Iconic LA sculptor Ken Price, 77, died early today after struggling with tongue and throat cancer for several years. He recently completed preparations for his retrospective, which opens this fall…
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Biggest Open House in Texas: Explore UT to Again Feature Temporary Art Project
by Bill Davenport 0 commentUT’s Blanton Museum has commissioned alum Jules Buck Jones to create a temporary outdoor installation in the museum’s Faulkner Plaza for the annual Explore UT event, set for March 3,…
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Houston’s New Gallery/Thom Andriola celebrates it’s relocation into temporary quarters at 3225 Milam, next to PG Contemporary, with a grand opening on March 2 from 6-8. The gallery is in…
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In many ways, Nancy Zastudil was the inspiration for this series of interviews about sustainable practices. We worked together at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the…
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Dr. Francine Carraro, executive director of the Grace Museum in Abilene, has resigned. An expert in early Texas art, she had held the post since September 2008 when she came…
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Worn but Unwilted, San Antonio’s New Wooden Buddha Actually 800 Years Old
by Bill Davenport 0 commentArt Daily reports that the San Antonio Museum of Art has acquired a really nice woooden Amita Buddha from the late 12th century with funds provided by Lenora and Walter…
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Fun Facts About Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals, Coming to Houston’s Hermann Park in May
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Hermann Park installation is part of a six-stop US tour that includes New York, Los Angeles, Princeton, NJ, Washington D.C., and Pittsburgh. The 12 monumental bronze heads each weigh…
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Fort Worth’s Home-Grown Vaquero-Sculpture-With-a-Pistol-Controversy Dies with a Whimper
by Bill Davenport 2 commentsEchoing, in diluted form, the debate over the appropriateness of Luis Jimenez’ famous pistol-waving Vaquero, copies of which are sited on Houston’s Northside, and at the Crystal Bridges Museum in…
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If the winters continue to be as warm as this one, scientists say that the vampire bat, scourge of the Mexican cattle industry, could begin to find suitable habitat north…
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An amusing and embarrassing story in today’s NY Times relates how UC Berkeley accidentally sold a carved redwood panel by WPA artist Sargent Johnson for $150 (+tax) from it’s surplus…
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Vidor Sculptor Charlie Stagg Dies After Fall Into Fire Pit at Backwoods Visionary Compound
by Bill Davenport 4 commentsVidor sculptor Charlie Stagg died yesterday at UTMB in Galveston from burns suffered when he fell into an open fire pit at his eccentric folk-art style glass bottle and cement…
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Vital film document, Come Back, Africa screens at the MFAH. “This film was made secretly in order to portray the true conditions of life in South Africa today. There are…
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Bart Barry Corpus Christi Boxing/Art Review Quotes Shakespeare, Too!
by Bill Davenport 0 commentFor fans of combined boxing/fine arts news coverage, Bart Barry has a piece on 15 rounds.com that critiques both the art Museum of South Texas’ Art of the Dive: Portraits…
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Surprise! Obama’s 2013 Budget Doesn’t Axe the Arts; Gator Pool Frothing in Anticipation
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe president’s 2013 “re-election budget” has got my vote: Allen Keckonen of the San Antonio Art Festivals Examiner has waded through the numbers and concludes that last fall’s cuts for…
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The exhibition In the Interest of Time presents three projects by the Brooklyn collaborative Smudge Studio, comprised of artists Elizabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse. Their primary subject is the landscape,…
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There is a proliferation of exhibitions featuring abstract painting in Houston right now. Gallery Sonja Roesch, Sicardi Gallery, and Hiram Butler Gallery have group exhibitions featuring abstract painters, and there…
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Scott Sustek’s “Working Cowboy”, an over-life-sized sculpture of a waving man with a rope and saddle, was installed outside San Angelo on highway 87 near the intersection of Bryant Boulevard…
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will be supporting the the 2012 “Doodle 4 Google” contest by exhibiting the Texas state finalists’ drawings this summer. The annual competition invites students…
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Bandele Tyehimba, owner of Pan African Connection, an African art gallery and meeting place for progressive organizations in South Dallas, has died. The 58-year old gallerist and activist went to…
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There are few times that I complain about living in Mexico. There are even fewer things that bother me about living here. Generally, I love everything about the country and…