Some say that Black History month no longer needs to be celebrated. The belief is that these marginalized histories can be framed beyond the margins and understood within larger conversations…
February 2012
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March 4 will be the final day to see the Byzantine frescoes currently nestled in their frosted glass framework at the Menil’s Byzantine Fresco Chapel. The works, which the Menil…
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The City of Austin Cultural Arts Division has announced that shawn Smith’s Vicious Venue, a sculptural installation of digital vultures made frompainted balsa wood, is the People’s Choice selection from…
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I flew down to LA last week in honor of CAA, The College Art Association. While the majority of my peers went to panels, school reunions, and were either interviewers…
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The City of El Paso has selected the first three artists for their new prioritized 2012 public art plan : Margarita Cabrera, Jose Cano and Anna Jacquez have been chosen…
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To get yourself in a properly industrial mood for the upcoming Lone Star Performance Explosion, take a look at Facebook group CSAW Lives! True Stories of Commerce Street Artists Warehouse, …
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Street artist Shepard Fairey, (wearing a suit!) pled guilty to misdemeanor criminal contempt charges connected with his altering evidence in a 2009 court battle over his use of a copyrighted…
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The LA Times‘ Deborah Vankin reports that the enormous rock for artist Michael Heizer’s Levitated Mass at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has been levitated. Emmert Costruction has…
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Austin Coming Together (ACT), “committed to ProACTive community building,” had its monthly meeting last Thursday, and among other Austin-boosting things on the agenda was the creation of an Austin Arts…
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In San Angelo, museums, artists, students and university faculty all pull hard together to create a vital art scene from a less than critical mass. Ami Mizell-Flint in the San…
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I have followed Glenn Ligon’s work over the past twenty years. He’s not known for his subtlety. In fact, he deliberately provokes his viewers. Given that his work examines race,…
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I had an art trek. There were three openings and I was determined to make it to all of them. I succeeded (mostly). Opening #1 was a performance piece by…
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I’ve loved Mona Hatoum‘s work since I first saw it in 1993 at the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens. The exhibition was called Four Rooms and Hatoum was one of…
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Chris Giftos, former Director of Special Events and Master Floral Designer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art has agreed to step in as the keynote speaker and guest of honor…
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Is it the last gasp of artistic desperation? Drawing’s ironic abasement before the god of photography? Or just way to make a little money? Houston artist Whitney Riley is starting…
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Rice University dedicated a pair of big, seated figures by Jaume Plensa at a ceremony on the Rice campus last tuesday. The piece, titled Mirror, is similar in style to…
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Artadia, “the fund for art and dialog” has just announced a big multi-year grant from the Houston Endowment for its upcoming programs. In other Artadia news, longtime executive director Lila…
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Iconic LA sculptor Ken Price, 77, died early today after struggling with tongue and throat cancer for several years. He recently completed preparations for his retrospective, which opens this fall…
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UT’s Blanton Museum has commissioned alum Jules Buck Jones to create a temporary outdoor installation in the museum’s Faulkner Plaza for the annual Explore UT event, set for March 3,…
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Houston’s New Gallery/Thom Andriola celebrates it’s relocation into temporary quarters at 3225 Milam, next to PG Contemporary, with a grand opening on March 2 from 6-8. The gallery is in…