Arhats and Demons
Takashi Murakami makes a point of referencing ancient traditions of Japanese painting, its formal discipline and flat surfaces. Yet no one would mistake his...
Inside Jeremy Joel’s Brain
Jeremy Joel has made a name for himself as a type of cultural ambassador for the Near Southside. His murals, strewn throughout the neighborhood,...
Finding Mañanaland
“A lot of people think ‘mañana’ means tomorrow, but really it means ‘just not today,’ ” Michelle Kirk told me recently.
Kirk, cofounder of Fort...
Out of Focus
There is a distinct whiff of sweetness in the air as you enter Fort Works Art. It is coming from Fabiola Valenzuela’s floor sculpture...
The Skin We Live In
In a city where artists can have a difficult time achieving professional advancement or become “career artists,” Fabiola Valenzuela may be upending that trend....
The Art of Collection
When attorney Sam Myers and wife Myrna Myers moved to Paris in the mid-1960s, the young couple, both second-generation Americans from working-class families, were...
Seeking at Artspace 111
Artspace 111’s location on Hampton Street is as far east as you can go and technically still be downtown, and Fort Worth’s multistory buildings...
Just Looking: TCU’s Kick A** and Take Names
In the 1930s, a group of critical theorists known as the Frankfurt School grappled with the cultural implications of technological advances in film, radio,...
Nina Chanel Abney’s Presence
Just two blocks away from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Stuart David’s “In Full Swing” hangs in the lobby gallery of the...
Just Looking: Arnoldo Hurtado’s Artscream
As much as he is a visual artist, Arnoldo Hurtado is also a traveler –– across both place and time, and from tradition to...
