Summer may slow down a bit in the art world, but it’s a busy time for artists filling out applications for grants and residencies. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston…
July 2013
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The tide of hateful anti-immigrant and racist rhetoric has sparked a renewed commitment by younger generation of artist-activists to speak openly on the issue.
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In conjunction with its current exhibition Texas Tough, Blue Start Contemporary Art Museum will present a “Women’s Artist Panel.” The panel will include San Antonio artists Missi Smith, Katie Pell,…
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The Nasher Announces the Future of Art: It Involves Crying Babies
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe Nasher Sculpture Center is now announcing the fifth of its ten plans for the Nasher XChange citywide sculptures commissioned for its tenth anniversary. The first of the announced projects…
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Why Things are Falling Apart is a book I bought, then put off reading because, not having done my homework about the author, I feared it was written by some Tea Party wingnut.
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For many who visited Riley Holloway’s recent exhibition at Dallas’ Fairmont Hotel Gallery, it was the first they had heard of the Fairmont’s artist-in-residence program, although it was established in…
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After six years, Houston’s DARKE Gallery is closing its doors. Adding the announcement at the end of a press release for its upcoming and final gallery exhibition, owner Linda Darke…
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David Altair Karave and a group of East Austin artists, architects, engineers, and volunteers are creating a “Psychokinetic Child,” a 20-foot tall mechanical newborn baby head. The gigantic, interactive…
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Most of the works are some version of a flattened blob of cast concrete, cradling a block coated with either colored sand or crystals. They could as easily be religious relics as construction site debris.
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Matagorda Bay was like a giant, naturally formed James Turrell. It doesn't seem all that strange that someone living here would start to see things.
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The public relations fight between the Nasher Sculpture Center and the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System just got a lot nastier. The Dallas News has published an article about…
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The Dallas Museum of Art is covering all the bases in presenting the city’s art history. In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination, they (and the Amon…
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Suddenly the show rushes into focus. Of course the tiled painting is a detail of the floor of his bathroom (it looks just like the floor of my bathroom!).
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Minimalist artist, sculptor, and sometime musician Walter De Maria died yesterday of a stroke at the age of 77. Best-known for The Lightning Field (1977), a mile-wide land-art piece in…
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There was something exciting about Houston’s annual Museum District Day and watching people make the ridiculous attempt to visit each and every participating museum in one (usually hot and steamy)…
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An article in today’s Hyperallergic lays out possible devastating cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities. While Obama proposed his 2014 fiscal year budget in April, which…
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Jeffrey Deitch’s departure is a done deal. He officially informed the LA MOCA board yesterday of his resignation and the museum issued a written statement. Deitch will stay on “to…
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If El Paso has an inferiority complex about its art scene and its cultural history, the El Paso Illustrator Collective (EPIC) wants to turn that all around with a little…
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For those who prefer skin as the ultimate medium for fancy art, the Austin Convention Center is hosting the “Body Art Expo,” the world’s largest tattoo convention, this Friday through…
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Peter Lucas previews some of the 30+ films being shown at Houston's QFest.