Houston artist Bert Long has died. A Houston native, Long gave up a career as a chef for art in 1979, eventually becoming one of the city’s best known and…
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February 1, 2013
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Last Tuesday night, Kiki Smith headlined the 2013 UNT Nasher Lecture Series to an adoring sold-out crowd that was hushed, reverent, and wearing mostly black. Working primarily in printmaking…
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Prehistoric Lion Man Re-dated: World’s Oldest Figurative Sculpture Shows Cave Dwellers Had Some Imagination
The Löwenmensch, or “Lion Man” of Ulm (it might be a woman, but it was named during the “golden age of archeology”), a 30cm figurine carved from a mammoth tusk,…
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On Sunday, NY Times critic Roberta Smith issued a call for museum curators to “shake up the snow globe” and mix folk art into the enervating canonical narratives found in…