Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art recently announced that they are starting a new residency offering emerging artists the opportunity to create a sound-based artwork to be featured in the museum’s January…
July 2017
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Hobby Lobby Pays $3 Million Fine & Forfeits Artifacts Smuggled Out of Iraq
by Glasstireby GlasstireOn Wednesday of last week, the United States filed a civil complaint against arts and crafts giant Hobby Lobby, claiming that they, via the United Arab Emirates and Israel, had illegally smuggled…
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Ad Reinhardt memorably said “sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.” In the case of the exhibition at The 14th Factory, a pop-up…
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When Houston really begins to believe in its own artists and puts more of its money where its heart is, Gulf Coast art might just light up like flaming oil on the surface of dirty water.
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In Corsicana, Texas (population 24,000), there is an international residency program for artists and writers called 100W. There are fully funded residencies, partially funded residencies, and non-funded residencies. But applications…
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Barney Smith has been working on his cultishly famous Toilet Seat Art Museum in San Antonio’s Alamo Heights for more than half a century. But after a extremely long plumber’s…
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American photographer Kevin Horan has taken what may be the most mysteriously beautiful photographs of pigs and goats we’ve ever seen. In a recent article on The Guardian, he spoke about…
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Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson on a show too important to be called a summer show, emerging Latinx artists in Austin, and skewering a sacred cow.
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This morning Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s director Marla Price announced the retirement this summer of Chief Curator Michael Auping. Auping has been with the museum since 1993. Prior to…
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This Saturday, July 15, from noon to 6 p.m. is the 6th installment of Dallas Gallery Day. This year there are 30 galleries participating, including all the usual suspects such…
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I did feel a pang of longing looking at this show despite the latticed dread it conjured.
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Yesterday, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) announced the acquisition of Yayoi Kusama’s All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins (2016), one of the artist’s signature Infinity Mirror…
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Playing with Light ************* No matter how original, innovative or crazy your idea, someone else…
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The 21st installment of QFest, Houston’s international city-wide LGBTQ film festival, runs from Thursday July 27 through Monday July 31. Artistic director Kristian Salinas does the programming, and venues include The…
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The show is one of the best testaments I’ve seen to artists’ intellectual curiosity and need to challenge convention, and all the while feeding their own impulse to make beautiful and compelling things.
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Aurora, the Dallas biennial public art event of light, video and sound, has announced its curators and theme for its fifth version. Dooeun Choi, Justine Ludwig, and Nadim Samman will…
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Austin: Between dips at Barton Springs and Deep Eddy in the next week, try to stop downtown to take in Bing Wright’s first show at Lora Reynolds Gallery. The New York-based artist’s…
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Houston’s Project Row Houses (PRH) recently announced the recipients of its 2017 Summer Studios residency. The program, which is structured around a six-week-long residency, brings in college and university students and teaches them…
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This current show in Austin gathers wisps and glimmers of the songster’s fugitive saga and summarizes recent discoveries, and loving gestures of homage.
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“Even if people are not painting something hands-on, they’re at least seeing someone be creative and inspire them,” Corpus Christi spray paint muralist Jeremy Flores told the Caller-Times. “People will…