There’s a new contest for Texas writers called ARTlines: An Ekphrastic Poetry Competition, sponsored by a new reading series in Houston called Public Poetry in conjunction with the Museum of…
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BlogThe Open Blog
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Last night I attended the 360 Speaker Series at the Nasher Sculpture Center featuring SMU Art Chair Michael Corris in conversation with famed art critic and author Dore Ashton. I…
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The renovated and expanded Julia Ideson Library in downtown Houston opened yesterday after a five-year, $32 million restoration. In addition to restoring the gorgeous Spanish Revival interior of the original…
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All Together Now: Collaborators Confabulate in Fort Worth Tonight On The Usefulness of Creative Teamwork
This evening, a group of artists and curators known for their participation in prominent collaborative projects old and new, in Texas and elsewhere will meet to discuss their experiences at…
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Corpus Christi Harbor Bridge Alight! New Permanent LED Installation Unveiled and Ready for Programming
Dark for more than a decade, the iconic Harbor Bridge in Corpus Christi is now adorned with a state-of-the-art LED lighting system. The new $2.2 million system was switched on…
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In his 2011 non-fiction book, Moonwalking with Einstein, author Joshua Foer befriends the professional “memory athlete” Ed Cooke who suggests to him that you can slow down subjective time by…
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Needless to say I was super excited when I heard there was a new Muppet movie coming out and what does it mean that I started crying the first time…
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Every writer has her biases and I’m no exception. If someone were to ask me if Abstract Expressionism were my favorite art genre, I would vehemently shake my head “no.”…
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The Dallas Contemporary art Center is holding a series of novel collector-training workshops this winter, focusing on the cold-eyed assembling, caring for and insuring a collection of investment-grade art. Programming…
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Re-booting my brain after being challenged–Challenged!–on my Feeding the Beast blog. So I’ve found a couple sources of useful ideas. One is a facebook post by Ken Johnson, whose book, Are You Experienced:…
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Magid Salmi wins $1000 Gambol from Art League Houston, Kelly Alison and Emily Sloan come in 2nd and 3rd
At Friday evening’s opening at the Art League Houston, juror Mary McCleary awarded this year’s $1000 Gambol for Visual Art Award to Magid Salmi for small fruits embedded with computer…
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The Art Guys controversial piece, Art Guys Marry a Plant, installed on the Menil lawn , has been damaged. The bent tree was reportedly discovered this morning around 8 am…
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Printeresting, “the thinking person’s favorite online resource for interesting printmaking miscellany” has won a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation arts writer grants program. The blog, based out of Austin,…
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Arnold Schroeder’s slowly ongoing lawsuit against the Dallas Museum of Art crept into a brick wall when a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit that accused the Dallas Museum of Art…
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Turn on the Ice-Maker and Warm up the Video Christmas Tree, the Holidays Come to Discovery Green
For the third year in a row, Andy Mann’s Video Tree will be a highlight of the holiday fun at Houston’s Discovery Green Park. Once a fixture of downtown holiday…
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The museum of Fine arts Houston has announced that Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Gary Tinterow will be the museum’s new director, filling the large vacancy left by the death…
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Art critic Jen Graves of SLOG reports on the evolving Devon Britt-Darby Social Sculpture phenomenon, and on widespread concerns for Britt-Darby’s sanity. Britt-Darby replies on his blog with a video…
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stockpile: New Photographs by Dornith Doherty at Holly Johnson Gallery
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisWhen I was little my nana had a picture of Jesus that looked directly at you no matter where you were standing in her bedroom. It was terrifying, a touch…
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Today’s the 22nd Day With(out) Art, Texas Museums To Screen Jim Hodges Untitled Movie About a Generation of AIDS and Activism
Beginning in 1989, The Day Without Art organizes visual artists and arts organizations originally to raise and, now to maintain awareness of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the arts community.…
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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 to Executive Director after the…