When I ask Mark Goodman, Graduate Academic Advisor in the Department of Art at the University of Austin, what he wishes he could tell his 25-year-old self about a career…
January 2012
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It was too loud to talk to her at her at last weekend’s Glasstire/Fresh Arts Disaster Ball at the Colombe D’Or, so Diverseworks is inviting artists to meet and greet…
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The Dallas Observer‘s Anna Merlan visited the site of one of Renowned street artist Shepard Fairey’s murals-in-progress in west Dallas. Fairey is in town at the invitation of the Dallas…
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The Benefits of Eating with Strangers:The CADD Mystery Dinner
by Lucia Simekby Lucia SimekMy husband and I were invited to CADD’s (Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas) latest event this weekend — The CADD Mystery Dinner: Eat Your Art Out, and I have to…
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A ceremony was held last Wednesday in Washington to return a Pissarro monotype, Le Marche aux Poissons, to the French ambassador, Francois Delattre. The print had been allegedly taken from…
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The Austin American-Statesman’s Jeanne Clair Van Ryzin saw Ink Tank Lab’s recent house installation Last New Year, in a bungalow at 1319 Rosewood Ave. Sorry, it’s too late to see…
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“The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991” at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
“The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991” on view at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston through April 15 is a rare opportunity to see some of…
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You Visit the Creative Arts Center
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisWelcome to the Creative Arts Center, hidden gem of East Dallas. You are visiting on the first Saturday of classes in the new year, so some of the most popular…
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A trail of 23-foot Comanche Arrows is being installed by retired farmer-turned-metal-sculptor Charles A. Smith in the pannhandle. The arrows, stuck into the ground as if they fell from the…
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Dallas curator/writer/collector Charles Dee Mitchell‘s Lakewood home was critiqued in Friday’s Dallas Morning News. Mitchell’s enviable combination of topflight contemporary art, modernist design and livable comfort (and his Cinderella-story career…
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Indy Grits Andy Smith to Jury Aurora Extremely Shorts Festival- 2012 Call For Entries Open Now!
Aurora Picture Show is again looking for adventurous three-minute or shorter films and videos from around the world- it has opened submissions for the 2012 edition of its popular, long-running…
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Beginning at El Rincon Social in Houston’s East End, Counter Crawl III, is a sprawling multi-venue art festival which takes place at different underground, off-the-beaten-path type spaces where “cool people…
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Dallas’ institutional brotherhood weighs in on Dallas’ art scene at DMA State of the Arts
by Lucia Simekby Lucia SimekLast night, the DMA hosted its latest State of the Arts panel, on the topic of contemporary art in Dallas. The panel was made up of a brotherhood of institutional…
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END OF THE WORLD TONIGHT: Don’t Forget to Empty Your Pockets at the 9th DISASTER BALL, Glasstire/Fresh Arts’ Fundraising Disaster!
This year is officially, really- we’re serious this time- the end of the world! So let’s celebrate disasters of all stripes (Will Lindsay go to jail again? will Italy forgive…
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KINGSPOINT, billed a “Houston’s largest graffiti mecca” (and recent recipient of a $4000 Idea Fund grant for 2012) is back with a vengeance as graffiti artist skeez181 & Southern Artists…
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The New Galveston Artist Residency will opens its studio doors on Saturday, January 28 for of tours of the sparkling new seaside (well, bayside, anyway) facility, and the works of…
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San Anto Cultural Arts is inviting the community to two days of dialog, discussion and planning for its upcoming 43rd Mural Project. On Saturday, January 28 community members will…
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This year is an election year in Mexico. This election will be a pivotal one for the entire country. I was living in Mexico City when the current president, Felipe…
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Every other March, swarms of photographers and photo-related exhibitions swamp Houston’s art scene, and 2012 is one of those years: Fotofest’s 2012 Biennial focuses on Contemporary Russian Photography, blanketing the…
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Last Friday night, “The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991 opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. In it were some of my favorite Guerrilla…