Aldo Chaparro: MORE THAN THIS Gallery Sonja Roesch September 18 – October 30, 2010 If I had an extra $1500 bucks lying around, I’d totally buy Aldo Chaparro’s little silver…
October 2010
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In an earlier era, Marilyn Lanfear might have contented herself with keeping scrapbooks, painting watercolors, making quilts and telling her stories after serving a big family meal. But in her…
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TODAY from 2-5pm all Texas photo-related artists are invited to present their work for a maximum of 10 minutes to Toby Kamps and Michelle White from the Menil Collection, who…
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This summer, Ballroom Marfa hired a new curator, Mike Bianco. He replaces Alicia Ritson, who began the graduate program at the Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies this fall.…
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Italian authorities dropped the case against Getty Museum curator Marion True on because the statute of limitations had run out, leaving a juicy five-year long drama that hinted at backroom…
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The "official" launch of Keith Reynolds’ three month old arts-centered monthly newspaper & website The Houston Entertainicle will be celebrated with a night of art, theater, dance, music, games, piñatas,…
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Mark Schatz: Glasstire.com Artist Profile from Eric Jarvis on Vimeo.
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OK, it’s an event; it raises money for sick kids, it’s a creative outlet, but it hurts when they call it "the largest and most recognized public art event in…
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Laredo city council voted last week to re-zone an arts and entertainment district in downtown, hoping that “we’ll start seeing more museums, more art galleries, more restaurants, more entertainment for…
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Barry’s Blog, a service of advocacy group Western States Art Federation, is running a June interview with Margo Lion and George Stevens, Jr. co-chairs of the President’s Committee on the…
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Along similar lines, Houston musical artist David Dove, founder of Nameless Sound, explains why it’s good to have real artists in classrooms in an essay on teaching experimental music to…
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These past few weeks I’ve been working my way around Austin’s gallery scene intent on introducing myself and discovering new venues as well as stopping by some old standards. My…
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Debra Sugerman is the creator and former co-director of the Creativity for Peace Camp, which brings together teenage girls from Israel and Palestine in an attempt to break down barriers…
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Unique Homebuilding Through Phoenix Commotion, a lecture by Huntsville outsider architect Dan Phillips happens 10 am at Austin College’s Forster Art Complex Room 111. Phillips, whose works aim to reduce…
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Stranger than art: a seasonal pumpkin display on the transom above Whole Foods Market on Kirby Drive in Houston caught fire on tuesday. The bizarre blaze was quickly extinguished without…
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The spacious studio of Dallas native Ludwig Schwarz has beautiful natural light. The ceiling is covered with old pressed tin tiles and the paint-splattered wooden floor tells stories of past…
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Last Saturday, Oct. 2 Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument in Fritch, TX hosted Flintfest 2010 , an all-day affair including a flint "knap-in" with with expert flint-knappers who made arrowheads…
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The indigenous stone heads or Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, have been gnawed at by lichen for years, causing much hair pulling among preservationists. Now, a new chemical agent developed…
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Interested in the the air-conditioning technology rigged for Cai Guo-Qiang’s recent gunpowder drawing for the Museum of Fine Arts Houston? Here’s the job description: adapt an uninsulated 25,000 sf warehouse…
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In her review of Kate Carr’s October 2009 exhibition at Box Gallery for Art In America, Harmony Hammond positioned the artist as a feminist foil to minimalism. Although Carr’s work fits into a minimalist aesthetic,…