The Nasher Sculpture Center knows how to hold a press announcement: with a celebratory release of homing pigeons! Early this year, the Nasher announced that it would present an exhibition…
June 2013
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Unconventional placement tests how Araujo’s work holds up in contexts outside the traditional exhibition space, and speaks to the curator’s happy-go-lucky sensibility, but feels confused.
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Do kids in West Texas act all bored and think they’re stuck out in the middle of nowhere, or do they realize they have access to the hippest summer camp…
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An expanded version of the web site s[edition] launched yesterday, creating a new platform for digital artists to sell their work to buyers around the world. If successful, more digital…
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Dallas city officials declared the month Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month and CentralTrak has started off June with a loud, queer bang. First they presented 214 Trans4m: Fotos…
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In today’s installment, Houston artist Gabriel Martinez talks about trespassing, staking a claim for art, and making a scene.
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Anderson and Rawlings Costar Again! Dallas to Host Global Cultural Districts Network
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonMaxwell Anderson, the director of the Dallas Museum of Art, and Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings have announced that Dallas will be the site of the 2014 New Cities Summit,…
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"It's a good practice in not having expectations. Often I don't know how something's going to be or turn out, because there is that human element . . . It's like setting up a framework, with me not necessarily controlling how it's worked within."
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How to Unmake a Museum: North Texas on Slow Path to Change Its Mind
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonArts Center of North Texas (ACNT), approved by voters in the early 2000s, was meant to include several performance halls and outdoor sculpture gardens. But the project, jointly owned by…
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Ferrer’s work reminds me of carnivals and cupcakes, but underneath the Cirque du Soleil atmosphere, there is something hallucinatory—like walking around in Johnny Depp’s Wonka candy forest or waking up after a fall down the rabbit hole.
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Beach Days Art Nights: This Summer’s Galveston Art Walks
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe best way to buy/sell/look at art during these hot summer months is to be able to work in a swim in the Gulf on the same day. Every six…
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Photographers Can Sign Up Now and Still Take Nine Months to Make Some Good Art
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonEarly registration is now open for the 2014 International Meeting Place, FotoFest’s portfolio review program in Houston. March seems a long way off and $860 (the cost of one 4-day…
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Everyone’s favorite art critic/grumpus Dave Hickey called Norman Rockwell “the last great poet of American childhood, the Jan Vermeer of this nation’s domestic history.” This week the McNay will open…
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Frieze New York, or How I Learned What You Can Get Away With
by John Aaspby John AaspFrieze is the fair with all the hype—and three cafes, wood-paneled porta-potty complexes, a VIP room and air-conditioned tents out on Randall’s Island. Highlights shall now ensue.
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Judd’s Manhattan Home Opens to the Public (This Time For Real)
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonWhile it was quickly revealed to be a hoax by Detroit artist Tyler Taylor, for a short time last week, visitors to Airbnb were excited at the possibility of renting…
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Well, it happened: The Joanna hosted its final art opening/frat party Friday night, featuring paintings and mug shots by Bill Willis. The Houston gallery has been the late night art…
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New works by Diane Durant, Timothy Harding and L.E. Doughtie use the color black as a symbol for absence or void, the primal element that obscures, rather than reveals information.
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East Dallas Gallery Day is all day today (well, 12-8 PM) but, if you get there early, you can grab a gift bag (each gallery has them for the first…