This might not come as big news to anybody who has read Capital A before, but I’m a bit of a grouch about public art initiatives. Still, I can…
March 2008
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Congratulations to Sean Carroll, aka Buffalo Sean, aka b.s. etc. on his WEDDING. Reams of pictures on his blog, which often features Houston art, here.
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This year’s official FotoFestivus theme is Chinese photography, but I’m a gonna talk a little bit about the unofficial shows as well. Since I am the People’s Critic, it’s my…
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Just as investigations are uncovering widespread abuse of tax-deductible art donations from wealthy collectors, there’s bill in congress that will allow artists to deduct the fair-market value (i.e. retail price)…
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Real Time 08 is an ongoing show of 15-second mobile phone videos curated Dean Terry and John Pomara. Artist include inter.sect art collective, Kirsten Macy, Doreen Maloney, Marisa Olson, Marjorie…
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After a two-year run, Kevin Longino, part owner and managing director of Watermark Fine Art has announced that the Houston photo gallery will close its doors on April 18th. Although…
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This evening, Friday, March 28, is the second, or possibly the 4th, or 5th (press releases vary), but certainly not the first "Pretend You Are Rich" art auction at Austin’s…
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This Sunday, Houston’s newest art collective, BOX 13 will begin remodeling its galleries and wants your help. Remove chair rails and shelves! Prep walls for paint! Don’t miss the fun!…
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This is how Lora Reynolds Gallery introduces Ewan Gibbs’s show Pictures of Pitchers: "eight new graphite drawings, the subject of each is a baseball pitcher captured at the moment just…
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Artpix has released its second DVD from the famous 9 Evenings performances of 1966. This one documents John Cage’s Variations VII, one of his last indeterminate works, which made increasing…
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The ubiquitous, media-friendly Art Guys will "Lie in State" in the rotunda of Houston’s City Hall between noon and 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 1. Though the building is not…
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The Texas Commission for the Arts is holding a strategic planning meeting in Houston on Friday the 28th, hoping to gather ideas on how to best corral its share out…
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The inimitable author and art critic Dave Hickey will be at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth on Saturday, March 29 at 11 a.m. for a lecture: Fort Worth:…
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I am experiencing a really peculiar art/book/music mash up at the moment. Over the weekend, I saw the Turner show at the DMA . Meanwhile, I also finished DH Lawrence’s…
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Paintings by the Houston Zoo’s orangutans, elephants and siamangs will be on display at a one-night show and sale at Houston’s G Gallery. The 2008 Pongos Helping Pongos show will…
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Continuing on the fraught-drawing, booze-and-bodily fluids theme, here’s a little gem I picked up at a thrift store years ago. It’s got a lot in common with Chris Cascio’s work…
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Dennis Kois, Director of the Grace Museum in Abilene will be leaving in June for a new job has accepted the directorship of the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park outside…
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Willard Spiegelman does a good job describing that sublimely austere, churchy feeling that brings thousands of pilgrims to Judd’s Marfa each year in Thursday’s Wall St. Journal.
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Let’s be honest. The main attraction at Okay Mountain‘s We’ve Got Tissues, is Ryan Trecartin‘s brilliant I-Be Area (watch a heavily compressed version here). The objects, sculptures and paintings by…
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Hey, check out the big profile of MFAH curator Mari Carmen Ramirez in today’s NYT magazine. Ramirez, as I’ve pointed out in the news previously, has done some of the…