Mirror Mirror #7 features artists Salvador Castillo, Michael Anthony García, and Hector Hernandez also known as the collective Los Outsiders. They met in 2006 and since meeting have come together…
July 2011
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Adam Silverman’s “Reverse Archaeology” for the Kimbell Art Museum
by Lucia Simekby Lucia SimekAfter studying and practicing architecture in the 80s and 90s, working in the clothing industry and studying business management, Adam Silverman couldn’t ignore his deep leanings toward ceramics anymore, a…
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Last week the National Endowment for the Arts Our Town program announced $6.575 million in grants to 51 communities. Among them are four projects in Texas: the city of El…
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Judith H. Dobrzynski’s Real Clear Arts blog on ArtsJournal discusses the results of a Metroplitan Museum of art photo contest: visitors were asked to take close-up snapshots of details of…
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Finally! The enormous main-street facing wall of Houston’s Lawndale Art Center is getting the mural it has been aching for for years. For the 2011-2012 season artist Daniel Anguilu will…
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International networking: Doroshenko hires Florence Ostende as adjunct curator for Dallas Contemporary
In an interview earlier this year, Dallas Contemporary Director Peter Doroshenko cited the Paris’ Palais de Tokyo as a model for his vision of an internationally hooked up art venue.…
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Triple celebrity headline: UT sues Ryan O’Neal in tug of war over Warhol silkscreen of Farrah Fawcett
UT newspaper The Horn headlines “UT sues Ryan O’Neal over Farrah Fawcett portrait”; the celebrity-minded NY Post says “Ryan O’Neal has now been sued by the University of Texas in…
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Glasstire audio slide show profiling Michael Bise. The artist talks about drawing from old movies, Disney vs. religion and why art should be hard.
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Menil tribute to Edmund Carpenter: marathon reading of Eskimo Realities marks closing of the exhibition Upside Down
In honor of the late, iconoclatic anthropologist, author, filmmaker, and curator Dr. Edmund Snow Carpenter, the Menil presents a reading of his landmark 1973 book, Eskimo Realities. The reading, which…
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Despite a $2000 award, despite resume-building new-media cachet, despite the popularity of past residents‘ online projects, the storied connectedness of the social media continuum has failed so far to draw…
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SHAZAM! – New Paintings by Ruben Nieto at Cris Worley Fine Arts
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisThe beauty of a gallery like Cris Worley Fine Arts is its invitation to view all of the art at once. The space itself requests your slow study over the…
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“Big city art, island attitude”: new Avis Frank Gallery in Galveston plans grand opening for July 16
Despite Galveston’s laid-back, storm-pummelled, crime-ridden reputation, fearless Houston artists Ray Phillips and David Hardaker have ambitious plans for their new Avis Frank Gallery at 215 23rd Street in the Strand…
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Combining her loves of crafting and space exploration, self-described “hand embroidery-obsessed, massive space geek” Rachel Hobson of Houston saw a print of one of her embroidered pieces take flight with…
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Dallas Museum of Art gets NEA cash to take archives online, AND in Spanish, AND for the general public.
Good ol’ federal government! Every museum would like to archive its documents in digital form, but few would pay extra to make them publicly accessible, or translate them for diverse…
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Dave Bryant and Okay Mountain turn animation studio: new video for the song “America!” by Bill Callahan
Austin art collective Okay Mountain (Ryan Hennessee, Sterling Allen, and Peat Duggins) spent long, long hours animating this new video for Bill Callahan’s new album Apocalypse! The video was produced…
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From the sea of summer group shows I trekked through the other night, two artists stood out: Benjamin Terry and Kerry Pacillio, both on view at Cohn Drennan in a…
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Funky art school gets Exxon-funded makeover: 60 students descend on Creative Arts Center of Dallas
Equipped with paint brushes, gardening tools and cleaning supplies, 60 college students will tackle a laundry list of projects to beautify the Creative Arts Center of Dallas on Wednesday. The…
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The Idea Fund has announced Round Four of the oddball re-granting program for 2011-2012. Information sessions explaining guidelines, how to apply, etc. are to be scheduled in Austin, El Paso,…
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Glasstire audio slide show profiling Rachel Hecker. The artist discusses her ephemera paintings as well as her current series of Jesus portraits – and explains how the hell she wound…
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On June 22, 36 digital cameras were stolen from Houston’s Literacy Through Photography program. Forty students who were using them in a class at Project Row Houses’ Summer Arts Enrichment…