Barbara Purcell reviews a collaborative exhibition between artist and musician Daniel Johnston and his sister, Marjory, at Lydia Street Gallery in Austin.
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The Contemporary Austin will unveil a mural featuring iconic images from Daniel Johnston’s artwork.
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The Contemporary Austin to Screen “The Devil and Daniel Johnston”
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechThe screening is in conjunction with "Daniel Johnston: I Live My Broken Dreams," a survey exhibition of works by the artist and musician.
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Among Johnston's credited works is Austin's landmark mural "Hi How Are You" at Guadalupe and 21st Streets in Austin.
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Today is singer-songwriter and artist Daniel Johnston’s 57th birthday. It is also the first annual “Hi, How Are You” Day as declared by Austin Mayor Steve Adler, reports Spectrum News…
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Jeff Wheeler Named Co-Director of James Surls’ Multi-Purpose Art Space
by Glasstireby GlasstireJeffrey Wheeler, pioneer and mentor artist of Lubbock, announced this last spring that he’d be picking up sticks to head elsewhere in Texas, but at the time it was still…
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A deep interest in aliens is so much a part of our culture that we have movie after movie (not to mention television, novels, comic books…) enthralling us with stories of other worlds and extraterrestrial life.
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Dead Dog’s Eyeballs! There’s a New Graphic Bio on Daniel Johnston
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonEarlier this month, the graphic novel, The Incantations of Daniel Johnston, was published. A collaboration between Spanish artist Ricardo Cavolo and award-winning author Scott McClanahan, the book has received mostly…
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Bale Creek Allen is opening a new gallery this weekend in Austin (at 916 Springdale Road, Building 2), appropriately called Bale Creek Allen Gallery. Why do we have high hopes…
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A Fan’s Notes: Christie Blizard on Daniel Johnston, Jeff Wheeler, and Making Contact
I’ve been giving work anonymously to Daniel Johnston for the past five years so there was zero chance I would miss this potential alignment of all that is miraculous in Texas.
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"Here's the deal: I'm hopeful that this will be awesome, but it could very well be a couple of people showing up in suits and doing a half-baked performance that's a social critique that doesn't really work.... Yes?"
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Daniel Johnston, one of Austin’s most insider outsider artist/musician/personalities, has designed a new mural which will be unveiled on Monday, December 1 at Nau’s Enfield Drug in West-Central Austin. The outside…
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I rolled into Dallas on Saturday, just as many of the city's project spaces and galleries had their openings. It was also the beginning of the Dallas Biennial or DB14.
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The holidays can very stressful for many folks and provoke behavior that is not quite in the Christmas spirit. For those who had a spat with a loved one or…