Trinity Arts Guild, one of the oldest membership organizations for visual artists in North Texas, has called for entries to its annual New & Emerging Juried Show. The 47-year-old Bedford-based nonprofit is looking for paintings and sculptures (but not photographs) from accomplished amateurs.
To qualify, you must be at least 18 and not make your living [...]

Tickets remain for tonight’s Toadies show at the Palladium Ballroom south of downtown D but only at the door. The recently-reformed Fort Worth post-punk hard rock band has just released its first album in seven years. The group headlines a four-act bill. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Read a positive review of the record here and [...]

Small artwork affordable to the masses, some of it factory-produced and some handmade. We’ve written about this phenomenon before and love stumbling on to new examples. The latest? Art-o-mat, a cigarette vending machine converted to dispense cigarette-box-size art for $4 to $7. Actually, the Art-o-mat has been around for a decade, the product of a [...]

Still from A Family Finds Entertainment (2004) by Ryan Trecartin, courtesy Elizabeth Dee Gallery
“The Program,” the video-art series at Conduit Gallery, raises interesting questions about the economics, aesthetics and distribution channels of a form that falls somewhere between film and visual art.
Are these artists, who are generally represented by galleries, working in the tradition [...]

The 7th Annual Asian Film Festival of Dallas opened Thursday at the Magnolia Theatre in West Village for an eight-day run and screenings of more than 40 films. There’s a lot of talk about Ping Pong Playa because it’s a broad comedy, a rarity in Asian cinema.
Here’s a breakdown from Art&Seek’s calendar and mini [...]

Still from Battleship Potemkin Dance Edit (2007) by Michael Bell-Smith (with the assistance of Jeff Sission), courtesy of the artist
Video Association of Dallas‘ ambitious video-art series “The Program” is heading toward the home stretch with its fourth of five weeks of programming and installations at Conduit Gallery in the Design District. New pieces and several [...]

Art isn’t just what hangs in museums and galleries or what sells for millions in international auctions. As that art has become literally bigger in size and pricier, Internet-age counter-movements of small, affordable, personalized (and sometimes mass-produced) works have cropped up. The line between artist and appreciator has blurred in the process.
Etsy Dallas, an online [...]

Drawing Restraint 13 by Matthew Barney
Video art is about to get what may be its most serious and thorough treatment ever in North Texas. Beginning Saturday, the Video Association of Dallas, best known for putting on the annual Dallas Video Festival, hosts a five-week series of video programs, installations and performances at Conduit Gallery.
Curated by [...]

Can there really be such a thing as a “secret” band in the Internet age? Maybe if the media is willing to play along. So far, a concerted effort to unmask the members of Denton’s Pyramids has been lacking. And maybe that’s half the fun, especially with music that’s as mysterious as who’s making it.
Reviewers [...]

The collapse between high and low art, between art and business, between art only the rich can afford and art we can all take home, is a fact of postmodern life, the upcoming King Tut exhibit being debated on this blog just one example.
I recently stumbled on the phenomenon of small, mass-produced “art” objects that [...]