I had a teacher who died this past March. He was a survivor of the Holocaust and an artist who lived in the Boston area. His name was Albert Alcalay, and he was a Serbian Jew who spent the years of World War II on the run until he was captured and held in a series [...]
Portia and Brutus, Ercole de Roberti, 1486-90, tempera (detail) A collaboration between the Kimbell and the Met in New York, the exhibition Art and Love in Renaissance Italy gets reviewed in the New York Times by Roberta Smith. The show runs at the Met through February and then comes to the Kimbell in March. The [...]
If you are looking to get into some local holiday-themed shows on the cheap, here’s your chance. Dallas Theater Center is offering $10 tickets to A Christmas Carol for its performance on Monday, Nov. 24 at 7:30 p.m. To purchase the tickets, click here or call the box office at 214.522.8499 and use the promo [...]
In case you didn’t notice, the art market has crashed. The price disparity between the good and the great has widened to “humongous.” And most of what’s up for auction is only average. But that’s leading to re-thinking the whole art auction process: “The “recipe for all the auction houses has changed,” said Michael McGinnis [...]
Rufino Tamayo But Rufino Tamayo’s “America” didn’t belong to the Dallas Museum of Art. Tamayo’s largest mural at 13 ft by 15 ft, it was commissioned by the Bank of Southwest in Houston in 1955. it was bought by an anonymous private collector in 1993 — and has been on loan to the DMA ever [...]
Neil Slater conducts the One O’Clock Lab Band. For local jazz fans, the biggest event of the year just might be going down this weekend in Denton. The University of North Texas will host a reunion concert on Saturday in honor of the retiring directors of the school’s One O’Clock and Two O’Clock Lab bands, [...]
If you made this past spring’s AFI Dallas International Film Festival, there’s a good chance you caught one of the 15 finalists announced Wednesday for the documentary feature Oscar. At the Death House Door, Glass: A Portrait of Philip in 12 Parts and I.O.U.S.A. all showed at the festival, and each of them made the [...]
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is a lovely place to see a film. Wednesday night’s screening of Albert Alcalay: Self Portraits brought out a rich mix of die-hard film fans, Fort Worth Modern devotees, KERA members and even a Harvard alumnus who had taken classes with Alcalay in her college days. After the [...]
If you’ve never been to the Cedars neighborhood just south of downtown Dallas, Saturday offers the perfect excuse to branch out. A dozen artists will participate in a group show called Base, curated by Art&Seek guest blogger Sarah Jane Semrad as part of the Cedars Open Studios Tour. Everything from painting and sculpture to fashion [...]
Last week’s Art&Seek Q&A subject, Jen Rose, is the latest addition to Art&Seek’s ongoing online Artist Spaces tour. We are nosy like that. If you want to show off the place where you work on your art, send us an e-mail to artandseek@kera.org. Artists of every kind are encouraged to submit. My friend Aileen McDermott [...]
