The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is one of five big American museums to designate undergraduates for the Andrew W. Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship Program, and the two new fellows for…
November 2016
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Visual art has long had a presence at Austin’s SXSW festival and now the SX folks are making it official. They announced their first official Art Program, which will showcase…
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Would you like to dive deep into the cesspool of massive corporate corruption for a month, a year, seven years? You can. Through a Rhizome microgrant, artists Sam Lavigne and Tega…
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We don’t value what is good—we value (and are more enthralled by) what seems ‘real.’
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Ariane Roesch interviews artists living and working in Marfa, Texas.
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Artists are natural problem solvers. They are constantly coming up with goofy ideas and then have to figure out how realize the concept. There are a number of creative exhibition…
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Heads or Tails. Scholars generally agree that Caravaggio’s “David with the head of Goliath” is a…
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Getting overwhelmed by the political misogyny-fest offhandedly reported on the news channels these days? Some Houston artists want to counter that with a one-day exhibition/party/fundraiser called She’s Real Gone: Women’s…
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Review
Rachelle Vasquez at Box 13: Those That Feel the Influence of the Stars
by Michael Biseby Michael BiseIt’s a relief to know that artists like Vasquez are carving out time to contemplate a world of beings that are too often invisible and insignificant in our daily political decisions.
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The Menil Drawing Institute will open on October 7, 2017. This comes two months after a minor hiccup where the Drawing Institute’s chief curator, David Breslin, left for the Whitney Museum of…
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For more than a decade, El Paso-based artist Margarita Cabrera has dedicated her art making to venerating the lives of Mexican immigrants
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The legendary composer, sound artist, theoretician and teacher Pauline Oliveros died on November 25th. She was 84. Oliveros was born in Houston and grew up near the Acres Homes neighborhood.…
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Black Friday has come and gone, but shopping season has just begun—and this weekend is offering you multiple opportunities to buy presents, trinkets, and more from artists that we all…
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The Houston artist Scott Gilbert created the comic strip True Artist Tales for the Public News, and later the Houston Press, from 1988 to 2003. This fall a selection of…
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For those who managed to avoid discussing politics at yesterday’s family gatherings, Houston artist Brian Piana has a new web project for you and your folks: Why I Supported. Known…
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Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on which shows to take which relatives to over the long holiday weekend. “What do we do at Thanksgiving? We get out of the house,…
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Yesterday, artnet News published an article entitled “28 Ways to Change the Art World For the Better,” and #5 on the suggestions list was from Curator Dean Dedarko of the…
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The unseen possibility lies like a snake that has swallowed a yard stick, pointing due north as would a prophecy, or the lost needle of a compass.
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Applications for SMU’s Meadows Museum‘s annual Moss/Chumley North Texas Artist Award opened in October and while the original deadline was November 30, the organizers are now giving applicants until December…
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Victoria Ramirez has announced that she will be leaving the Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin to be the new director of the El Paso Museum of Art, reports…