In case you missed last year, here's a five-minute summary of some of the more notable Texas art occurrences.
2013
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Unit B, which opened its San Antonio location in 2006, has announced that it will close its doors indefinitely “to ponder the future of the gallery and life in general.”…
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The Museum of Cultural Arts Houston (MOCAH) has announced that it will be closing, effective December 31. The Houston-based organization, founded by Reginald Adams and Rhonda Radford-Adams, has been dedicated…
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Houston philanthropist and oil executive Jack Sawtelle Blanton died on Saturday at the age of 86. Blanton’s son-in-law told ABC13 that he passed away peacefully at his vacation home in…
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The resemblance of the bags to “shoppers” raises questions such as who's shopping, for what, what's being shopped?
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Hills Snyder visits Ivor Shearer's haunting real world re-shooting of The Road: "You are left with that which cannot be escaped. And it follows you out the door."
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Austin Film Group to Present Mystery Grab Bag of Awfulness Tonight
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) was formed a few years ago to archive 35mm film prints, focusing on the exploitation era of independent cinema—the 1960s through the 1980s (think…
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It’s been months now since Detroit filed for bankruptcy, provoking art world nervousness as many eyed the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), the second largest municipally-owned museum in the United…
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Especially in the low light of the bar’s evening ambience, the salon-style constellation gives the impression that La Carafe is where all souls—good and bad, gloriously joyful and dreadfully serious—come to raise a glass, get at least slightly crooked, and disappear into time.
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Since 2009, Houston artist Carrie Schneider has been working as an arts facilitator for refugee youth from Burma and, for the first time, is receiving funding from the City of…
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Tanner's incredibly skilled oil on panel paintings at Moody Gallery each tell one of Aesop's Fables, while the Brandon hosts a fascinating look at the "Lizard Cult" of Lee Baxter Davis, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Robyn O'Neil, Georganne Deen and Gary Panter.
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The holidays can very stressful for many folks and provoke behavior that is not quite in the Christmas spirit. For those who had a spat with a loved one or…
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It feels like the viewer is being led down the bizarre maze of invention, where fleeting thoughts flicker like a lotto machine and the art featured happens to be the image we landed on.
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And Now: British Curator Returns to Dallas to Open New Project Space
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonJames Cope, former director of sales at New York’s Marlborough gallery, moved back to Dallas this spring and launched COPE PROJECTS, serving as art advisor and curator. His plans were…
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Video! Virgil and Dante Visit the Nine Circles of Hell. AGAIN
by Cody Ledvinaby Cody LedvinaA tour of the popular hells and the famous artworks therein, set to a groovy soundtrack!
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Bill FitzGibbons recently completed LightRails, a $200,000 public art light installation for an underpass in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. Originally, there were plans for three more like it, reports the San…
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The Harry Ransom Center, the humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a $500,000 challenge grant from the National Endowment for the…
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Big New Work in Fort Worth: Contemporary Art Even Mom Will Love
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonMartin Creed’s Work No. 1357 (MOTHERS) has been installed at 1401 Foch Street in the Fort Worth Cultural District. Referred to as “Creed’s most ambitious neon project to date,” the…
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And as with the sublime in nature, wonder is a big part of the experience of being with Geffert’s complicated work, but there is little in the work that confounds the mastery of their own execution.
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Fort Worth-based artist Sedrick Huckaby has an exhibition, Everyday Grace, now on view at the Art League Houston through January 4, as well as Everyday Glory, on view at Dallas’…