October 31st, 2011 
UAA Team 
The Brooklyn Museum will present the first wide-ranging exploration of American art from the decade whose beginning and end were marked by the aftermath of World War I and the onset of the Great Depression. Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties, which includes some 138 paintings, sculptures, and photographs by 67 artists, will [...]
October 27th, 2011 UAA Team 
The exhibition “Multiplicity” features contemporary prints from the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum that embrace many styles, techniques and approaches with which artists have worked over the past several decades. “Multiplicity” is on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum from Nov. 11 throughMarch 11, 2012. The exhibition is organized by Joann Moser, senior [...]
Posted in Art, Museum, Prints and Posters 
Tags: Brice Marden, Chuck Close, David Hockney, John Baldessari, John Cage, Julie Mehretu, Kara Walker, Kiki Smith, Martin Puryear, Multiplicity, R. Luke DuBois, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Sol LeWitt, Susan Rothenberg, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Vija Celmins 
No Comments » October 23rd, 2011 ewmiller 
A trip to Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden in North Dallas is always a treat. It was a rush to get there by Saturday at 11:00 in the morning, and by the time we arrived at about 10:58, the parking lot was almost to the over-flowing point. I was actually surprised there weren’t already [...]
Posted in Art, Artist, Show & Gallery Tags: Dallas, Fort Worth, Jim Woodson, New Mexico, TCU, Valley House No Comments » October 21st, 2011 UAA Team 
To mark its 50th Anniversary, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art announces that it has acquired an important painting by Mary Cassatt, Woman Standing, Holding a Fan, created in 1878–79. The work is one of only two known canvases painted by the artist almost entirely in the medium of distemper and represents a key [...]
October 20th, 2011 UAA Team 
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has acquired the painting Yarrow Mamout, 1819, an exceptionally rare portrait of an African-American by Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), one of the most renowned American artists of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Depicting an aged man who had been born in Guinea in western Africa, taken into slavery [...]
October 20th, 2011 UAA Team 
The new art show “Fannie Brito: Mixed Emotions,” curated by Ro2 Art Gallery, takes a new venue in the trendy Belmont Hotel. It was a somewhat unusual venue for an art show, but none-the-less the perfect setting for an evening out. Designed by Charles Stevens Dilbeck, a local architect in 1946, the sculpted cliff built [...]
Posted in Art, Artist, Show & Gallery Tags: Belmont Hotel, Charles Stevens Dilbert, Dallas, Fannie Brito, Jordan Roth, Ro2, Susan Roth Romans No Comments » October 19th, 2011 UAA Team 
“I…am always obliged to go and gaze at a blade of grass, a pine-tree branch, an ear of wheat, to calm myself,” Vincent van Gogh wrote in a letter to his sister, Wilhemina, in July of 1889. An artist of exceptional intensity, not only in his use of color and exuberant application of paint but [...]
Posted in Art, Artist, Museum Tags: Exhibit, Gregory White Smith, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rodin Museum, Steven Naifeh, Sunflowers, Van Gogh No Comments » October 18th, 2011 Sun 
Before heading to the exhibition Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan at the Meadows Museum in the SMU campus, I did not know what to expect. Almost every sculpture in China’s Buddhist temples were remade after nearly one hundred years’ of negligence either from natural disaster, military or political turmoil. Most [...]
Posted in Art, Asian Art, Museum, Show & Gallery Tags: Buddhist Art, Dallas, Meadows Museum, Northern Qi Dynasty, sculpture, SMU, Xiangtangshan No Comments » October 17th, 2011 ewmiller 
This weekend I was introduced to the North Texas Book & Paper show held this year in Grapevine, Texas. I understand from talking to several of the dealers that the show has graduated over the years from being a more exclusively rare book and Texas show to one with a large portion of the dealers [...]
October 13th, 2011 UAA Team 
An 8-foot-long 1906 Rock Island Railroad reverse glass train sign brought $71,500 at an auction held Sept.30-Oct. 2 by Showtime Auction Services, at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds in Ann Arbor. It was a new auction record for an 8-foot Rock Island sign, more than doubling the previous record of $30,000. It was also the [...]
