Next Saturday, December 7, will mark the final event of the Art Guys’ 12 Events, the duo’s yearlong celebration of “thirty years of collaboration, commitment, confusion.” Beginning with January’s event,…
November 2013
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Swank: saturated style, confidence, nostalgia, sex, gloss, perfection to the point of sleaze. The works reach out to you and say, “Why don't you relax and sit on the leather sofa while I mix you a drink?”
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A new web site launched today that provides artists with better bargains than a Black Friday sale—everything is free! Well, not free; ExchangeWorks is basically an online barter platform, but…
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Well, Thanksgiving is over and, if tradition mandates that you run out and go shopping, there are a number of venues that make it possible to support local artists and…
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BlogGlasstire
Los Angeles Now: California-Pacific Triennial, Joel Shapiro, a Mystery Cavern, and more…
In contrast to my recent NY posts, here is a leaner wrap-up of my trip to Los Angeles for bi-coastal balance.
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There seems to be a lot of exhibitions about food recently, as well as related programs about food rituals (now referred to in art terms as “relational aesthetics”). The Blaffer…
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When Prada Marfa was inaugurated it seemed self-evident that this would lead to a situation like we find today: johnny-come-lately corporate giant seizes upon the precedent and employs it to culturally legitimize advertising.
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A selection of artists from the Texas Biennial will participate in the UNTITLED. art fair in Miami Beach, a satellite of Art Basel Miami Beach, this December. Now in its…
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The hot tub installed in the gallery for the opening night was just the beginning.
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The Board of Directors of San Antonio’s Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum has announced a search for a permanent Executive Director to begin immediately. Steven Evans, former director of the…
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The Dallas Museum of Art has announced that Jacqueline W. Franey has been named DMA’s Director of Development. (There are still those confused by the term “development,” although many some…
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After spending almost four hours at Canopy, I needed a break from talking to awesome artists and eating crickets.
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News
A New Career for the New Year? Free Workshop for Central Texas Artists
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonAll the holidays are quickly approaching and will just as quickly roll into the new year with its new resolutions. If yours has something to do with figuring out how…
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The Original Experimental Pop Collaborator Robert Wilson Comes to the Nasher
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThere seems to be no word yet of Waco native Robert Wilson’s collaboration with Jay-Z, but Wilson has already expressed a desire to work with him. The long list of…
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The call for entries for the Hunting Art Prize was sent out months ago but, for artists who were waiting to second-guess the preferences of the Hunting Art Prize jurors,…
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The two big c's are warranted here: crepuscular and chiaroscuro. The miasma of not-quite-blacks encroaching upon vulnerable fauna resembles sludgy crude oil — a reminder of the 2010 BP spill and too many others in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere.
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The Smithsonian recently launched an online beta site called Smithsonian X 3D, with 3D models of more than 20 artifacts from its vast collection. Visitors to the site can now…
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Placed in a post-apocalyptic setting created with wallpaper, video and audio, Beshty's works read as a naive understanding of what it is to live in Mexico's landscape of violence.
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It’s chilly and rainy in both Houston and Austin, but adventurous art lovers with thick socks and warm scarves will be sticking their cold noses into artists’ studios today. The…
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The work of casualists and provisionalists like Walker is not Jerry Salz's “Neo-Mannerism.” These artists are, if anything, neo-modernist. This crop of new, young work in Dallas is a throwback to Giacometti, Guston, and Rothko.