On Wednesday, January 9, The City of El Paso Museums and Cultural Affairs Department’s Public Art Program is inviting local artists to an informational session on their upcoming Central Business…
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Austin hosted its second International Film Festival Summit December 3 – 5, bringing together film and music festival organizers and industry folks from coast to coast. Staff from Sundance, The…
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D Magazine’s Peter Simek sums up the dramatic occurrences in the Dallas Art scene for 2013 without resorting to tiresome to write , but love-able to read end-of year lists,…
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North Texas E-Publishing Service Offers Christmas Art Book Giveaways
by Bill Davenport 0 commentKen and Barbara O’Toole, of Irish Lion Media and Marketing in Ft. Worth have e-published five monographs/artist books by North Texas artists via Amazon’s Kindle platform, and are offering them…
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As the holiday season arrives, we all have a little reprieve from the busy slate of art openings, lectures, performances and other events. I have used this mini-break to do…
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Houston’s BOX 13 ArtSpace is currently accepting proposals for exhibitions to fill its many gallery spaces for 2013-2014. Artists and curators are invited to submit recent or proposed works, ideas…
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Attention High School Teachers! AMOA-Arthouse is now accepting applications for our annual, juried teen exhibition, Ahead of Their Time. Contact Kate Wurtzel 512.453.5312 x104.
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It’s here, finally, the end of the world. It snuck up so quickly that I’d forgotten about it altogether. As the cycle of the Mayan calendar comes to an end,…
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In October, the Nasher Sculpture Center installed a meandering serpentine sculpture by the Irish-born, London-based artist Eva Rothschild for its current Sightings exhibition, a series which focuses on the work…
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The Dallas Museum of Art has announced the inaugural DMA Art Ball Graduate Student Prize, sponsored by the Dallas Art Fair. Maxwell L. Anderson (Director, DMA), Frances Colpitt (Chair…
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HCP Fellowships Announced: Lauren Marsolier and Marie d’Arcy Get Shows, $3000
by Bill Davenport 0 commentHouston Center for Photography has announced its 2013 fellowship winners: Los Angeles-based Lauren Marsolier won the HCP Fellowship and Houston’s Anne Marie D’Arcy won the Carol Crow Memorial Fellowship. Each…
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In Houston, recycled art-parts warehouse Texas Art Asylum is consolidating its locations: closing their retail store at 1320 Houston Avenue and moving everything (and that’s a lot!) to 1719 Live…
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Art on Fifth, “Austin’s First Contemporary Art Gallery” won’t be on Fifth much longer- a new parking garage is forcing the gallery to relocate after 15 years to 3005 South…
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ZZzzzzzz by Nathaniel Donnett was the result of his one-week residency at Art League Houston as part of the group show/mini residency STACKS, curated by Robert Pruitt. On opening night for STACKS,…
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On Black Friday, while millions were buying iPads for their six-year-olds and guns for their holsters (handgun sales broke an all-time record this year), I was staring at art in…
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Krisanne Frost (1951-2012), San Antonio Artist, Blue Star Gallery Liason
by Bill Davenport 1 commentFrom the San Antonio Current: “Krisanne Frost, well-known local artist and gallery liaison at Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, died December 6 from cancer at age 61 after being diagnosed…
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The Contemporary Art Museum Houston is loking for “activists, artists, lay(wo)men, and scholars” to participate in a series of discussions titled “Revenue Sharing,” held in conjunction with Theaster Gates’ mixed…
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Who doesn’t love to receive art books around the holidays? Full of inspiration and far more special than your average paperback, the following books will warm the hearts of all…
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CAMH Director Named CAM Curator: Bill Arning To Curate San Antonio Contemporary Art Month Perennial Show
by Bill Davenport 0 commentContemporary Art Month San Antonio has named Bill Arning as Curator of the 2013 CAM Perennial. The CAM Perennial opens at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center on March 15,…
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High Stakes High School: Goss-Michael Metroplex Student Art Contest Offers $1000 Prize
by Bill Davenport 0 commentDallas’ Goss-Michael foundation is looking for DFW area high school students for its 2013 Dallas/Ft. Worth Student Art Contest. Students drop off art relating to this year’s theme, “Conflict and…