MEGABUS: Cheap Intra-Texas Art Travel
It’s a common complaint that the major art centers and cities in Texas are simply not connected with each other, have little dialog, and [...]
Kellianne Vallee Named Interim Director of the Galveston Arts Center
Kellianne Vallee has been named Interim Executive Director of the Galveston Arts Center. Ms. Vallee will lead GAC in it’s efforts to return to the [...]
Sit’n'Surf: National Grant Will Fund New Learning Lab at DMA
The Dallas Museum of Art has received a grant of $94,681 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the John D. and [...]
Cinema Arts Festival
I had an eyeball exhausting fun-filled weekend at this year’s Cinema Arts Festival. Because there was so much of it, and because I don’t have [...]
AMSET Gets $2 million Endowment from the Late Wesley W. Washburn M.D. and Lulu L. Smith, M.D
The Art Museum of Southeast Texas in Beaumont has received a $2 million gift. The Wesley W. Washburn M.D. and Lulu L. Smith, M.D. Endowment [...]
Cuauhtemoc Medina Wins Menil’s 2012 Walter Hopps Award For Curatorial Achievement
Josef Helfenstein, Director of the Menil Collection, announced Friday that independent curator Cuauhtémoc Medina has been chosen as the sixth recipient of the biennial Walter [...]
Chicano Batman rides again: Nac Film Theory Releases “Caballero,” Episode 6
Nac Film Theory, a group of filmmakers based in Nacogdoches, Texas has released the sixth episode of “Caballero,” in which a lone hero tackles human [...]
Interview with Emily Roysdon
Emily Roysdon is an artist who lives in Stockholm and New York, when she’s not traveling around the globe, mounting collaborative and site-specific projects. Roysdon [...]
Coming soon to Google Street View: the Grand Canyon
Google has outfitted cars, vans, trikes and snowmobiles to collect imagery of places like Antarctica, the Amazon and the Great Barrier Reef, and, a few [...]
San Anto Cultural Arts Welcomes Another New Executive Director, Community Arts Org Seen to be Stabilizing after Founder’s Death in 2009
San Anto Cultural Arts has a new Executive Director: Harvey Mireles, former board treasurer for the San Antonio Community arts organization, and former Associate Director [...]
More Magritte
Forget iPhone 5. Instead of buying the latest Apple gadget, I’ve added Magritte VI to my credit card bill. Nothing Apple sells stirs my covetousness [...]
Gagosian Lawsuit Turns Over Art Market Rock: Mega-Dealer Admits Double-Dealing is Frequent
The New York Times reports that in a recent lawsuit mega-dealer Larry Gagosian revealed that he frequently represented both the seller and buyer in multimillion [...]
SLICING UP THE CINEMA ARTS FEST (Part 3: Texas Connections)
OK, well, the Houston Cinema Arts Festival has begun, so its a little late for me to still be slicing up the programming. But I’ve [...]
Texas Museums’ Islamic Art Coups Part of Larger Educational Effort
The Business Insider reports on the new, $125 million Islamic art wing at the Louvre in Paris as part of an effort by [...]
Google Art Project Digitizes 71 Kimbell Masterpieces
The Kimbell Art Museum has become the second Texas institution to go online as part of the Google Art Project, a part of the company’s [...]
DAVID BYRNE’S DAY OFF
What did the art world’s favorite rock star do on a rare day off during his recent U.S. tour with St. Vincent? Following their fantastic [...]
SLICING UP THE CINEMA ARTS FEST (Part 2: Arts Docs)
I mentioned in my last post that arts documentaries are arguably the heart of the Cinema Arts Festival (running this evening through Sunday). These films, [...]
Dallas Morning News Sketches of Non-solutions Add Zest to Ongoing Museum Tower Follies
The Dallas Morning News sees no resolution in sight for the ongoing Nasher-Museum Tower Glare-Off, but has sketches of some supposedly serious proposals for technological [...]
You May Have Heard This Already: Two Important Headlines Only Tangentially Related to the Texas Art Scene
President Obama Wins National Election, Will Remain In Office for Four More Years. Hurricane Sandy Pummels East Coast, Wrecking Jersey Shore and Flooding Chelsea Galleries.
Arts People is Good People, Says New NEA-Funded Study- Or At Least They Were in 2002
A new study, Impact of the Arts on Individual Contributions to U.S Civil Society, by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago suggests a [...]
