Upon entering the Corinth Park warehouse just south of downtown Dallas on Saturday night, my first thought was, “Am I in Austin?” My reason for being there was the after party for the Cedars Open Studios Tour, curated by Art&Seek guest blogger Sarah Jane Semrad (that’s her Giant Necklace above). Artists with studios on the [...]

Well, there’s always the Winspear. Plans for a controversial, 188-story tower near the Moscow River designed by Sir Norman Foster, architect of the Winspear, have been scrapped, even though construction began a year ago . “Crystal Island” was to cost an estimated $4 billion and was frequently derided as “mountainous.” What killed Europe’s tallest skyscraper-to-be? [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

North Texas is home to a vibrant and budding gallery scene, with multiple galleries opening in the past few months. But, unlike museums, galleries rely on tasteful collectors interested enough in the work to purchase it. Without these patrons, many budding artists would have no means to emerge. John Reoch is one such collector. A [...]

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 [...]