PROFILEThe Modern’s Michael Auping on Lucian Freud Exhibit

STAGEThe Opera’s Set toShine with Something for Everyone

SOCIALQ Cinema is Rolling Out Its 2012 Festival

EXHIBITNothing Says Spring Like Sun-Dappled Landscapes

News and events from the ARTS COUNCIL of Fort Worth & Tarrant County Spring 2012

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T o celebrate its 30th anniversary, the Sid Richardson Museum is hosting a rare exhibition of watercolors by Charles M. Russell. Come see why experts believe that his watercolors are among

his � nest efforts. Experience the paintings of the 19th-century American West by Russell, Frederic Remington, and other Western artists. The legendary Texas oilman, Sid W. Richardson, amassed what is considered one of the most signi� cant private collections of Remingtons and Russells in the United States. Open daily except major holidays. Museum Store with unique Western gifts. Free admission. www.sidrichardsonmuseum.org/111. The Sid Richardson Museum’s display is a companion exhibition to a major retrospective of Russell’s watercolors at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art—Romance Maker: The Watercolors of Charles M. Russell, now through May 13, 2012.

Charles M. Russell: WatercoloristNow through May 13, 2012

On the Attack (detail), Charles M. Russell, 1901

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Stop by the Arts Center 8-9

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ON THE COVERJohn Graham (1887–1961),

Table Top Still Life with Bird, 1929, oil on canvas, collection of Tommy and Gill LiPuma, New York

The cover image is part of the Amon Carter Museum of Ame-rican Art’s summer exhibition American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning and Their Circle, 1927–1942. The exhibition brings together more than 60 pioneering works of American modernism and is on view from June 9–August 19.

The exhibition is organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. Generous support for this exhibition and publication was provided by the Henry Luce Foundation and The Dedalus Foundation, Inc., and by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities. The Fort Worth presentation of the exhibition is sponsored by Bates Container.

WHAT’S INSIDEARTiclePROMOTING THE ARTS IN FORT WORTH & TARRANT COUNTY

Spring2012

Art has a community.The mission of the Arts Council of Fort Worth

is to create an environment that promotes, nurtures and supports the arts in our community.

The Council develops relationships between artists, organizations and the community at large through its stewardship of the

Community Arts Center, administration of the Public Art Program, and development of various educational opportunities for the community.

The Council also provides financial support to numerous, eligible non-profit arts organizations through the administration of a comprehensive grant program. Applications are reviewed

by qualified volunteer panels and judged on management ability, artistic excellence and community outreach.

The Arts Council is supported by the City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, the Texas Commission on the Arts,

the National Endowment for the Arts andnumerous individual, corporate and foundation donors. To all of whom we say,

“Thank you.”

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Arts CounCil stAffJody Ulich, PresidentAnne Allen, Public Art Program ManagerJennifer Conn, Public Art Collection ManagerMichelle Gonzales, Public Art Program SpecialistAlida Labbe, Public Art Project ManagerJohn Leach, Arts Center Facilities ManagerMary Montalvo, Arts Center DirectorCathy Neece Brown, Vice President – DevelopmentMarla Fleischmann Owen, Arts Center Business Development ManagerMartha Peters, Vice President – Public ArtDaniel Stone, Grant Program, Executive AssistantBrandon Swift, Arts Center Technical DirectorElaine Taylor, Arts Center Gallery ManagerCorliss Wall, Development Associate

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Auping on FreudThe Modern’s chief curator

discusses the legendary painter’s influence on contemporary art.

By Anna Caplan

Michael Auping, chief curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, is excited about the upcoming Modern ex-hibit Lucian Freud: Portraits, and he has good reason:

Before Freud died last year, he discussed his work with Auping, who’s eager to share the legendary artist’s thoughts –– and fantastic, raw, often beautifully gro-tesque portraits. Auping recently sat down with ARTicle’s Anna Caplan:

How did you find yourself interviewing Freud?We started with an idea of a show. [The National Portrait Gallery, London, was talking], and I insinuated myself. We were interested in being the only [U.S.] venue. Once we got that rolling, I introduced myself to Lucian, a totally fascinating guy. … I found him to be, later in life, reflective. … My big thrill was being invited into his studio, which is on the second floor of his house, very compact in space. There’s an aura there; it’s tawdry, paint everywhere, paint on chairs. There [was] always a painting in progress.

What sets Freud apart from other artists?He devoted 70 years of painting in an era when portrait painting was not the thing to do. Lucian steadfastly insisted on painting portraits. Lucian’s work was always about people and his relationship. That’s what distinguishes him.

