Art Here Lately is 9+ Stops of Last Saturday's Gallery Openings.

Stephen Knapp   False Prophet   (detail)   2012   dichroic glass, light and hardware   15 x 13 x 1 foot   at Conduit

Dichroic reflections, neo-geo shards, lemur tails, subaqua-ography, still more yarn bombs, big burger art, swear jar, hand shakes, red velvet & trailer cakes and more art and art-like objects from Saturday May 12's late spring bonanza of art openings.
 

Dueling Performance Art Series at 500X & CentralTrak

Hillary Holsonback Consuming Image by Emily Loving in 9¢ a Copy at CentralTrak April 28

We've gone years with very little performance art and no performance art series, and now we've just finished one series, Object curated by Courtney Brown and Joel Kiser at 500X Gallery, while CentralTrak's Performances To Die For series continues Saturday nights through May 19, on our ongoing Performance Art & Art Performance page.
 

Michael Helsem writes about the late Jill Parr

Jill Parr   The Two Bears, Dale & Jill, with Raven the Wonder Dog   circa 2009   9.5 x 11.5 inches

That Age of Impressionism show at the Kimbell

Pierre-Auguste Renoir   Onions   detail   1881   oil on canvas   15.4 x 23.9 inches   photo by J R Compton

This was either the best story I'd written in a while, or the one I had the most fun with — both photos and words. But it was a joy-filled trip where we got to stand inches from fabulous Impressionistic art and individual brushstrokes: my review of The Age of Impressionism at The Kimbell through June 17.
 

The Dallas Contemporary Biennale

150 Turtle Creek   Clarissa Tossin   Houston, born in Brazil   map installation

The Dallas Contemporary Biennale is a superb and fascinating show scattered mostly around inner central Dallas involving world-class artists. Download The Contemp's map from the How to Get The Most Out of The Bi linked on that page to see what you can see.
 

Visit our popular art community pages, including:

• area Art Schools & Classes
• our Arts Calendar lists every artist in every show, not just the ones you've heard of — and send your show show's info per the pink box at the bottom of that page.
• The Galleries and Art Space Information page
• How to Start Showing Your Work
• How to Photograph Art and
• How to Design & Publish an Invitational Postcard
• The Artists Opportunities page of jobs & competitions
• Dallas & Texas Artists With Websites, where we'd like to list your site, too.

DallasArtsRevue seeks art writers and critics for paid, professional stories.
Read our specifications in the Writing for DallasArtsRevue section of our Submissions Guidelines.

Cassandra Emswiler   Gilding the Silk Lilly   detail   2012   mixed media

Cassandra Emswiler's Gilding the Silk Lily in the front rooms of Oliver Francis Gallery is a compelling exhibition on several levels — especially along the floor. We were there within seconds of its opening Saturday, got lots of photos, and I've just uploaded my story about these episodal eruptions of three-dimensional expression. 

WARNING! The Editor gets dozens of invitations to attend art openings every week. All text. Short ones on Facebook, long ones in email. I almost never read those, because my mind parses pictures, not words. Because I so seldom get linked to actual multiple pictures of art people want me to attend openings for, I have to stumble on art worth writing about in the few places I already like to go. If you really want me to see your art, don't describe it in long jabberwocky text, link me to it. — J R Compton — the guy that writes most of the reviews here. 

J R's story about former Dallas artist Gregory Horndeski: 30 Years in the Art Biz, is about the artist's recent 30-year retrospective at Norwood Flynn — and about artists who stick with their individualist style.

I added another "Lost Artist" to the Lost Artists page of people tracking down artists they don't know. First in a long time.

Artists With Websites wants to list all Dallas artists with websites, even though we know they'll come and go with the tides. The top of the page is filled with the rules. Follow those, and we'll be happy to link your site(s).

Another very popular page is our Art Opportunities page listing jobs, art competitions and other possibilities.

I often update and reorganize our most popular page, How to Photograph Art.

Michael Helsem's story about Dwayne Carter's digital paintings asks, "Can Painting Be Saved?" and we wonder.

Modern Ruin    Sustenance   Demolicious   Mod Roo, Too   Henderson Art Project  

index of DallasArtsRevue Supporting Members' Art

Sam England   Hurl Your Thunderbolts Even Unto Death   2011   acrylic on canvas   71 x 48 inches
from Art Here Lately #13

Art Here Lately

The Art Here Lately pages are where most of our recent stories go. The Index to all Art Here Lately pages is now on its own page.

