Amazon.com is quietly making plans to open an online art gallery in the very near future. The Art Newspaper first reported the story last week and spoke with a number…
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Artist David Adickes has spent the past few days with a crew installing his latest work, a multi-colored sculpture that spells out “We (heart shape) Houston.” It does not seem…
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Houston’s Fresh Arts will present a workshop called “Funding Strategies for Independent Artists,” led by Fresh Arts’ Executive Director Jenni Rebecca Stephenson and professional composer/musician Jerry Ochoa of Two Star…
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Without dumbing down (really, not too much at all), the PBS television series Art21 discusses contemporary art and artists in a way that even your grandparents can understand and enjoy.…
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When the Big Bend Sentinel broke the news on May 30 of the Playboy Marfa installation plans, the story quickly spread to the arts journals and arts blogs. It was…
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L’esprit de Shrimp Boil: Artists Kick off Holiday Weekend at DiverseWorks
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonHouston artists Zach Moser and Eric Leshinsky have somehow turned shrimping into a big extended art project. They call their Shrimp Boat Projects an “artistic investigation of the Houston region…
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Former President George W. Bush and Laura Bush were recently in Zambia and spent a couple of days helping to renovate a clinic, which will serve as a cervical cancer…
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HAA Gives Nonprofit Staff Members Excuse for Extra-Long Lunch Breaks: Just Bring a Camera
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) is sponsoring a photography contest that should serve to get all local nonprofit arts organizations to support its latest temporary art installation The Blue Trees.…
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Every year, Lawndale Art Center invites a guest juror to go through actual, physical works of art brought into the gallery for a couple of days and whittle down the…
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Oh Show Me the Way to the Next Blockbuster Show: Two Young Curators to Take Over One Young Art Space
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonOn July 26-27 Alabama Song will present the longest running exhibition ever to take place. 27 Houston artists, and, oh yeah, there will be an ice cream truck, too.
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San Antonio to Open New Museum: Director Explains “You’re in a Western Art Museum”
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThis fall, the Briscoe Western Art Museum will open along San Antonio’s River Walk, in the original site of the San Antonio main library. The museum, which former Governor Dolph…
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San Antonio Art Spaces Diffuse: Blue Star Complex Loses Two More Galleries
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonWhen the San Antonio Express-News reported on the transitions and renovations at the Blue Star Arts Complex in late April, they wrote that “there is a perception by many that…
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Dallas Can Sleep Well Tonight Under the Bright Lights of the Flying Horse
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonIt was iffy for a while because of a neon glass shortage, but a few hours ago, Dallas city officials were told that the Pegasus sign atop the Magnolia Hotel…
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Summertime is officially here, which means it’s high season for seaweed at Galveston beaches. While most beachgoers and tourists aren’t so fond of the stinky, crunchy vegetation that can take…
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MFAH Acquires Über-Collection of Photo Books: The Heiting Collection
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonWhen Anne Wilkes Tucker was named “America’s Best Curator” by Time Magazine in 2001, that was before she helped the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 2002 and 2004 to…
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MASS gallery is starting a new summer residency program called Hotbox, turning over its gallery space to three artists to use as a working studio for five weeks. Each…
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Nothing But Blue Skies From Now On: Upcoming Light Piece in Austin Completes James Turrell Road Trip Plans
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonWhen James Turrell: The Light Inside closes at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in late September, Houstonians won’t have to go into withdrawal because they know (or will learn…
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Historic Modernist Home Demolished in Ft. Worth, Fingers Start Pointing
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonLast Friday, demolition began on the Ruth Carter Stevenson home, an award-winning house of mid-century design at 1200 Broad Avenue in Fort Worth. The demolition began just as preservationists started…
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Jenny Moore, associate curator at the New Museum, has been appointed the new executive director of the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, replacing the previous director, Thomas Kellein, who stepped down…
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A 14-year old boy died early Saturday morning after becoming impaled on the horn of a bull statue outside of Texas Tech’s National Ranching Heritage Museum. According to the Lubbock…