Fernando Johnson of Brookhaven College won the Dallas Art Dealers Association’s Edith Baker Art Scholarship, chosen from among seven finalists from the seven campuses of the Dallas Community College District.…
September 2012
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Claire Ruud Interviews New Artadia Director Carolyn Ramo
by Claire Ruudby Claire RuudCarolyn Ramo, Artadia’s new director, spent the last 12 years of her career in the New York gallery world, first at Nicole Klagsbrun, then as a production director at David…
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You Can Check it Out Any Time You Like: Hotel Texas Exhibit Re-unites Art From Fateful 1963 Kennedy Visit
In November of 1963, a group of prominent Fort Worth citizens put together a collection of modern art to decorate President John F. Kennedy’s suite at the Texas Hotel in…
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Cecilia Gimenez, the woman whose botched restoration of a small fresco in Spain produced the “Beast Jesus” internet phenomenon, is suing the Sanctuario de Misericordia in Borja for a share…
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1. New York in the fall is ridiculously seductive. I visited this past weekend and the weather was perfect–blue skies, cool breezes. I walked all around, looking at art, meeting…
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I had the pleasure to travel to Mozambique this summer to visit some friends, who had recently relocated there. We stayed outside the capital city Maputo in the town of…
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Morgan Coy of Austin record label and multimedia organization Monofonous Press has launched Transgressor, a new digital magazine “celebrating outsider philosophies and cultural trespassers.” Featuring bits on Utopian communes, the…
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Can I admit that I get a major kick out of this image? That I am thankful for it? Can I say this without losing a significant portion of the…
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A version of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” once famous as an icon of modern angst, now famous for being the most expensive artwork ever, (it sold last year for nearly…
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David Holzman (L.M. Kit Carson), the protagonist and “filmmaker” of Jim McBride’s David Holzman’s Diary (1967), is nestled in his West 71st Street apartment between movie posters and art reproductions,…
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The Dallas Art Dealers Association will present its annual Edith Baker Art Scholarship to a lucky visual art student from the Dallas County Community College District at a reception on…
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NY times blogger James Estrin contrasts the measured connoisseurship of an old-style photographic festival with the estimated 380 billion photographs taken last year by camera phones, or the 380 million…
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Everyone was wondering how the Houston Fine Art Fair‘s move to Reliant Center would work out. From what I can tell it was a good idea. It’s a newer space…
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Dallas artist Fred Villanueva’s 21,000 square foot exhibition, The Art Fair of Texas, is set to open in tandem with The State Fair of Texas in Dallas on September 28. …
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Filmed in 1968 in La Jolla California, Andy Warhol’s previously unfinished film San Diego Surf will be released by the Andy Warhol Museum. The movie was shot on 16 mm…
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Catherine Couturier, for eight years gallery manager and director of John Cleary Gallery in Houston before Cleary’s death in 2008, has taken over the reins of the prominent photography gallery;…
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I have to admit that art fairs, in general, are not my thing. They seem exhausting for everyone involved from visitors to the gallery girls working the booths. With 80…
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It wasn’t ’til Sunday morning that I got the point of the Marfa Dialogues, an extended look at art, culture and climate change over Labor Day weekend. We were trooping…
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Galveston Arts Center‘s pop up show of work from Nick Barbee‘s Galveston Artist Residency is at 4411 Montrose through today, Saturday, September 15. It’s in the former Peel Gallery space…
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The Aurora Picture Show’s 9th annual Media Archeology Festival (Thursday through Saturday, Sept. 21-23) premieres a host of unique films and live audiovisual performances that transform everything from magnetic fields…