In the early 1970s, Willem de Kooning was widely considered a once-great has-been whose career had peaked and faded away. He grew unfashionably old, and though he never stopped painting, he nonetheless fell out of favor with the changing tastes of the time. As his 70th birthday neared, de Kooning reinvented himself as a sculptor, [...]
Sculptors Jay Silber (left) and Etty Horowitz discussing art in front of Barbara Hepworth’s Squares with Two Circles (Monolith) at the Nasher Sculpture Garden. The Texas Sculpture Association celebrated 25 years of supporting and cultivating North Texas’ thriving community of sculptors. The three-day event included parties, tours, lots of food, and a Saturday symposium which [...]
Author James Crumley The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts gets its third-largest donation, $15 million from Sammons Enterprises, for the outdoor spaces around the Winspear Opera House and the Wyly Theater. Some parents and DISD teachers have expressed fears about students seeing images in the PBS arts documentary series, art:21. The first three seasons [...]
On p. 90 of today’s The New York Times Magazine — and in a slide show on the Times’ website — Willard Spiegelman, SMU English professor and editor of The Southwest Review, appears as a male model. The issue is dedicated to teaching, and Dr. Spiegelman is an exemplum of a “Class Act,” one of [...]
The current financial troubles have already affected the Seattle Art Museum in a highly unusual way: It shares ownership of its downtown Seattle building with Washington Mutual — the teetering-on-the-brink savings bank. What happens when it’s the non-profit arts institution that is the solvent landlord, and the bank is the penniless tenant? Lehman Brothers Holding [...]
From the Washington Post: You don’t hear panic from the directors of museums and theaters, nor has anyone started to cut back the number of productions or exhibitions they’re planning. Economic jolts take a few months, or longer, to reach budgets and schedules in Planet Arts, and gifts from corporations make up one of the [...]
Karen Garrett cardboard sculpture currently on display in Bryan Tower Guest blogger GAIL SACHSON is a member of the TSA 25th Anniversary Planning Committee and the Moderator of the Symposium Panel discussion. The Mayor of Dallas and the Governor of Texas have proclaimed September to be Sculpture Month. So don’t be surprised when you notice [...]
For a day that saw the tragic end of contemporary writer David Foster Wallace, a fortuitous counterbalance was found in Dallas with life expressed by author Junot Diaz. Diaz participated in a vibrant discussion of his work for the Writers Studio at the Dallas Museum of Art. His first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of [...]
DFW. the celebrated postmodernist, author of Infinite Jest and A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, was 46. The NYTimes appreciation is here.
Anthony Tommasini, the classical music critic of the New York Times, has written a bittersweet profile of George Steel, the new general director of the Dallas Opera. Sweet, because Tommasini clearly values Steel highly as an innovative New York musical theater presenter and producer (he has turned Columbia University’s Miller Theater into “a hotbed of [...]
