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“Honest
criticism is hard to take,
particularly from a relative, a friend,
an acquaintance or a stranger.”
Dallas artists and galleries should email us information for our Art Calendar. Use the guidelines in pink box below, or email Anna, and she'll help you prepare your listing.
Send Calendar Listings to Anna Palmer at graphicanna@sbcglobal.net.
The Editor's latest email address is jcompton@tx.rr.com, but he gets ornery with massive or multiple emails.
WARNING!
If you're planning to send the editor long, winding PR statements about the art you are showing, Think Again. If you really want to pique interest in your art, send images of the work in your show. Our readers are artists, and artists think in pictures, not words.
The vast majority of the images we publish are either 777 pixels wide - horizontal (landscape) format or 555 pixels wide for verticals to a maximum of 10 inches tall. If you make your images at least 777 pixels wide, the editor can see them well enough to decide whether to attend your show. Titles sometimes help. Text does not.
Don't explain it, show it.
I don't read long emails extolling the virtues of your art. I either delete or send them to Anna, who does the Calendar.
Publication of my photographs on this site, either on paper or online must credit "DallasArtsRevue.com photo by J R Compton." with this link (http://www.DallasArtsRevue.com/. Permission to use any of these photographs must be in writing, which means you'll probably have to pay for it if you are selling something.
Don't ask for a job. There aren't any. I don't pay me anything, and I don't pay Anna enough to live on, so whoever would be next in line is out of luck.
We won't do your research or find a place to show or sell your art. That's your job. We provide information. You do your own due dilligence. Your own Dada duty.
We have great, often updated pages of Opportunities for Artists and an Art Space Information listing galleries and other art spaces.
I do pay writers to write, and there's a section of our Submissions page devoted to that possibility.
Current DallasArtsRevue Supporting Members are the only artists we keep up with. We do not keep up with all the other artists mentioned on these pages. If the story mentions a gallery or art space, contact them.
If you lose an artist, go to the Lost Artists page.
My standard reply about the value of any art is that it is determined by what you can get for it. There is no instrinsic financial value of art objects, gold (the price changes many times every day) or pressed latinum.
PM Summer, of 500X in the early 1980s
The
Easy Way
to send us Calendar information
Send your information in this order in one paragraph, in the text of an email: Show title, names of all artists in paragraph form separated by commas, gallery name, opening times, date, month, through closing month date. Use the following example for your submission:
DO NOT USE ALL CAPS. No abbreviations or punctuation. Include the space's address only if is new to DallasArtsRevue and not already listed on our Gallery Information page. Attach up to a 5 x 7-inch JPEG of art that is in your show and include this caption information in the text of the email in this exact order:
This is an example of an image caption:
Name the jpeg file with your name and the title (or a short version of the title), but do not include any punctuation or any spacebar spaces in the image file name. Send all information in the text of an email to graphicanna@sbcglobal.net . Thanks, |
DallasArtsRevue Policies
Submission Guidelines for calendar listings are in the pink box above, and for everything else on their own page.
Show your fancy JPEG documents with all the pictures and words stuck forever in pixels to your friends. For publication here, paste your information as text in the text of an E-mail, and E-mail it to Anna.
You can add images in there, too. But not images of the words we need, like dates and artists' names. When we create calendar items, we cut from emails and paste the information on the calendar page. If we can't cut and paste it, we'll delay retyping it.
Name email subjects and attachments intelligently. We get a dozen "Press Release," "art" or "Art Show" attachments a week. Which show? What artist? Be specific. Or your information will get lost.
If your request for a Link Exchange does not involve a site related to art, especially Dallas art and artists, we will not reply.
How to submit Calls for Entry, jobs and competitive exhibitions is on top of the Artists Opportunities Page.
Instructions for entering (everybody gets in) our Online Self-Portrait Exhibition are on that section's index page.
Instructions for Becoming A Supporting Member of this site — and getting up to 2 member web pages and have your name linked to your member page every time you inform us that you are in a show or art event — are on the How to Join DallasArtsRevue page. If that's too much for you — it's too much for a lot of people — email Anna.
— J R Compton
Unless you are a close personal friend or a Supporting Member of DallasArtsRevue, sending me a personal invitation without an image or a link to your work is a waste of time. When I need to look at art, I look at the DallasArtsRevue Calendar page or listen to Anna, who manages that page. If your show is not listed there, I won't know about it.
I decide whether to look at someone's art from seeing work that artist has done before. I rarely waste my time tracking down your art. If you make it easy, and link your invitation to some of your art, I'll look.
I often go to shows whose artist piques my interest, no matter where you've got a show or are in a show. But the only way to pique my interest is to show me the art, preferably online or in an email.
Please get your show listed on our calendar.
