Newspaper and Magazine Articles
6-7-2003
Designer
turns aging building into energetic gallery space
Dallas Voice
Review
Link
4-14-03
MADI:
A New Museum Does Dallas Proud
Business Week Online
Review
Link
4-21-03
Lawyers, truth,
art and beauty
Dallas Business Journal
Article
Link
1-14-03
Dallas Law Firm Opens MADI Art Museum
Texas Bar Journal
Article Link
1-6-03
Mad about MADI
Dallas Business Journal
Review
Link
Assorted Quotes From Various Publications
MADI
– A new museum does Dallas proud.”
--Andrew Park, Business Week Magazine
“Law
firm’s new office building will be a work of art.”
--Christine Perez, Dallas Business Journal
" What
was once a two-story,16,564-square-foot storefront building designed and
built during
the 1970s is now one of Roitman’s work of art”…The result:
a building that moves away from
what Roitman calls the “dismal grayness gnawing at the walls of
our cities.”
--Cheryl Smith, Dallas Observer
“Mad
about MADI.”
--Dallas
Business Journal
“The
space is such a great mix of work and play. It’s such a dichotomy,
going from the brightness of the gallery to the stark reality of a law
firm,
but the blend of office and art really works.”
--Donna
Harris, Uptown Dallas Association
“Uruguayan
MADI artist Volf Roitman designed the Masterson’s building’s
bold new exterior
.”…”a daring new façade”…”Just
as Barcelona has become a destination known for its distinctly
organic style of architecture created by Antonio Gaudi, Roitman would
like to see Dallas become
home to an array of MADI architecture, using MADI as its signature for
a variety of public buildings
in the neighborhood. He contends such a project would put Dallas on the
world’s artistic map.”
--David
Taffet, Dallas Voice
“Uptown
has always attracted forward-thinking people. The idea of breathing
new life in that corner of Uptown with the whimsical renovation of an
otherwise
nondescript building is exciting.”
--Donna
Harris, Uptown Dallas Association
“Make
room for MADI.”
--The
Dallas Morning News
“The
museum brightens a boring streetscape and adds to the fledgling
funkiness of McKinney Avenue. On that score, good show.”
--David
Dillon, architecture critic from The Dallas Morning News
“This
new museum will give the people of Dallas a new view of art.”
--Rebecca
Palmer, The Palmer Foundation
“It’s
the gateway to Uptown. The attention-getting building has increased
the demand for leasing in the eclectic Uptown neighborhood full of creative
types.”
--Mike
Turner, J. Elmer Turner Realtors, Inc.
“The
bright façade says, ‘Welcome to Uptown.’ We are happy
to see that
level of commitment. They [the Mastersons] are to be commended.”
--Mike
Turner, J. Elmer Turner Realtors, Inc.
“Outstandingly
refreshingly, and startlingly different from the neighborhood
buildings, the eye-catching façade of the Kilgore Law Center beckons
you in.”
--Gail
Sachson, People Newspapers
“Visitors
to Dallas’ newest cultural institution, the newly unveiled MADI
Museum and Gallery, should prepare for an anti-highbrow excursion into
whimsy.”
--PaperCity
Magazine
“It’s
Antonio Gaudi meets Dr. Suess.”
--PaperCity
Magazine
“Rather
than just create an art gallery where its lobby should be, Kilgore &
Kilgore
made its entire building into a piece of MADI sculpture.”
--Amy
Johnson Connner, Lawyers Weekly USA
“Just
when you think there’s nothing new, something out of
the ordinary – or least obscure – turns up.”
--Janet
Kutner, The Dallas Morning News
“It’s
a MADI, MADI, MADI, MADI world.”
--The
Dallas Morning News
“Dallas’
new MADI Museum and Gallery beckons modern art lovers.”
--Andrew
Park, Business Week Magazine
“A
m! useum devoted to MADI art… allows us to appraise its contribution
toculture
and, at the same time, participate in its creative process.”
--Carlos
Luis, Arte Al Dia International
“Now,
MADI has a Mecca.”
--Beth
Wilbins, Philanthropy Magazine
“Not
since the Museum of non-Objective Art in New York morphed into the
Guggenheim Museum more than half a century ago has there been anything
like
this in North America.”
--Peter
Frank, LA Weekly
“MADI
was itself a progenitor of Kinetic art, Op art, and Hard Edge
painting, and… even prefigured today’s ‘deconstructivist’
architecture.”
--Peter
Frank, LA Weekly
“MADI
is an unabashedly modernist movement.”
--Peter
Frank, LA Weekly
“The
MADI formula could be described as R times P – rigor times play.”
--Peter
Frank, LA Weekly
“Janus-headed
MADI invites you into the next century. And given what else
the new century has already yielded, for once the invitation is indeed
inviting.”
--Peter
Frank, LA Weekly
“MADI
is made for Technicolor, not black and white.”
--Cheryl
Smith, Dallas Observer
“MADI
is bold, bright, design-based art that is still affordable.”
--Lynne
Richardson, Women’s Wear Daily