Local angle Fort Worth Modern Art Museum chief curator Michael Auping says that after one final conference call this week, he’ll wrap up his decision as one of the six curators for New York’s prestigious Whitney Museum of American Art 2000 Biennial. Selected artists won’t be announced until December for…
Even from this distance, a long city block away on the courthouse square in Waxahachie, you can tell something’s not quite right with Perry Murphy. The sight of him, half-shuffling across Franklin Street, grabs the attention of the dozen people gathered early this evening for Stephen Anderson’s art opening at…
In denial Dan Hartsfield, lead attorney for Talley Dunn in her million-dollar lawsuit against former employer Gerald Peters, says Peters has answered by filing a general denial of all claims, which he expected. What he didn’t expect was Peters’ moving the case to federal court. “You could say they made…
Everyone’s a critic Two big names in art criticism are coming to Dallas, and neither one of them is New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, who last week added his name to the list of politicians bent on shaping American minds about art. “It’s not art. It’s disgusting,” is Guiliani’s…
That championship season Dallas area arts organizations, ever in survival mode, have to hate the Irving Arts Center and the 13 small local arts groups that benefit from IAC’s total funding by the city of Irving. Public funding means no pledge drives, no schmoozing of corporate sponsors. IAC’s financial plan…
The guy in the corner of the lobby gallery of Continental Lofts doesn’t live here, but he is camped out nonetheless. He’s too tidy to be a panhandler, but too casual to be a security guard, even in Deep Ellum. His short ponytail pops up as he bends his graying…
The art of war Though Gerald Peters, president of the gallery that bears his name, has yet to formally answer the lawsuit filed by his former gallery director Talley Dunn, her pre-emptive strike in the form of a petition to invalidate her no-compete clause and seek $1.4 million in damages…
A cozy bungalow, roughly 6″ x 6″, perfectly formed by rectangles of thin steel welded into a symbol of comfort and security, sits atop a long, wooden handle in one recent piece of Tony Schraufnagel’s work on view last summer at 500X, Dallas’ oldest artist-run, alternative gallery. If the artwork…
If you believe the urban legend, then Amon Carter started it: a bitter rivalry between Dallas and Fort Worth that goes back for generations. Carter is the Fort Worth tycoon who supposedly packed a lunch before traveling to Dallas, just to make sure he wouldn’t have to spend a nickel…
Swill if you will, cuss if you must, but there are certain time-honored social covenants that shouldn’t be broken for Dallas’ (and even less-sophisticated Fort Worth’s) annual homage to the artist — Gallery Walk. Or is that Gallery Night? More an unspoken code of conduct, the guidelines listed herein appear…
From the looks of things, the Gerald Peters Gallery is as placid as its neighbors, a collection of renovated vintage homes and tasteful commercial buildings lining Dallas’ “gallery row” on Fairmount Street. The gallery’s spacious and quiet rooms offer a soothing experience to patrons, who can enjoy a tranquil stroll…
Micromanaging The rumor that Fort Worth Star-Telegram art critic Janet Tyson was fired August 23 after making an irreverent comment about senior features editor Julie Heaberlin seemed too ridiculous to be true. The story went that Tyson, with a 10-year track record covering art at the daily paper, popped off…
It’s dusk in Deep Ellum, still too bright for the frat boys, poseur chicks, and Uptown yupsters who congregate in the restaurants and be-seen bars of what was once alternative Dallas. This August eve, there’s plenty of parking in front of 2808 Commerce St., the site of a venue in…
Good gone bad Money talks, or so says Martin Iles, artist/spokesman for Denton-based Good/Bad Art Collective, of the group’s decision to divert from its usual “one-night-only” format for a monthlong installation at the University of Texas at Dallas’ gallery. Good/Bad’s cadre of conceptualists received $1,500 to create “Sweet Movie,” a…
The temptation to label the seven women, who met in art class at SMU and have maintained a loosely constructed collaboration in fine art for nearly 15 years, is uncontrollable. Even as you try to resist it, a litany of stereotypes comes to mind — housewives, mothers, grandmothers, DMA docents,…
Dunn deal Big jobs in big art galleries are hard work and high-profile in Dallas, but few and far between. Art forces to be reckoned with, like Talley Dunn, who recently resigned as gallery director for Gerald Peters Gallery, tend to stay put. Dunn’s decision to leave is still the…
If the Deep Ellum Public Improve-ment District survives what likely will be a contentious public hearing in city council chambers August 25, Barry Annino may get some of the credit. If it fails, he’ll take most of the blame. Annino has spent the last year putting a face on the…
Guerrilla tactics You’d think Frank Campagna would’ve learned his lesson back in 1993, when he took a merry band of fellow Deep Ellum artists to the streets and turned the Good-Latimer tunnels into a riot of visual art. “We took it from idea to execution in six weeks the first…
When twentysomething Lisa Ling, new co-host of ABC-TV’s popular talk show, The View, romped through Dallas last month promoting the show and purporting to be hip, she was still getting flack from assembled fans about a major faux pas she had made on a recent episode. In the program’s “Know…
