Houston’s Orange Show opens it’s 2012 season with the traditional Easter Orange Hunt on Saturday, March 31. Bring your kids to scour Jeff McKissack’s folk art creation for goodies, followed…
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Hilton Kramer, chief art critic for the NY Times from 1973-82, has died at age 84. Like many critics whose careers grew up with postwar American art, Kramer never feared…
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It’s not uncommon to walk the streets and stumble upon a vendor selling their wares laid out on top of a blanket directly on the street in Mexico City. This…
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Rigoberto Gonzalez Alonso in Harlingen and Houston: Corridos Baroccos, Part II
by Sarah Fischby Sarah Fisch 6 commentsContinued from Part I… V. Reynosa, Narcolandia and sad, sad data It’s important to point out that Rigoberto Gonzalez is not a Chicano artist, though he shares a lot of…
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Art on the Green is an outdoor art installation brought to life by curator Andrea Mellard at AMOA-Arthouse’s Laguna Gloria. Austin artists, architects, and landscape architects were invited to design…
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On March 15, San Antonio City Council unanimously approved the San Antonio Local Filmmakers Grant (LFG), a $25,000 grant to support local filmmakers who have at least $25,000 in funding…
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Philanthropist Isabel Brown Wilson passed away on Tuesday, March 27 at the age of 80. Daughter of Houston entrepreneur George R. Brown and Alice Pratt Brown, she served on the…
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20 Awkward Items on Richard Phillips, International Art God
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 0 commentIntro: This year’s honoree for Two x Two for AIDS and Art will be Richard Phillips, who is loved by celebrities and name-brand clothing and makes glossy, highly artificial compositions from…
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GT News Net Hauls Old Boots and Dogfish: Cat Apps, Body Painting, Toilet Art
by Bill Davenport 0 commentSome days it’s juicy scuffles, museum intrigues, outlandish art projects, or even valuable information; some days Texas arts-related news is old boots and dogfish. Culturemap Houston has a piece on…
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Statements made by artists are often regarded as the key to understanding their work. Art critics look to artists to set the theoretical framework surrounding their art; art historians use…
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UNCLASSIFIED: G Gallery Brawl Footage To Be Screened at Tribunal TONIGHT!
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThis just in: “Attention: HOUSTON, Ivete and I will be at G Gallery in Houston today at 6:30pm for a military tribunal in which the video of the opening will…
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An unnamed, curious Swamplot reader was “roaming around taking pictures at the Rodeo on Sunday when I noticed the ramp down to the floor of the Astrodome was open and…
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The Houston Chroncle‘s Molly Glentzer profiles the latest progress at the newly opened Houston Museum of African American Culture on Caroline St., and its energetic director John Guess, Jr. Just…
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“In a world where proving yourself is everything”… I present Similar but Different #27: Glitter! Mariah Carey Oliver Herring “After its scheduled run, Meulensteen (formerly Max Protetch) took down their…
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Factoid-Full DMA Dashboard Offers Real Time Museum Stats, But No Dirt
by Bill Davenport 0 commentOn Friday, the Dallas Museum of Art unveiled its new Dashboard website, offering the public access to real-time statistics on the Museum. They’re extensive, but not surprising, and laid out…
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Joan Grona Gallery to Close; Hard-Pressed Blue Star Plans Retail-Friendly Makeover
by Bill Davenport 0 commentAfter twenty years as a mainstay of San Antonio’s Blue Star Art Complex, Joan Grona has announced that she will be closing her bricks and mortar gallery at the end…
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120 artists participating in Fotofest’s meeting place portfolio reviews will congregate at the Doubletree Hotel Downtown Houston this evening to meet (and sell a few prints to) the general public.…
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I first met Jill Magid in the Fall of 2006 when we team taught an interdisciplinary studio course for visual studies majors at the University of Pennsylvania. Over the…
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Rigoberto Gonzalez Alonso in Harlingen and Houston: Corridos Baroccos, Part I
by Sarah Fischby Sarah Fisch 8 commentsRigoberto Gonzalez applies Baroque technique to scenes of narcoviolence. The result isn't journalism, but epic poetry.
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Saturday! Sources and Echoes at Richmond Hall Celebrate a Decade of Nameless Sound
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThis Saturday, a 5-hour marathon of improvised music will fill complement Dan Flavin’s sideshow lighting at the Menil’s Richmond Hall. Eighteen graduates of the Nameless Sound creative music education program…