Idea Fund Announces 2013 Grantees
The Idea Fund has announced the ten Texas-based artists collectives with unusual projects for their 5th round of grants: The Bridge Club – Art and [...]
Cyrus Cylinder Rolls in to Houston: Conqueror’s Ancient Edict Revered For Fairness, Oldness
The British Museum has announced that the Museum of Fine Arts Houston will be one of the stops for the Cyrus Cylinder, a 9-inch piece [...]
Daily Dose of Dis: Two Bits of Lukewarm Art-Snark in Today’s Headlines
Conservative commentator Glenn Beck has made another of his periodic stabs at art criticism, grabbing a little media attention (like this, sigh) for dunking a [...]
Cody Ledvina: Expierence (Brandon and the Boys)
Cody and his puppet pal Brandon visit with Jeremy DePrez, Geoff Hippenstiel and Jonathan Ryan Storm.
Pedro Alonso and Lilia Kudelia join Dallas Contemporary as Adjunct Curators: Glamour Shots Attached
Yesterday, a “press communiqué” from the Dallas Contemporary announced two new adjunct curators: Pedro Alonzo and Lilia Kudelia will joi the org, helping to “enhance [...]
San Antonio Sets HemisFair Park Art Plan Community Meeting for Dec. 5
On Wednesday, December 5, the public is invited to talk over the proposals with Mikyoung Kim, consultant for the HemisFair Park Public Art Plan from [...]
They Shoot Curators, Don’t They?
By the time this is published the new curator of modern and contemporary art at the Blanton Museum may have been announced. I was told [...]
Dallas Museum of Art to Offer Free Membership And Free Admission Starting in January
The Dallas Museum of Art announced yesterday that it will return to free general admission in January 2013 and launch an unusual new free-membership plan. [...]
NEA Awards $60,000 To Artpace For Artist-In-Residence Program
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman announced yesterday that Artpace San Antonio is recommended for a $60,000 NEA Art Works grant to support [...]
Saltz as Low-Budget Collector: If it Quacks like a Richter . . .
Art critic Jerry Saltz has gotten the collecting bug- but, not being able to afford the seven-figure prices of the Gerhard Richter paintings he craved, [...]
Visual Artists and Copyright Rights
What & when are your copyright rights? Keep your hands off my image! The other Saturday I wrote a small musing on the art business [...]
Casting Call for an Austin Apocalypse: Urban Shield Disaster Exercise Looking For (Fake) Victims
On Saturday, December 1, 2012, thousands of volunteer victims are needed to participate in a regional hazardous materials training exercise at the Travis County Exposition [...]
Hive Swarms Towards Reality: Chron Outlines Its History, and Future
Hive, Nestor Topchy’s “master-planned, artist-centric utopia” is stepping closer to becoming a reality- Lisa Gray reports in the Houston Chronicle that the seven-story dome constructed [...]
Paintings, Move Over: New El Paso Juried Photo Show Fills Gap in West Texas Expression
The El Paso Art Association has spun off a new photography show from its annual juried “Arts International” show, which ceased to include photographs last [...]
Dallas Art News Asks Meadows Curator Nicole Atzbach Nine Silly Questions, Gets Nine Silly Answers
Dallas Art News founder Michael Roman “spent a few minutes” interviewing new Meadows Museum curator Nicole Atzbach and posted his results yesterday; among a list [...]
Michael Bise: Life On the List, Chapter 2
The Glasstire Drawing Project presents Chapter 2 of Michael Bise’s “Life On the List,” an autobiographical comic about life on the heart transplant list. For [...]
Artists, Galleries, and Collectors: How the business of the art world works, sometimes…
I appropriately write this on “Small Business Saturday” and artists and galleries are among the smallest businesses around. But, as I say in the essay, [...]
Read This, Then Read Not That This!
Not That This, a new blog about artistic happenings in Houston features posts on the Stacks exhibition at Art League Houston, street interventions by Cody [...]
Michael Findlay Speaks Sanity: Connoisseurship in our Commodity Culture
Culturemap interviewed art dealer Michael Findlay about his new book, The Value of Art, which de-myhologizes some of the current hype surrounding contemporary art prices [...]
Casey Williams Recovers from West Nile Coma
Houston artist Casey Williams, in a coma due to complications from West Nile virus, missed the opening of his show at Williams Tower Gallery in [...]
