Those of us who are familiar with Houston’s performance art scene know that something was missing last year — specifically, the Lone Star Explosion, AKA “Houston’s International Performance Art Biennial.” Founded…
January 2017
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Lubbock-based artist Andrew Martin has found a way to lean in to our society’s obsession with personalized viewing experiences. His exhibition, observer effect, on view at Redbud Gallery in Houston,…
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President-elect Donald Trump is not only having a difficult time getting performers to show up at his inauguration, it seems that visual artists are having an equally icky response. Writer…
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News
Dallas Contemporary Will Organize the Ukrainian Pavilion for the Venice Biennale
by Glasstireby GlasstireBig news! The Dallas Contemporary and the Ukraine Ministry of Culture have announced that the Dallas Contemporary will organize the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, which opens in May.…
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Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on the ups and downs of a decades-old art space, work that grows on you (or not), and one of the oddest paintings Rainey’s ever seen.
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On January 24 at 6:30pm, Houston’s Aurora Picture Show will host a celebratory reception for the Idea Fund’s twelve Round 9 (2017) grant recipients. Each artist or collaborative will talk…
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Today the Texas Cultural Trust announced its 2017 honorees for the biennial Texas Medal of Arts Awards. The award ceremonies will take place February 21-22 “for the first time ever at…
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The fact that these explorations into the human condition are already the subject of his source material appears to have escaped the imagination of the artist.
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This is a fight for everything that makes life worth living.
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A chapel in Dallas was vandalized last week in what the church believes was a response to comments made by its senior pastor, Reverend Dr. Neil G Cazares-Thomas, on a…
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A few days ago we reported that Austin artist and UT Austin Associate Professor of Art Beili Liu had been awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant in the Foundation’s latest round of national gifts…
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When the worst of the Trump right finally join the worst of the Bernie Sanders left, I'll be in a bunker having a sardonic conversation over a glass of wine and a fancy sandwich with Bill Willis and Sarah Fisher.
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Texas women are getting some prestigious grants! (See yesterday’s news post.) The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has announced that Aurora Picture Show Curator Mary Magsamen has received…
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Frank Reynolds from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia pretends to be an art collector, Ongo Gablogian, and falls in love with the Gallery’s air conditioner: “We’re the air conditioners! I mean look…
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In December, big data visualization programmer Diego Garcia-Olano (who also created our 15th Anniversary infographics) worked with Chicago-based music journalist Rob Mitchum to create a graphic tool for comparing best-of-2016…
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Congratulations to UT Austin Associate Professor of Art Beili Liu, who has been awarded the prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation grant. Established in 1993, the grant aims to recognize artists “creating work of exceptional quality”…
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Both artists share a respect for nature that eloquently underpins their bodies of work.
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This week, the City of Austin announced that it is launching a new nine-month long artist-in-residence program. The program, which was developed through the city’s Idea Accelerator initiative, plans to…
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Right now, someone is live streaming two Google Homes talking to each other. As of this posting, the two devices are saying their vows and are getting married. How sweet. Watch…