Follow the instructions in the pink box above — It's The Easy Way.If I don't like it or it doesn't pique my interest or attention, I won't write about it. I used to, but I don't go out of my way to say something negative about art anymore. If it's in my way though, or I'm reviewing the whole show, then it's fair game.
Generally, the words "I" and "we" on this site refer to the founder / Editor / Publisher J R Compton. All Contents of this website are Copyright whatever this year is and before by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved.
Positive, negative or malevolently mean-spirited, we love your Feedback. The management assumes that Letters to the Editor are for sharing, and we love to publish negative feedback. If you don't want to see your opinions or complaints published on our Feedback page, don't send them.
Site Indexes you might find useful
The link list down what the editor calls the cover — also known as The Index or Home Page — is the only regularly updated link page for this site, which contains more than 400 web pages.
A Simplified Introduction to the Pages of DallasArtsRevue
The Site Map / Contents : Indexes + Subindexes; Writers, Popular Features, How Tos, Views, Resources, etc.
Contents: The almost exact same page as the Site Map, only this one is color-coordinated.
If you have a complaint about a page, tell me the web address of it.
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Stony was the Publisher of Dallas
NOTES from the Underground before I was.
Exhibition Publicity + PR — We're picky about what info we need and how you send it. Read the pink box above.Exhibition Invitations — There's certain information we really need. Hint: The DARts Calenadar is arranged chronologically by end date. Read about it on our Submissions Guidelines Page before you send it to us, so you'll be sure we can use it. Or just read the pink box above.
Stories About Dallas Art, Artists, Art Spaces —
Please name Images intelligently and provide all the necessary caption information. Whose art is it. What's the title. How big is it. What are the mediums involved?
Membership page images and information are in a different category.
What most people see when J R's around. Photograph and
rubber stamp Copyright 2004 by Andy Hanson - All Rights Reserved.
Andy was my darkroommate when we were both
Staff Photographers for the Dallas Times Herald in the early 1970s.
Story ideas from writers — DallasArtsRevue pays writers and pays writers well.
Galleries new to us should email us with a list of:
open times
physical address
director's name
phone number
E-mail and web address
driving instructions (or a map, if needed)See the Gallery Information Page for examples or to see if you are already listed.
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“The Function of criticism
should not be confused
with the function
of reform.”
— Roger Zelazny, Home is the Hangman, 1975
Editor/Publisher
Visit my online
My personal website
See my
or
If you want to phone
If you just have to send me postal mail
Some who have helped
"J R Compton
jcompton@tx.rr.comMovie Reviews and Art-related Movie Reviews
E-mail me first.
include your email address. I rarely send postal mail.
Anna Palmer Art Shirer Ken Shaddock James Michael Starr Michael Helsem
Jim Dolan Katja Zimmerman Norman Kary Kathy Dello Stritto and many othersYes, there are way too many men and not nearly enough women who contribute to this publication. If you'd like to write for DallasArtsRevue.com, contact the editor via the link near the top of this page.
And yes, DallasArtsRevue pays writers, if they wish. I wish I could find more writers to pay to write, so the editor could write less.
Mumbling Aliens with An Affection for Pink
J R and Anna - Halloween 2005
Site Index - an elderly list of all the then-current directories on this humongous website.
The DARts Resource Index, which lists these and other pages you may wish to be included in:
Art Groups Artists with Web Sites Mail-Servers & Sites Media
Museums & Art Centers National Links Schools & Classes
Support this site.
Become a Supporting Member to get your own web page,
entry in DARts shows & other benefits, or sign up as a DARts Subscriber for
full access to all of DallasArtsRevue's information pages.See our Index of Supporting Members' Pages
To see who has already joined, click the Index link at the top of that page.
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If you can see the edges of these grays and colors — especially in the black and magenta scales,
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The links under the following images may contain more specific instructions on calibrating your monitor.
I'll start you off with this one, that my iMac passed with flying colors and tones. No sense stealing that image to stick here, when it looks so good and works well right where it is, which is at http://photographerusa.com/screencheck/index.html.
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from PhotoFriday.com
from http://www.jasc.com/support/kb/articles/monitor.asp
from DisplayCalibration.com, where you'll find instructions
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I collect these things. If you know of another one, please send a link to it.
More monitor — and camera — calibration information stories online:
Monitor Calibration
Digital Focus: Calibrate Your Monitor by Dave Johnson
wikiHow's How to Calibrate Your Monitor
Calibrating Your Monitor
Making fine prints in your digital darkroom; Monitor calibration and gamma by Norman Karen
Calibrate Your Monitor by Jacci Howard Bear
and
Calibrate Your Digital Camera
Neutral References for Digital Camera Calibration
