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February 2014
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BlogGlasstireReview
Vishal Jugdeo’s A Weight Dangles Above Your Head / A Shaky Picture Has No Weight
I walked into a conversation about the size of an undisclosed man's penis. Jugdeo's installation at the Lora Reynolds Gallery in downtown Austin is worth sticking around for.
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Mike Russell Parker, legendary typographer, type designer and type historian, has died at the age of 85. Credited with the development of over 1,100 typefaces, Parker is perhaps best known…
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Rick Lowe’s “social sculpture” Trans.lation, initiated as part of the Nasher Sculpture Center’s 10th anniversary exhibition Nasher XChange, has been a success so far. There have been workshops, three free-standing…
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News
Houston Art Collective to Unveil Mural and Public Health Program
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonTomorrow evening, the Houston art collective Otabenga Jones & Associates (OJ&A) will officially unveil a new mural at Lawndale Art Center. A project of Creative Capital, the mural kicks off…
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Top five Feb 27, 2014 1. Love Letters in a Tree: Otis Ike & Ivete Lucas Lawndale Art Center, Houston February 28-April 12 Opening: February 28, 6:30-8:30 pm Artist talks…
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The exhibit was gratefully, blindingly, direct and free of pretense.
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Some people have been following George W. Bush’s recent painting career with a bit more affection than they did his political career but, with last month’s reported arrest of the…
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In celebration of March Madness, the Dallas Museum of Art is presenting the DMA Art Madness Tournament online. Hokey? Yes, but everybody just loves to vote on stuff! Art lovers…
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Abel Azcona's Utero was far and away the most powerful piece I saw, but parts of it should not have happened.
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David Rubin, San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA)’s Brown Foundation Curator of Contemporary Art, submitted his letter of resignation on Tuesday effective immediately, reports the San Antonio Express-News. Rubin joined…
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PechaKucha (Japanese for “chit-chat”) is a presentation style in which 20 slides are shown for 20 seconds each (six minutes and 40 seconds total for each presenter). The format was…
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One can’t help but think about the lives beneath the story and between the shots, and marvel at what must have been a sort of filmmaking Lord Of The Flies situation in the backyards of Gulfport throughout the 80s.
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Seattle gallerist Karen Light moved her Garde Rail Gallery several times before deciding to physically move to Texas in 2009. After five years, Light has now decided to open a…
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Since iconic Houston artist Bert Long died last year, friends and fans have been busy paying tribute. Last month, there was a celebratory fundraiser to help publish a posthumous book…
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There is nothing old hat about going to the Bible for source material. Certainly not the way Paul Bryan uses it.
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It’s akin to that moment in a sceney restaurant when you hear the fifth song that is also on your iPad and you realize…oh, they’re marketing to me.
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The folks who organize San Antonio’s Contemporary Art Month (CAM) will again host the Miss CAM Antonio contest, a virtual pageant to find the perfect person to represent the local…
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Native Houstonian Mel Chin’s 40-year retrospective of sculpture, video and installations at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) opened on Thursday with a panel discussion and on Friday with…
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There’s a new gallery coming to the El Paso art community called the Cube (or, according to its letterhead and Facebook page, the “CUB3”). Plans are for three-week exhibitions, with…