Walking into Matthew Ronay’s dense, dark “Between the Worlds” installation is like stumbling into an Edward Gorey black-and-white fairy tale forest. Mysterious striped owls sit in the bleak limbs of…
October 2010
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Houston’s Skydive art collective, booted out of it’s original Montrose hi-rise space during a building make-over, will re-locate to 2041 Norfolk St., at the corner of Shepherd Drive across from…
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced a collaboration with the City of Los Angeles in which the museum will provide restoration experts, helping the city organize and fundraise…
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Teaching art is a bizarre task. I have been working with students at the College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North Texas for more than ten…
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After a major remodel that nearly triples its space, Arthouse at the Jones Center will re-open on Sunday, October 24 with much hoopla, FIVE new exhibitions, and a dance performance…
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Tuesday Evenings at the Modern Presents K-Mart conceptualist Vernon Fisher in conversation with Dr. Frances Colpitt, art historian, critic, author, and the Chair of Art History at Texas Christian University…
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With unintentional(?) grim irony, Zombie Walk Houston has again chosen Tillman Troops, a charity that supports members of the armed forces and their families, as the beneficiary of the 3rd…
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In 1985, Wendy and Emery Reves gave 1400 works of European art, as well as paintings from Sir Winston Churchill to the Dallas Museum of Art, and the new wing,…
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Stephen F. Austin University art gallery director Christian Cutler was de-facto fired last week after refusing a request from 1st district Representative Louie Gohmert’s office to host an exhibition, on…
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Austin Green Art is working on a project it calls "the biggest art piece ever made in Austin." They’re hoping spread 2000 lbs of seeds this Thursday and Friday (weather…
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On Monday, Fort Worth’s Kimbell art museum began the much talked about site preparation for its much talked about Renzo-Piano designed addition. Trees and power lines will be moved, as…
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On Wednesday, Oct. 20, Fredericka Hunter of Texas Gallery; Rex Koontz, associate professor of art history at the University of Houston; Mary Leclère, associate director of the Core Program; and…
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It seems like today we’re going through a similar technological revolution to the one we went through over 100 years ago and like a 100 years ago this jolt…
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Mary Ethelene Bucy, 76, passed away on Saturday, Oct. 2 in Houston. Ethelene taught art & art history at St. John’s School in Houston for 15 years. She was a…
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Last week Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight, amid a tirade against vanity exhibitions and the institutions that host them, casually says, as if it were common knowledge, "perhaps…
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Gene and Jerry Jones, owners of the Dallas Cowboys explain their vision of a 21st century coliseum combining sports, art, architecture and technology and it’s realization in Cowboys Stadium and…
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Cross-pollinating the voodoo cant of business motivational speaking with the gobbledygook of public arts policy (am I being too negative here?) 300 "fire-starters" will collaborate to "improve Houston’s climate for…
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Dallas’ Goss-Michael Foundation will open its new space at 1405 Turtle Creek Boulevard on November 19. Near the newly opened Dallas Contemporary, the former 12,000sf warehouse will hold three galleries,…
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Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage, the first solo museum show for the Hanover hoover since 1985 MoMA retrospective, opens at the Menil Collection on October 22. The show includes full-sized…
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I’m kind of upset right now. My former professor and a huge influence on my artwork is lecturing at AMOA today Saturday October 16th at 5:30pm. That’s today!…