I’ve been meaning to write something here about film scores for a while. You know, some kind of analysis of the role of music in movies, with interesting, specific examples…
April 2012
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First off, let me just say that El Rincón Social is where it’s at. It’s my answer when people talk about the glory days of Lawndale, or how underwhelming the…
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The International Museum of Art & Science in McAllen, which was damaged by severe weather on March 29, re-opened on Wednesday, April 4 after “five intense days” of cleanup. IMAS…
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News
NasherSALON to Welcome Actress, Model, Filmmaker and Activist and Dog Trainer Isabella Rossellini on April 10
The Nasher Sculpture Center is bringing actress, model, filmmaker and wildlife activist Isabella Rossellini will be the featured speaker at The Nasher Sculpture Center’s NasherSALON, on Tuesday, April 10 at…
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183 pieces in the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s collection are now online in intimate detail as part of Google’s expanded Arts Project. With the Google-powered ability to zoom in…
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Photographs of 183 works from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will be included in the growing global Google Art Project, which aims to increase the online…
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Last week, a little crowd gathered in Marty Walker’s small gallery space to look at artist Wayne White’s new show there called I Say A Lot of Things. We were…
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Nancy Cone Hanley, 74, died on April 3 of complication from an illness. Transplanted to Dallas in 1972 with her husband Tim (who survives her) Nancy was intimately involved with…
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UTEP’s Rubin Center for the Visual Arts was selected to participate in the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services’s (IMLS) National Museum Assessment Program. The MAP program, as it’s…
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Throughout a weekend of constant seismic activity and back-to-back aftershocks I braved the constantly trembling ground on Friday and made the short trek further into the San Rafael neighborhood to…
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The Boards of Houston art-boosters Fresh Arts Coalition and Spacetaker have unanimously approved a merger of the two organizations. The two orgs were of the same vintage, but had complementary…
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If you’re in Austin, or vaguely near Austin, don’t miss the talk by Mark Allen, founder of Machine Project in Los Angeles. It’s from 6:30-8pm in the UT Art Building,…
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Yesterday, art blog Temporary Art Review ran an interview with Alex Tu, participant/instigator/spectator in the loosely organized Houston Countercrawl, now approaching it’s fourth iteration on Saturday, April 28. Blessed with…
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News
Giunta’s Latin American Art History Program Gets a Big Boost From Longhorn TV, (and a Mystery Donor)
Andrea Giunta, Director of UT’s Center for Latin American Visual Studies program has been appointed to the newly established Endowed Chair in Latin American Art History and Criticism at UT…
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http://youtu.be/deRMRh8Zjgg The blank “uh” we hear before Andy Warhol’s responses was typical of his interview style but hardly ever appears in his published interviews as it was most likely edited…
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A bronze and granite grouping by Laredo sculptor Armando Hinojosa depicting a vaquero, two longhorns, settlers, a conquistador, and a boy roping a goat was unveiled amid festivities at the…
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Jacqueline Buckingham Anderson, Houston native and wife of relatively new DMA Director Maxwell Anderson, is profiled, posed and photographed (again!) in the Dallas Morning News. Who are we to rain…
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Doug McCash of the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports on a controversy at that city’s Contemporary Arts Center. Echoing last year’s Arthouse (Austin) debacle, the CAC rented some of its space…