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.
2013
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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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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.
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Twelve-Year-Old El Paso Artist Steals the Show at Ceremony with First Lady
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe El Paso Creative Kids program was one of 12 national arts programs to receive the President’s Commission on the Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award at the White House…
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The University of North Texas and College of Visual Arts and Design (CVAD) is opening ArtSpace Dallas, a gallery that will showcase works of CVAD’s students, faculty and renowned alumni,…
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The current show at the MFAH's Glassell School isn't all Political Economy 101.
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Thanksgiving Saved by Houston Artists, the Mayor’s Office, and Skateboarding Vegetables!
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonJust this past August, it looked like Houston would have no Thanksgiving Day Parade for the first time in over six decades. But the city, some new corporate sponsorship, a…
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Austin’s apartment gallery, Red Space, has announced that it will be closing. Focusing on emerging and experimental artists, Red Space has hosted a variety of installation-oriented exhibitions since artist/curator Caitlin…
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The inaugural post in our new series highlighting art outside the art scene illuminates the 75 year old circus mural that inspired the Toys R Us giraffe, hidden under the ceiling of a bar in Midtown Houston.