Rice University professor Christopher Sperandio in partnership with UK artist Simon Grennan are refitting a musician-style tour bus into a mobile arts platform. Although the bus has been bought and…
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Manscape: Man as Subject and Object opened last night at Lora Reynolds Gallery. The group photography and video show is curated by Christopher Eamon and purports to be about “the…
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Loved to Death, the Dougherty Arts Center May Be Shopping for a New Home
by Bill Davenport 0 commentSarah Coppola in the Austin American Statesman reports that the city’s Dougherty Arts Center, high-traffic home to theater, pottery classes, art exhibitions and everything in between, is in sad shape.…
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Blogger Robert Boyd recaps the furor surrounding LA MOCA’s firing of curator Paul Schimmel, putting it in historical context- “Didn’t Nelson Rockefeller and Stephen Clark fire founding MoMA director Alfred…
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Robert Frank’s 1950s at the MFAH The new exhibition, American Made: 250 Years of American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston opens next weekend. The show will feature…
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The 142-acre Benini Sculpture Ranch in the Hill Country west of Austin is for sale. The property, once owned by Lyndon Johnson, was purchased by sculptor Benini and his wife…
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With the artworld in almost unanimous head-shaking mode over LA-MOCA’s firing (?) of respected curator Paul Schimmel, the LA Times puts the episode in context of a series of staff…
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Stir is a visually cohesive, materially investigative group show at M Squared Gallery as part of Print Matters. Rabéa Ballin, Lovie Olivia, Delita Martin and Ann Johnson also showed together…
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Art Fugitive: Menil Vandalism Suspect Crit on Artinfo, Discussed in Wall Street Journal
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Menil Picasso vandalism story is working its way up the media ladder: the Wall Street Journal‘s Eric Felten pokes at the art/crime knot without unraveling it, referring to a…
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Paul Schimmel, highly respected chief curator at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art for 22 years, was fired by the museum’s board, over disagreements about the museum’s direction. Billionaire…
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“Omer Fast: 5000 Feet is the Best” at the Dallas Museum of Art
by Lucia Simekby Lucia Simek 0 comment5000 Feet is the Best, on view at the Dallas Museum of Art, is a film based on two conversations that artist Omer Fast conducted in the fall of 2010…
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Artnet magazine, the 16-year old online art magazine, ceased publication Monday. The widely-read magazine, which carried the words of Charlie Finch and republished Jerry Salz, was closed by Artnet, whose…
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Bilbao Boom: For Arts Institutions, Thinking Big Can Be Suicidal in NY Times
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe New York Times today reported on a new study on over-zealous building campaigns at cultural institutions which mentioned the Chicago Art Institue’s Modern Wing, Dallas’ Winspear Opera House and…
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Jessica S. McDonald has been appointed as the Chief Curator of Photography at UT’s Harry Ransom Center. McDonald, a curator of photography at SFMOMA, the San Francisco Museum of Modern…
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CAMH’s Newly-Extended Hours Offer Seven Days of Icy Contemporary Art Bliss
by Bill Davenport 1 commentBeginning July 3, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston has new extended hours: 10-7 Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, open late Thursdays until 9pm, Saturdays 10-6, and Sundays 12-6. That’s all seven…
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In a little carved out space of the Hoffman Galleries at the DMA, there are three pieces by Japanese artist Nobuo Sekine, founder of the Mono-ha Movement (mono-ha translates to “school of things”)…
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The Cost of Turnover, or how museums could pay more and spend less
by Claire Ruudby Claire Ruud 3 commentsThere’s been a lot of management turnover within top tier Texas museums over the past year. [Quick recap: Just 13 months ago, Simone Wicha replaced Ned Rifkin as Director of…
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Local Revolutionaries: Living Room Art with Voices Breaking Boundaries
by Diane Barberby Diane Barber 0 commentThe revolution begins at home. More specifically, the revolution begins in your living room. Since 2006, Houston’s bold and unapologetic Voices Breaking Boundaries has been taking art to the masses…
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Suspected Menil Picasso Vandal on the Run: $5000 Reward for Houston Artist Uriel Landeros
by Bill Davenport 1 commentCulturemap reports that Crime Stoppers has offered a $5000 reward for Houston artist Uriel Landeros, suspected of vandalizing Picasso’s Woman in a Red Armchair at the Menil Collection last week.…