Credit Sequence -Gray day, I’m on 59, heading down to TSU. At freeway speed, the weather renders most of the adjacent buildings invisible, only the brightest planes of blue, red,…
April 2013
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The City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs unveiled 7 new public art commissions this week at Dallas Love Field Airport. The Love Field Art Collection is part of the…
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A few nights before I saw the Cindy Sherman retrospective at the Dallas Museum of Art, I dreamed about Cindy. Picture a big warehouse building like Warhol’s New York Factory…
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Lacking a convenient building to demolish, the Art League Houston is sending out a call for scrap lumber for Funnel Tunnel, Patrick Renner’s 185-foot public artwork now beginning construction along…
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Houston artist David McGee recalls an encounter with a Picasso impersonator on TV for videographer John Carrithers.
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Temporary Services “Socialized Media–Designated Drivers, Interactive Records and a Booklet Cloud”
by Katie Gehaby Katie GehaThe art collective Temporary Services’ exhibition at The University Galleries at Texas State in San Marcos acts a tutorial for the social art practice the group engages and promotes. The…
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This Friday, April 12, from 7-10 p.m., Big Medium, the Austin art org behind the upcoming West Austin Studio Tour (as well as the Texas Biennial, the former Cantanker Magazine,…
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News
Please Don’t Mist the Art! Flower Show To Feature Horticultural Interpretations of MFAH’s Collection
Like global warming, and with similar speed, contemporary art’s omnivorous inclusion of the temporary and the handmade has caught up with the traditional art of flower arranging, as it has…
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Newly renovated Blaffer exterior About three years ago I installed my Master’s Thesis Show at the Blaffer Art Museum. Every piece in my exhibit was ready-made sculpture and vinyl…
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In a joint letter to “family, friends, and colleagues,” glamorous Jacqueline Buckingham and DMA Director Maxwell Anderson announced their divorce on her website and her facebook page on April 9.…
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The Hermitage Artist Retreat along with the Greenfield Foundation have announced that Houston painter Trenton Doyle Hancock is the winner of the $30,000 Greenfield Prize, awarded this year in visual…
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Senorita Cinema, Stephanie Saint Sanchez’s Latina film festival is seeking short films and videos by Latinas for this year’s fourth annual event, set for June 7-9, at locations around Houston.…
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You can’t miss the compound on San Antonio’s West Side as it sits in the middle of Leal Street. Warhol-inspired Campbell’s soup piñatas mixed in with lush, green vegetation greeted…
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Why should ogling acres of fine art be the exclusive province of the leisured? For the first time in its five year run, the Dallas Art Fair, partnering with CultureMap,…
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For those of us who just can’t get enough contemporary art, this week’s Dallas Art Fair has sparked several fair-like events in its train, in addition to the fair’s own…
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News
Brushed with Greatness: Vuitton and Koons Join Picasso and Tinterow at Houston’s MFAH
by Glasstireby GlasstireTo kick off its new “Conversations with the Director” lecture series, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston is splurging on a big name: high-end artist Jeff Koons will discuss his…
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On a late Friday afternoon in March as rush-hour drivers braked their way through the I-10 and Loop 1604 intersection, San Antonio artists got their first formal introduction to the…
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On Saturday, April 6 from 8 a.m.-3 p.m., the Museum of Cultural Arts Houston is selling off a pile of broken and not so broken musical instruments, art supplies, furniture, …
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Laura Gilbert, writing in The Art Newspaper, has a fascinating account of the gray market in salvaged art, a suddenly important and visible secor of the at market dealing in…
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Three exhibitions currently on view in DFW highlight work in clay by three artists spanning four centuries. C.D. Dickerson is Curator of European Art at the Kimbell Art Museum and…