Hey Houston art fans: we’re having a contest for the Best and the Worst art in the Houston Fine Art Fair. Send your images and captions to [email protected] and if…
September 2011
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Glass-and-Limestone Sculptor Damian Priour dies at 61; Native Texan Noted for Monuments and Community Involvement
Travis County Sculptor Damian Priour died Wednesday after a years-long struggle with cancer. He was 61. Priour’s symbolically abstract glass and limestone sculptures adorn the Austin Convention Center and the…
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On Saturday, September 17, Sixteen museums congregated in southern Montrose are collectively celebrating themselves by offering free admission and nonstop free events, films and activities: everything from tai-chi to Czech…
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As a follow-up to my article, “Mind Games, Museums, and Suggested Donations,” I’ve been looking into the ways that museums set their general admission prices. Discussions regarding museum admission often…
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Houston’s first art fair opens tonight from 6-9 with a $100 a ticket fundraiser benefiting the Core Program. I swung by the George R. Brown Convention Center yesterday as the…
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Carolyn Sortor’s Big Fat Video Wedding Saturday: Dallas Cremistress Makes a Spectacle of Herself
Dallas video artist and curator Carolyn Sortor is getting married Saturday, and her fiancé Ben’s wedding present to Carolyn is to let her make an art project out of it.…
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This wasn’t meant to be a column about art fairs—it was meant to be about wealth and conservatism—but art fairs are something I know and wealth and conservatism are major…
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The first-ever Houston Fine Art Fair (HFAF) happens this weekend at the George R. Brown Convention Center, offering a broad spectrum of artworks from contemporary to modern masters, for both…
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Ben Flynn, aka international graffiti artist EINE to paint Dallas walls Tuesday and Wednesday for Goss-Michael/MTV RE:DEFINE charity auction.
Ben Flynn, a.k.a. EINE, internationally acclaimed British graffiti artist, will paint two locations in Dallas including the construction wall at the 42-story Museum Tower and on the side of a…
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Richard Hamilton, the British artist whose widely reproduced collage Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing? (1956) is often pointed out as the…
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So you wanna be an artist. A successful artist. Then these are some rules to live by. Granted, artists are good at breaking rules (and should), and you can take…
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Similar but Different #22: Waiting For Winter But Will Settle For (a) Fall, daydreaming about grey skies, empty branches and temperatures below 60 degrees. http://youtu.be/mRhVI7cpcS4 Amy Cutler- Above the Fjord,…
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At Last, A Menil Cafe! Rice Building Workshop Designs Minimalist Food Truck Pavillion Behind Bookstore.
One upside of the Menil’s continuing moves towards doing things the way other museums do them is the addition of a much-needed cafe, announced yesterday. The Menil Collection and Rice…
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Michelle Reyes won a check for $2,500, a mentorship, an internship, and an artist studio visit at the annual Edith Baker Scholarship show held last week at the MAC in…
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The community art wing at the suburban Houston Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts has been renamed the Marilyn Morgan Hillery Community Gallery, in honor of the 73-year old artist’s…
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Blogger defends privilege: Real Clear Arts Dobrzynski calls public input on museum’s new director “bad”!
In an amazing post today in her ArtsJournal blog, Real Clear Arts, Judith Dobrzynski decries the Springfield, Missouri, Art Museum board’s decision to hold a public meeting and solicit input…
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The 8th annual Media Archeology Festival is fixin’ to bring three cross-genre, high-tech artworks to Houston next week. From Thursday through Saturday, the fest, co-presented by Aurora Picture Show…
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In 2001 I lived in Baltimore, Maryland, and among other places, worked at the American Visionary Arts Museum (AVAM). The following is my recollection of 9/11. I want to thank…
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Greatest Work by Greatest Painter Who Has Ever Lived Acquired by Kimbell: Fort Worth New Navel of 18th Century Art World
The Kimbell in Fort Worth has a knack for making exciting news out of old paintings: they have announced an new acquisition, bigger than the Michelangelo monsters, more sacred than…
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For 21 days representing all the societal and environmental abuse of 21 centuries, San Antonio artist Carla Veliz beat, scraped, tore, kicked, stomped on and generally tormented a soft, innocent…