Pay-for-play “co-op” Watson Gallery (the franchised version of the former Blossom St. Gallery) has rounded up 25 local artists who will each pay $50 to put their work in vacant…
June 2011
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Houston artist Karen Brasier-Young’s Fragment/Ornament is a one night architectural intervention at the 1878 First National Bank Building, 2127 Strand at 22nd Street in Galveston. From 5-8pm during the June…
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Dallas’ Plush Gallery is in Santa Fe for the summer, and is planning a series of pop-up shows there, beginning with Celia Eberle’s Petrified Forest on June 10 at The…
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Officially the first day of summer is not until June 21st, but according to my thermostat and our electric bill it’s already too hot. Similar but Different #18: Cold as…
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Lygia Clark’s “Bicho (Máquina)” is one of many artworks listed on the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s online feature, “100 Highlights of the MFAH”. Framed as “the most significant objects…
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Museums feel the lure of the Dark Side: Culture Grrl urges AAMD to crack down on shady practices
More on the Association of Art Museum Directors’ new ethical guidelines in today’s Culture Grrl blog on ArtsJournal. Specifically, Lee Rosenbaum highlights the growing number of “one-sponsor” shows funded and…
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Dr. Alessandra Comini has given the first life-sized marble figure executed by Anne Whitney to the Dallas Museum of Art. Whitney was one of America’s premiere women sculptors working during…
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Eileen Maxson talks to Katy Heinlein about her work.
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The Austin Chronicle‘s Robert Faires recounts highlights of the Austin Art Hall of Fame and it’s 25 most recent inductees, Austin art pioneers from way back, chosen by the Austin…
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Austin artist Shawn Smith’s pixelated wood block sculptures were featured on Wired UK‘s blog last week. In case you missed them , Smith’s digitized vultures were on view at Lawndale…
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Fieldwork: Marfa, a researcher-in-residence program organized jointly through three european art schools, ESBA Nantes Métropole, HEAD – Genève, and Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, will send six visitors to West…
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The town of San Angelo, known for putting public sculpture in uncommon places, was struck by vandals as Pigeon Holed, a 1000-pound stone slab by sculptor David Cornell sited outside…
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Werner Herzog’s “Cave of Forgotten Dreams”
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisIn 1994 a cave was discovered in Southern France containing paintings dating back about 32,000 years. Christened the Chauvet cave after one of its discoverers, the cave and its paintings…
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Amid the sweat, the crowds, the music, the warez, and the pythons, there will be art! Events collectively titled 060611 include Artist-engineers Johnny DiBlasi, Steven Kraig, Patrick Renner, Sam Singh…
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This is the year that I officially cease carping about Lawndale’s Annual Big Show for not being the wonderfully free, come-one-come-all brawl it once was. Times change, institutions change, even…
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This year, the Austin Critics’ Table Awards ceremony is getting amped up with some extras: Pre-show, at 6:30 Butcher Bear & Charlie will be playing in the Cap City Comedy…
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Arthouse and the Dallas Contemporary: Crunching the Numbers, Part I
by Claire Ruudby Claire RuudIn an attempt to figure out what the hell has been going on at Texas institutions lately, I’ve been playing around with some numbers. Since the contemporary arts organizations I…
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Apparently June 2 is the day the music stops in the constant game of curatorial musical chairs. The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston has named Dean Daderko as its new Curator,…
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Dying city gets transfusion from Austin: Friis-Hansen named director of the Grand Rapids Art Museum
Dana Friis-Hansen, former director of the Austin Museum of Art, has been chosen as the next Director and CEO of the Grand Rapids Art Museum. In the museum’s press release,…
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Art students Madison Ward, Elena Chudoba, Zelda Valverde and Andi Redman were each awarded a $400 US savings bond from the fifth annual Goss-Michael Foundation Student Art Contest. Kathe Fishburn…