Last week, the story was that SMU’s Meadows Museum now had three paintings that had once been stolen by the Nazis — although buried deep in the story was the fact that both Meadows officials and Robert Edsel, author of The Monuments Men, felt that the museum’s rightful ownership of the paintings would eventually be [...]
… the one whose earlier sale Dallas collector Marguerite Hoffman wants to rescind? Its sale at Sotheby’s for $31 million Wednesday was the capper to what may have been a landmark week in modern and contemporary art auctions, sez the NYTimes: May 2010 might come to be remembered as the month when postwar and contemporary [...]
CELEBRATING, NOT MOURNING – In yesterday’s feature on DMA curator Heather MacDonald, we reported on the show coming to the Dallas Museum of Art in October: The Mourners, a series of 40-some, late-medieval statues that have never toured before but are making the rounds of seven American museums, courtesy of the DMA. The pint-sized masterpieces [...]
Moving in Place, the retrospective of Susan Rothenberg’s paintings that originated at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth last fall is now at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe — prompting the New York Times to write about how similar the two painters’ careers have become. For instance: O’Keeffe lived in New Mexico, [...]
The New York Times Paper Cuts book blog reports that with warm weather here, it’s time to check out appropriate wear — like t-shirts, like literary t-shirts, like those offered by Out of Print Clothing, which specializes in classic book jackets for its images (right), or Kafkacotton, which casts its fishing net a little wider, [...]
Last August, I reported that Michael Phillips, the Chicago Tribune’s movie critic and the former theater critic for the defunct Dallas Times Herald, was taking over Gene Siskel’s old aisle seat in the movie-review show, At the Movies. He’s been trading shots with the NYTimes‘ A. O. Scott. They were a notable improvement over the [...]
How ’bout that snow, eh? How ’bout that SXSW? How ’bout that healthcare reform? Big weekend. But it’s Monday, right, so to start you off right – A REAL BEAUT OF LaBUTE: Saw both The Shape of Things and Fat Pig over the weekend, parts 1 and 2 of the Dallas Theater Center‘s three “Beauty [...]
The NYTimes put out a special “Museums” section this morning with a sizable feature on Dallas Museum of Art director Bonnie Pitman. She’s been a pioneer in researching how to serve museum audiences — with her own book coming in June, Ignite the Power of Art: Advancing Visitor Engagement in Museum Experiences. The reorientation toward [...]
You may only dimly, painfully recall this, but this past weekend saw NX35 in Denton (Preston Jones’ festival review here), the start of SXSW in Austin, the end of the Out of the Loop Festival in Addison, the St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Greenville, Funky Finds in Fort Worth and an Art Crawl in Oak Cliff. [...]
Guest blogger Lanie DeLay is a Dallas-based artist and has recently been living and working in New York. Having been to the Dallas Museum of Art twice in the last couple of weeks, I have been reminded of Jerome Weeks’ recent post regarding the museum’s decision to end its free Thursday evenings. In particular, I [...]
