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Director Tim Skousen has just released his documentary “Zero Percent” at the Dallas Film Festival. It spotlights a higher education program within the maximum security [...]

I took a little hiatus from writing about art because I needed to sort out some thoughts. I have not been visiting gallery shows or [...]

From July 2 – August 1, Northpark Center is displaying an exhibit of various buildings in Downtown Dallas made entirely of Legos. These are HUGE [...]

    Kana Harada just had an opening at the MAC, displaying almost a dozen of her plant-forms. The combination of trees and flowers reminds [...]

A podcast has recently been released on Frieze Art Fair’s site with a panel discussion about Art and Theory. (The most notable figure being Robert [...]

  The Sunday edition of the NYTimes featured an article on Ken Price titled "The Blobs Aren’t Talking ," by Nick Stillman. While I am [...]

  If there were three balls on the floor (1lb, 50lbs, 100lbs) but all the same size, shape, color and surface … could you tell [...]

  I just returned from attending Modern Ruin, a great experiment organized by Christina Rees and Thomas Feulmer. The two-day exhibition takes advantage of the [...]

  Chong Chu & Hyun Ju Chung (married) continue to be Dallas based painters, but they have not shown much in Dallas since the close [...]

The New York Times’ Hollin Cotter has recently reviewed Tino Sehgal’s show of performance based art at the Guggenheim. It is a highly praised show, [...]

  "Sho" is the name of the new sculpture in the Meadows Museum Plaza, consisting of a large wire-frame head. I had seen images of [...]

As the director of SlideRoom, I have a unique point of view on trends in the arts: contests, grants, education, etc … One interesting trend [...]

Philip Van Keuren has mounted a fantastic show of his work on paper from the past forty years (at the MAC).  This includes poetry, drawings, [...]

Artist and Blogger Dennis Hollingsworth just visited Claremont Graduate School to talk with students. He was struck by their longing for professional assurances about life [...]

Art Critic Carol Diehl, in her recent post Observation on Observation , has written an excellent essay about the importance of writers talking about the [...]

Once a year (or so) the artists with studio space at the Shamrock Hotel in Deep Ellum host an open studio day. The whole space [...]

Helen Stoilas has just published an excellent interview with Robert Storr titled: Robert Storr: Most theory has little bearing on art. Here is a snip [...]

The topic of offering an MFA degree (or even a PhD) has long been a subject of debate. Edward Winkleman recently posted about it again, [...]

Joe Fig interviews 24 contemporary artists (from the usual to the young) and askes them each the same questions. From "what kinds of paints do [...]

Many artists today rely on their computers as part of their studio practice. Whether this be Photoshop, video-editing or some other practice, there is a [...]