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 annual Art in Bloom League…
September 2011
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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 are just a few that…
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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 in an idea barter booth,…
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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 September 22-25. A talk by…
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The State Fair of Texas: A Feeling, in Pictures
by Lucia Simekby Lucia SimekIt’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 to it with a kind…
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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 “Ted” Pillsbury, Dallas art dealer…
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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 with a satisfying thap. The…
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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. While she’s been making the…
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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, who lost Sir Henry Raeburn’s…
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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 visiting artists and lecturers in…
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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 after his recent visit to…
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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 town, a million-dollar Renoir painting…
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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: more community, less art. According…
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Celia Eberle + Michael Mazurek at Plush Gallery
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisCelia Eberle: The End of Things (Typed notes for this part because I took so many notes that complete sentences would make this review inappropriately epic for a blog post.)…
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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 been steadily growing in size…
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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 be another tourist magnet on…
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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 discount from the artist, who…
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Appropriately, next weekend, October 1 & 2, the Dallas Museum of Art is honoring retiring director Bonnie Pitman with a free admission weekend. Sometimes uncomfortably audience-centered for the elite funders who…
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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, have inspired talk of an…
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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 on the Menil campus, will…