Made from humble materials, the exhibit has a suspenseful, Romantic quality as if Caspar David Friedrich had built sets for a Japanese horror movie.
October 2013
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The San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) has announced the appointment of Merribell Parsons as Curator of European Art. The Museum has a small but choice selection of European art…
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The answer to the urgent problems of the world might not lie in yet another elegant, feel-bad-to-feel-good art installation.
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The New York-based nonprofit organization Creative Time commissions and presents ambitious public art projects in New York and elsewhere. They also host the Creative Time Summit every year, inviting innovative…
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Nasher XChange is as much about learning about Dallas as it is about seeing art.
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On Friday, October 25, noon-4 pm, the University of Texas at Dallas is hosting a Campus Preview Day for its new $60 million, 155,000 square-foot facility that houses programs in…
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Fusebox Festival founder/director Ron Berry has announced that Austin’s next annual hybrid art festival will be free to the public. Calling the initiative “Free Range Art,” the free entrance is…
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Houston hosted the Zine Fest Houston just weekend before last, and now there are two upcoming book fairs in as many weeks so, apparently, some Texans still read, write, and…
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How to say this? Oh, yes: ceramics make me lusty.
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Just when pop musicians are tripping over themselves to be declared “performance artists” by the art world, Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art is working it all backwards and inserting itself…
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The first official SLAB Parade + Family Festival took place yesterday at Houston’s MacGregor Park with the usual food trucks, community booths, kids’ activity stations, and a stage for live…
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I actually really like stripe painting, but seeing so much of it in one place kinda makes you wonder.
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Electro-acoustic trio Konk Pack wowed audiences at Spring Street Studios, Art Palace brought dead animals to the art fair.
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Last week, Houstonia Magazine's Michael Hardy took pot-shots at some characters at exhibition openings, but his field guide is all wrong, except for the vintage glasses.
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The Party Has Started! Nasher Celebrates Ten Years, Ten Sculptures, Ten to Ten Today
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonYesterday, Dallas’ Nasher Sculpture Center officially opened the ten newly-commissioned public sculptures in its 10th anniversary celebratory exhibition Nasher XChange and, today, it is throwing a big party with “10+…
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This Is Not a Café (Yet): Menil Launches Naming Contest for Museum Restaurant
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonHouston’s Menil Collection will be opening a much-needed museum café, designed by Stern and Bucek Architects and operated by restaurateur Greg Martin, in its 30-acre “neighborhood of art.” Everything is…
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U.S. Senate Names Project Row Houses Founder to National Council on the Arts
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonLest you think that Congress did nothing else on Wednesday besides ending the government shutdown, take a look at October 16th’s “Senate Floor Wrap Up” for some extra good news.…
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Pure, honest camp, the show feeds off the local nostalgia of last year’s traumatic blaze, in which an electrical fire destroyed the iconic statue of Big Tex.
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Houston’s Other Film Festival: Our Image Features Black Filmmakers
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThere should be a lot of upcoming press about the Houston Cinema Arts Festival, which just held this year’s launch party and announced the festival’s schedule beginning November 6. Sneaking…
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Contemporary Austin Pairs Up Artists with Teens for Collaborative Exhibition
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe Contemporary Austin is now accepting applications for its Advanced Young Artists Program (AYA), in which Austin-area high school students are paired up with artist-mentors. Starting in mid-January, each teen…