A new “Trash to Treasure Art Challenge” contest has been added to the attractions of the San Angelo Stock Show and Rodeo. Along with junior barrel racing and the Mutton…
February 2011
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Jaume Plensa’s Tolerance, those frothy-textured steel Buddhas that have recently appeard along the Buffalo Bayou in Houston will be dedicated in a ceremony on Tuesday, February 15 at 5pm. The…
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Hanging above the hand-me-down loveseat in my college apartment was a print of Edward Hopper’s 1940 painting Gas that I’d bought at the poster sale in our student life center.…
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Fort Worth "romantic realist" painter Scott Gentling died Tuedsay at age 68. Gentling was known as a portraitist of Texas’ gentry, including Amon Carter Sr. and the official portrait of…
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Veteran art administrator Catherine Horsey has been named executive director of La Reunion TX, the nonprofit art retreat outside of Dallas. Horsey is going to make the changeocver from the…
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Morgan Spurlock promoted his current film The Greatest Movie Ever Sold wearing a logo-embroidered suit just like the ones the Art Guys wore in their late 90’s SUITS project. Plagiarism?…
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Ceramics curator and author Peter Held is coming to Houston to present “Rolling in the Mud: Forty Years of Ceramics” this Saturday, Feb 12 at the MFAH. Held has curated…
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Governor Perry released his proposed FY2012-2013 budget yesterday, including a recommendation to suspend indefinitely the appropriation to the Texas Commission on the Arts, eliminating all state funding for the agency.…
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UH’s college of architecture will host the TEX-FAB 2.0 event on Feb. 10-13. Lovers of reptitive, futuristic modular design (aren’t we all!) congregate to exchange ideas and admire Vlad Tenu’s…
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Fighting fire with fire, The Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston has hired prestigious WORK Architecture Company of New York to fix its awkward, already over-architected 70’s era…
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Colloquium, an evening of fast-paced artist presentations followed by lively talk will take place at Transit, 1907 South St. Mary’s, in San Antonio on Feb 10 at 7pm. Artists presenting…
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Prince, the River Alexander Group, and The Goss-Michael Foundation all need to communicate better. A big-deal scholarship-raising event featuring the artist known, then formerly known, and now known again as…
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LA Photographer Uta Barth will speak at the Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth Tuesday evening as part of this Spring’s series of illustrious visitors. Barth has a new book…
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Houston multimedia artist Ayanna Jolivet McCloud will speak at 3pm this afternoon about Midland #3, Robert Ryman’s exquisitely enigmatic and eminently talk about-able white rectangle (held to the wall with…
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The second Border Art Biennial juried by Rita Gonzalez, assistant curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Itala Schmelz, director of the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil…
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Not so much a Mirror Mirror of dual identity as it is two identities that have come together to influence and create something new. Mirror Mirror #4 highlights Austin poet…
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Record cold and freezing precipitation closed art venues and cancelled events today- this newswire itself was temposrily sabotaged by an ice-crazed squirrel! The artist once known as Prince, now known…
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Suddenly, it seems the Austin collective Okay Mountain is everywhere: after their big splash at the 2009 Pulse fair in Miami (their installation Corner Store received both the PULSE prize…
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Houston art legend Bert Long, who passed out after a talk at the Galveston Arts Center and was hospitalized, is feeling beter and back at home. According to Long, "my…
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NBC reality TV show America’s Got Talent is coming to Houston looking for people who can do something amazing in 90 seconds on camera. According to their press release, thay…