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Valton Tyler - The Clock

Valton Tyler   The Clock   oil on canvas   48 x 48 inches

Valton Tyler is a self-taught Dallas original who's not nearly as famous as he should be. Or as he will be, though that may take him dying. Many buyers, sellers and long-time self-righteous borrowers of his work are impatiently waiting for the day when Valton goes platinum ...
 

Valton Tyler - Anxiety 1990

Valton Tyler   Anxiety   1990   oil on canvas   36 x 48 inches
images from Valley House dot com
 

More words and different paintings on the Calendar page.

 

Shafaq Ahmad's Painting Walks Out of the Gallery - Photograph Copyright 2010 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved. No Reproduction in Any Medium Without Specific Written Permission.

right  Our 30th Anniversary Shows Blog continues with muchos photos of artists in both of our 30th Anniversary shows taking their art off the walls, out of the Bath House and beyond. A gala celebration that probably is not the last words and pictures from our burgeoned blog.
 

Rocking the Ring Up and Down - Photograph Copyright 2010 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved. No Reproduction in Any Medium Without Specific Written Permission.

Dallas sculptor David Hickman Rocking the 300-pound Ring Up
off its groove, then down the ramp out out of the Bath House
 
 

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Read my suggestions for How to Write for DallasArtsRevue in How to Send Us Stuff.

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right  The Arts Calendar, the Ops page, the Gallery Information page and maybe some others soon are now under the capable and consistent management of Anna Palmer, who is listing more diverse events, opportunities, galleries and updating those pages more consistently every single day and into the night. The editor, meanwhile is peppering the calendar with new, short reviews of Dallas exhibitions.
 

right  The editor has finally found an outlet for his need to write about cameras and lenses, especially the ones artists can use to photograph their art. Cameras & Lenses Useful for Photographing Art grows and changes and gets updated often, as does How to Photograph Art.
 

right  ThEdblogs continue to elucidate themes pertinent to the life and plans of Th Ed itor.
 

right  The Contemp and its changing history is moved to its own page, and their inaugural exhibition, LA artist James Gilbert's Warnings & Instructions finally opens 8:30-11 pm Saturday February 6 is their giant new, old building. See our Calendar for more info.
 

Aqsa Shakil   Group Hug

Aqsa Shakil   Group Hug   2009   watercolor and ink on paper   61.5 x 45 inches  
 

right  What Memory Looks Like - a story about Aqsa Shakil's art by James Michael Starr

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NEW The page I've spent the most time in the last month has been How to Photograph Art. From that page, I recently removed the camera review portion of the story and put it on Cameras & Lenses I Have Used To Photograph Art & Other Stuff and Those I Lust After.

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. See the Calendar Page

Failure & Success in XV, The MAC's 15th Anniversary Member Show.

How to get your work reviewed on DallasArtsRevue

Everything else art we've covered here lately is either in Art Here Lately #6 or #5

Trampling Man by James Michael Starr

Interview with Centraltrak director and art critic Charissa Terranova by Jim Dolan

Witness to an Apparition: Ken Shaddock's and my story about sculptor Kelly Rathbone.

Jim Dolan interviewed Centraltrak Director Charissa Terranova.

Join us for The 2009 Oak Cliff Speed Bump Art Tour

The Adventures of Yen-Hua Lee Story and Photographs by James Michael Starr.

Art Here Lately explores art in Dallas

ThEdblogs follows site-, editorial- and Editor-specific concerns.

The big 2009 Texas Biennial Page; the places statistics; and the Dallas artists in it

Saturday Night of Art

The Winter Show is finally over.

Aesthetic Crisis Center is blooming.

The Index of unDO Columns

The Fierce Blog lives!

Sculpture Superb, the Shaped Addendum

The Art Ennui and the equally onerous Objectivity Index explains those.

Texas Sculpture Association's Silver Anniversary at the Plano ArtCentre

500X '08 Open Show & Kettle's Spring Cleaning

Unsolicited Art — is a free-for-all page.

Barnstorming The Contemp.

A Reluctant Review gets the editor in almost more trouble that it was worth.

Tats, Sistahs, 50/50, Verse & Eggs

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

and Katja Zimmerman's Bill Traylor Beyond Plagiarizing shows an artist ripping Bill off.

