Despite all that’s wrong in this society it’s the responsibility of the new artists to occur. The explanation that the times and the society are bad is pointless. Probably they’ve…
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Fernando Johnson of Brookhaven College won the Dallas Art Dealers Association’s Edith Baker Art Scholarship, chosen from among seven finalists from the seven campuses of the Dallas Community College District.…
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Claire Ruud Interviews New Artadia Director Carolyn Ramo
by Claire Ruudby Claire Ruud 1 commentCarolyn Ramo, Artadia’s new director, spent the last 12 years of her career in the New York gallery world, first at Nicole Klagsbrun, then as a production director at David…
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You Can Check it Out Any Time You Like: Hotel Texas Exhibit Re-unites Art From Fateful 1963 Kennedy Visit
by Bill Davenport 0 commentIn November of 1963, a group of prominent Fort Worth citizens put together a collection of modern art to decorate President John F. Kennedy’s suite at the Texas Hotel in…
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Elderly Beast Jesus Artist Sues Church for Share of Tourist Dollars
by Bill Davenport 0 commentCecilia Gimenez, the woman whose botched restoration of a small fresco in Spain produced the “Beast Jesus” internet phenomenon, is suing the Sanctuario de Misericordia in Borja for a share…
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1. New York in the fall is ridiculously seductive. I visited this past weekend and the weather was perfect–blue skies, cool breezes. I walked all around, looking at art, meeting…
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I had the pleasure to travel to Mozambique this summer to visit some friends, who had recently relocated there. We stayed outside the capital city Maputo in the town of…
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Morgan Coy of Austin record label and multimedia organization Monofonous Press has launched Transgressor, a new digital magazine “celebrating outsider philosophies and cultural trespassers.” Featuring bits on Utopian communes, the…
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Can I admit that I get a major kick out of this image? That I am thankful for it? Can I say this without losing a significant portion of the…
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A version of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” once famous as an icon of modern angst, now famous for being the most expensive artwork ever, (it sold last year for nearly…
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David Holzman (L.M. Kit Carson), the protagonist and “filmmaker” of Jim McBride’s David Holzman’s Diary (1967), is nestled in his West 71st Street apartment between movie posters and art reproductions,…
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The Dallas Art Dealers Association will present its annual Edith Baker Art Scholarship to a lucky visual art student from the Dallas County Community College District at a reception on…
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Tsunami of Vernacular Photographs Recording Every Action as if it Were of Equal Importance
by Bill Davenport 0 commentNY times blogger James Estrin contrasts the measured connoisseurship of an old-style photographic festival with the estimated 380 billion photographs taken last year by camera phones, or the 380 million…
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Everyone was wondering how the Houston Fine Art Fair‘s move to Reliant Center would work out. From what I can tell it was a good idea. It’s a newer space…
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Dallas artist Fred Villanueva’s 21,000 square foot exhibition, The Art Fair of Texas, is set to open in tandem with The State Fair of Texas in Dallas on September 28. …
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Filmed in 1968 in La Jolla California, Andy Warhol’s previously unfinished film San Diego Surf will be released by the Andy Warhol Museum. The movie was shot on 16 mm…
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Catherine Couturier, for eight years gallery manager and director of John Cleary Gallery in Houston before Cleary’s death in 2008, has taken over the reins of the prominent photography gallery;…
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I have to admit that art fairs, in general, are not my thing. They seem exhausting for everyone involved from visitors to the gallery girls working the booths. With 80…
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The Marfa Dialogues: Art, Science, Drought, Food and Beer
by Michael Odomby Michael Odom 7 commentsIt wasn’t ’til Sunday morning that I got the point of the Marfa Dialogues, an extended look at art, culture and climate change over Labor Day weekend. We were trooping…
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See it before it closes!: Nick Barbee at 4411 Montrose
by Kelly Klaasmeyer 0 commentGalveston Arts Center‘s pop up show of work from Nick Barbee‘s Galveston Artist Residency is at 4411 Montrose through today, Saturday, September 15. It’s in the former Peel Gallery space…