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“Honest criticism
is hard to take,
particularly from
a relative, a friend,
an acquaintance
or a stranger.”
Dallas Arts Revue does not sell art or find galleries or jobs for artists.
No one here gets paid, so don't ask for a job.
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.
We do not keep up with artists mentioned on these pages. If the story mentions a gallery or art space, contact them.
Current DallasArtsRevue Supporting Members are the only artists we keep up with.
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 every day) or pressed latinum.
PM Summer, of 500X in the early 1980s
The Submissions Guidelines explain exactly what information we need, in what order and how to send us exhibition and event information for the Calendar. Some people read and understand. Others stay clueless.
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 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 linked every time you are in a show or art event — are on the How to Join DallasArtsRevue page.
Unless you are a close personal friend or a Supporting Member of DallasArtsRevue, sending me a personal invitation is probably a waste of both our time. Even when you fit one of those categories, it probably is. When I need to look at art, I look at the DallasArtsRevue Calendar page. If your show is not listed there, I don't know about it. So it's worth your time if you expect me to see your art, to read and understand and follow the instructions on our Submissions Guidelines page. When I want to see art, I want to see art my readers can see, too.
Letters —are always welcome, no matter your opinion — signed or unsigned. We've printed some pretty searing negative feedback. If you send feedback, be sure to notify me if you do not want it published. I assume everything is for sharing.If your letter is particularly nasty, I might print it anyway. Don't bother contacting me later to try retract it. That only proves its need to be here.
Email letters. Do not send them in the mail. I don't retype.
Exhibition Publicity + PR — We're picky about what info we need and how you send it. Send the info in the text of an email, not a jpeg with words we have to retype.
Exhibition Invitations — There's certain information we really need. Read about it on our Submissions Guidelines Page before you send it to us, so you'll be sure we can use it.
Images — no image attachments without permission, then only one per E-mail. Please name them intelligently and provide all the necessary caption information.
Membership page images and information are in a different category.
What most people see when J R's around. Photograph
& rubber stamp © 2004 by Andy Hanson,
who was my darkroommate when we both worked
for the Dallas Times Herald in the early 1970s.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.
“The Function of criticism
should not be confused
with the function
of reform.”
Editor/Publisher Visit my online My personal website See my or
If you want to phone, Some of the people who help |
JR Compton E-mail me first. Anna Palmer, Art Shirer, Ken Shaddock, James Michael Starr, Michael Helsem, Jim Dolan, Katja Zimmerman Yes, there are way too many guys and not enough women who contribute to this publication, but we can't afford to pay anyone, so we're stuck with who wants to write for DallasArtsRevue. |

Mumbling Aliens with An Affection for Pink
J R and Anna - Halloween 2005,
the last time we got invited to a Halloween party.
DallasArtsRevue Policies
Submission Guidelines has their own page.
Show your fancy JPEG documents with all the pictures and words stuck forever in pixels to your friends. Paste your information as text in the text of an E-mail, and E-mail it to me. You can add images in there, too. But not images of the words I need, like dates and artists' names. When I create calendar items, I cut from emails and paste the information on the calendar page. If I can't cut and paste it, I'll delay retyping it. I am a lousy typist but a great procrastinator.
Name email subjects and attachments intelligently. I get a dozen "Press Release," "art" or "Art Show" attachments a week. Which show? What artist? Be specific. Or your information will get lost.

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