Jim Starr

To these five, clay was fallow ground, just waiting to get all plowed up. As Joan Miró said, "It is time to strike a blow."

Gallery director Marty Walker described how the opening-night crowd at Wayne White’s show I Fell 37 Miles to Earth 100 Years Ago queued up like airport ticket holders below those…

When Jacob Lawrence‘s biographical series about Haitian revolutionary hero Toussaint L’Ouverture was first shown in 1939 at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the 41 tempera paintings catapulted the twenty-one-year-old to…

Years ago, I officed in a building with a pair of psychologists. One Saturday, around the same time a client of theirs had finally worked up the courage to come…

Performance/Art at The Dallas Museum of Art is something of a welcome to the city’s new Performing Arts Center and Winspear Opera House. Organized by the DMA’s Charlie Wylie, the…

Susan Rothenberg was having a quiet moment at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth on the eve of her exhibition Moving in Place, the artist’s first museum show in…

Before I abandoned employer-based health insurance and a predictable income to make art, I spent 30 years of my life doing graphic design. I worked for all kinds of clients,…

Short Ride in a Fast Machine That knife-in-the-back-of-the-neck might have been just the wake-up call Diego Rivera needed. Paris "she-devil" Marevna Vorobieva-Stebelska had the shiv up her sleeve, awaiting their…