Swamplot has photos of Aurora Picture Show’s new digs at the old Molly Gotchman Art Compound just off Kirby Drive in Houston. The new space will give the film org…
March 2012
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Two weeks ago, I took a road trip to the coast to jury a student exhibition at Rockport Center for the Arts. I spent Saturday in downtown Corpus Christi which…
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After a nearly two-year hiatus, Austin’s Okay Mountain Collective is opening a new show in a new space at 1619 Cesar Chavez St. Leif Low-beer’s Just Do It opens April…
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The Blanton Museum in Austin has announced two new hires and one promotion, filling up vacancies. Colette Crossman, currently the Blanton’s administrator of arts and programs, will be Curator of…
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Houston’s Orange Show opens it’s 2012 season with the traditional Easter Orange Hunt on Saturday, March 31. Bring your kids to scour Jeff McKissack’s folk art creation for goodies, followed…
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Hilton Kramer, chief art critic for the NY Times from 1973-82, has died at age 84. Like many critics whose careers grew up with postwar American art, Kramer never feared…
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It’s not uncommon to walk the streets and stumble upon a vendor selling their wares laid out on top of a blanket directly on the street in Mexico City. This…
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Rigoberto Gonzalez Alonso in Harlingen and Houston: Corridos Baroccos, Part II
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischContinued from Part I… V. Reynosa, Narcolandia and sad, sad data It’s important to point out that Rigoberto Gonzalez is not a Chicano artist, though he shares a lot of…
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Art on the Green is an outdoor art installation brought to life by curator Andrea Mellard at AMOA-Arthouse’s Laguna Gloria. Austin artists, architects, and landscape architects were invited to design…
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On March 15, San Antonio City Council unanimously approved the San Antonio Local Filmmakers Grant (LFG), a $25,000 grant to support local filmmakers who have at least $25,000 in funding…
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Philanthropist Isabel Brown Wilson passed away on Tuesday, March 27 at the age of 80. Daughter of Houston entrepreneur George R. Brown and Alice Pratt Brown, she served on the…
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20 Awkward Items on Richard Phillips, International Art God
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisIntro: This year’s honoree for Two x Two for AIDS and Art will be Richard Phillips, who is loved by celebrities and name-brand clothing and makes glossy, highly artificial compositions from…
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Some days it’s juicy scuffles, museum intrigues, outlandish art projects, or even valuable information; some days Texas arts-related news is old boots and dogfish. Culturemap Houston has a piece on…
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Statements made by artists are often regarded as the key to understanding their work. Art critics look to artists to set the theoretical framework surrounding their art; art historians use…
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This just in: “Attention: HOUSTON, Ivete and I will be at G Gallery in Houston today at 6:30pm for a military tribunal in which the video of the opening will…
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An unnamed, curious Swamplot reader was “roaming around taking pictures at the Rodeo on Sunday when I noticed the ramp down to the floor of the Astrodome was open and…
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The Houston Chroncle‘s Molly Glentzer profiles the latest progress at the newly opened Houston Museum of African American Culture on Caroline St., and its energetic director John Guess, Jr. Just…
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“In a world where proving yourself is everything”… I present Similar but Different #27: Glitter! Mariah Carey Oliver Herring “After its scheduled run, Meulensteen (formerly Max Protetch) took down their…
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On Friday, the Dallas Museum of Art unveiled its new Dashboard website, offering the public access to real-time statistics on the Museum. They’re extensive, but not surprising, and laid out…
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After twenty years as a mainstay of San Antonio’s Blue Star Art Complex, Joan Grona has announced that she will be closing her bricks and mortar gallery at the end…