It’s been over a decade since a metal plate fell off the wall of a County Records building in Dallas, exposing the remnants of a “White Only” sign over a…
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Triptychs and Disasters (Real and Painted) Make for a Record-Breaking Week
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton“The art industry is booming,” says U.S. News & World Report, “as proved by record-breaking bidding wars at auction houses Christie’s and Sotheby’s this week.” On Tuesday, Francis Bacon’s 1967…
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The Harry Ransom Center (HRC) has announced that it has acquired the archives of artist Ed Ruscha. After the materials are cataloged in the museum and research library at…
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Sam Z. Coronado, co-founder of Austin’s Mexic-Arte Museum and founder of Serie Project, died on Monday at the age of 67 from complications after a stroke. Coronado was in Indiana,…
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The 2013 11th Annual Lone Star EMMY Awards were held in San Antonio this past weekend, and HoustonPBS won several awards, including a big one in the Arts/Entertainment category, “Best…
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If you missed the Christies live auction-watch at Houston’s Peveto art management company/gallery tonight, you can still make tomorrow night’s Sotheby’s party. Scott Peveto says they’ve been hosting the live…
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An expected 3,500 entomologists are swarming the Austin Convention Center this week for the 61st Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America (ESA). While it may include the usual…
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The founders of the Dia Art Foundation have filed suit to stop the foundation from selling artworks in Dia’s collection. Heiner Friedrich and Fariha Friedrich (formerly Philippa de Menil), who…
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Everyone should have seen the Gaga/Koons collaboration coming from miles away, but now it’s official. Last night, Lady Gaga and Jeff Koons hosted an “ArtRave” extravaganza party, showing work by…
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Northern-Southern (at 1800 Koenig Lane) will hosts it inaugural exhibition, LUCK, this Friday, November 15, from 6-10 pm. Northern-Southern isn’t exactly a new gallery; it’s a new design consultancy firm…
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For 21 years now, Art from the Streets has been holding open studio art sessions for Austin’s homeless community. On Tuesday and Thursday afternoons at St. David’s Trinity Center in…
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Houston Arts Radio Station Fires Staff to Expose Arts to a “Wider Audiences”
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonHouston arts folks are still reeling from the news that most of the on-air staff at classical radio station KUHA-FM was laid off Thursday morning. The Dallas Morning News called it “bad…
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As “a major supporter of the arts for the past 25 years,” Beck’s Beer has been presenting the Beck’s Art Labels project (reported here this summer because Austin artist William…
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In conjunction with the exhibition Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art, the Blaffer Art Museum will present “Sunday Soup: Houston” at The Brandon on Sunday, November 24, from 4-7 pm.…
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Oklahoma University (OU) announced that Emily Ballew Neff will be the new director of OU’s Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, pending approval by the OU Board of Regents, according…
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On Saturday, from 2-5 pm, the Bee Cave Sculpture Park, outside of Austin, will celebrate its grand opening and dedication, featuring eleven original sculptures now installed in the five-acre park.…
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“Forget Monticello or the Chrysler building: There may be no piece of architecture more quintessentially American than the Astrodome.” That is how Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times architecture critic, began…
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Anonymous Donor Gives DMA $9 Million to Stay Free and Digitize Collection
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) today announced an anonymous gift of $9 million over three years to ensure free general admission to the DMA and enable the Museum to…
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Max Fields, one of the ambitious young curators behind do it: houston, has now started an online art gallery. Its inaugural exhibition features artist Lillian Paige Walton, whose exhibition, Linear…
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A Whole New Chapter for Art History Books: 1,500 “Degenerate” Artworks Discovered in Munich Apartment
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonNews broke yesterday that 1,500 artworks—paintings by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Max Beckmann, Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka—were found in an old man’s Munich apartment in 2011. At least 300…