And he didn’t work from photographs, always a model?Yes. That’s why we don’t have an equal over here. You mentioned Chuck Close before, but [what we see with Freud] is figuration that is flat, bright, mostly from advertising. American advertising is about spin and smooth, and in a way American advertising seeps into American portraiture. What Freud does is brings us very close, knee to knee, and his portraits are remarkably visceral. He had a fascina-tion with human skin, and you can almost feel the body heat and sweat [from his paintings].

How will the show be presented here?There are more than 100 works, so basically chronologically. Es-sentially, they are a visual diary, all the people Freud met over a 70-year period. From bookies to the Queen of England, each of them is portrayed with the same kind of realism.

Sounds like an amazing show.It’ll be intense.

Lucian Freud: PortraitsJuly 1-October 28

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell St, FW. 817-738-9215.

“Reflection (Self-Portrait)”Private Collection, Ireland

© The Lucian Freud Archive. Photo: Courtesy Lucian Freud Archive

“The Brigadier” Private Collection

© The Lucian Freud Archive. Photo: Courtesy Lucian Freud Archive

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2012See & DoThere’s always a variety of things to

see and do at the Community Arts Center. Stop by – you’ll be glad you did!

SPRING

Thru April 282012 Best of the BiennialFocus Gallery One & TwoThe Exhibition Advisory Panel of the FWCAC presents selections from the 2012 FWCAC Biennial, including The People’s Choice. Over 40 artworks from the 300 Biennial pieces have been selected as examples of the best works from the exhibit.

Thru April 28THE VIEW: Outside-in, Inside-out by Julie Wende and Cynthia HammettJulie Wende and Cynthia Hammett exhibit painterly landscapes with an emphasis on color, texture and forms.

Thru April 28Relative Motion by Michelle KaytazMichelle Kaytaz captures a sense of action with dynamic brushstrokes and bold color combinations, displaying a visual energy that represents the joy of movement.

Thru April 28TCCD NE Faculty ExhibitThe art department at TCC-NE campus, the largest program in the district, presents individual works by the forty-three fulltime and adjunct faculty in art, photography, and graphic communications.

Thru April 29Mr. & Mrs. Fitchby Douglas Carter Beanein the Sanders TheaterMeet gossip columnists Mr. and Mrs. Fitch. This wicked, urbane comedy is a scathing look at who is in, who is out, and who may not even exist at all. Visit www.amphibianproductions.org. Presented by Amphibian Productions.

April 23 - 29Student Exhibit Series: Bees and Things by Amy StephensThe jewelry of Amy Stephens meticulously focuses on preserving and glorifying nature while her sculptures focus on abstracting and breaking down naturalistic emotions. Using recycled materials, she is able to translate her thoughts into organic forms.

April 17 - 22Student Exhibit Series: G4 & G5 – Subtopia by Matthew GoldenMatthew Golden makes photographs about the ways in which humans interact within a specific environment and how those interactions create and affect place.

May 13 - June 2Three Decembers by Jake HeggieIn The Scott TheaterWhat secrets do we keep to spare the ones we love? In Jake Heggie's touching chamber opera, aging Broadway star Madeline and her adult children, Charlie and Bea, brave the depths of memory, love, and resentment. The acclaimed composer chronicles a family's achingly human struggle to love each other despite disappointment and conflict. Adult content. Presented by The Fort Worth Opera, www.fwopera.org.

April 21Project 4031, Inc. Fundraising EventIn the Galleries of the Arts Center

Learn More about Project 4031, Inc. and its passion for strengthening your end of life story. If you have a heart for the Hospice community and want to know more about how to give back to the cause; please join them for a night of fun with a cocktail sit down dinner and an expansive silent auction. Visit www.project4031.org for more information.

April 28Rock Around the Clock: The 50s Revisited!In the Scott TheaterReturn to those “Happy Days” of the 50s that gave birth to the golden days of Rock and Roll. Visit thedfwallstars.com. Presented by DFW All-Stars.

April 6 - June 29Torn Paper Paintings by Nancy StandleeTAC Featured Artist Nancy Standlee tends to use intuitive colors and is comfortable with representational and non-objective subjects. She enjoys imaginative figurative work while letting the viewer come to their own conclusions.

Thru April 28FW15Fifteen creative and passionate female visual artists group together in Fort Worth to showcase their art. This fourth annual show will be grouped around different subject matters, interests and technique.

