Last Friday night, “The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991 opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. In it were some of my favorite Guerrilla…
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Last weekend I went with a friend to a string of local openings. Some of the shows I saw I don’t even remember looking at, although I distinctly remember every…
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According to independent student newspaper The Houstonian, Tony Shipp, longtime chair of the Sam Houston State University Art Department in Huntsville will be stepping down on August 31. Citing a…
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This one is for Margaret Meehan and Similar but Different…
by Leslie Moody Castro 0 commentI couldn’t help but take a photo of this very lonely seat on the subway in Chicago just a couple of weeks ago… Imagine my surprise when I stumbled upon…
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COM Gallery Eye Torture Show: 2 Million Cameras x 10 pics . . . too bad there’s no entry fee!
by Bill Davenport 0 commentPeople with cellphone cameras within 100 miles of Texas City are invited to email their best pictures to Mayuko Gray at the College of the Mainland Art Gallery, for jurying…
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Long gone are the days when a CEO could simply cut a company check to his favorite charity. Now that it has become clear that companies can get the social…
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Wherein your narrator is roped into a dangerous collaboration in NYC, by dint of being from Texas.
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A leaking pipe in a fourth-floor closet poured an inch of water all over the concrete floors of the University of Houston’s Graduate painting studios over the recent winter holiday.…
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The ambitious, troubled Arts Center of North Texas, a joint project of six cities in Collin County north of Dallas, is foundering after the City of Frisco voted down a…
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Houston Artist William Betts has been selected for this year’s New American Paintings annual $1000 prize. Bett’s polished, mechanical images of photographs and surveillance video were featured in several editions…
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Ever discover what you want to write about something, after reading what someone else wrote about something else? Happens to me all the time—most recently, when I read an…
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Reception Honoring Houston Mayor Annise Parker and 2012 City of Houston Elected Officials Tuesday
by Bill Davenport 0 commentEveryone smile at the camera and say “public/private partnership!” On tuesday evening, January 24, there will be bit of political theater a Houston’s Hobby Center for the Performing Arts- only…
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Once an Austin mainstay, D. Berman Gallery, which moved to Wimberly last year, is planning to go entirely virtual on February 1, continuing to represent its roster of Texas artists…
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New Rice U Art Building in the Works; Maltzan Working on Pre-Design
by Bill Davenport 0 commentRice University has taken concrete steps towards building a new, $30 million art building on its Houston campus. Architect Michael Maltzan of Los Angeles is under contract for a pre-design…
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Mexic-Arte Museum Selected for Polishing by Federal Museum Assessment Program
by Bill Davenport 2 commentsAustin’s Mexic-Arte Museum will participate in the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services’s (IMLS) Museum Assessment Program (MAP), a federally-funded voluntary makeover that hopes to brush up the museum’s…
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Houston artist Theresa O’Connor’s pioneer trans-genre shopping venture fashion/art/lifestyle shop Hello Lucky turns 4. She’s holding a sprawling anniversary party on Saturday with a DJ in the storefront window, libations…
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Why should we care about the rise of the arts management professional? Because the institutions that produce art—institutions made up of people who have a set of experiences and frameworks…
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CommUNITY en Accion (CEA), a year-old El Paso philanthropic group, is sponsoring a trio of exhibitions focusing on Mexican masterworks at the El Paso Museum of Art. CEA was founded…
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Powerhouse curator Regine Basha has been appointed Executive Director of Artpace in San Antonio, beginning March 1. From 2002-2007, Basha was Adjunct Curator at Arthouse in Austin, where she oversaw…
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MFAH’s Combative Ramiréz in Wall St. Journal, calls Frida Kahlo Overappreciated Drama Queen
by Bill Davenport 4 commentsBlogger Judith Dobrzynski interviews the MFAH’s Mari Carmen Ramírez for today’s Wall St. Journal on the eve of the launch of the museum’s vast digital archive of Latin American art…