So long Pollock! See you later Franz Kline! Art-sports spectacles are proliferating like NFL playoff slots!
May 2014
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Artist Zoe Leonard has won the Bucksbaum Award, a $100,000 prize granted to one of the participants in the Whitney Biennial for the last eight iterations of the show. In…
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Completely over the top, it seemed headed on an accelerated train to boring queer performance art, but boychild used this emotional detritus to perpetually construct masks and build identities.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that it will release 400,000 digital images online, free to access for non-commercial use, without permission from the museum and without a fee.…
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Goss-Michael Foundation’s Associate Director Named Juror for ArtPrize
by Lucia Simekby Lucia SimekGoss-Michael Foundation’s Associate Director, Ariel Saldivar, has been named as one of the juror’s for the 2014 ArtPrize! Saldivar has been a key figure in making Dallas’ internationally-recognized GMF a more…
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As we reported a couple weeks ago, Houston artist Mark Flood has founded an art fair, the Insider Art Fair, which is part real-life critique of the art fair model…
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Former MFHA Core Fellow, founder of Houston’s Aurora Picture Show, and sometimes Glasstire writer, curator Andrea Grover, has been awarded the prestigious Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award for her upcoming show Radical…
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Dallas Morning News architecture critic, Mark Lamster, has been doing some serious finger-wagging lately. First, there was his scolding of Dallas architects from major firms who were largely a no-show…
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When you live in a big city it seems like more planes, with their blinking red lights, cross the sky at night than stars. City lights drown out space lights,…
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The gesture of extending a bouquet to women lost and forgotten is a lovely one, but being tethered to housework seems less of a problem today than the thigh gap craze or persistent male/female wage discrepancies.
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This month’s Family Day at the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston is inspired by one of the most child-like artists working today, Trenton Doyle Hancock. I mean, the guy carries…
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Images from Houston's annual rolling group show, the Art Car Parade.
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The San Fernando Cathedral in San Antonio has commissioned French artist Xavier de Richemont to make a video art piece that tells the history of the community from pre-indigenous times…
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Imagine if ABC's cheesy After School Specials featured Sesame Street characters whacked out on crack with a dose of Ryan Trecartin’s depravity. That's Elissa Stafford's House Party.
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The City of Austin announced today that it will open its first artist-led community garden, the North Austin Community Garden, this weekend as part of its Art in Public Places (AIPP)…
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For 38 years, Gary Myrick has worked as a courtroom sketch-artist in Texas courts. He was the go-to guy for rendering the faces of defendents, judges and witnesses all over…
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"Art that cannot rely on the joyous, heartfelt assent of the broad and healthy mass of the people, but depends on tiny cliques that are self-interested and blasé by turns, is intolerable."
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This weekend, North Texans will finally be able to see the work of art that as been described as “exceptional,” of “superior quality,” “in near-perfect condition,” “impressively large,” and, most…
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News
Dallas’ Historic African-American Parks to Receive Public Art Gift
by Lucia Simekby Lucia SimekIn an effort to memorialize the fading history of some of Dallas’ most blighted and significant neighborhoods, the Boone Family Foundation and the Rainwater Charitable Foundation are teaming up to…