A new web site launched today that provides artists with better bargains than a Black Friday sale—everything is free! Well, not free; ExchangeWorks is basically an online barter platform, but…
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Well, Thanksgiving is over and, if tradition mandates that you run out and go shopping, there are a number of venues that make it possible to support local artists and…
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Los Angeles Now: California-Pacific Triennial, Joel Shapiro, a Mystery Cavern, and more…
by Joshua Fischer 0 commentIn contrast to my recent NY posts, here is a leaner wrap-up of my trip to Los Angeles for bi-coastal balance.
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There seems to be a lot of exhibitions about food recently, as well as related programs about food rituals (now referred to in art terms as “relational aesthetics”). The Blaffer…
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When Prada Marfa was inaugurated it seemed self-evident that this would lead to a situation like we find today: johnny-come-lately corporate giant seizes upon the precedent and employs it to culturally legitimize advertising.
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A selection of artists from the Texas Biennial will participate in the UNTITLED. art fair in Miami Beach, a satellite of Art Basel Miami Beach, this December. Now in its…
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The hot tub installed in the gallery for the opening night was just the beginning.
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The Board of Directors of San Antonio’s Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum has announced a search for a permanent Executive Director to begin immediately. Steven Evans, former director of the…
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Jacqueline Franey Named New Development Director at DMA
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe Dallas Museum of Art has announced that Jacqueline W. Franey has been named DMA’s Director of Development. (There are still those confused by the term “development,” although many some…
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After spending almost four hours at Canopy, I needed a break from talking to awesome artists and eating crickets.
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A New Career for the New Year? Free Workshop for Central Texas Artists
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentAll the holidays are quickly approaching and will just as quickly roll into the new year with its new resolutions. If yours has something to do with figuring out how…
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The Original Experimental Pop Collaborator Robert Wilson Comes to the Nasher
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThere seems to be no word yet of Waco native Robert Wilson’s collaboration with Jay-Z, but Wilson has already expressed a desire to work with him. The long list of…
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The call for entries for the Hunting Art Prize was sent out months ago but, for artists who were waiting to second-guess the preferences of the Hunting Art Prize jurors,…
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The two big c's are warranted here: crepuscular and chiaroscuro. The miasma of not-quite-blacks encroaching upon vulnerable fauna resembles sludgy crude oil — a reminder of the 2010 BP spill and too many others in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere.
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The Smithsonian recently launched an online beta site called Smithsonian X 3D, with 3D models of more than 20 artifacts from its vast collection. Visitors to the site can now…
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Placed in a post-apocalyptic setting created with wallpaper, video and audio, Beshty's works read as a naive understanding of what it is to live in Mexico's landscape of violence.
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It’s chilly and rainy in both Houston and Austin, but adventurous art lovers with thick socks and warm scarves will be sticking their cold noses into artists’ studios today. The…
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The work of casualists and provisionalists like Walker is not Jerry Salz's “Neo-Mannerism.” These artists are, if anything, neo-modernist. This crop of new, young work in Dallas is a throwback to Giacometti, Guston, and Rothko.
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Twelve-Year-Old El Paso Artist Steals the Show at Ceremony with First Lady
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe El Paso Creative Kids program was one of 12 national arts programs to receive the President’s Commission on the Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award at the White House…
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The University of North Texas and College of Visual Arts and Design (CVAD) is opening ArtSpace Dallas, a gallery that will showcase works of CVAD’s students, faculty and renowned alumni,…