Houston’s FotoFest joins the Iris Foundation, RIA Novosti and the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow to organize a bi-continental media event connecting Moscow and Houston. On August 24,…
August 2011
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Yes it’s still 105 degrees in Austin and while it may be hard to believe, the students and traffic are back signaling that Fall Semester 2011 has begun. To help…
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A fire gutted Simpson Galleries, a fine art and antiques dealer on Main and Isabella in Midtown just after midnight last Friday. The building, which was extensively damaged, is right…
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Actually, it’s a scorpion and a vinegaroon, a scorpion-like arachnid of the order Thelyphonida. The pair, titled Rivals and designed by El Paso architect Lars Stanley, will be unveiled at…
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Like a rich uncle with bad teeth, the Hunting art prize is back to spread dreams of avarice, politely understated criticism, and dump a truckload of money on some lucky…
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I know you are, but what am I? Spongebob artist Todd White, sued by gallery owner Howell alleges massive forgery scheme
Margaret Howell of HB Gallery in Huntington Beach, CA has sued Todd White, former SpongeBob character artist, and his “henchmen”, for $7.5 million in damage to her business and emotional…
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Free museum days just around the corner; some orgs are naturally free, others become free, and some have free-ness thrust upon them!
The various Smithsonian museums in Washington D.C. are always free (and federally funded!); once a year, Smithsonian magazine’s Museum Day twists the arms of other orgs to open their doors…
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During a nonprofit board meeting on SA's West Side, Hills Snyder takes a stand.
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CONTEM?ORARIES Group Show at Fort Worth Central Library
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisPainting is to Art History as Jesus is to Easter Sunday – you can count on celebrating resurrection at least once a year. Painting never vanished and won’t (or theater,…
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Suburban Art Edu-tainment Watch: Art Class and Wine Glass Fulfills Hickey’s Prophecy of “The Return of Social Space.”
Critic Dave Hickey subtitled his seminal UltraLounge show of 1998 as “the return of social space (with cocktails).” A new Houston business melding art instruction with socializing and drinking called…
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Today’s El Paso Times profiles 82-year old muralist Margarita “Mago” Gándara, who recently abandoned her Juarez studio of 40 years to take up a new, diminished life in El Paso…
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Pricing strategy. In the for-profit world, business school classes spend semesters on the topic, entire books are written on its nuances and staff positions—even departments—are devoted to analyzing, tweaking and…
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Made by Will: Selections from Four Portfolios recently published by Houston Center for Photography has been nominated for BLURB’s 2011 Photography Book Now People’s Choice Award. The catalog marks HCP’s…
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The Art Museum of South Texas has sprouted a $140,000 solar array courtesy of Green Mountain Energy Co.The array was funded by customer donations to company’s Big Texas Sun Club…
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Penny wise and pound foolish: without an arts commission, Kansas loses federal NEA money. Could Texas be next?
Kansas governor Sam Brownback vetoed funding for the Kansas Arts Commission recently, substituting a non-governmental foundation he hoped would be able to distribute Kansas’ share National Endowment for the Arts…
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Underground video artist makes otherworldly art from where she is, and puts it right where you are. While speaking in lolcats.
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Henri Rousseau, the first outsider artist to make it big, didn’t always paint lush foliage, ripe fruits and riper women; in 1906 he painted Landscape with Milkmaids (and a mighty…
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Amnesia Houston blog gathers steam, vintage tweets, old maps and a fat slice of preservation advocacy!
The preservation advocacy blog, perversely named Amnesia Houston, by “James Glassman, Houstonian” is gathering steam: from one post in 2006, another in 2007, he’s gone to nearly one per month…
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Every December I wait anxiously for The Lives They Lived edition of The New York Times. It’s not because I am morbidly wanting to see who died so much as…
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Amarillo philanthropist Mary Ware water-skied and snorkeled until she was 75 and played tennis for another 10 years after that; she died of natural causes Tuesday at age 89. The…