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May 4 - June 23Inside.Outside by Gladys PoorteFocus Gallery OneGladys Poorte explores both interior and exterior spaces and their emotional overtones. The artist acts as Creator, building universes, or as a child, building imaginary worlds to play in, or as a stage designer building a set where a story will take place. She physically builds a model or set with both manufactured and hand-crafted objects.

June 16 &17Life’s Greatest HitsMoveNewz ProductionsIn the Sanders TheaterLife’s Greatest Hits presents life’s most difficult and triumphant moments through eleven characters. Every character will find gratitude in their own situation making that situation one of Life’s Greatest Hits.

June 24Dinner Party for Life Fundraising EventHosted by Cuisine for HealingIn the galleries of the Arts Center5-8pm

Cuisine For Healing hosts its second annual Dinner Party for Life, a fundraiser to help provide nutrition for people battling disease.

Tickets are limited in number and are $125 each. Visit www.texastoastculinarytours.com.

June 21-24Wizard of OzPresented by Kids Who CareIn the Scott TheaterFor information and registration visit www.kidswhocare.org or call 817-737-5437.

June 23DFW All Stars Jukebox Gold: The Greatest Hits of All TimeIn the Sanders TheaterFor tickets and information visit dfwallstars.com.

June 5Chung-Lin Tseng’sAn Evening of BalletPresented by Ballet Frontier of TexasIn the Scott TheaterFor information visit www.balletfrontier.org.

May 27Projected Twin ConcertIn the Sanders TheaterFor information call (866) 967-2094.

June 8 - 2924 Months The photographic images in this collection were taken by Danny Deen in the past 24 months in Alaska, Tanzania, Tuscany, Venice, Patagonia, and Cuba.

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May 4 - 30Transformation SeriesCynthia Medanich admires the technique of Trompe l’oeil, the realistic rendering of imagery to create the illusion of objects in three dimensions. The diverse variety of shapes, patterns and colors displayed in the wings of her fragile creatures are from another realm of time and space not directly connected to the world of butterfly.

May 4 - 30 PAINT Celebrates LifePAINT -- Professional Artists in North Texas -- is a group of accomplished and com-mitted artists who make a weekly practice of painting out of doors. Their subjects are primarily landscapes and botanical settings, though they are skilled in still life and figurative works as well.

May 5CincoSol de Fort Worth Ballet Folklorico In the Scott TheaterPerformance at 6:30pm. For information and tickets visit www.solfw.com or call 817-658-0012. Presale tickets $10, at the door $15.00.

May 9 - 30Night ShiftThis oil painting class, known as the Night Shift, is a group of adults who are professionals by day and who transform into right-brain expressives by night. The studio class, taught by Jo LeMay Rutledge, is held in the evenings at Fort Worth Country Day School and is designed for beginner through more experienced painters. They are joined in this exhibit by the Art Faculty of Fort Worth Country Day School.

June 8 - 29Classical Artists AraDona & JuliaAraDona and Julia Stjernström paint in the classical style of the masters. AraDona incorporates his own unique style, passionately creating both Biblical and mythological life-size compositions. He explained, “I love painting on very large scale canvas, because it affords me the space to show everything I wish to convey without limitations.” Julia focuses on the portrait. “The portrait painting is the essence and reflection of humanity.”

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Though the Fort Worth Opera has been in existence for 66 years, the legendary company has been offering world-class operatic fare in a festival format for only six. But the new approach is an unquali-fied success, based not only critical response but all-important box office receipts.

Attendance is up all across the board, including the numbers of opera-lovers who come to Fort Worth from other cities just for the festival – FWO executives glean the numbers by tracking local hotel occupancy rates.

The four-opera festival this year, May 12 through June 3, is poised to continue the winning trend. “There’s a little something for everybody this year,” said Joy Partain, Fort Worth Opera spokesperson.

For lovers of grand opera, FWO presents Puccini’s Tosca, a compel-ling love story full of corruption, deceit, and passion and featuring the largest orchestra, largest cast, and largest set in FWO history. Nothing before has ever been attempted on the stage of Bass Per-formance Hall (525 Commerce St, downtown), where three of the festival’s four works will take place.

High NotesThe Fort Worth Opera Festival is back, this year with a little something for everyone.

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The one piece that won’t be at Bass Hall, but at the Scott Theater in the Fort Worth Community Arts Center (1300 Gendy St, Cultural District), is a contemporary work by composer Jake Heggie, whose 2000 piece Dead Man Walking was put on by Fort Worth Opera in 2009. Three Decembers is a touching chamber opera about an aging Broad-way star and her two adult children.

