Attending the third annual Hill Country Film Festival in the enchanting town of Fredericksburg April 26-29 was a treat. I arrived opening night for the free screening of short films…
May 2012
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Austin living-room gallery Tiny Park is moving up to a dedicated gallery space in May, after the close of its current show, the Tiny Park Drawing Annual (on view through…
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The National Endowment for the Arts announced an award of $60,000 to support the creation of interactive, site-specific installations that will explore the Southwestern vernacular of the plazita, the traditional…
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Margaret C. Conrads, Ph.D., will join the staff of the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth in September 2012 as its first Deputy Director of Art and Research; she is…
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News
Luce Mediates Nasher Glare Fiasco: Reasonable Settlement Looms, Threatening Sensationalist Media Circus
Bloomberg reports that representatives of the Dallas Police and Firefighters’ Pension Fund, which backed the disatrously reflective Museum Tower, are negotiating with the Nasher Sculpture Center to resolve the tower’s…
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Houston’s universities are important incubators of artistic talent, with many artists in the city having taught at and/or graduated from either the University of Houston or Rice University. But the…
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Gerald Peters Gallery of New York and Santa Fe is opening a branch in Marfa, under the direction of their director of contemporary art, Mary Etherington. The new outpost marks…
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Tumbleweeds We don’t have New York’s density, or Chicago’s architecture, or Los Angeles’ mythologized spaces. We don’t have San Francisco’s prices, Aspen’s lack of oxygen, Austin’s lack of pigment, and…
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Houston’s Wade Wilson Art is opening a second gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico this summer. Wade Wilson Art Santa Fe will be at 409 Canyon Road in the lower…
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Devon Britt Darby, neé Douglas Britt, former Houston Chronicle arts writer, and Reese Darby, his former wife are celebrating their divorce at Leon’s Lounge on Monday May 7 5:30-7:30 pm.…
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The Frieze Art Fair has opened, amid hubbub that apparently lives up to its pre-show hype! Under the biggest tent in the world, on a rock off Manhattan, the transplanted…
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Who paid $119 million for Edvard Munch’s The Scream at auction at Sotheby’s yesterday? The Daily Beast has run a long, content free-speculation discussing various evidence-free theories. Lacking “even crumbs”…
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Rhode Island glass artist Paul Housberg has just put the finishing touches on a large glass-tile mosaic in Houston’s Chase Center. The big blue wall, comissioned by architect Ken Harry…
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I cried all the way home from Care House, Carrie Schneider’s installation and memorial in her childhood home. The house was where Schneider’s mother lived until she died from pancreatic…
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Blog
90s Nostalgia: Lamenting the loss of the mega bookstore while loving the iPad
by John Aaspby John AaspDuring the 90s, I worked at Hastings. Similar to other major retail entertainment chains (Borders, Blockbuster, Tower, etc.), Hastings sells just about every form of consumable media, and can be…
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It’s a Phase, curated by Divya Murthy, features work by Lina Dib, Ned Dodington, Tobias Fike, Allison Hunter, Barna Kantor, Gabriel Martinez, Abinadi Meza, Emily Sloan, Annie Strader, Raishad JarBar…
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There’s nothing like dirty laundry to attract publicity, or as Dallas Observer columnist Jim Schutze put it, “nothing takes our minds off this misery we call middle-class survival in America…
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John Hogg and the Mexic-Arte museum board are hoping to build an “iconic” new building for the museum at Congress and Fifth St. in downtown Austin, and want the city…