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About Last Night: Portfolio Review at Kettle Art Gallery

We told you about the call for artists for Kettle Art Gallery’s first juried art exhibit. Remember those 400+ artists who entered the Portfolio Review? The judges were asked to narrow the competition down to 55 artist’s works and last night was the unveiling. We’ll let the video speak for the rest.

ART of Skateboarding is Upon Us

Every time I enter the Belleview St. side of the Southside on Lamar building, I always wish I had a skateboard. That and I wish I knew how to skateboard. It looks like endless acres of smooth shiny concrete which seems to be, as my son says, “the perfect conditions for skateboarding.” So [...]

Bucks Big Bash Rehash

You may remember the Bucks Burnett exhibit we told you about last week, along with the video interview with Bucks himself. Thanks to our friend, local video-journalist extraordinaire Randy Eli Grothe, we bring you some rehash from that night.
The band performing is The BBC, Barry Whistler’s band. The still photos in the video were [...]

Friday Morning Roundup

THINK GLOBALLY, RECORD LOCALLY: “All I knew was that I wanted to be a musician, and I wanted to skip the step of paying other people to record,” Fort Worth musician and sound engineer Zaq Bell says in reference to using a home recording studio. That’s the approach that more and more Fort Worth musicians [...]

Ticket Giveaway: (Untitled)

I haven’t seen (Untitled) yet, but the plot of the movie at least sounds like it would be up the alley of the rank-and-file Art&Seek reader. From imdb.com:
“A fashionable contemporary art gallerist in Chelsea, New York falls for a brooding new music composer in this comic satire of the state of contemporary art.”
Interested? Just click [...]

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Look Ma, No Hands: William Lamson at Marty Walker Gallery

Guest blogger Gail Sachson owns Ask Me about Art, offering lectures, tours and program planning. She is Vice-Chair of the Cultural Affairs Commission and a member of the Public Art Committee.
Just as we have personal and unique rhythms in our individual walks, writings and words, nature has its  rhythms as well. Brooklyn performance artist William [...]

ArtCon 5: Artists Get on Board At Noon Today

If you want to join this year’s Art Conspiracy, today’s the day and now’s *almost* the time. You’re committing to making an artwork on Dec. 11 that will be auctioned on Dec. 12. Here are your instructions:
Send an e-mail to art@artconspiracy.org at noon today. Put “I’m in!” in the subject line. Space is limited for [...]

Danielle Talks Dance (and Art) at the DMA

You’ve read her writing about dance on the Art&Seek blog (most recently here and here). And now you can hear her talk about her passion in the flesh. Danielle Georgiou will lead a gallery walk on Wednesday at 12:15 p.m. at the Dallas Museum of Art titled “Discovering the Other Through Movement and the Visual Arts.”

What Is it With This Green?

I’ve never much liked this color. To tell you the truth, I never even liked it on Art&Seek. But who listens to me?
Turns out that all the people who didn’t listen to me at Upper Managment KERA were smart. In Dallas, this green has become Our Trendy New Shade of Light Summery Slime.
First, it [...]

Monday Morning Roundup

MERRY WIDOWS: Jubilee Theatre’s Dance on Widow’s Row finds that death can be quite a funny thing – especially if there is a lot of it.  The setting for the show is a dinner party in which a group of widows play host to a few potential husbands/prey. “Given that the quartet of widows who [...]

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