The new-media arts organization Rhizome has opened its annual call for applications for its microgrants, which range from $500-$1500 per project. It’s truly an open call, though of course Rhizome’s ideal…
July 2017
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San Antonio native and long-time folksinger Tish Hinojosa aims to convert her childhood house into a “Home For The Arts,” featuring intimate concerts, art exhibitions, songwriting and music workshops, kids…
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No artist ever woke up one morning and spontaneously said, “I sure wish I could decorate an electrical box!”
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News
31 Portraits of Prominent Latinos Gifted to the San Antonio Museum of Art
by Glasstireby GlasstireThe San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) has announced that they have been gifted 31 portrait photographs created by American filmmaker and photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. The works, which are large-format prints from Greenfield-Sanders’ Latino List…
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Chromophobia Earlier this year, Princeton University Press published Red: The History of a Color, the latest in their series of…
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"...be on the watch for the interval, the place where you are given a choice and a chance to add goodness to the world.”
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In 2005, future President Trump created a drawing of the Manhattan skyline for a charity auction promoting worldwide literacy, reports artnet News. Last night it sold at auction for $29,184.…
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Hills Snyder’s current solo exhibition at Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts (LHUCA) in Lubbock includes a big 1992 piece titled How Big is Your Love?; it’s a multi-panel,…
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Good grief! On top of the announcement that the Menil Collection will be closed for eight months, beginning February 26, for repairs and a general spiffing up, now it has…
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Special Edition: Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson on the top five artist residencies in Texas.
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A few days ago, Microsoft announced that their upcoming Windows 10 update would kill off Microsoft Paint. First released in 1985, Paint was widely used by designers, graphics editors, and bored children alike.…
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Today, via the Mayor’s Office of the City of Houston comes the news that Houston’s Office of Cultural Affairs has announced the recipients for this coming fiscal year’s $3.5 million in…
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Don’t get me wrong: I’m grateful to see Ai Weiwei's work here in Texas, but its symbolic leverage is skewed here.
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Americans for the Arts honored 49 outstanding public arts projects created in 2016 through the Public Art Network (PAN) Year in Review program, the only national program that specifically recognizes…
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Please allow us to direct you to a wonderful time-suck of a website called Typeset in the Future. The site, by Dave Addey, is “dedicated to typography and iconography as it…
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In conjunction with the Dallas Museum of Art’s current sweeping print show Visions of America: Three Centuries of Prints from the National Gallery of Art, the museum will host the Guerrilla Girls’ ‘Käthe Kollwitz’…
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A framing store in Florida is putting on an exhibition called “Apes That Paint,” featuring works by Bubbles, Michael Jackson’s chimp, among other “celebrity animals,” reports the Daily Mail. Now…
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I've reverse-engineered my way through art history, while maintaining a mild obsession with Smithson and his work. It’s his fault I poured all that grease.
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Burning Man is a massive art and music festival that takes place annually in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. Featuring large-scale installations and temporary structures, the event has served as inspiration for…
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How to make art in this operatic ambience and grim reality of actual deportations, bombings, and general governmental reactionary cruelty?