This is fun: the Amon Carter’s asking you to vote for your favorite work from their collection. They’re posting the results here. [via]
March 2008
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Ethnography, Photojournalism and Propaganda, 1934-1975 This is the first of three essays devoted to FotoFest’s current biennial program, Photography from China, 1934-2008. Next week’s article will examine the Independent Documentary…
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Those who fondly remember the short, sweet days of Austin’s Fresh Up Club should head on over to Okay Mountain this Saturday, March 22, where FUC co-founder Dave Bryant is…
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Check out The Alpha Dilettante, an online guide to visual art in the Valley!
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The March issue of Modern Painters selected "Class Pictures: Photographs By Dawoud Bey" at the CAM as a show to highlight… It’s large scale color portraits of high schoolers. Call…
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Art investment funds are looking to the Middle East, Africa, and India for growth potential as the US economy tanks. A brief but fascinating discussion of recent activity here. Did…
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Though the Fotofest Meeting Place events remain shrouded in mystery, TONIGHT the public is invited in to see the work of artists that participate in reviews amid a fun- and-vodka-filled…
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It’s really interesting to see how Eric Zimmerman‘s art is evolving. The change can be seen quite clearly if you compare his contributions to New Art In Austin at AMOA…
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Arthouse will officially announce the long-planned renovation and expansion of its Austin headquarters, The Jones Center at 700 Congress Avenue at a press conference with the Mayor, the architects, Arthouse…
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Fort Worth’s Amon Carter Museum begins accepting ballots for Decision 2008, a new program in which visitors get to vote for their favorite work in the Carter’s collection, and explain…
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Obsessive Compulsive Awesome at ArtStorm is a mixture of counterculture cheek and adolescent bathos by two artists whose work is hard to sort out until you get the knack: Arthur…
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Apparently the Wall Street Journal is as hard up for art news as Glasstire. Yesterday they ran a piece which, boiled down, is basically the news that Durer’s famous 1500…
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I took my 3-D design class over to see the Martin Puryear retrospective at the FW Modern the other day. It’s pretty spectacular. 20 years ago, he was one of…
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The Dallas Morning News reports that about 200 pieces of art from the estate of the late Raymond Nasher will be auctioned off in May at Sotheby’s in New York.…
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My favorite class in undergrad was a Northern Renaissance art class. It was taught by Dr. Scott Montgomery. Scott had long grey hair and wore Birkenstocks, which he would kick…
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With Fotofest spreading its frenzy across Houston, and Chinese photography everywhere, it’s time to understand the new Chinese art phenomenon. Two interesting articles today talk about it from different perspectives:…
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The Knitta phenomenon continues to attract media attention like lint on rayon, according to an informal comparison in the Arts Journal blog Aesthetic Grounds, trumping heavily funded and promoted public…
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The San Antonio Express-News has some profiles of artists and projects that will be part of the upcoming Luminaria mega-event in San Antonio this Saturday. Gabriel Velasquez is working on…
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The Smithsonian Institution is putting together a web-searchable index of it’s approximately thirteen million photographs. "the Smithsonian set out to catalog and organize the world,” Merry A. Foresta, director of…
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Going into Jade Walker‘s Merriment at the new Big Medium Bay 10 Project Space (which, by the way, is a greatly welcome addition to Austin’s cultural spaces) I immediately thought…