Kindred Promoted to Head Art Colony Association
Kelly Kindred, former operations mananger for the Art Colony Association, the Houston nonprofit that organizes the two annual Bayou City Art Festivals, has been promoted [...]
Rogers Fund Buys Smith’s Woman and Sheep for McNay
San Antonio’s McNay art Museum has acquired and installed Kiki Smith’s Woman and Sheep, a bronze sculpture by Kiki Smith alongside works by Tony Cragg, [...]
Will Lamson’s Action for the Paiva at Marty Walker Gallery
William Lamson, Action for the Paiva (video still), 2010, Courtesy Marty Walker Gallery “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” — Jean Jacques Rousseau [...]
“Creative Patriot” LoBaido, Flag Painter and Serial Headline-Grabber at it Again, with Help From Staten Island President!
Staten Island Artist Scott LoBaido, known in Houston for painting the “World’s Largest [American] Flag” on the roof of the Lammons Gasket Company near Hobby [...]
Co-Lab Goes Non-Profit, New DVD Set Documents Everything: Release Party and Screening Dec 10
This year, Austin art space Co-Lab has set out to make documentaries for every exhibition/performance they have presented. During each show, the artist(s) were interviewed [...]
A Day With(out) Art
Visual AIDS began Day With(out) Art on December 1st, 1989 as a national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis. It [...]
Britt-Darby Bustin’ Out: New Blog of Art Critic, Meth Addict, Sex Worker, Social Sculptor and Performance Artist Takes the Lid Off
Devon Britt-Darby, né Douglas Britt, one time art and society writer for the Houston Chronicle (he describes his status with the paper as “currently unclear”), [...]
Bad Photos Are Really Good Photos, If We All Share! Lomography, the Store, to Open in Austin
All the kids are wild about Lomography, a new retro-photography marketing gimmick that seeks to make flawed, low-tech analog film photography hip (or rather, capitalize [...]
Contemporary Art and Fake Populism at Cowboys Stadium
I stand staring up at Solar Arrangement, Dave Muller’s sprawling mural at Cowboys Stadium. It’s 21 feet tall by 131 feet wide and extends over [...]
Post Pop Punks at Cohn Drennan Contemporary
Post Pop Punks proffers many stops in its pop culture parade/group program which, according to the press release, “incorporates popular cultural references, utilizes appropriation, co-opts [...]
Holiday Weirdness at Texas Museums Approaches Installation Art in Scale, if Not Seriousness
The Art Museum of South Texas’ annual Holiday Christmas Tree Forest show opened on Black Friday with two dozen trees decorated to represent various countries [...]
UK Psychologists Report on Exotic Animal Behavior: Status and Mating Amongst Visual Artists
A team of British psychologists have just published their findings concerning a much theorized, but little studied aspect of art world behavior: in their paper [...]
‘Tis the Season for Shiny Trees: Surls’ White Walking Flower Installed at Rockport Art Center
The Rockport Center for the Arts unveiled James Surls’ “White Walking Flower,” on November 14. Carted in by U-haul, the piece is smaller, and white, [...]
Britt-Darby Guerrila Action On YouTube: Art Guys Plant Piece “Sucks”
Houston Chronicle art Critic and “Art Guys Marry a Plant” dissenter Douglas Britt-Darby Darby-Britt Britt-Darby has a posted a new YouTube video. Filmed on Thanksgiving [...]
Sage in Iowa
I went home to Iowa for Thanksgiving and between eating amazing food (my Dad is the most terrific cook ever), meeting old friends’ new babies, [...]
Schroeder VS DMA: Reves Collection Lawsuit Update a Snoozefest
The Dallas Observer has an update on the pending lawsuit between the Dallas Museum of Art and Arnold Leon Schroeder Jr., son of art collector [...]
350 Words: Contemplative Cinema at Texas Theater
My husband is like the other 99.5% of Americans who go to the movies to be entertained, not to think. So it is with some [...]
TX Contemporary Fair Announces 2012 Date
ArtMrkt productions’ managing partner Max Fishko has announced that the the Texas Contemporary art fair will return to the George R. Brown Convention Center October [...]
The Man Who Fell to Earth at MFAH
The best movie to see alone and/or stoned this Thanksgiving weekend is Nicolas Roeg’s 1976 existential Sci-Fi oddity, The Man Who Fell To Earth. A [...]
Seeing Stars at the Menil Collection
I live in Austin and while there is tons of art to see in this town, I believe that if you treat the state of [...]
