Stanley Marsh 3 Accused of Sexual Misconduct, Again
Culturemap reports that Amarillo art patron Stanley Marsh 3 is the target of four lawsuits alleging that the 74 year old collector bought sex acts [...]
US Returns 4000 Smuggled Artifacts to Mexico
The LA Times reports that customs officials in El Paso displayed a collection of 4000 objects of archeological interest siezed in the US last thursday, [...]
On the Ubiquity of “Porn”
In the wake of this fall’s Houston Fine Art Fair and Texas Contemporary Fair in Houston, someone remarked to me that art fairs are “Art [...]
Daniel-Kayne, Houston Performance Art Guru, is Dead
Houston performance artist Daniel-Kayne was found dead in “The Temple”, his studio/performance space in Downtown Houston on Monday afternoon. According to an unnamed source who [...]
Trapezoidal Rock is Smoking Gun in DMA Inness Attribution
The Dallas Museum of Art decided last week that a painting given to the museum in 1931 as painter Asher B. Durand’s “In The Woods” [...]
Sexy Aphrodite Censored in San Antonio, Naked Men in Vienna!
A 2,000-year-old statuette of the Greek goddess is too hot for the San Antonio Airport: an image of “Aprodite Emerging from the Sea” advertising the [...]
City Council Meeting: Interview with Aaron Landsman and Mallory Catlett
City Council Meeting is a participatory performance work created by Aaron Landsman, Mallory Catlett and Jim Findlay. For the past few weeks, I’ve been working with [...]
FUTURAMA: “Visions of the Future” at the Ransom Center
ATTENTION FUTURISTS: Report to Austin, Texas on Thursday November 1 by 7:30 p.m. for author/futurist/design visionary Bruce Sterling‘s kick-off speech at this year’s Harry [...]
DAISIES
“Everything is being spoiled in this world. …Know what? When everything is being spoiled, we’ll be spoiled too!” So proclaim two teenage girls–both named Marie–before [...]
Well done, Houston.
Recently I had the pleasure of traveling to Houston for the second annual Texas Contemporary Art Fair. I was impressed, and the fair deserves a [...]
Houston, We Have A Problem: Landeros Art Show Heats Up the Newswires
Uriel Landeros’ one-man show at Houston’s James Gallery has garnered national attention, with articles in the Houston Chronicle, the NY Times, and the Associated Press. [...]
The Halloween Report 2013: Zombies, Candy, Costumes and Tradition Across Texas
With demand dropping for dull piety in art, contemporary artists have left the Nativity, the Annunciation, etc. to popular illustrators, and have rallied around Halloween [...]
Center For Curatorial Leadership Announces New Fellows- Texas Stands Tall, Again
The Center for Curatorial Leadership has chosen 11 fellows for 2013; among them are Emily Neff Curator of American Painting and Sculpture The Museum of [...]
If You Build It, They Will Film: Beer Can House on HGTV Friday Night
Houston’s Beer Can House will be featured on HGTV’s new show “Home, Strange Home” this Friday, October 26th at 8pm CST! Host Chuck Nice and [...]
O.P.P. “In Appropriation” at HCP
Yikes! That’s it? I can’t believe that In Appropriation at HCP is closing already. I’ve been thinking about the show quite a bit. And [...]
Luce Resigns as Nasher/Tower Glare Reduction Mediator: Mayor Interviewed
Tom Luce,the lawyer asked by Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings to act as mediator between the Nasher Sculpture Center and the Museum tower in their tug [...]
DF Chats: Calixto Ramirez in Austin
I recently had the pleasure of curating a video show at Tiny Park Gallery in Austin, Texas titled the Time and Space of Calixto Ramirez. The [...]
City Agency In Need of New Acronym Recognizes Austin’s Arts Partners
The City of Austin Economic Growth and Redevelopment Services Office, Cultural Arts Division (EGRSO-CAD?) handed out its annual Partners in the Arts Awards last week, [...]
Aurora Open Screen Night is Now Open, But Please Check Your Hollywood at the Door
Houston’s Aurora Picture Show is looking for submissions for its “Open Screen Night,” a new quarterly event featuring experimental media projects and other screening events [...]
“Visible Unseen,” Regina Agu at Fresh Arts Gallery
We need to get a few things straight about Afro-Futurism. Afro-Futurism is an attempt to link the future to the past/present. It considers what “blackness” [...]
