How I wish I could be in 2 places at once this weekend- DFW and Austin/San Antonio. My apologies to the rest of Texas but these two locations are where…
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DEAD MEDIA A bibliophile: A lover or collector of books. A bookophile: A person who has sex with books, usually with the gaps between pages. WTF Dead Media is…
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Rowhouses Update: New Kitchens, New Laundromat, New Chef, New Staff.
by Bill Davenport 0 commentLinda Shearer, Project Rowhouses’ executive director sent bits and bobs of organizational news: IKEA Houston has completed the remodel of the Young Mothers Residential Program homes, including new kitchens. Chevron…
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Shrimp Boat Nets Grant from Creative Capital, Also 45 Non-Texas Projects Announced
by Bill Davenport 0 commentCreative Capital, self decribed “premier provider of risk capital in the arts” has announced its 2012 grant recipients in visual arts and film, and the list of 46 (chosen from…
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Thanks, MCA. I needed that.
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Along with the modern art she loved, Marion Koogler McNay bought and El Greco Head of Christ, a lonely Renaissance masterwork, possibly emulating a similar oddball El Greco in Washington…
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“The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk” at the Dallas Museum of Art
by Colette Copeland 4 commentsI was prepared to hate the Gaultier exhibition at the DMA. I have a complicated relationship to fashion. I studied fashion design and merchandising at Pratt Institute in New York.…
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Mexi-Global Architect Ricardo Legorreta Dies; Brought Big Red Buildings to Texas
by Bill Davenport 0 commentMexi-global Architect Ricado Legorreta, who combined vernacular Mexican colors and textures with the severe geometries of high modernism, has died at age 80. Known best in Texas as the designer…
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With the New Year comes a time for reflection. This year my annual reflection comes straight off the heels of a two-week trip to Austin. It’s always exciting to…
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Sizemore Says Art Market Bad Deal, Global Nouveau Riche Driving Demand for Luxury
by Bill Davenport 0 commentInvestment manager (and TCU grad) Charles Sizemore puts in his two cents on the inadvisabilty of art as an investment in today’s Wall Street Journal Market Watch, even as he…
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Press Profiles Wade Wilson: A Concrete Art Dealer With Many Abstract Interests
by Bill Davenport 0 commentOlivia Flores Alvarez profiles Houston art dealer Wade Wilson in today’s Houston Press, touching on his commitments to concrete painting and Habitat for Humanity, and his love for being around…
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Durrie’s Portland Type Truck Brings Back Letterpress to Houston Museum of Printing History TODAY!
by Bill Davenport 0 commentMoveable Type, a mobile letterpress print shop built into the back of an old delivery truck, will be setting up shop at the Museum of Printing History at 6pm today…
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Forrest Bess Appraised on PBS, Again Boyd’s Blog Scoops GT Newswire
by Bill Davenport 0 commentA recent segment of the popular PBS series Antiques Roadshow featured a painting by Texas most insider outsider artist, Forrest Bess. The owner, an acquaintance of Bess’ during his fish-camp…
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Art Industry Draws Workers to Marfa; Workers Form Band, Band Performs at Elrod’s Studio, NY Times Blogs It
by Bill Davenport 1 commentThe Real Artists of Marfa/Foundation for Jammable Resources is four guys who moved to Marfa about five years ago; one from Alpine, one From Marathon, one from Austin, and one…
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Protean and prolific Houston painter Earl Staley is back in Houston, after his decade-long sojourn in Santa Fe, reincarnated as a slightly grayer figure in a white guayabera, panama hat,…
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A few weeks ago, my girlfriend and I began binge viewing art documentaries. We started with Herb and Dorothy (2008), the story of an elderly middle-class couple whose private collection…
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“Co-Modify: Culture Lab Collective” at Victoria’s Nave Museum
by Harbeer Sandhu 2 commentsGold is on people’s minds a lot lately—more than usual, what with inflation worries, “End the Fed” protests and calls to return to a gold standard. People fear their dollar…
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Finding this image: Made me think of this: Which reminded me of another book cover: Which made me think of Austin’s own: A family needs a home: and even better…
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80’s comix icon Gary Panter had a two-man show in Sulphur Springs,TX over the Christmas holidays, says the NY Times. Apparently a reporter followed Panter, best known for his comic…
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Houston Film Critics Awards Show Today, SWAMP Director Lampe, Worldfest Founder Todd, King Herring and Jeff Bridges Honored
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThis afternoon the Houston Film Critics Association tots up the best films of 2011 at their fifth annual awards show. Although some of the suspense has been reduced by the…