My grumble with College Art Association conferences is that historically the programming primarily targets art historians. Last year’s New York conference was a notable exception with some of my favorite…
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There’s no place like home, and the Galveston Art Center misses theirs, the 1878 First National Bank Building at 22nd and Strand, which at the time of hurricane Ike was…
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The upcoming Dallas Biennale, opening March 29 at Neiman Marcus downtown and later distributed among several venues is to be a “large-scale survey exhibition of international artists” organized by the…
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Some say that Black History month no longer needs to be celebrated. The belief is that these marginalized histories can be framed beyond the margins and understood within larger conversations…
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March 4 will be the final day to see the Byzantine frescoes currently nestled in their frosted glass framework at the Menil’s Byzantine Fresco Chapel. The works, which the Menil…
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The City of Austin Cultural Arts Division has announced that shawn Smith’s Vicious Venue, a sculptural installation of digital vultures made frompainted balsa wood, is the People’s Choice selection from…
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I flew down to LA last week in honor of CAA, The College Art Association. While the majority of my peers went to panels, school reunions, and were either interviewers…
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The City of El Paso has selected the first three artists for their new prioritized 2012 public art plan : Margarita Cabrera, Jose Cano and Anna Jacquez have been chosen…
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To get yourself in a properly industrial mood for the upcoming Lone Star Performance Explosion, take a look at Facebook group CSAW Lives! True Stories of Commerce Street Artists Warehouse, …
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Shepard Fairey Pleads Guilty to Evidence Shredding; May Face Prison
by Bill Davenport 2 commentsStreet artist Shepard Fairey, (wearing a suit!) pled guilty to misdemeanor criminal contempt charges connected with his altering evidence in a 2009 court battle over his use of a copyrighted…
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The LA Times‘ Deborah Vankin reports that the enormous rock for artist Michael Heizer’s Levitated Mass at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has been levitated. Emmert Costruction has…
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Austin Coming Together (ACT), “committed to ProACTive community building,” had its monthly meeting last Thursday, and among other Austin-boosting things on the agenda was the creation of an Austin Arts…
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In San Angelo, museums, artists, students and university faculty all pull hard together to create a vital art scene from a less than critical mass. Ami Mizell-Flint in the San…
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I have followed Glenn Ligon’s work over the past twenty years. He’s not known for his subtlety. In fact, he deliberately provokes his viewers. Given that his work examines race,…
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I had an art trek. There were three openings and I was determined to make it to all of them. I succeeded (mostly). Opening #1 was a performance piece by…
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I’ve loved Mona Hatoum‘s work since I first saw it in 1993 at the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens. The exhibition was called Four Rooms and Hatoum was one of…
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Met Star Floral Designer Chris Giftos Emergency Guest of Honor at DMA Art in Bloom Luncheon
by Bill Davenport 1 commentChris Giftos, former Director of Special Events and Master Floral Designer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art has agreed to step in as the keynote speaker and guest of honor…
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Is it the last gasp of artistic desperation? Drawing’s ironic abasement before the god of photography? Or just way to make a little money? Houston artist Whitney Riley is starting…
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Rice University dedicated a pair of big, seated figures by Jaume Plensa at a ceremony on the Rice campus last tuesday. The piece, titled Mirror, is similar in style to…
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Artadia, “the fund for art and dialog” has just announced a big multi-year grant from the Houston Endowment for its upcoming programs. In other Artadia news, longtime executive director Lila…