The Calendar

The DallasArtsRevue Arts Calendar is the only art listing that tries to include every Dallas artist in every show — we've listed as many as 400 names for really big shows. Our calendar is done by humans, so it has the feel of community, listing exhibitions, talks, Dallas artists showing showing here or elsewhere, along with links to interviews, videos and almost anything else our readers tell us.

Send us full information about your shows here or anywhere. We appreciate and liberally use color jpegs — send one 5 x 7 per listing, and follow the instructions in the pink box on the Calendar page.

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Teresa Elliot   Mystic Outlook   from Jim Dolan's interview, Teresa Elliott — Strange Familiar

Interviews with artists and art-exhibitors   (arranged alphabetically by person's last name)

index of interviews on DallasArtsRevue
Very short interview with Veronica De Anda about her work called Removed
Speaking Out about Spoken/Unspoken by Alex Coyle — by J R Compton & Kathy Dello Stritto
Interviewing Dallas Center for Contemporary Art Director Joan Davidow by J R Compton
an informal interview with C J Davis
former Dallas artist Jeff Green
Jeff Hogan & The Ever Expanding Universe by Jim Dolan
Studio Visit and interview with Norman Kary
Being and Making in New Lebanon: Fused Glass and Free-range Chickens, an interview with Bert & Ann Scherbarth by Jim Dolan
Interviewing James Michael Starr, Part One    Part Two    and  Selling, Not Selling and the Effects on Art – another Interview with James Michael Starr
Big Time Art Person From Outta Town Weighs In On Local Arts; Locals Breathe Sigh of Relief — interview with Charissa Terranova by Jim Dolan
Interview with D-Art Founder Mary Ward by Julia Frazier

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Charlotte Smith   Protrusions   from the Fierce Show studio visits

Studio and other visits with artists

Index of ARt Tour & Visit Stories through 2006
visiting art people and art places, an incomplete index

from Fierce, DallasArtsRevue's 4th Member Show:

Norman Kary   Matt Kaplinsky   Nancy Ferro   Jason McPeak   Elisabeth Shalij   Enrique Fernandez Cervantes   Ann Huey   Kathy Boortz   George Bailey   Mark Collop   Jeane McIntosh   Gaby Pruit   Ken Shaddock   Charlotte Smith   Bill Verhelst & Susan Lecky   David Hickman   Rita Barnard   Randall Garrett   Paul Rogers Harris   Annie Davis   Rebecca Boatman

Showing Process: DallasArtsRevue on the White Rock Lake Artists Studio Tour — with Mark Williamson, Michael Helsem and Art Shirer at J R Compton's home.

Marty & Richard and Susan & Bill, a too-brief visit with four friends who are also Supporting Members
Studio Visit with Karla Leaphart
Exploring the art of Tom Orr & Frances Bagley
Jim & Marylynn Bowman at the Tin Art Ranch
Robert Bruno   110 Tons of Steel   23 Years — photographs by Buck Johnston
Almost too short to be called a visit — Preview of Momento Mori - a visit with Ellen Tuchman
Art Shirer & Sherry Owens — Hanging Rocks at Connemara
Visiting the Continental Gin Building —

There are many tour stories on DallasArtsRevue, but few achieve the feeling of actually visiting artists and studios like our story, 2008 Oak Cliff Visual Speed Bump Tour.

Visiting:  Sculptor David Duncan   clay artist Angela Gallia   fiber artist Jack Brockette  The White Rock Weaving Center  from the 2004 White Rock Lake Artists Studio Tour

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Finding anything on this site

When I'm looking for something on DallasArtsRevue, I use our Site Search Google near the top right of most of our pages. Then there's

A Simple Introduction
The Site Map indexes our indexes, not all of which are thoroughly updated, but it's a start.
Index of Sub indexes - all our departments
The DARts Archives from the 18 or so years we printed ink on paper (includes only a few stories.)
The Reviews Index lists most of our stories that aren't linked left of here on this page of more recent pages.
After here — eventually links move to the Reviews Index.

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Norman Kary   Ascending   (detail)   collage   8 x 12 inches   from The Iffy Progress of Altering Style from Art Here Lately #5

The Condition of Being an Artist

The Iffy Progress of Altering Style — about one specific artist but applicable to us all
Is Your Real Self in Your Art? — an autumn essay
Autism vs. Artism — a short summer essay
Quacks, Critics & Charlatans - a short summer essay about critics (See also Profiles in Aesthetic Courge just below.)
Between Liminal & Subliminal — a summer essay that crosses weird movie reviews and what artists do with their mind, brain and heart
Profiles in Aesthetic Courge — story and illustrations by Tom Moody — a bit of humor
Dave Hickey Lecture at UTD on Sunday March 1, 2003 —" Emotionally Abused and Battered, Grad Students See Hope!"

