Social Practice 101: Mobile Pinhole Project Shows How It’s Done
Artist Jonas “Nina” Becker’s meme-friendly combination of quaint photographic technology, van customization, and arts education for neighborhood youth, the Mobile Pinhole Project, has sprawled across [...]
Jessica Luther’s Smoke and Mirrors Re-Opens: Dallas Outsider Garage Art Party Last Night
The Dallas Observer chronicled the ups and downs of newly reopened Smoke and Mirrors Gallery and it proprietor, Jessica Luther on Saturday. Health problems caused [...]
Old News is Good News: Rubin Adds 11,000 Pages of Cronkite Transcripts to UT Video Piece
New York artist Ben Rubin will be back in Austin at the end of this month to tinker with his projected-video installation And That’s the [...]
El Paso: 50 Happenings in the Downtown Arts District
El Paso’s Downtown Arts District has so many things going on the week of June 22-30 that thay’ve launched a new website, to help keep [...]
Seeing Double: Houston Sculptor Sues Over Big Statue Ripoff
Houston sculptor Bob Pack’s “The Guardian,” a realistic statue of a police officer and a boy has stood in front of the Sugar Land police [...]
They Shoot Artists, Don’t They? a summer program
It’s almost July, and perhaps you have no interest in losing yourself in the waves of insect din and the swampy stickiness, even though it [...]
Interview with Catherine Lee
Catherine Lee is a painter and sculptor who has exhibited throughout the United States and abroad. She grew up in Texas, attended university in [...]
Big Country Pop-Up: Clyde, TX DIY Project “Hones In on an Art Concept Sweeping the Nation’s Larger Metropolitan Areas”
Responding to a dearth of art venues with “a “do-it-yourself” mentality” Abilene painter Bud Clayton has organized what he’s calling “The Big Country’s first “POP [...]
El Museo Soumaya: It’s just as confused as I am
I always find it curious when art institutions decide to go into ambitious building programs. Typically the reasoning is the same: to offer a space [...]
Ai WeiWei: Police Block Countersuit Against Chinese Tax Authorities, Lawyer Disappears
The Guardian, UK reports that Chinese dissident and international art star Ai WeiWei’s studio in Beijing was surrounded by police today, who injured one of [...]
$500,000 Mellon Grant Funds New Conservator at DMA
The Dallas Museum of Art has received a half-million dollar grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to hire ex-Getty conservator Mark Leonard as its [...]
Aerospace Engineers for the Arts? Study Claims $322 Million Economic Footprint for Dallas Arts
The Dallas Observer reports on a report that the arts generate $322 million in jobs and revenue in Dallas, according to a study by arts [...]
Lebowskis: Talking to Ed Hardy
“You talking to who?” They heard me fine, yet each time I told a friend that I was calling Ed Hardy for a quick interview, [...]
Jack Risley and Amy Hauft Join UT Art Department
Jack Risley, associate dean of academic affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), will be the next chair and Ruth Head Centennial Professor of the Department [...]
Memorial to Mark a Texas-Sized Injustice: Tim Cole Monument Approved by Lubbock City Council
Lubbock City council voted to place a public marker commemorating Tim Cole, who was wrongly convicted for a 1985 rape, and who died in prison [...]
Blindsided? CAC New Orleans and Organizational Crises in the Art World
About a year ago now, I published a series of articles introducing readers to some of the financial metrics consultants, academics, and others have used [...]
Picasso Vandalized at Menil Collection
Pablo Picasso’s Woman in a Red Armchair (1929) was vandalized last week when a man in a dark suit approached the piece and stenciled the [...]
Folk Artist Mr. Imagination, aka Gregory Warmack, 1948-2012
Gregory Warmack, better known to a generation of folk art lovers as Mr. Imagination, one of the few outsider artists whose work was collected by [...]
Refurbished Stark Museum Opens Native American Art Gallery in Orange
The Stark Museum of Art’s renovation has made room for a permanent installation of its collection of Native American art. The exhibition: Creating from Traditions: [...]
ArtSlam at Steve Paul Productions
ArtSlam is an auction benefiting WordSpace, a Dallas writers organization that hosts regular readings and events around town. The auction will be Sunday, June 24th, [...]
