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Making Art As A Couple: Biggs and Collings at TCU
Biggs&Collings: Suspicious Utopias at Texas Christian University. The Art Galleries at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth recently opened a show of the intellectually charged work of a...
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Commentary: A Walk Through the DMA’s ‘DallasSITES’
In a groundbreaking exhibition called DallasSITES the Dallas Museum of Art honors 50 years of contemporary art in Dallas. Correspondent Joan Davidow walks us through the historic presentation. KERA...
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Why Are Art Collectives Popping Up Everywhere?
Artists are often lone wolves – the painter in his studio, the sculptor immersed in her work. But that’s changing in North Texas. A surprising number of artists are banding together – and changing...
View ArticleBeautifully Ordinary: Jim Hodges at the DMA
In its first museum partnership with the highly respected Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Dallas Museum of Art mounts an artist’s first solo museum presentation. Contributor Joan Davidow shows...
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Spices, Stains And Rot: Stephen Lapthisophon On His DMA Exhibition
Concentrations 56: Stephen Lapthisophon – coffee, seasonal fruit, root vegetables and “Selected Poems”, 2013. Dallas Museum of Art. Another view of the installation by Stephen Lapthisophon. A...
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Creating A Legacy – And A Gallery – For Late Artist John Wilcox
“Bluing” By John Wilcox John Wilcox painted diligently up until his death, from AIDS, 2 years ago. Now, his brother has converted the small studio in Exposition Park where Wilcox lived and worked into...
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Kudos To Dallas Biennial Creators; Next Time Let’s Pay More Attention
DB 14’s billboard art, by Math Bess, appears at West 10th & Taylor Streets in Fort Worth through May 31. Intro: Dallas Biennial 2014, a multi-staged exhibition blanketed Dallas this spring and...
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Bad Boys Sure, But Women Shine In The Modern’s ’80s Art Show
“I shop,” by Barbara Kruger. New York City was a gritty and exciting place for artists in the 80s. The scene and its splashy artists – from Andy Warhol to Keith Haring — all appear at Modern Art Museum...
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DMA’s Gutai Exhibit Brings Insights To Post WWII Art
“Wild Boar Hunting II” by Kazuo Shiraga, 1963. Between Action and the Unknown runs through July 17 at the Dallas Museum of Art. Listen to the KERA FM radio report...
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Simeen Farhat: Texas’ Contribution to the Venice Biennale
Simeen Farhat at the Venice Biennale. Photo: Joan Davidow. The Venice Biennale is one of the art world’s most prestigious exhibitions. It’s a big deal for the artists whose work is chosen. KERA...
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Commentary: Landscape Plan Transforms UTD, Spreads to Richardson
INTRO: From a former cotton field to a new forest on the University of Texas at Dallas campus, ever-greening a dry, flat public landscape has transformed the north Dallas flatlands and generated a...
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Commentary: Art of the American Indian at the DMA
Art of the American Indian: the Thaw Collection, is on view through Labor Day at the Dallas Museum of Art. The exhibition of 100 Native American works caused commentator Joan Davidow to contemplate...
View ArticleCommentary: Discovering Donald Judd – and Minimalist Art
Joan Davidow is Director Emerita of the Dallas Contemporary. Listen to the commentary that aired on KERA FM http://artandseek.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/KERA-Commentary_Joan-Davidow-Donald-Judd.mp3...
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Commentary: Remembering Arts Patron Nancy Hanley
Friends and family last week said goodbye to art patron and collector Nancy Hanley. Commentator Joan Davidow, Director Emerita of the Dallas Contemporary, worked closely with Hanley at museums in...
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KERA Commentary: Four Local Galleries Achieve Greatness Without Grandeur
Rebecca Carter's pianos at the Reading Room In a shrinking economy, you wouldn’t expect the Dallas art scene to burst with new growth. Commentator Joan Davidow believes four small, out-of-the-way art...
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Commentary: Bigger Is Better, Less Is More At DMA Contemporary Exhibit
Contemporary art gets plenty of room to breathe in the DMA’s barrel vault. On the floor is “Slack of Vinyl” by Jiro Takamatsu. There’s always some of the Dallas Museum of Art’s vast contemporary...
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