 

HOW TOs     

How to Join DallasArtsRevue as a Supporting Member.
How to Photograph Art is this sites most popular page and full of information about photographing art and photographing anything else.
How to Design & Distribute Invitational Postcards
How to Start Showing Your Art
How to Look at Art is a panel discussion by that title, but there's a short poetic essay called
Didactic Exposition about how I relate to sculpture that's much more important.
Submission Guidelines - How to send us stuff

How to Join DallasArtsRevue - the easy way
How to Join DallasArtsRevue - This way's more dense and difficult, but it includes everything you'll need to know.

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Lists + Indexes

Index of Resources  and  C O N T E N T S
Artists with web sites
Art Opportunities includes potential jobs, competitions and other art possibilities.
Dallas-area Visual Art Groups
Museums & Art Centers
Art Schools & Classes
Art-related Movies reviewed & thousands of other movies reviewed
Aesthetic Crisis Center
Summer Essays On & Around Art
I Want - Readers want; I post
Lost Artists - people looking for artists

The oft-updated Arts Calendar of shows, lectures, tours and other Dallas art-related events, especially relevant since Anna Palmer has taken over that onerous task. Hooray for Anna!
Art Spaces - places that have art
Contact Us
The Aesthetic Crisis Center has hundreds of links to visual, animated, interactive, art and political sites.
Index of Art Tours and Visits
Feedback
ThEDblog follows The Editor's thoughts, issues, activities and plans for and about this site and other stuff. Now there's Art Here Lately. Before that there was EAT ART.
Gallery & Art Space Information Page
Visual Art Groups in Dallas & Texas  
J R's Collection - my art collection
Small Sculpture in Texas - 3-D art stories

Links

Dave Hickey from Emotionally abused and battered, Grad students see hope at UTD in 2003

Other Stories

The 2010 Hecho en Dallas show at the Latino Culture Center
WAMU/Modern Ruin— photos of the two-and-a-half-day exhibition in a former future WAMU bank on Greenville Avenue turned into a gallery then got smashed to smithereens.
Short story about Dallas artist Valton Tyler in Short Shows 2010
PAC-WE Flash Mob/Action Art Happening and Performance Rally for Health Care Reform downtown in which 135 artists performed.
The Self-portraits show at The Bath House.
CADD's Downtown Experiment Fails after the first year.
Failure & Success in XV, The MAC's 15th Anniversary Member Show.
How to get your work reviewed on DallasArtsRevue. 
The 2009 Oak Cliff Speed Bump Art Tour.
The big 2009 Texas Biennial Page; the places statistics; and the Dallas artists in it
Saturday Night of Art 
Index of unDO Columns - from when the editor was supposedly being considered for art critic for the Dallas Observer

Tats, Sistahs, 50/50, Verse & Eggs was popular because it mentioned tattoos.
Emotionally abused and battered, Grad students see hope: Dave Hickey at UTD in 2003
Jim Dolan writes about Teresa Elliott's portraits of cows in The Strange Familiar
Katja Zimmerman's Bill Traylor Beyond Plagiarizing shows artists ripping Bill off.
EAT ART and Midnight Rambles were early attempts.
D-Art 2005 Member Show;
Modalities of the Visible; 2002 Gallery Night Extravaganza ; Pix2 - The Critics' Choices

Wallpaper & Other Repeating Patterns is still popular.
Artists Arting at ArtCon3
The Dallas Contemp's New Building
Showing Process, Again - We tour the 15th Annual White Rock Lake Artists Studio Tour.

Sculpture Superb, the Shaped Addendum
My Art Ennui and Objectivity Indexes
Texas Sculpture Association's Silver Anniversary at the Plano ArtCentre
500X '08 Open Show & Kettle's Spring Cleaning
Unsolicited Art
Barnstorming The Contemp.
A Reluctant Review gets the editor in more trouble that it was worth.

Links

DallasArtsRevue member shows so far   

1026 Tranquilla
The White Rock Lake Artists Studio Tour
Big As Night, Too (link fixed April in 2010
Fierce - my all-time favorite DARts Show
The Fierce Blog
2008's The Winter Show
The Dallas Arts REVUE, our 30th Anniversary Member Exhibition & The Back-room Invitational were at the Bath House Cultural Center through January 30, 2010.

