"All empires eventually fall, and it seems the creative software industry has collectively decided that Adobe's time has come." So noted The Verge recently in a eye-opening report on a major shift that has put the once-omnipotent provider of design tools in a difficult spot. Adobe's Creative Cloud suite of tools - Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Acrobat Pro among them - have been considered the industry standard for decades. Now, however, other companies are on the attack, undercutting Adobe's pricing and even offering free software. Meanwhile, noted PetaPixel, Adobe's corporate policies have alienated its loyal customers,.

   When Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) wrote Life imitates art far more than art imitates life, he set of a chain reaction that has reverberated ever since. Adding, “the self-conscious aim of life is to find expression, and art offers it certain beautiful forms through which it may release that energy,”  he might well have been speaking of the interesting times in which we now live. With that in mind, DART offers a sampling of continuing and upcoming shows about Su...