Dear Laura Lark, I’ve noticed that gallery employees give me dirty looks whenever I go into the dark recesses of the back room. What gives? Their attitude is ridiculous, and…
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Life Imitates Art Imitating Life: Warhol-Inspired Soup Cans On Sale at Target
by Bill Davenport 1 commentCampbell’s began selling a new limited-edition line of Warhol-themed cans of tomato soup on September 2 at most Target stores across the country. The cans, priced at 75 cents, replace…
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Four Directors are Better Than One: Anne Bergeron New Associate Director of External Affairs at DMA
by Bill Davenport 0 commentDMA Director Maxwell Anderson has announced the appointment of powerhouse fundraiser Anne Bergeron as the Museum’s Associate Director of External Affairs, effective November 5. A twenty year veteran of top-level…
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Bonnie Pitman, former director of the Dallas Museum of Art, has joined the faculty of UTD as Distinguished Scholar in Residence, where she is expected to use her new media…
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The Island: “Robert Pruitt: Recent Drawings” and “Mapping Galveston”
by Joshua Fischer 0 commentTwo just-opened Galveston exhibitions are definitely worth the trip: Clint Willour’s exhibition of drawings by Robert Pruitt at the Galveston Arts center and a group exhibition of artists riffing on…
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A few weeks ago, Artnews’ feature on Gary Tinterow discussed the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s plans to build a new wing for modern and contemporary art, at a cost…
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Today, the NY Times talks about the rampant fakery in the internet art market on its front page. Noting the significant volume of online art sales, and the popularity of…
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Hybrid Forms at AMOA-Arthouse seeks to codify new media as a traditional art medium. With contributions from ten artists, the exhibition is anchored by video innovator Nam June Paik’s Zen…
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San Antonio Leases Museo Alameda to A&M, Plans for New Latino New Cultural Center at Old Latino Cultural Center
by Bill Davenport 0 commentA newly approved agreement between the city of San Antonio and Texas A&M gives the university a lease on the Museo Alameda, the iconic pink building in Downtown San Antonio,…
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With the changing of the seasons comes too the changing of the art climate. In the past year in Austin we’ve seen a flourishing of house and apartment galleries from…
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Director Matthew Akers screened Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present (2012) before a packed house during his Austin stay as a Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund juror. While detailing the internationally…
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Houston Arts Alliance is fixing to hire globe-trotting Australian public artist Konstantin Dimopoulos to install a version of his popular “Blue Trees” in Houston. The current proposal is to plant…
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Cecilia Gimenez’s amateur restoration of a century old fresco at the Sanctuary of Mercy Church in Borja, Spain has legs. Even before Spanish authorities decide whether or not to prosecute…
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New This, New That: Row Houses Get New Roofs, Hillside Mural Restored
by Bill Davenport 0 commentAfter 80 years, 16 of Project Row Houses original row houses have shiny new metal roofs, replacing their rusty old ones. Some house families in the Young Mothers Residential Program…
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Dallas’ Goss-Michael Foundation has announced the winners of four $5,000 annual scholarships for high school seniors, which are applied toward tuition at each winner’s college in the fall. The Kenny…
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So episode three of “Gallery Girls” starts off with the girls of Eli Klein Fine Art, which is good for the purposes of this blog because that’s where I have…
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Stuart Horodner may be best known to those of us here in Houston as guest editor of the Art Lies issue on “second acts”—artists, curators, and writers who are deeply…
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Dallas Police Propose to Co-opt Street Art as Graffiti Control Measure
by Bill Davenport 3 commentsDallas police will try a new co-option policy to control illegal graffiti by giving artists ‘free walls’ and sponsoring artistic competitions in exchange for agreements from artists to paint only…
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The glare controversy between the Nasher Sculpture Center and the neighboring Museum Tower in Dallas goes on and on. Meetings between the parties have been productive- solutions to the problem…
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The 25th annual Dallas Video Fest at the DMA begins on September 26, and among the flashier projects commemorating the anniversary is at the Omni Hotel, whose exterior LED lighting…