Dallas Art News is starting a webcomic section that will feature a new art related webcomic each week. We are inviting all established webcomic artists to participate via our Guest Webcomic Artist Program.
Exhibiting artists Glenn Ligon and Marilyn Minter discuss desire with Desire curator Annette DiMeo Carlozzi at the Blanton Museum of Art.
If you are wandering the corridor’s of the Blanton Museum of Art not sure what to do with yourself while between exhibitions, it is well worth your time to stop by the small exhibition featuring prints by the Spanish Master Goya. Goya’s Prints: The Dawn of Modern Art is located the upstairs print gallery, and although the area seems tiny in comparison to the major exhibition space, it offers a view into the later years of this world renowned artist.
As a reader, follower and / or friend of Dallas Art News, we would like to enlist your help. Dallas Art News is expanding our list of museums to include more venues in and around Texas. For each museum listed we would like to have an original photograph of the museum. Your assignment is to photograph your local museum and send it to Dallas Art News.
The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin has announced changes to its admission prices effective January 1st. Please see below for details. Admission remains free on Thursdays, and is always free for Blanton members, UT students, faculty and staff, and for children under 12.
Grumbacher art supplies is excited to partner with a prominent retailer to offer fine art workshops in retail stores. These workshops will consist of two hours of instruction, during which time students will complete an acrylic painting. There are fo
Austin Art Space Gallery and Studios officially opened submissions for the 5th Annual ‘For the Love of Art” Juried Exhibit. The show is one of three juried shows held each year at the gallery that have drawn entries from as far away as New Zealand, France and Alaska.
Dallas Art News invited webcomic artists from the Dallas Webcomics Expo (DWEX) to participate in a special feature, Webcomics Imitating Art. The idea was for each webcomic artist to use their characters and style to recreate a famous work of art. We only expected to get about six works, but we lucked out and got nineteen webcomic artists to participate.
Calling all Web Comic artists! Dallas Art News would like to highlight established Web Comics in a future article. The theme of the article will be “comics imitating art”, where artists re-create well known works of art using their Web Comic character(s) and style. The article, which will mostly be the images created by the comic artists and links to their sites, will appear during the first week of December 2009.
Periodically, Dallas Art News is going to post what we consider to be a bad idea. By bad idea, we really mean a good idea. No, a great idea. An idea so potentially great that it may be consider devilishly bad. The grand scheme of our bad ideas is to bring Dallas Art News viewers and artists together to comment and discuss these wicked thoughts. Dallas Art News does not encourage anyone to carry out any of our bad ideas or the related comments and discussions. You should not do anything that is illegal or harmful to yourself, other persons, businesses or property. Just say no.
Erin Curtis likes space. She likes the mystery behind it, the sense of awe it inspires, and the infinite possibilities for exploration that lies within. This is not space as in “The Final Frontier” however, but pictorial space; space that exists only as an illusion. It is a skill that has preoccupied artists for years, how to create a believable, dimensional space on a flat surface which draws the viewer into the artist’s creation. In many cases, the implementation of architecture is used to create depth through its intricate construction. This can be seen in so many of the early Renaissance paintings, where colorful windows, doorways, and arches create a believable depth in which the figures reside. Curtis plays with this idea of space-through-architecture, and seeks to confuse the traditional idea of the viewers perspective.
Dallas Art News needs reporters. We are looking for individuals with a passion for art and the ability to write an honest review. Reporters should live in Texas (Austin, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio areas) and can attend local museums and galleries.
The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin presents Eclipses for Austin, the next installation in the museum’s WorkSpace series of contemporary art. Eclipses for Austin, conceived by Mexican artist Pablo Vargas Lugo, will address the sense of belonging that collective activities inspire in people – despite their unique backgrounds. Total eclipses of the sun provoke astonishment, anxiety, hope, joy, and fear in many people, compelling them to question their place in the world.
Your Heart is Not a Museum
Domy Books
September 12 – October 22, 2009
If you live in Austin and haven’t jumped on the Domy Books bandwagon, it’s high time you did. Domy Books debuted a second branch in Austin in the beginning of June and people have been talking ever since. Don’t let the name fool [...]
A Couple Ways of Doing Something: Photographs by Chuck Close, Poems by Bob Holman at the Austin Museum of Art provides a glimpse into what Chuck Close has been working on in these last few years outside of painting. Within the entire exhibition, there are only two paintings by Close and they’re not part of the traveling exhibit, so the show literally forces us to consider his different and more recent approaches to making portraiture.
Laura Moore Fine Art Studio — A working artist's studio and gallery. Check this one out in McKinney, Texas.
www.lauramooreart.com
Jennifer Grassman — Serpent Tales and Nightingales starring Jennifer Grassman. Lovely music.
www.jennifergrassman.com
