The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) has announced that Kevin W. Tucker has been promoted to the position of The Margot B. Perot Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Design,…
October 2013
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Styles and Stances: Filmmaker Charlie Ahearn brings glimpses of New York in the 80s to the Houston Cinema Arts Festival
by Peter Lucasby Peter LucasWild Style is not only the first hip hop movie, but I would argue it’s the only real hip hop movie.
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Houston’s Sesquicentennial Park is going to be the site of a “Bike-In Video Festival” on Saturday, November 2, 6:30 pm (screening begins at dark). Part film festival/part social experience, the…
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Remember when Art League Houston was lame? Kelly Klaasmeyer says it's been getting better for the past decade and the current round of exhibitions is solid proof.
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Mellon Foundation Gives the Blanton $504,000 to Start New Curatorial Fellowships
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded a $504,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish a curatorial fellowship program…
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Rios' oddly beautiful, enigmatic videos feel like a personal reckoning with an immensely complex, globalized world.
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Turrell charmed the crowd of art students, professors and other Turrell-groupies with sassy comments like “I make money selling blue sky and colored air.”
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What the JFK Assassination Tells Us About Dallas (That’s the Subtitle)
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThere are all sorts of exhibitions, events and book releases happening in the Dallas/Fort Worth area this year of the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination—some more thoughtful, relevant, or…
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San Antonio’s Southwest School of Art (SSA) is now offering a bachelor of fine arts degree and, as of last week, it has approval from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating…
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Despite a "stormcloud of jaded hesitation," Brian Fee has a close encounter with Austin's new Turrell Skyspace.
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NICE! Luc Tuymans to Visit Third Ward to Chat with Residents About His Menil Ad
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonWhen Glasstire posted the article about the “counter-billboard” to the “NICE” advertisement placed in Third Ward’s Dupree Park by Houston’s Menil Collection promoting its current exhibition of Luc Tuymans, it…
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Arthur Danto and Lou Reed: A Weekend of Mourning for a Couple of Warhol Champions
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonArthur C. Danto, the man who coined the term “artworld,” died Friday of heart failure at his home in Manhattan. A philosopher who became one of the most widely read…
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Out of all of the types illustrated, I, the Entitled North American Thrift-Store-Clad Screeching Loser, might be the most irritating of them all.
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On Tuesday evening (October 29, 6 pm), the Menil Collection will host a conversation between Belgian artist Luc Tuymans, whose new exhibition Nice. Luc Tuymans is on view at the…
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Pirates and Farmers is dense, delicious, and dripping with "limos, homos, bimbos" set in that "dazzled libido of shiny America"—Las Vegas.
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It’s an everyman’s Citizen Kane set under Texas skies, interpreted through the alienation of a Sam Shepard play and the quiet longing and restrained hope of a Wim Wenders road movie. In other words, it is really, deeply good.
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Adrian Piper Pulls Out of CAMH Traveling Show, Calls for Multi-Ethnic Exhibitions
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonWhen Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) late last year, it generated a lot of excitement and received some positive and…
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Craft Center Looking for New Artists (Craftspeople?)-in-Residence
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonApplications are now being accepted for the 2014 cycle of artists-in-residence at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC). 5-10 residencies are awarded each year for lengths of 3,…
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Dallas wins again, by presenting Dallas!
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The Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) has announced a new project in Houston’s East End in the fall of 2014 called “Transported + Renewed.” It is three-month creative “placemaking” project that…