In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Nasher Sculpture Center has commissioned ten public art works at ten diverse sites throughout Dallas, in an ambitious, citywide sculptural art project dubbed…
July 2013
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The LA Weekly reports that Jeffrey Deitch will be leaving the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (LA MOCA). Their sources say an official announcement from the museum will be…
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Most artists would be excited to get a New York gallery show, but a solo exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem is a really big deal. The same day…
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The Public in Public Art: Houston Community Helps Create “Funnel Tunnel”
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonArtist Patrick Renner and the Art League Houston held a “Funnel Tunnel Painting Party” on Saturday and, in spite of some early-day ominous skies, tons of folks showed up to…
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Joel Sampson’s Rhythm Machines reminds me of something one might see at a Maker Faire or the Musee Mecanique, if the people who made those things were less crass.
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The Fort Worth City Council plans to call for a $292 bond election in May 2014 to build new roads, parks and facilities. In order to educate voters and to…
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The work in the show, spanning from the late 1960s to the present, creates moment after moment of “aha.” As in “Oh, wow, you mean that trash bag is made of marble?”
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For San Antonians who love their art and love their bikes, San Anto Cultural Arts (SACA) will hold one of its Bicycle Mural Tours this evening, beginning at 6 pm…
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Casey Stranahan walks through the Nasher's installation with Jeremy Strick and chats with Berlin-based artist Katharina Grosse about frameless painting and the taboo of color.
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Houston’s Rice University has installed its latest public art project, Mark di Suvero’s sculpture “Po-um (Lyric).” University Art Director Molly Hubbard refers to the work as a “mobile”; the six-ton…
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Lauren Moya Ford talks with Assistant Curator Michael Wellen about the art of breakfast tacos, how museums build collections, and Latin American exhibitions at the MFAH.
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I know these people; I have worked for these people. The titles, though blunt, reveal their lifestyles: "Women on a Sailboat," "Pool," "Figure with Towel" and "The Jet Ski."
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There are many projects, events, and exhibitions commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas. (Hotel Texas: An Art Exhibition for the President and…
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Screenings of artists' noncommercial cinema in digital form are rare enough. Showings of experimental film on 35mm are veritably unheard of.
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It’s official! As of today, the AMOA-Arthouse will now be called The Contemporary Austin. In traditional marriages, the wife takes the name of the husband; a few modern marriages hyphenate…
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Thursday is a busy evening in the Houston art scene but, for antisocial art-lovers who just want to stay in, there is also a (relatively) new half-hour TV show on…
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Almeida and Guerrero make artwork that is worlds apart, but they share a small-town communal nostalgia, galvanized by an uncanny flair for the extravagant.
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When Maxwell Anderson joined the Dallas Museum of Art in 2012, he brought his wife of 17 years, former actress and entrepreneur Jacqueline Buckingham Anderson, with him. The couple added…
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More Marfa-Envy from NYC: Ballroom Marfa Takes it to the Big City
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonNew York can’t seem to get enough of Marfa. Last month, Manhattan opened the recently restored SoHo home of Donald Judd, referred to by NYTimes’ Roberta Smith as “the template…
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But the wooden box yielded to the pressures of mud and flesh, and quite spectacularly burst open. Slush flooded the gallery, producing a stir among the crowded viewers.