COMING TO AMERICA
Robert Frank’s 1950s at the MFAH The new exhibition, American Made: 250 Years of American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston opens next [...]
Benini Sculpture Ranch for Sale
The 142-acre Benini Sculpture Ranch in the Hill Country west of Austin is for sale. The property, once owned by Lyndon Johnson, was purchased by [...]
Schimmel Latest in Series of Staff Losses at LA-MOCA
With the artworld in almost unanimous head-shaking mode over LA-MOCA’s firing (?) of respected curator Paul Schimmel, the LA Times puts the episode in context [...]
Stir at Gallery M Squared
Stir is a visually cohesive, materially investigative group show at M Squared Gallery as part of Print Matters. Rabéa Ballin, Lovie Olivia, Delita Martin and [...]
Art Fugitive: Menil Vandalism Suspect Crit on Artinfo, Discussed in Wall Street Journal
The Menil Picasso vandalism story is working its way up the media ladder: the Wall Street Journal‘s Eric Felten pokes at the art/crime knot without [...]
Paul Schimmel Fired from LA MOCA
Paul Schimmel, highly respected chief curator at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art for 22 years, was fired by the museum’s board, over disagreements [...]
Texas Arts Resources: TALA
Need a lawyer to look over a contract before you sign it? Are you planning on starting a nonprofit organization and need assistance with [...]
“Omer Fast: 5000 Feet is the Best” at the Dallas Museum of Art
5000 Feet is the Best, on view at the Dallas Museum of Art, is a film based on two conversations that artist Omer Fast conducted [...]
R.I.P. Artnet
Artnet magazine, the 16-year old online art magazine, ceased publication Monday. The widely-read magazine, which carried the words of Charlie Finch and republished Jerry Salz, [...]
Bilbao Boom: For Arts Institutions, Thinking Big Can Be Suicidal in NY Times
The New York Times today reported on a new study on over-zealous building campaigns at cultural institutions which mentioned the Chicago Art Institue’s Modern Wing, [...]
Jessica McDonald to be New Ransom Center Photo Curator
Jessica S. McDonald has been appointed as the Chief Curator of Photography at UT’s Harry Ransom Center. McDonald, a curator of photography at SFMOMA, the [...]
CAMH’s Newly-Extended Hours Offer Seven Days of Icy Contemporary Art Bliss
Beginning July 3, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston has new extended hours: 10-7 Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, open late Thursdays until 9pm, Saturdays 10-6, and [...]
Nobuo Sekine at the DMA
In a little carved out space of the Hoffman Galleries at the DMA, there are three pieces by Japanese artist Nobuo Sekine, founder of the Mono-ha [...]
The Cost of Turnover, or how museums could pay more and spend less
There’s been a lot of management turnover within top tier Texas museums over the past year. [Quick recap: Just 13 months ago, Simone Wicha replaced [...]
Local Revolutionaries: Living Room Art with Voices Breaking Boundaries
The revolution begins at home. More specifically, the revolution begins in your living room. Since 2006, Houston’s bold and unapologetic Voices Breaking Boundaries has been [...]
Suspected Menil Picasso Vandal on the Run: $5000 Reward for Houston Artist Uriel Landeros
Culturemap reports that Crime Stoppers has offered a $5000 reward for Houston artist Uriel Landeros, suspected of vandalizing Picasso’s Woman in a Red Armchair at [...]
Rice Gallery: The App Needs You
The Rice Gallery is celebrating Rice University’s Centennial with a new iPad app, the university’s first, cataloging the many installations that have transformed the Rice [...]
Orange Show Unveils Dedicated Art Car Parade Website
What better use for some of that Houston Art Alliance hotel tax money than to promote one of the city’s only real claims to fame, [...]
Watching Paint Dry with Gerhard Richter
Recently, I went to a screening of the documentary Gerhard Richter Painting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Going into the film, I was [...]
DMA Gets $300,000 to Develop Digital Media Projects
The Dallas Museum of Art has received $300,000 to support the creation of a Laboratory for Museum Innovation, which will produce digital media for museum [...]
