Surrealist sculptor Hobbes Vincent was selected as the next artist in residence (literally!) at the Fairmont Hotel in Dallas. He’s an old favorite at the Fairmont: Vincent’s larger-than-life stag already…
July 2011
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The expanding Kimbell is expanding its staff: hiring star curator George Shackelford as it’s new #2 man. Shackelford, who worked for eleven years at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston,…
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Frida’s famous Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird make a pit-stop at its Austin home
UT’s Harry Ransom Center is celebrating the rare homecoming of one of its most famous and most-borrowed artworks, Frida Kahlo’s Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (1940). Since 1990 the…
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Hurry on over to the Southwest Alternative Media Project‘s yard sale, Friday (today!) and Saturday 8am-2pm. AV geeks closets are always full of interesting stuff, and they promise new and…
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Ashley Hunt, the current artist in residence at Houston’s Project Row Houses will present selections from his Corrections Documentary Project, about the ongoing mass incarceration crisis in the USA tonight…
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The first art I’ve seen about the upcoming Houston art fair mayhem hit the web last week: Brian Piana’s battle-droid interactive graphic casts the fairs as opposing techno-organisms in an…
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Last week I wrote about Houston’s dueling art fairs coming up this fall. Scheduled one month apart, each has a New York area organizer. It got me thinking about Dallas’s…
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“Simpson Kalisher: The Alienated Photographer” at the MFAH
by Beth Secorby Beth SecorIsn’t it true that you start your life a sweet child, believing in everything under your father’s roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are…
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Inspired by the Nasher, just across the way, the Trammell Crow center is building an outdoor gallery space for Asian art. The Crow Asian Sculpture Garden will feature Japanese-style landscaping,…
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Intrepid ARTnews correspondents in 22 countries interviewed dealers, auctioneers, and other collectors to compile their 21st annual list of the most active art collectors, and a handful of Texans are…
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Tomorrow, June 7, The International Museum of Art & Science, will hold a dedication ceremony for the giant wind turbine blade parked (next to the Olmec Head) on it’s lawn.…
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I drove up to Houston a few weeks ago to attend the DiverseWorks auction and while there I had the chance to visit a few galleries and museums. Upside Down:…
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R.I.P. Cy Twombly (1928-2011) Born in Lexington, Virginia in 1928, Twombly actively distanced himself from the major movements of 20th-century art, both stylistically and geographically. For decades, both critics and…
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Robert Irwin’s Portal Park Piece (Slice), 1981, is the choicest strip of bathroom wall a vandal could hope for. It’s eight feet high, spans three lush lawns in downtown Dallas,…
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America’s first graffiti painter Cy Twombly died in Rome Tuesday at the age of 83. Known for his groundbreaking (or wall breaking) conflation of drawing, painting and writing, he is…
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Tracey Moffatt at Artpace: Cinematic mashups of mothers, lovers, artists, artistocrats and doom
Emotions roil and crest like crashing waves in Australian-born artist Tracey Moffatt’s “Handmade,” seven cinematic mashups made from 1999 to 2010 on view through Sept. 11 at Artpace. Her movie…
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Embattled antiquities director Hawass said in a statement Monday that images of hunting, fighting and celebrations along the banks of the Nile River drawn on a rock face in Aswan,…
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Odessa Iron: first Smithsonian loan to Nöel Art Museum unveiled, Tobolowsky’s West Texas art blitz begins!
The Ellen Nöel Art Museum in Odessa, made a Smithsonian affiliate last year, is receiving its first shipment of art from the Washington D.C.-based national museum: Upright Leaf Forms (1957)…
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Rare Terracotta bust owned by the Kimbell art Museum discovered to have been in Nazi salt mine during WWII!
The Kimbell’s bust of Isabella D’Este by Romano was tagged in a photograph of the Alt Aussee Salt Mine in Austria, one of many repositories for artwork stolen by the…
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Pastelegram, a new Austin-based magazine had its online launch Friday, July 1, with an interview with artist Travis Kent about his show at Domy Books, reviews of Silence and Time…