The Dallas Museum of Art has won an Association of Art Museum Curators Award for Excellence in the category of “Outstanding Small Exhibition” for The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from…
May 2011
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Steffani Jemison, artist in residence at the MFAH’s CORE program is the winner of this year’s $10,000 Meredith J. Long Core Program Award, given annually to a second-year Core artist-in-residence.…
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To address the conditions of curating contemporary art, one must address the temporality it inhabits. This was one of many currents in a recent lecture at The Glassell School of…
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Independent curator June Mattingly has put together a show at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary called Starry, Starry Nights: Five Light-Filled Installations with work by five artists — Adela Andea, Chris Lattanzio,…
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Creative Capital’s MAP fund grants for 2011 include two Texas orgs: Houston’s Catastrophic Theatre gets money for The Hand Tales, a play that centers on a man mid-way through life’s…
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Portable on Demand Art (PODA) pods by local artists and collectives Aerosol Warfare, BOX 13 ArtSpace, Jillian Conrad, Lynne McCabe, Gabriel Martinez, Metalab, Anthony Thompson Shumate and The Joanna will…
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Two striking artworks are now on view in San Antonio. That they are both sculptures by women depicting a frozen moment of enraged feminine violence is, I think, a coincidence.…
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On Saturday, May 7th, 2011, Glasstire and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presented a panel in celebration of our 10th anniversary. “Regionalism in the 21st Century” featured Robert…
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100+ art museums will take part in this year’s Art Museum Day on May 18, and some of them are in Texas: The Amon Carter , El Paso Museum of…
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The newly refurbished and expanded Inman Gallery in Houston opens its first exhibitions on Friday, May 20 with work by Shaun O’Dell. Simultaneously opening at the Inman Annex just down…
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The "Rutledge Biennial Show" casts a wide net, catches some big ones.
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From May 13-September 30, it’s PRINTHOUSTON, four months of events, talks, and exhibitions organized by PrintMatters, an org which, despite its name, does not mat prints, but instead promotes contemporary…
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Applications for performers who want slots at next August’s Houston Fringe Festival have until Sunday (tomorrow!) at 5pm to pay their $25 fee and send in their materials. If accepted,…
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Take your protein pills and put your helmets on: experimental films from the 60’s and 70’s will be screened in the Burke Baker Planetarium at the Houston Museum of Natural…
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This evening, Friday, May 13, students in Mat Johnson‘s graphic novel classes at UH strut their stuff at the Joanna art space from 7-10pm. The show includes works by Erica…
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This year, the 10th annual 24-hour video race begins at 11:59, Friday, May 13 at the Angelika Film Center at 5321 E. Mockingbird Lane, Dallas. Teams of filmmakers are given…
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Kerrville jewelry retailer James Avery Craftsman has donated $15,000 to the Emerging Texas Artist Scholarship Program of the Texas Arts and Crafts Educational Foundation. The money will help keep eight…
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The San Antonio Museum of Art has selected Katie Luber to be the museum’s new Kelso Director. A 5th generation Texan, Luber has degrees in art history from UT and…
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Artist Sally Packard has been appointed director of the TCU School of Art, beginning on August 1. Before 2008, she was associate professor and foundations coordinator at the University of…
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On Wednesday, May 11, Houston’s Glassell School is hosting a lecture by curator João Ribas titled The Belated Owl: Curating and the Contemporary. Ribas’ talk focuses on self-referentiality in academic…