This Friday, the Rice Media Center will host On Drawing: Symposium and Panel Discussion, presentations and discussions about drawing with Claire Gilman, Curator at The Drawing Center in New York; Michelle…
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A twenty-foot sculpture, entitled Uplift, commissioned by the city for a new roundabout in a West El Paso reconstruction project, has been removed before the completion of its installation. City…
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Yeehaw! Texan Teen Realist Painters Win Seriously Super Huge Big Money
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonCongratulations if you recently sold a work of art for $100, $1,000, $10,000, or even $100,000! But two high school artists entering the rodeo art contest beat you by a…
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Houston Artist Ed Wilson has, finally, been re-awarded the artwork commission for the George R. Brown Convention Center. After Wilson’s original award was strangely withdrawn in late November, it drew…
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Finished! Architectural Master Plan for Houston’s Memorial Park
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonOn Monday evening, more than 300 people attended the final public meeting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston about the redesign of Houston’s Memorial Park. After a year and…
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The Mark Flood School of Painting seems to provoke a lot of conversation. The comment section following Bill Davenport’s article “OK Art at the Party-Tyme Corral” (about another artist’s paintings)…
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If your internal clock is still messed up from daylight savings, join the folks at Beefhaus for a multimedia reboot this Friday night. Ex mus will present a live, overnight…
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In a 2011 survey, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors were female, obviously skewing much of its content and perspectives. So, last year, Art+Feminism hosted…
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The panel for the $830,000 commission at the George R. Brown Convention Center (GRB) met Monday night and the Civic Art Committee (CAC) of the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) met…
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More Mel Chin! Miranda Lash Returns to Houston to Explain it All
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonFor those who have yet to fully react with Stendhal syndrome at the Mel Chin fest that’s been going on in Houston, there’s one more must-see. Speed Art Museum’s Curator…
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The art aficionados over at USA Today are holding a “Reader’s Choice” contest for “America’s Best Art District.” They’ve narrowed it down to 20 nominees with many usual suspects in…
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Since August 2013, when the Live Oak Friends Meeting House had to close its public viewings of James Turrell’s One Accord Skyscape due to water damage, no one has really…
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Yesterday, as Glasstire’s Christina Rees posted her Weaver Watch (former DMA curator Suzanne Weaver’s exit from Miami’s Institute of Contemporary Art), the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art also announced the appointment…
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The Dallas Morning News’ Michael Granberry reported last night that the Dallas Museum of Art, the Kimbell Art Museum, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the Crow Collection of…
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Tomorrow night (February 24 at 7pm), photography and video will battle it out in a talk at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Curator Andrea Karnes will hold a…
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OUTsider Arts Fest to Prove That Sometimes Austin is Still Weird
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonLike many cities, Austin has fallen prey to the same homogeneity created by the constant influx of young, white people with way too much money. That’s why those “Keep Austin…
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Bill Camfield may have retired from teaching at Rice University in 2002 (where he had taught art history since 1969), but he hasn’t quit working. Over the years, Camfield has…
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The City of Houston is seeking input from residents on its Art & Cultural Plan, a 2-year initiative begun in early 2014, through a series of “Community Conversations.” There are…
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After last month’s shootings at the Charlie Hebdo Paris headquarters, the remaining staff continued publication and the issue sold out seven million copies in six languages, in contrast to its…
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Hollywood Agency Announces Plans to Represent Visual Artists — Guess Who?
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newtonby Cait Munro, Wednesday, February 11, 2015 United Talent Agency, the Beverly Hills-based talent agency known for representing actors like Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, and Gwyneth Paltrow announced the launch…