Fernanado Johnson wins DADA Baker Art Scholarship
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 [...]
Claire Ruud Interviews New Artadia Director Carolyn Ramo
Carolyn 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 [...]
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 [...]
Elderly Beast Jesus Artist Sues Church for Share of Tourist Dollars
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 [...]
Notes from New York
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 [...]
Contemporary Art in Mozambique
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 [...]
Monofonous Press Launches Transgressor, Its First Digital Magazine
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 [...]
Dragons; beauty at the MFAH
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 [...]
Mona Lisa Screams: MOMA to Borrow Famous Icon of Angst
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 [...]
“David Holzman’s Diary”
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 [...]
DADA Edith Baker Art Scholarship Award Ceremony on Friday
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 [...]
Tsunami of Vernacular Photographs Recording Every Action as if it Were of Equal Importance
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 [...]
More on the Houston Fine Art Fair
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 [...]
Dallas Artist Thinks Big at One-Man Art Fair of Texas
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 [...]
Warhol Museum to Release San Diego Surf, 40+ Years Later
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 [...]
New Catherine Couturier Gallery Replaces John Cleary in Houston
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 [...]
Houston Fine Art Fair
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 [...]
The Marfa Dialogues: Art, Science, Drought, Food and Beer
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 [...]
See it before it closes!: Nick Barbee at 4411 Montrose
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 [...]
CONNECT THE DOTS. Media Archeology 2012
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 [...]
