The Chinati Foundation has a new book out. Chinati: The Vision of Donald Judd, mostly by ex-director Marianne Stockebrand which traces Judd’s ideas about art in special places through his…
October 2010
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Stay Up, the first book focused on Houston street art/graffiti, by photographer David Elizondo was published on a print-on-demand basis last month. The 160-page tome collects photographs of the works…
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Two photographs hang side by side in a gallery. On the right, in a white frame, is a photo of two little girls in front of a white-and-red house decorated…
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The federal case between collector Joe Simon and the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Authentication board over Andy’s self portrait was dropped a couple days ago. With hilarious irony, the board last…
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Ready Made Africans , a 2006 portfolio of lithographs by Houston artist David McGee is on view in the Menil Collection’s Surrealism galleries. Five portraits of Hip Hop performers, including…
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The last NYC vs. Marfa post was so popular that I decided to try it again. See if you can guess which photos feature Marfa and which picture scenes from New York. Answers…
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The case of Christian Cutler, who resigned under pressure from his post as gallery director at Stephen F. Austin State University after a run-in with fear-mongering congressman Louis Gohmert, has…
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Brookhaven College student Brian Hauser has won the Dallas Art Dealers Association 2010 Edith Baker Art Scholarship. The DADA Scholarship Committee juried the 14 finalists chosen by visual art faculty…
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In honor of Halloween and my wish to always be SUPER when in reality I remain extra-ordinarily human, I present Similar but Different #11: I am Superman. Gilles Barbier …
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At the Hour of Our Death from Mark & Angela Walley on Vimeo.
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On Friday October 29, the Joanna art space in Houston is holding a Halloween exhibition/event described as "drinks, art (6 artists, mostly good), music, food, fun, people, hayrides, postmodern tombstones,…
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Cheryl Snay, associate curator of European Art at the Blanton Museum in Austin, is moving on up to a new position as Curator of European Art at the Snite Museum…
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We all want our yearly scare in the season of Halloween. I know I do! Unfortunately, because my social life is, has been, and possibly always will be about as…
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Austin artist Vince Hannemann’s embattled Cathderal of Junk was granted a legal building permit after a prining and the closing of visitor access to the upper levels of the 33…
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There’s a pre-order party for the upcoming Texas Artists Today book on Thursday October 28, from 6:30-8:30pm at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. The $95 book is a privately-printed collaboration…
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The Chinati Foundation is located on 340 acres of the former Fort D. A. Russell, which closed following World War II in 1946. Barracks, latrines, mess halls, a gymnasium and two artillery…
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A 1901 painting by H.A. McArdle depicting the Battle of San Jacinto was found in the attic of a Weston, West Virginia home. Jon Buell, the artist’s great great grandson,…
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Monday afternoon, a small fire started at Burnet High School, in Burnet either while an un-named art teacher was melting wax, or because of an overloaded extension cord, depending on…
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Dr. James Young, an authority on the memorialization of the Holocaust, will give a talk on just that on Tuesday, October 26 at 6:30 pm in the The Museum of…
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Friends and family of Barry T. Horn, slain former director of the Brownsville Museum of Art gathered for a Mass on the anniversary of his death on Saturday. Last October,…