Albert Alcalay: Self-Portraits plays at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth at 7 p.m. tonight. This man lived quite the life while painting abstract jazz landscapes that look like how it feels to be in New York City when you’re at an emotional extreme. For more information, call me at 214.740.9220. No crank calls, [...]
The Kimbell Art Museum (center) is adding a new building (center left). The Modern Art Museum is in the upper right. The KERA radio story: The expanded online story: North Texas is getting a Piano duet. Renzo Piano, the celebrated architect of the Nasher Sculpture Garden in Dallas, is designing a new $70 million addition [...]
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s blog has made something of a name for itself for its backstage “installation” photos, de-mystifiying the process of re-constructing and installing art works in a museum gallery. In one of its latest posts, the blog considers the opposite: How do you take down Kara Walker’s elaborate cut-paper silhouettes?
Guest blogger Gail Sachson owns Ask Me About Art, an educational service, is Vice-Chair of the Cultural Affairs Commission and a member of the Public Art Committee. Celebrating the Nasher family and the fifth anniversary of the Nasher Sculpture Center, architecture critic David Dillon, joined by Nancy Nasher, led a discussion at the Center Saturday [...]
The president of Americans for the Arts and the CEO of the Houston Arts Alliance make the case for the arts in Houston as an “economic powerhouse.” But a Houston TV reporter goes undercover and finds a lack of oversight — from the Houston Arts Alliance — for how city tax money has been spent [...]
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One-Way Color Tunnel, Olafur Eliasson, 2007 Many viewers will have a blast pondering some of Olafur Eliasson’s exhibition Take Your Time at the Dallas Museum of Art — and some will be bored by part of it. An easy enough prediction; one could say it about any exhibition. But I also predict that, afterwards, there [...]
North Texans have the chance to see an Art&Seek original documentary, Albert Alcalay: Self Portraits, at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth prior to its television premiere on KERA (Channel 13). Albert Alcalay survived a concentration camp during the Holocaust, then became a jazz-influenced abstract painter and ultimately a Harvard professor. Three of his [...]
Jennifer Rose spent a recent morning meticulously installing vinyl patterns to a gallery wall, an afternoon feeding her child chocolate bunny crackers and answering interview questions, and, run down by midnight, chilled with an episode of Ghost Hunters. She’s especially busy these days as she is one of the artists in CADD Art Lab’s second [...]
Congratulations to Shawn O’Connell, the winner of our Flickr Photo of the Week contest! Extra kudos to Shawn for winning what was without a doubt the most difficult week of the contest to date. Take a look at the first page of our Flickr Group page to know what we’re talking about. Shawn follows last [...]
