Fort Worth pilot, pawnbroker and art collector A.C. "Ace" Cook died Moday of pancreatic cancer. Mr. Cook’s impressive "Hockshop" collection of early Texas art has been on display at his…
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A trove of unusual copper, terra-cotta and stone sculptures from the ancient West African city-state of Ife are coming to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston after their latest stop…
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Workers at the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi were rocked by a massive explosion and fire at a beachfront motel directly across the bay Thursday morning. The…
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This winter Texas: a Sculpture Celebrating High School Football will be unveiled to coincide with the Superbowl. The 16-foot-tall assemblage of steel recycled from the demolished Texas Stadium and scraps…
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The latest addition to the University of Houston’s public art collection, the Art Guys’ The Statue of Four Lies, will be unveiled at noon on Wednesday, September 22 on the UH…
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For the past three decades, Texas artists have delivered their sculptures to the annual Abilene Outdoor Sculpture show. On Saturday, Sept 18, nearly all the artists who ever participated in…
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The Mitchell Center and Aurora Picture Show will present a three-day media dig right in the heart of Texas. For Media Archeology’s kick-off on Thursday, September 16th, the Houston Chapter…
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Everyone’s in on it: Ballroom Marfa, The Washington Spectator, The Big Bend Sentinel, Marfa Public Radio, and Marfa Book Company, are presenting Marfa Dialogues: Politics and Culture of the Border,…
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In August of 2005 photographer Jeff Wilson set out to catalog empty Texas high school football stadiums for Texas Monthly magazine. Now the photos have been collected and, introduced by…
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Jan Jarboe Russell of the San Antonio Express-News dissects the history and future of of Luminaria, the city’s answer to Paris’ Nuit Blanche and Chicago’s Looptopia festivals. Booster-inspired, but underfunded,…
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The Dallas Architecture Forum and the Dallas chapter of the American Institute of Architects have established the David Dillon Memorial Scholarship in honor of the Dallas Morning News architecture critic…
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James Magee and his mystical land-art installation, "The Hill" outside El Paso are the subject of a show at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, and have sparked a spate…
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Nameless Sound is bringing together a Tex-Mex pack of avant-garde musicians to improvise and collaborate at two Houston venues next weekend: on Friday and Saturday, Acuerdo de Musica Libre/ Free…
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The Houston Chronicle ran an editorial yesterday dissecting the racial politics behind Texas Southern University’s conflicted behavior. TSU painting over two 1971 Harvey Johnson murals on its campus two weeks…
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Conservation of the Watts Towers, Simon Rodia’s famed folk-art environment in Los Angeles, has hit a snafu: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which was to undertake the work,…
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The 48th Annual National Championship Indian Pow Wow will take place Friday-Sunday at Traders Village in Grand Prairie. Dancers in full regalia of feather, buckskin, beadwork and bells compete in…
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Commemorating the Rothko Chapel’s 40th anniversary, The Rothko Chapel: Writings on Art and the Threshold of the Divine, a 124-page collection of Dominique de Menil’s thought-provoking speeches, interviews, letters, and…
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Aurora Picture Show is hosting a free party at the Art Car Museum in Houston on Friday September 10 from 7-9pm to celebrate the release of Aurora’s new DVD "Andy…
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There’s more than one way to make an acquisition: Young Man with a Flute, long owned by the Dallas Museum of Art, has been re-attributed by the reigning art authorities…
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Cloud Deck, a swarm of 2000 translucent ovals like Japanese kites by New York artist Jacob Hashimoto has just been installed at the University of Houston’s Downtown campus, in the…