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News Flash
I didn't get the E-mail from them, but a few days after a friend forwarded the following message, a human female read it (almost completely indecipherably) on my telephone answering machine:
This Kristina Pettus did not identify herself in either E-mail or on the phone, and if I hadn't seen the forwarded E-mail I might have dismissed the call as yet another overmodulated, unsolicited phone sales call. Presumably she is D-Art's latest publicity person, too new to the job to even know she ought to identify herself. Still, it is vaguely hopeful that the latest permutation of D-Art is, at least and at last, realizing that they "need to do a better job." It might have been better if they'd developed their latest version of their story within their community — the paid membership — before they changed their story 47 times. But we can't expect miracles. My forwarding friend guessed they're experiencing diminished attendance. I don't know, because I don't go there anymore [either]. A year ago, I joined DVAC, not no "Contemporary" on Swiss Avenue. A couple of weeks ago, I declined the offer to reup there and instead joined the original Contemporary Dallas art center on McKinney Avenue. I'm sure The MAC is delighted that I'm with them now. They've always needed a conscience, since the original DARE charter, whose nonprofit status they grabbed had more to do with exhibiting unknown Dallas artists than the BTAGSFOOT ( Big Time Art Guys/Gals From Out Of Town ) art they usually show instead, although I'm kinda proud of them lately for showing outstanding local sculptors Tom Orr and Cameron Schoepp in their current show, paid for by the Belo Media Conglomerate. - JR Compton |