Lawndale Art Center has announced its new crop of resident artists for 1012-2013: Domokos Benczédi, Nancy Douthey and Patrick Turk will each get studio space on Lawndale’s third floor, $500…
June 2012
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I’ve never met Stephen Kwok, but I was drawn into the work on his site enough to go visit his solo show, “Walled Garden” at Fresh Arts (formerly Spacetaker) until…
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David Aylsworth has debuted a subtle and beautiful new group of canvases, in which the color white carries paradoxical tensions of opaqueness and translucency, form and space, content and blankness,…
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This September Sala Diaz will be hosting Barbara Perea, an accomplished Mexico City-based curator, critic and lecturer with a concentration in emerging media, sound and video art as the first…
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Louis Grachos, Director of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY has been named as Executive Director of AMOA-Arthouse after seven month search. He’s easing into it: Grachos takes on…
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Lights On at the Light Garden: Tim Glover’s Steel Trees to be Illuminated at WOW Roundabout June 19
On June 5, Tim Glover’s “Light Garden”, two 25-foot tall sculptures with multi-colored lighting displays, were “planted” in the Washington On Westcott Roudabout to form a landmark gateway to…
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There’s been a grave interruption in my tour reporting, I realize. Rigoberto Gonzalez Facebooked me thusly the other day: WTF? (I’m paraphrasing). Here’s what happened: from January through May, I amassed…
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Amos Vogel, founder of Cinema 16, courtesy Northwest Chicago Film Society I’m not sure when the guys that run the Texas Theater sleep, they keep that theater so freaking…
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Dallas artist John Wilcox has died, after a long battle with HIV. During the late 80’s Wilcox lived in New York, experiencing firsthand the AIDS epidemic that was consuming the art…
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New 107 Gallery in SA: Lullwood Collective to Take over Second Saturdays at Former LoneStar Studios
Beginning July 14, The Lullwood Group, “an artist collective that encourages participation, fosters exploration and promotes art discovery in many forms,” will curate monthly exhibitions at the 107 Gallery, formerly …
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The Glasstire exhibition listings for East Texas, already thin, are going to get thinner: P’s Gallery, one of the few art venues in Longview, is closing at the end of…
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A new mural, or rather an extension of the current one, is underway at Houston’s Lawndale Art Center. Last weekend, Daniel Anguilu, painter of the 2011-2012 “Famous Monsters” mural, began…
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On Saturday, June 16, eight galleries located in the Deep Ellum and Expo Park kick off the Summer together with East Dallas Gallery Day. Barry Whistler, The Public Trust, Kirk…
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I’d seen Bret Slater’s work before, in his studio, just prior to all of it getting zipped into a big duffle bag and schlepped across the Atlantic for Art Brussels by…
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Independent Art Collaborative, move over! The new West Oaks Art House, the crazy-ambitious scheme to turn a 100,000 square foot former department store into a massive art venue in west…
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Fighting indifferent crowds, hot sun, and $7 beer, intrepid blogger and conoisseur of low-budget public art Robert Boyd checks out the art components of Free Press Summer Fest on his…
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Radcliffe Bailey’s show “Memory as Medicine” opened at the McNay last week. I first saw Bailey’s work in “The Magic City,” his ill-fated show at the Blaffer Gallery in 2001.…
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El Paso native Jake Erlich (1906-1952), for decades known as the tallest man in the world, was also an artist. Twelve of his paintings are featured in a new exhibition,…
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Houston artist Emily Sloan is taking her Southern Naptist Convention on the road to Venice CA next weekend. Sloan, also noted for being the curator of The Kenmore, and “exhibition…
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Thursday, June 14 at 8:23 p.m., Twilight Epiphany, Rice University’s James Turrell Skyspace fires up for its public debut. After a few delays, the piece’s website has gone live, listing…