Heggie isn’t the only living composer in the festi-val. Mark Adamo tackles the classic Greek comedy Lysistrata but for two nights only: Sat, May 26, and Sun, Jun 3. Adamo, who composed FWO’s 2005 hit Little Women, is perfect for traditional opera lovers who want to venture into the present-day, Partain said.

For everyone, there’s FWO’s production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, a charming yarn rife with Mozart’s inimitably bubbly melodies.

“Because of the compressed schedule we can also get more critics from around country,” Partain said. “More fame in the press attracts more opera fans, which brings more press, which allows us to be choosier about our casts.”

Relative unknowns who’ve trod the FWO boards over the past couple of years, including Stephen Costello, Ava Pine, and Susanna Phillips, have graduated to much bigger stages, including the Metropolitan Opera and Chicago’s Lyric Opera.

“It isn’t any more, ‘Will you please come sing for us?’ ” Partain said. “It’s more singers asking us, ‘When can you slot me in?’ ”

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Calling All Young ActorsArtes de la Rosa offers a performing-arts camp for kids.

By Celestina Blok

Aspiring actors between the ages of 8 and 16 can participate in free performing arts classes at Rose Marine Theater. The classes are a part of the Northside theater’s Artes Academy program, a segment of Artes de la Rosa, a group dedicated to preserv-ing the art and culture of the Latino community.

Students learn the foundation of acting, creative writing, visual arts, and dance, culmi-nating with a final presenta-tion. Spring and fall semesters are offered along with summer camps. The program began more than a decade ago, but

Artes de la Rosa just adopted the name Artes Academy for the program this year.

“Most of our former students have used the skills learned here to go to college and study theatre further or to get scholarships,” said Yvonne Duque, director of education and outreach for Artes de la Rosa. “We are proud to have students at Tarrant County College, Texas Wesleyan, TCU, Columbia, and UNT.”

Duque says some former students go on to build careers in the performing arts industry, including acting and theatre production. Class sizes range from 22 in the

spring and fall to up to 75 in the summer. Students are divided into small groups and work with area performing arts professionals. Registration for Artes Academy is first-come, first-served, and students are grouped from ages 8 to 12 and 13 to 16. There are also hip-hop salsa dance classes offered to all students.

“Since we are a free program, we interview new students to ensure genuine interest,” Duque said. “We will audition students to test skill level but never turn students away.”

In 2006 Artes de la Rosa received the Coming Up Taller award, a national award pre-

sented at the White House by the First Lady. It’s the nation’s highest honor for after-school arts and humanities program-ming for youths.

“Although our mission is to preserve and promote the history and lives of the Latino culture, we will (also) present non-Latino-themed plays,” Duque said. “We put a lot of emphasis on expanding creativity, imagination, team-work, stage presence, and ensemble-building.”

The Artes Academy will offer two summer camp sessions this year: June 11-July 1 and July 9-29. Visit www.rosemarinetheater.com.

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From its humble origins as a film discussion group with occasional screenings at Texas Christian University, Q Cinema, Fort Worth’s gay and lesbian international film festival, has blossomed into an internationally renowned event and is the longest running film festival in Fort Worth. Q Cinema now presents year-round events, includ-ing monthly screenings, live theater performances, and stand-up comedy showcases, in addition to the annual film festival.

Todd Camp, the festival’s artistic director, said the festival’s mission is to provide a voice for the LGTB com-munity. “I get asked all of time, ‘Why do we need a gay film festival?’ ” he said. “It’s because our stories are still not being told. You can go to the Lone Star International Film Festival and see one or two gay films, but the vast majority of our stories are still not being told.”

Camp curates the festival –– May 21 through June 2 this year –– and said he has already received more than 250 film submissions. He also combs other festivals for relevant films but prefers to showcase local filmmakers. The upcoming festival will feature the second screening of Raid at The Rainbow Lounge, a documentary by North Texas filmmaker Robert Camina that screened earlier this year in Fort Worth.

The festival has also spawned a live theater spin-off, Q Live, whose performance of Corpus Christi writer Terrence McNally’s one-act play Sweet Arrows at Addison’s Out of the Loop Theater Festival received rave reviews. During the next Q Cinema festival, the company will present the world premiere of the play version of author Charlie Da-vid’s film Mulligans. The film version was featured at the festival, and the author-playwright reached out to Camp after learning that Q had formed a live theater company.

“The theater company isn’t necessarily LGTB,” said Camp. “It’s just independent, quirky, and daring shows. There are some that have gay subject matter, but we’re not a gay theater company.”

