This past weekend, I had the opportunity to assist with the jurying of Lawndale Art Center’s annual Big Show. I have volunteered for this event for the last three years,…
July 2012
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A new community garden is growing at the Chinati Foundation out in Marfa, full of organic vegetables, flowers, and natural dye plants. Chinati staff, community volunteers, and area students involved…
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News
Higgs Boson Discovered: Immediate Impact on Texas Artworld Difficult to Explain Without Complex Mathematics
Scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland announced that they had verified the existence of the long-sought after Higgs Boson (or at least a “Higgs-like particle”), ending…
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Sasha Dela: The Emotional Life of a Spy closes this Friday, July 6th at the Art League Houston so you don’t even have the weekend to catch it. If you…
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The Texas Instruments Foundation recently approved grants of $1.5 million to 12 North Texas arts and culture organizations, among them the Dallas Museum of Art ($200,000) and the Nasher Sculpture…
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The Idea Fund has announced it’s 2012 list of Texas-based artists and groups for it’s 2012 awards: Scott Gleeson & Dane Larsen, Carrie Schneider, Michelle Benaim Steiner, Lope Gutierrez Ruiz…
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Appsauze, the iOS development team of Texas artists Anthony Thompson Shumate and Rob Ziebell, has put the finishing touches on “Sum of the Parts“, “a fun and addictive social drawing/photo/collage…
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Juror Marco Antonini has waded through the 381 entries for this year’s edition of The Big Show at Lawndale Art Center, choosing the smallest number of artists and pieces in…
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Rice University professor Christopher Sperandio in partnership with UK artist Simon Grennan are refitting a musician-style tour bus into a mobile arts platform. Although the bus has been bought and…
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Manscape: Man as Subject and Object opened last night at Lora Reynolds Gallery. The group photography and video show is curated by Christopher Eamon and purports to be about “the…
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Sarah Coppola in the Austin American Statesman reports that the city’s Dougherty Arts Center, high-traffic home to theater, pottery classes, art exhibitions and everything in between, is in sad shape.…
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Blogger Robert Boyd recaps the furor surrounding LA MOCA’s firing of curator Paul Schimmel, putting it in historical context- “Didn’t Nelson Rockefeller and Stephen Clark fire founding MoMA director Alfred…