EAT ART and Midnight Rambles

D-Art 2005 Member Show; Modalities of the Visible; 2002 Gallery Night Extravaganza ; Pix2 - The Critics' Choices

Wallpaper & Other Repeating Patterns

Artists Arting at ArtCon3

The Dallas Contemp's New Building

Showing Process, Again - We tour the 15th Annual White Rock Lake Artists Studio Tour.

A Simple Introduction to this site.

The Site Map indexes our indexes, not all of which are thoroughly updated, but it's a great start.

The DARts Archives from the 18 or so years we printed ink on paper.

After here, links move to the Reviews Index.

Submission Guidelines - How to send stuff

 

Departments    

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!

Index of Subindexes - all our departments

Art Crit - index of stories about art

Art Spaces - places that have art

The Reviews Index lists most of our stories that aren't linked left of here on this page of more recent pages.

Contact Us

The Aesthetic Crisis Center has hundreds of links to visual, animated, interactive, art and political sites.

Index of Annual and other Art Tours and Visits

Feedback

Art Movies Reviewed & thousands of other movies reviewed

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. I'm sensing a trend.

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

Index of Supporting Members' art pages

Museums & Art Centers

Dallas Art Resources

Schools & Classes

 

Contributors

Jim Dolan  
Michael Helsem  
Norman Kary
  
Ken Shaddock
  
Kathy Dello Stritto
  
@rt Shirer  
Anna Palmer
Katja Zimmerman
   
James Michael Starr

Many earlier contributors are listed on the Short History of DallasArtsRevue page.

Index of Gerald Burns Stories, Art and Poetry

Many earlier contributors are listed on the Short History of DallasArtsRevue page.

The Editor was named "Dallas' Best Local Arts Promoter" by D-Magazine in 2004.

Index of Resources  and  C O N T E N T S

How to Photograph Art

Artists with web sites.

Art Opportunities includes potential jobs, competitions and other art possibilities.

Dallas-area Visual Art Groups

How to Join DallasArtsRevue as a Supporting Member.

How to Start Showing Your Art

The whole long story about that spring day of art goes in and out of How to Look at Art but there's a short poetic essay called Didactic Exposition — a third of the way down the page that says what I think is how we relate to art.

Museums & Art Centers

Schools, Universities & Classes

How to Design & Distribute Invitational Postcards

Art Services

Art-related Movies reviewed

Summer Essays On & Around Art

I Want - Readers want; I post

Lost Artists - people looking for artists

 

Editor's links     

J R's Amateur Birder's Journal
member's page   JRCompton.com 
resume   exhibition list
exhibitions produced
 
1,284 movies reviewed

After I published Dallas NOTES and HOOKA underground newspapers in Dallas, I worked for The Austin Sun and The RAG in Austin, Texas. These are Austin Sun photographs from 1976.

 

DARts Shows     

The Dallas Arts REVUE, our 30th Anniversary Member Exhibition & The Back-room Invitational are at the Bath House Cultural Center through January 30, closed Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays. Closed for Christmas and New Year's and Uncle Albert's alternate birthdays.

1026 Tranquilla

The White Rock Lake Artists Studio Tour

Big As Night, Too

Fierce

2008's The Winter Show

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Our new, supposedly better web host, WestHost, periodically mangles all our hits counted, so it's difficult to believe in them, usually noted by a big = sign or •. Luckily, the host before that — whom I used to think were the worst-ever, but now I know better — 's hits counters still work and do not idiotically reset themselves.

The left number continues to count visits here since 1:11 pm Weddy May 25 2005. The number in the middle, from WebHost, our most recent and perhaps best host yet, now includes the 121,617 hits to this page when we hosted with Earthlink, before we moved to DreamHost, as well as all of the hits we got there and the couple thousand since we joined WestHost.

Our web hosts have been, in order, Earthlink, DreamHost and WestHost.

The two outside counters started off even. Since then, they've grown farther and farther away from each other.

TMI about counters.

If you want to show someone one of our pages, send them the web address (URL), because we update some pages often and have not yet learned to update previously printed pages. Our Time Travel Module will be down for next couple of centuries, I'm afraid.

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