ATTENTION FUTURISTS: Report to Austin, Texas on Thursday November 1 by 7:30 p.m. for author/futurist/design visionary Bruce Sterling‘s kick-off speech at this year’s Harry Ransom Center’s Flair Symposium, “Visions…
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“Everything is being spoiled in this world. …Know what? When everything is being spoiled, we’ll be spoiled too!” So proclaim two teenage girls–both named Marie–before embarking on a romp of…
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Recently I had the pleasure of traveling to Houston for the second annual Texas Contemporary Art Fair. I was impressed, and the fair deserves a pat on the back. Considering…
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Houston, We Have A Problem: Landeros Art Show Heats Up the Newswires
by Bill Davenport 8 commentsUriel Landeros’ one-man show at Houston’s James Gallery has garnered national attention, with articles in the Houston Chronicle, the NY Times, and the Associated Press. Landeros is the 22-year old…
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The Halloween Report 2013: Zombies, Candy, Costumes and Tradition Across Texas
by Bill Davenport 1 commentWith demand dropping for dull piety in art, contemporary artists have left the Nativity, the Annunciation, etc. to popular illustrators, and have rallied around Halloween as the new iconographic nexus.…
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Center For Curatorial Leadership Announces New Fellows- Texas Stands Tall, Again
by Bill Davenport 1 commentThe Center for Curatorial Leadership has chosen 11 fellows for 2013; among them are Emily Neff Curator of American Painting and Sculpture The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Andrea…
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If You Build It, They Will Film: Beer Can House on HGTV Friday Night
by Bill Davenport 0 commentHouston’s Beer Can House will be featured on HGTV’s new show “Home, Strange Home” this Friday, October 26th at 8pm CST! Host Chuck Nice and his HGTV crew made their…
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Yikes! That’s it? I can’t believe that In Appropriation at HCP is closing already. I’ve been thinking about the show quite a bit. And while I’ve been thinking, the…
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Luce Resigns as Nasher/Tower Glare Reduction Mediator: Mayor Interviewed
by Bill Davenport 0 commentTom Luce,the lawyer asked by Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings to act as mediator between the Nasher Sculpture Center and the Museum tower in their tug of was over the ongoing…
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I recently had the pleasure of curating a video show at Tiny Park Gallery in Austin, Texas titled the Time and Space of Calixto Ramirez. The exhibition was a show of…
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City Agency In Need of New Acronym Recognizes Austin’s Arts Partners
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe City of Austin Economic Growth and Redevelopment Services Office, Cultural Arts Division (EGRSO-CAD?) handed out its annual Partners in the Arts Awards last week, recognizing the unsung cowboys of …
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Aurora Open Screen Night is Now Open, But Please Check Your Hollywood at the Door
by Bill Davenport 0 commentHouston’s Aurora Picture Show is looking for submissions for its “Open Screen Night,” a new quarterly event featuring experimental media projects and other screening events that are unlikely to find…
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“Visible Unseen,” Regina Agu at Fresh Arts Gallery
by Garry Reeceby Garry Reece 3 commentsWe need to get a few things straight about Afro-Futurism. Afro-Futurism is an attempt to link the future to the past/present. It considers what “blackness” and “liberation” might look like…
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The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and The Landscape Partners have received the Grand Award for the Modern’s landscaping in the 2012 Environmental Improvement Awards Program sponsored by the…
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Guerrilla Pun Sculpture Removed: Carlsbad, CA Officials Deal with Fork Rebellion
by Bill Davenport 0 commentCity officials in Carlsbad, CA quickly removed a six-foot wooden fork from a traffic island (at a fork in the road, get it?) last week, but not before CNN got…
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The upcoming Latino Arts Fest in Dallas’ Bishop Arts District includes an open call exhibition for area visual artists juried by Benito Huerta, Director of the Gallery at UTA, conceptual…
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The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is the only U.S. venue for Lucian Freud: Portraits. If you haven’t seen it yet, go now. It closes this Sunday, October 28th.…
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The Dallas Observer reports that Big Tex, the giant, awkward talking cowboy that has been a landmark of the Texas State Fair in Dallas for years, was destroyed by a…
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Heritage’s Modern and Contemporary Art Signature Auction
by Lucia Simekby Lucia Simek 0 commentSo it’s a mad-crazy art weekend here in Dallas, let me tell you, if the droves of sleek black cars and idle chauffeurs loitering outside art institutions, hotels and private homes didn’t give…
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Texas Contemporary Art Fair LIVE BLOG!
by Glasstireby Glasstire 2 commentsSaturday, 4 pm Lawndale Artist in Residence Domokos Benczedi (right) is asked to lower the volume on his unscheduled art fair performance by fair director Jeffrey Wainhouse. – B.D.…