And once upon a time, a long time ago, we held a short series of events we called Gatherings. One of those, sans any kind of identifying captions or text, happens to have got online, even with its hit counter left over from a Texas Biennial page somewhere else. It shows that this event, held at Kevin Obregon's former gallery that's not there anymore, was fun, even if it didn't draw nearly as many people as we'd hoped.

Links

Red Boots, Red Sox — Barry Whistler and Charissa Teranova in 2006
from Jim Dolan's interview with art critic Charissa Terranova

Recent stories by other writers

James Michael Starr's story, What Memory Looks Like is about Aqsa Shakil's art
Yellow-read, Red-yellow, and Burnt Umber, Too — A Brief Encounter with the work of Fannie Brito by Jim Dolan.
Trampling Man by James Michael Starr
The Adventures of Yen-Hua Lee Story and Photographs by James Michael Starr
Interview with [former] Centraltrak director and art critic Charissa Terranova by Jim Dolan
Witness to an Apparition: Ken Shaddock's and my story about sculptor Kelly Rathbone.
D-Art, a Timeline — the fact-based herstory of D-Art from the Artists Coalition of Texas to Dallas Visual Arts Center and beyond.
Accompanying the timeline comes the opinionated parable, The Squeaky Wheel — The Noise that Just Won't Go Away by Tahlia Marmo.

Links

Our contributors

Jim Dolan   Michael Helsem   Norman Kary  Ken Shaddock  Kathy Dello Stritto   @rt Shirer  Anna Palmer  Katja Zimmerman  James Michael Starr Gerald Burns Stories, Art and Poetry and before that, Marian Henley, Dan Piraro, Tom Moody, Suzanne Weaver, David Gene Fowler, Karen X, M.J. Smith, Robert Trammell, Julian Riepe, Stuart Kraft, Georgia Stafford, Tim Schuller, Glenna Park, Peter Feresten, Julia Frazer, John Shown, Susan Whitmer, Chuck Taylor, Ron Lowe, Philip Lamb, Gordon Hilgers, Greg Metz, Robert Razka, real D-Art/The Contemporary founder Mary Ward, Luanne Standish, James Surls, Paul Rogers Harris, Joe Stanco, Gary Deen, Gillian Conoley, Alex Troup, Robin Milsom, Roger Gruben, James Megar, Lou Ann Kunshick, Mary Riffe, John Walker, TJ Mabrey, Steve Pusin, Dwayne Carter, Murray Smither, Pam Burnley, Terri Thoman, Ranelle Bain, Richard Hoeffle, Rick Lambeth, Daniel Barsotti, Michael Helsem, Betsy Dillard Stroud, Don Mangus, Marilyn Waligore, Lee Murray, Jerry Sutton, Frances Bagley, Barbara Simcoe, Julie Ryan, Wade Wilson, Tre Roberts, Johanna Drucker, Roxy Gordon, Alan Sondheim, Amanda Milsom, Lisa Pritchard, Jon Held, Jr., Jill Parr, Rowena Bush, Karen ERXleben Weiner, A.M. Hudson, Kim Edge, Dottie Allen (Love), Tracy Hays Harris (Flavin), Carol Wilder, Beth Ray, Daryl Baird, and many others.

Kathy Boortz   Starry Night Peacock   (detail)

The Editor's Photography-related pages

How to Photograph Art
Cameras & Lenses: An An Introduction to Digital Photography, Its History, Terms, Types and How Sensor Sizes, Megapixel Ratings and Other Factors Affect Image Quality
Cameras & Lenses I Have Known or Lusted After

Links

The editor's other links     

Amateur Birder's Journal
My Nikon D7000 Journal
My G2 Journal - learning another new camera
My Canon S90 Journal - learning the camera before that and exploring what I photograph and why
My DallasArtsRevue Supporting Member's Page, usually of recent photographs
JRCompton.com — mostly images & ideas
My full Resume, including Art Exhibitions Produced, Exhibitions my photographs were in, some of the places my photos have been published in, Press Mentions
Various Blogs:  ThEdBlog   Reading Pixels   The G2 Journal   Canon S90 Journal  1,629 movies reviewed   including art movies

I was named "Dallas' Best Local Arts Promoter" by D-Magazine in 2004
and I tied for Best Bird Nerd by readers of The Dallas Observer in 2009.

 

Summer Essays

my essay comparing Artistm and Autism about the difficulties in representing emotions in art,
and another essay called "Quacks, Critics & Charlatan."
The index of all four summer essays may also help.

 

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