Nancy Clarke, White House Floral Designer, Booked at DMA’s Art in Bloom League Luncheon
Start choosing you outfit: Nancy Clarke, former Chief Floral Designer at the White House will share her behind-the-scenes stories and demonstrate floral arrangements at the [...]
West Texas Charm
Small Texas towns are easy to stereotype, and often, those generalizations prove themselves to be true. Conservative politics, high school football, and abundant red meat [...]
Autumn Knight’s “Performance Prescriptions” at DiverseWorks’ “State Fair”
DiverseWorks‘ State Fair feels like a version of “Now THAT’S What I Call Social Practice!” As you walk through, you are beckoned to participate [...]
Blanton El anatsui Exhibition Opens to Record Crowds: Numbers Up Overall
The opening weekend for El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You About Africa at the Blanton Museum in Austin logged over 4,275 visitors between [...]
The State Fair of Texas: A Feeling, in Pictures
It’s State Fair time again. I haven’t been in nearly a decade, but I’ve promised my small people I’ll go this year. I look forward [...]
Pillsbury Contemporary Art Collection on the Heritage Auction Block in Dallas October 26
Heritage Auctions, “The World’s Third Largest Auction house” will sell off more than 250 modern and contemporary artworks that once belonged to Dr. Edmund [...]
Reading through Surrealism
Material girl that I am, I love books. Holding them, smelling them, turning their pages, penciling notes in their margins. Finishing one and closing it [...]
David Shelton: Kelly O’Connor’s “Post-Utopia”
Somewhere between childhood wonder and adult disillusionment, Kelly O’Connor is creating a psychic landscape from fragments of familiar movies, TV shows, vacationlands and fairy tales. [...]
King Herring TV Appearance Boosts Renoir Theft Glam Factor
Houston’s Channel 13 News ran a lengthy (for local TV news) bit comparing the recently stolen Renoir case to that of socialite Joanne King Herring, [...]
The Modern’s Graduate Series Revs up Tonight with UNT new Media Prof Jenny Vogel
The Fort Worth Modern is laying out the welcome mat for graduate students in art and art history, offering free admission and backstage access to [...]
How to Raise the Bar on Dallas’ Scene?
Last week, a Facebook friend of mine — an artist living in Dallas whom I’ve never actually met – caught my attention when he posted this on Facebook [...]
More Odd Details Emerge on Houston Renoir Heist: Celebrated Lecturer and Ex G-Man Robert Wittman Chimes In
The Same day that Robert Wittman, author of a book on his exploits recovering stolen art at the FBI’s Art Crimes squad, was lecturing in [...]
Soda Tooth: Newish San Marcos Co-op Gallery Focuses on Community
Like many far more venerable institutions, San Marco’ Soda Tooth Gallery, not quite a year old, is already refocusing its take on the art community: [...]
Celia Eberle + Michael Mazurek at Plush Gallery
Celia Eberle: The End of Things (Typed notes for this part because I took so many notes that complete sentences would make this review inappropriately [...]
Burgeoning Homecoming Mums Receive Media Attention as Texas Folk Art Spreads
The burgeoning trade in high tech, over-the-top homecoming mums- once flowers, but now mutated into 20-30 pound bling monsters of ribbons, plush toys, LED’s, have [...]
Express-News Scourges Briscoe Museum For Not Existing Despite Tax Support
The editorial board of the San Antonio Express-News griped Friday about the continuing mismanagement of the nascent Briscoe Western Art Museum, which was supposed to [...]
MFAH Buys Big Yellow Stella Painting, Different From Menil’s Big Yellow De Maria Painting.
Big yellow minimalism is in- The Museum of Fine Arts has announced the acquisition of Frank Stella’s Palmito Ranch (1961), which they got at a [...]
Populist DMA Director Honored with Free Admission Weekend
Appropriately, next weekend, October 1 & 2, the Dallas Museum of Art is honoring retiring director Bonnie Pitman with a free admission weekend. Sometimes uncomfortably [...]
Trending: Nonprofit Arts Org Mergers
Cases such as the high profile merger between Dance Theater Workshop and the Bill T. Jones Dance Company, which together became New York Live Arts, [...]
Space-Age Chapel Will Need New Art: Menil’s Byzantine Frescos a Go-Go Going
The Menil Collection announced yesterday that the frescoes on loan from the Greek Orthodox Church of Cyprus, displayed since 1997 at the Byzantine Fresco Chapel [...]
