20 years in San Francisco when he was invited to Fort Worth...
Fort Worth vs. France
An international fight is brewing between our own Kimbell Art Museum and the world’s most famous art repository over Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin’s “Basket of Wild...
Best Of Culture 2013
Top Five Artworks
“Attention Retention” by Bradly Brown
Exhibited as part of his TCU MFA thesis at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Brown’s simple yet beguiling found-object...
Welcome, Artluck
When Guillermo Tapia invited me to participate in a nude drawing session, I envisioned a French parlor room setting where steely-eyed, mustachioed artists slaved...
Nina Chanel Abney’s Presence
Just two blocks away from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Stuart David’s “In Full Swing” hangs in the lobby gallery of the...
Amon Carter’s Facelift
The transformation this summer of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, which closed the doors for three months, was worth waiting for.
For one,...
Riley Holloway’s People
The Riley Holloway show at Fort Works Art may be one of the best of its kind since … the last Riley Holloway show...
