CAMH Calls for Sages, Teens for Spring Programs
The Contemporary Art Museum Houston is loking for “activists, artists, lay(wo)men, and scholars” to participate in a series of discussions titled “Revenue Sharing,” held in [...]
Holiday Gift Guide: Art Books
Who doesn’t love to receive art books around the holidays? Full of inspiration and far more special than your average paperback, the following books will [...]
CAMH Director Named CAM Curator: Bill Arning To Curate San Antonio Contemporary Art Month Perennial Show
Contemporary Art Month San Antonio has named Bill Arning as Curator of the 2013 CAM Perennial. The CAM Perennial opens at the Guadalupe Cultural [...]
High Stakes High School: Goss-Michael Metroplex Student Art Contest Offers $1000 Prize
Dallas’ Goss-Michael foundation is looking for DFW area high school students for its 2013 Dallas/Ft. Worth Student Art Contest. Students drop off art relating to [...]
Veronica Gerber at Centro Cultural de España
I know it’s not Texas, and it’s certainly not Miami, but there are some projects that are so well thought out, so surprising and so [...]
Newly Restored Destruction: Menil Installs John Chamberlain Anniversary Show
The Menil is topping off it’s 25th Anniversary with an installation of four major John Chamberlain sculptures in its foyer, reiterating its inaugural show of [...]
Anderson Bids for Overpriced Leonardo, Reassessing Art of the Possible at DMA
The Dallas Museum of Art has scraped together a sizable pile of money from donors and made what Director Maxwell Anderson calls “a very reasonable [...]
Copyright, The Dark Side
A few weeks ago, I did a quick survey of what a copyright is and how to get one. But recent reactions to a news [...]
New Stamp Collection Commemorates 1913 Armory Show, Includes Murphy’s Razor From DMA
The ever-ready PR department at the Dallas Museum of Art informs us that one of their pieces, Gerald Murphy’s 1924 Razor, will be featured on [...]
Novel Houston Art Classes Survive Through Cunning Brew of Edu-Tainment
Non-credit classes offered by community arts orgs, without the protective umbrella of academia, are the feral cats of art education, living by their wits. Several [...]
Beast Jesus Painter Now Selling on Ebay!
Cecilia Gímenez, the painter famous for her comically awkward restoration job on a Spanish church fresco, is exploiting her notoriety to sell a painting on [...]
The Perot Museum and Downtown Dallas
The Perot Museum of Nature and Science has an exterior that looks like one of the collection’s incredible mineral crystals. Conjunctive cubes intersect each other [...]
Montrose Esplanade Project, Part I: Renner’s Funnel Tunnel to Recapture Art League’s Inversion Glory
A reinvigorated Art League Houston, under the leadership of newish director Micheal Peranteau, has commissioned a major new public piece by Houston artist Patrick Renner. [...]
Jill Magid at Galería Labor
As another exploration of the catalysts that drive human behavior, Jill Magid has continued her investigation of gun violence in Texas with the exhibition titled [...]
Chamberlain Building Decrepit: Chinati Issues Plea for Fix-It Dollars
According to an email broadcast last week, The Chinati Foundation’s John Chamberlain Building needs roof repairs, the adobe and concrete walls need patching, and the [...]
Women and Their Work Selected for $50,000 Rauschenberg Grant; Organizing Austin Tree Memorial
Austin nonprofit Women & Their Work, has invited visual artist, Beili Liu, architects Emily Little and Norma Yancey, and landscape architects Christy Ten Eyck and [...]
The Comedy
How can good people appreciate despicable behavior? What can it seriously tell us about the values we hold? These questions are repeatedly addressed and challenged [...]
Art Fair Buying Spurred by Fiscal Cliff
The Art Newspaper (Art Basel Edition) reports that the fiscal cliff, and attendant economic uncertainty if anything, has been good for sales of high-end art [...]
Calvin Tomkins at the Menil
In celebration of the Menil Collection’s 25th anniversary this fall, Calvin Tomkins spoke at the Menil in conversation with director Josef Helfenstein. Because of the [...]
