Houston sculptor Bob Pack’s “The Guardian,” a realistic statue of a police officer and a boy has stood in front of the Sugar Land police department building since 1996, but,…
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It’s almost July, and perhaps you have no interest in losing yourself in the waves of insect din and the swampy stickiness, even though it feels like swimming through music.…
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Catherine Lee is a painter and sculptor who has exhibited throughout the United States and abroad. She grew up in Texas, attended university in California and lived and worked…
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Big Country Pop-Up: Clyde, TX DIY Project “Hones In on an Art Concept Sweeping the Nation’s Larger Metropolitan Areas”
by Bill Davenport 0 commentResponding to a dearth of art venues with “a “do-it-yourself” mentality” Abilene painter Bud Clayton has organized what he’s calling “The Big Country’s first “POP UP” Gallery Exhibition” a solo…
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I always find it curious when art institutions decide to go into ambitious building programs. Typically the reasoning is the same: to offer a space in which the public is…
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Ai WeiWei: Police Block Countersuit Against Chinese Tax Authorities, Lawyer Disappears
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Guardian, UK reports that Chinese dissident and international art star Ai WeiWei’s studio in Beijing was surrounded by police today, who injured one of his staff and damaged a…
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The Dallas Museum of Art has received a half-million dollar grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to hire ex-Getty conservator Mark Leonard as its new Chief Conservator. Leonard who…
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Aerospace Engineers for the Arts? Study Claims $322 Million Economic Footprint for Dallas Arts
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Dallas Observer reports on a report that the arts generate $322 million in jobs and revenue in Dallas, according to a study by arts advocacy group Americans for the…
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“You talking to who?” They heard me fine, yet each time I told a friend that I was calling Ed Hardy for a quick interview, I got the same incredulous…
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Jack Risley, associate dean of academic affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), will be the next chair and Ruth Head Centennial Professor of the Department of Art and Art History…
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Memorial to Mark a Texas-Sized Injustice: Tim Cole Monument Approved by Lubbock City Council
by Bill Davenport 0 commentLubbock City council voted to place a public marker commemorating Tim Cole, who was wrongly convicted for a 1985 rape, and who died in prison at age 39 after fourteen…
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Blindsided? CAC New Orleans and Organizational Crises in the Art World
by Claire Ruudby Claire Ruud 3 commentsAbout a year ago now, I published a series of articles introducing readers to some of the financial metrics consultants, academics, and others have used to evaluate the financial stability…
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Pablo Picasso’s Woman in a Red Armchair (1929) was vandalized last week when a man in a dark suit approached the piece and stenciled the word “Conquista” and a picture…
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Gregory Warmack, better known to a generation of folk art lovers as Mr. Imagination, one of the few outsider artists whose work was collected by the Smithsonian and reproduced in…
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Refurbished Stark Museum Opens Native American Art Gallery in Orange
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Stark Museum of Art’s renovation has made room for a permanent installation of its collection of Native American art. The exhibition: Creating from Traditions: Arts of the American Indians…
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ArtSlam at Steve Paul Productions
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 1 commentArtSlam is an auction benefiting WordSpace, a Dallas writers organization that hosts regular readings and events around town. The auction will be Sunday, June 24th, at Steve Paul Productions, a…
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Lawndale Art Center has announced its new crop of resident artists for 1012-2013: Domokos Benczédi, Nancy Douthey and Patrick Turk will each get studio space on Lawndale’s third floor, $500…
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I’ve never met Stephen Kwok, but I was drawn into the work on his site enough to go visit his solo show, “Walled Garden” at Fresh Arts (formerly Spacetaker) until…
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What the White Hides, It Also Reveals: David Aylsworth at Inman Gallery
by Rachel Hooper 2 commentsDavid Aylsworth has debuted a subtle and beautiful new group of canvases, in which the color white carries paradoxical tensions of opaqueness and translucency, form and space, content and blankness,…
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Barbara Perea First Casa Chuck Curatorial Resident, Supported with Recycled Art!
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThis September Sala Diaz will be hosting Barbara Perea, an accomplished Mexico City-based curator, critic and lecturer with a concentration in emerging media, sound and video art as the first…