Suite Art Fair
The alternative to this weekend’s Dallas Art Fair is the Suite Art Fair at the Belmont Hotel, 901 Fort Worth Avenue, Dallas, on April 8-10. [...]
Here lies Art Lies
Art Lies, the regional art mag with national ambitions, will cease publication of its printed journal and website content as of May 2011. Seventeen years [...]
Tupperware Pastoral
Sterling Allen’s show up at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, called Housing Edition, is a twenty-first century lesson in the old adage “You are what you [...]
Would Van Gogh be Making Apps?
I took a little hiatus from writing about art because I needed to sort out some thoughts. I have not been visiting gallery shows or [...]
CAMH gets a new roof
Answers to Questions: John Wood and Paul Harrison, currently on view at Houston’s Contemporary Art Museum, will close two weeks early for the installation of [...]
Lawndale Design Fair 2011
Design Fair 2011 at Houston’s Lawndale Art Center has been retooled from their popular mid-century modern market to include “cutting edge contemporary design.” Furniture, glass, [...]
Lane Hagood
In 2010, Lane Hagood re-created the “Mary’s Mural”, a former public icon and landmark of Houston’s Montrose neighborhood. The revived painting, made at the Johanna [...]
Colloquium 7 at El Tropicano
San Antonio’s seventh Colloquium, aptly named “Colloquium No. 7, will take place at the El Tropicano Riverwalk Hotel, 110 Lexington Ave, San Antonio on Tuesday, [...]
UH Red Block Bash thursday
The University of Houston’s Red Block Bash annual open studios/art showcase party is this Thursday (THURSDAY?!), March 31 at the UH art building. Their facebook [...]
Performance Issues
When I officially embarked upon YESQUEST 2011 (Where I’d say Yes! to everything), I just didn’t think…well, I just didn’t think. As I’ve spent the [...]
Out and About: New Image Sculpture at the McNay
Humor and play pervade the exhibition New Image Sculpture at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio. It features thirteen contemporary artists and art collectives [...]
The nation wants to Keep Austin Weird
Even the Washington Post is beginning to question whether Austin can stay weird, or whether gentrification is inevitably pushing the slackers out. An analysis of [...]
The unsinkable Adickes: 80 but still sculpting
David Adickes’ 67-foot sculpture of Sam Houston in Huntsville is again in the news, profiled on KLTV (Tyler/Longview) on the occasion of his recent painting [...]
Turrell mound at Rice
Details of the upcoming James Turrell commission at Houston’s Rice University were posted on Swamplot friday. Calling the piece a “giant ceremonial mound,” Swamplot’s scrappy [...]
Prince works violated copyright
Photographer Patrick Cariou has won his copyright-infringement lawsuit against Richard Prince and Gagosian Gallery, forcing the Prince and his gallery to deliver up all works [...]
Chat ‘n’ chew at Rice
At noon on Tuesday, March 29, assistant curator Josh Fisher will give a ten minute talk on the Rice gallery’s current show; for the lunchtime [...]
High School artists at Arthouse
Ahead of Their Time, Arthouse, Austin’s an annual exhibition showcasing artists enrolled in advanced high-school art courses, is looking for likely Austin-area youth to submit [...]
Peep Show
In an effort to engage other parts of town during the Dallas Art Fair in a couple weeks, some clever folks – Art Fair head honcho, [...]
Contemporary Art Month marches on
From Luminara attended by 300,000 to the Cammie Awards at Chrispark and the Seventh Annual Dignowity Hill Pushcart Derby, Contemporary Art Month is an eclectic [...]
Prada Marfa vandal target
Repeated vandalism, gunshots, graffiti, and attempted theft from Prada Marfa, Elmgreen and Dragset’s fake upscale shoe emporium in the West Texas Desert on highway 90 [...]
