According to a study by arts advocacy group Americans For the Arts, nonprofit arts and culture industry generated $236 million in annual economic activity in Austin in 2010, supporting 7,315…
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If you’ve been paying attention lately, you know Texas has a bit of a water problem. If you’ve been out of the loop, start with the woes in the little…
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Congratulations to six artists selected for awards by Big Show guest juror, Marco Antonini. Kassandra Bergman, Celia Butler, Hogan Kimbrell, Alexander Larsen, Angel Oloshove, Lucia Peña will split $3000 in…
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On July 4th, Allen, TX artist and motivational speaker Tanner Lawley began a new effort to paint the “largest oil painting of the United States of America that has ever…
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Lawndale’s annual and much-anticipated Big Show opens tonight (Friday the 13th) from 6:30 – 8:30. Curated by Marco Antonini, gallery director of Brooklyn’s NURTUREart, it’s one of the smallest and…
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Model City for the New Face of America Gets $50,000 for Transit Stop Engagement Process
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe NEA has selected UTSA’s College of Architecture for a $50,000 grant to develop a transit stop near the redeveloped Tobin Center for the Performing Arts in San Antonio. The…
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Suffer a Sea Change: Art in Galveston, 2012
by Rainey Knudson 3 commentsLet’s take a moment to check in with Galveston. Poor old Galveston, right? The city has its great old Victorian mansions and brick streets and palm-lined avenues; it also has…
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Questions? Comments? Ideas? Send them to: [email protected] (or leave your message below) Dear Readers, Thanks for the overwhelming number of responses! In this first post, I will be addressing just…
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MFAH Gets $100K Silver Polishing Grant from IMLS; UT Dress Conservators Get the Lead Out
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Museum of Fine Arts Houston will get seventeen new airtight, sulfur-free cabinets to store it’s 898-piece collection of silver alloy items, taking them out of their tissue paper and…
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It’s the All Star break, a time when the very best professional baseball players have to travel for work and the rest get a four-day vacation. It’s also the dead…
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I was a late-comer to Francesca Woodman‘s pictures but liked them right away. That was around 2003, and Woodman’s surrealism provided me with a lyrical counterpart to René Magritte’s poetically banal imagery.…
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L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art is planning an exhibition that will examine the cultural impact of disco music, reports the LA Times.
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The venerable Battleship Texas, moored in a cubbyhole off the Houston ship channel is back in action after alarming leaks in her rusty 99-year old hull last week threatened to…
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The Dallas Museum of Art has joined the Association of Museum Directors, LACMA, MOCA, MOMA, the Getty, and many other museums in opposing a recent ruling by the US Court…
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Upcoming Surls Dinner Proves It’s Easier to Move Big Collectors than Big Sculptures
by Bill Davenport 2 commentsJames Surls is cropping up in unexpected places: Garden and Gun magazine features an informative feature on James Surls’ contributions to the Houston art scene as founder of the Lawndale…
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Laura Lark launches her new advice column: Laura Lark Loves You… “Good, good for you and a terrific distraction from that suck-ass job.” “Words so wise you’ll think we dug…
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Museum Outreach or Overreach? Backlash Sets in Over LA MOCA Schimmel Firing
by Bill Davenport 0 commentArt philanthropist Eli Broad defended Jeffrey Deitch and the Los Angeles MOCA’s new direction, in an op-ed piece in the LA Times on Sunday, sparking a flurry of commentary, mostly…
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Geoff Hippenstiel is a Houston-based painter whose work was recently featured in a solo exhibition at Devin Borden Gallery, two years after receiving his MFA from the University of…
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MFAH Photo Fellowships Awarded to Ph.D. Candidates With Curiously Similar First Names
by Bill Davenport 0 commentIleana Selejan and Iliana Cepero, two Ph.D. candidates studying photography at oppsite end of the continent have received the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s annual Joan and Stanford Alexander…
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Everyone’s favorite Houston art provocateur appeared in the NY Times, interviewed by Randy Kennedy: artist Mark Flood stuck up for Houston, the willful rich, and the American way, but declined…