Camp said the organization is doing everything it can to attract new audiences. In addition to the live theater troupe, Q has become more social media savvy and recently held an online mini film festival.

“We do anything we can to get people to participate in a way that they are comfortable,” he said. “But we’re al-ways encouraging them to come and sit in a dark theater with other people and have a unique shared experience.”

Q Cinema’s Rollin’The Southwest’s longest-running LGBT film festival is coming up in May.

Actor/writer Leslie Jordan and Q Cinema co-founder Shawn A. Moore are shown at the

second film festival, in 2000.

(from left to right) Q board member Stuart Himmelstein, writer/director Charlie David, and

QLive! artistic director Kyle R. Trentham are vital parts of the Q machine.

Director John Waters was visited by some of the costumed attendees of his

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All photos courtesy of Q Cinema, Inc.

Todd Camp is artistic director of Q Cinema and executive director of QLive!, a performance art group.

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That very year, TCU set about creating a learning environment firmly committed to the fine arts.

Today TCU continues to provide world-class training for aspiring musicians, actors, dancers and visual artists, with the vibrant cultural scene of Fort Worth as our beautiful home.

Here’s to the next century. Visit the TCU College of Fine Arts website at www.cfac.tcu.edu.

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May 11-27

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The Kimbell’s current exhibit, The Age of Impression-ism, couldn’t have come at a better time. Not only is the style hot –– Bonhams in London says Impres-sionism “seems to be getting stronger and stronger” at auction (CNN, Feb. 8, 2012) –– but nothing says spring like some sun-dappled landscapes and easy-breezy portraits.

From the collection of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Massachu-setts, The Age of Impressionism features 73 paintings, including 21 Renoirs, six Monets, and works by Manet, Pissarro, Gau-guin, Toulouse-Lautrec, and other prominent French painters of the period. Rebels for turning away from stilted, academic painting and focusing on plainfolk and everyday phenomena, the originators of the move-ment reflected the growing egalitarian nature of the times, the thickening of the ranks of the middle class. Instead of line and contour, the Impression-ists opted for mood, conveyed by impastos and shortened or “broken” brushstrokes, achieving vibrancy and immediacy. The undulating waves of greens and yellows in Monet’s “Geese in the Brook” veritably thrum with life, and in Alfred Sisley’s “The Loing and the Mills –– Snow Effect,” the piercing

white landscape browned on the right-hand side by small buildings and anchored by a frozen pond from whose surface reflections of the structures and some scrawny, dead trees shimmer conjures a frigidity strong enough to snatch your breath away.

Most of the Impressionists also painted en plein air, to best capture the transient effects of sunlight. A gauze of pink suffused with a bluish purple illumi-

nates Renoir’s “Bay of Naples, Evening,” the tableau of water, sailboats, dock, strollers, work-ers, buggies, and trees rendered surreal though no less impactful, and Renoir’s “Sunset,” with its swooshes of pinks and blues, could pass for an Abstract-Expressionist piece.

The Impressionists also took por-traiture from the aristocracy and placed it firmly in the lap of the common man or, more often, woman. With the dexterity of Rembrandt or Caravaggio, the Impressionist portraitists portrayed family members, working-class folks, and other artists, not dukes or saints.

The Kimbell is the lone U.S. venue for this inaugural international touring exhibition, a spellbinding and masterful treat.

Glenn Ligon: AmericaThru June 3 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell St, Cultural District, FW. 817-738-9215.

Glenn Ligon is a for-art’s-sake artist, not as interested in beauty as much as process and statement. The only pieces in the sprawling America that come close to eye-candy are the recreations of children’s drawings from a historical African-American coloring book from the 1970s –– in “Malcolm X (Version #1),” the ’60s-era activist has been given purple lips, white hair, blue-framed glasses, and, for dimples, pink dots. The rest of America is stark and haunting, a savoring of texture and subtext over superficiality. For his text-based paintings –– daunting monoliths of mostly indecipherable and multitudinous horizontal columns of words –– Ligon (b. 1960) sourced the writings of Jean Genet, Zora Neale Hurston, Jesse Jackson, and Richard Pryor. But Ligon may be at his most thought-provoking via his neons. You can’t miss his sublime “negro sunshine” hanging above the Modern’s entrance.

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Thru June 17Kimbell Art Museum,

3333 Camp Bowie BlvdCultural District, FW

Free-$14. 817-332-8451

The Age of ImpressionismRenoir's “Doge's Palace, Venice”

(left) and “Self Portrait” (right) are part of a spellbinding Impressionism

exhibit at the Kimbell thru June.

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