The Leigh Bess Boone Foundation wants to know about your amazing interns. The Foundation, which awards stipends to outstanding interns and volunteers in the visual and performing arts, has extended…
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Kiki Smith to Join UNT as this Year’s Artist-in-Residence
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonInternationally renowned sculptor/printmaker Kiki Smith will come to Denton this fall as the artist-in-residence for the University of North Texas Institute for the Advancement of the Arts in the 2013-14…
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First Annual SlabFest! Houston to Celebrate a Different Kind of Art Car
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonCar culture is so big in Houston that the annual Art Car Parade is no longer quite enough to contain all the car enthusiasm in the city. Now, the Houston…
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This weekend, Arlington will host its first annual South Street Art Festival, showcasing tons of artists. There will be the requisite array of food trucks, beer, and live music, but…
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The State Fair of Texas begins tomorrow and, at 2 pm, the brand new Big Tex will be unveiled. The 52-foot tall sculpture that had been greeting fairgoers for 60…
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Job Post: Curator/Organizer of Unofficial Houston Art Fair (Fast-Acting Self-Starter Preferred)
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonDon’t say you’re faired out already, because the Texas Contemporary Art Fair is coming to town in just a few weeks (October 10-13), although without the smart, goofy, affordable, and…
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Houston Artist Robert Pruitt Adds Exclamation Point to Michelle Obama Speech
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonMichelle Obama hosted a luncheon yesterday for about 50 spouses (meaning almost all women) of chiefs of state and heads of government, reports the Associated Press. The event took place…
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While the Buffalo Bayou Partnership (BBP) is busy transforming the 160-acre Buffalo Bayou Park (from Shepherd to Sabine), it is also beginning to think about what to do with the…
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Houston’s Aurora Picture Show will honor artist Bill Viola with the 13th Annual Aurora Award at its annual fundraiser on October 5. The internationally recognized artist has been making videotapes,…
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25 Visits: Barista/Curator Asks Regular Folks About James Turrell
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThere’s been a whole lot of James Turrell love going on this summer, from The Light Inside at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (which closed on Sunday) to the…
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Curator Conference Leaves Houston to Support Detroit’s DIA
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe American Association of Museum Curators (AAMC) has announced that it is moving this spring’s national conference from Houston to Detroit in a show of support for the Detroit Institute…
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A new round of artists have joined the Galveston Artist Residency (GAR) for the 2013-2014 program. GAR was established to give intense studio time to emerging and established visual artists,…
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More than 40 institutions will participate in tomorrow’s 16th annual Austin Museum Day. There will be free admission to all participating museums and most will have special activities and presentations…
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MFAH’s Founding Curator of Photography Announces Retirement After 37 Years
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) has announced that Anne Wilkes Tucker, founding curator of the Department of Photography, will retire in June 2015. Malcolm Daniel, longtime curator and…
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FotoFest, the international biennial of photography and photo-related art that takes over every possible venue in Houston every other spring, will officially begin on March 15, 2014. Because of logistics…
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There is only a week or so left to catch Andy Rihn’s Texas’ Longest Hammer Choir, the “psychedelic worksong, film and denim-heavy installation experience” at Austin’s MASS Gallery. As part…
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The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) has received a $450,000 National Leadership grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS). The grant will go towards spreading its “Museum’s…
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CentralTrak Artists-in-Residence Arrange Homecoming for Old IKEA Furniture
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThose who want to catch the entire Texas Biennial experience were, of course, at the Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum in San Antonio for the mega-survey show, but have also…
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Now that Community Supported Agriculture groups (locally-based models of agriculture and food distribution which began popping up in the 1980s) are catching on across the country, local arts organizations are…
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Equal Justice? Playboy Marfa Controversy Spreads to Prada Marfa
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonNow that the Playboy Marfa has been officially classified by the Texas Department of Transportation as an “illegal outdoor advertising sign,” someone has asked the inevitable question, “Aren’t the fake…