For ten years, Professors Aaron Parazette and Gael Stack have been handing their undergraduate painting students a simple but goofy assignment, conceived with the intention of directing attention to questions…
August 2013
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The placement of the works leads the visitor in an uncanny figure eight dance back-and-forth between the cells.
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People have been posing in front of the Greetings From Austin mural on South First Street since it was painted 15 years ago. Neighbors see it as a community landmark…
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Fresh Arts’ Annual Winter Holiday Art Market (WHAM) gets bigger every year and there is only one week left for artists to apply to participate in this year’s late November…
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I wondered whether the folk traditions I remembered from my upbringing in Mexico could offer solutions to problems in technology. I was fascinated by the idea of Santeria rituals as computer code.
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Getty Museum Shares Thousands of Collection Images for Free Use
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonFinally admitting that the existence of technology, social media, and open source/open access is a fact of life rather than some conceptual interactive piece in a contemporary art exhibition, some…
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Houston artist Reginald Adams, co-founder and president of the Museum of Cultural Arts Houston (MOCAH), made national news this past year as the painter (and, by necessity, re-painter) of the…
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His paintings are giant Jenga puzzles daring you to take out one last block, poised to tumble into uncomfortable corridors where race, masculinity, past, and present meet.
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NY Times Hosts Old-Fashioned Essay Contest (for the Visual Arts)
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThis summer, the New York Times has been publishing critical essays from various artistic disciplines alongside stories from readers. Next week, they will publish Holland Cotter’s essay on what inspired…
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DMA Announces Intriguing Museum Priorities: Art, Scholarship, and Conservation
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonWhile LACMA’s in-house restaurant recently launched a 45-page “Tasting Water” menu and hired a “water sommelier,” the Dallas Museum of Art is actually taking over half of its atrium restaurant…
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Postproduction has been a part of the process since the medium’s birth.
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The ARTnews Top 200 Collectors issue, which came out today, features Jeanne and Michael L. (Mickey) Klein, who are among the nation’s foremost collectors and supporters of contemporary art. In…
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“Nonperforming Performance Artist” Solves a Small Mystery in Oswald/JFK Story
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonOn the upcoming 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, there has been renewed interest in the life and death of the President, such as the DMA’s thoughtful exhibition Hotel…
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So, is the epicenter moving? If you think of how people perceive the art scene in San Antonio, then, yes.
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It’s Still Shorts Weather in Texas: Austin Film Festival Celebrates
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonAs part of a celebration of its 20th anniversary, the Austin Film Festival has put together a retrospective of shorts that they’ve played throughout the years in An Evening of…
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It’s finished! Patrick Renner’s 180-foot long sculpture of steel and reclaimed wood will be dedicated this evening at the opening reception celebration. With the help of a lot of friends…
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“The Black Letter" was designed and delivered with care, and for some that made its contents even more disturbing.
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We the People: Austin Seeks Artists for 10th Annual City Hall Show
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe City of Austin’s Cultural Arts Division invites Austin-area artists, galleries, museums, and arts organizations to apply for the 2014 People’s Gallery exhibition, which will be on display at City…
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BD: Did you approach any more formal venues with your idea? MF: They wouldn't have said yes. Why would they?
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So, what is Afrofuturism? The term was coined twenty years ago, but it’s been getting tossed around quite a bit lately, especially in the national press’ current adoration of Robert…