Brown University Archaeologists have unearthed an intact Mayan royal tomb packed with of carvings, ceramics, textiles, and the bones of six children, dating from about 350 to 400 A.D. The…
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Itinerant art vendors clogging New York’s public parks will be limited by new rules that cap their numbers. The regulations were upheld in federal court on Friday, but vendors plan…
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Waxahachie’s one and only Webb Gallery is cleaning out its closets today; "tons of great stuff" is out on the porch even now, waiting to be had for "pennies on…
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The first “QuePASA?” bike ride is taking place this morning, July 17, from 10 am to 12 pm. San Antonio artist Jessica Ramirez leads the “HemisFair Park” tour, which will…
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Fundraising is underway to move Stonehenge II, the roadside attraction on FM 1340, in Hunt, TX, ten miles east to a site at the Hill Country Arts Foundation in Ingram.…
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Skyspace, Arizona crater-dwelling artist James Turrell’s big square hole in the (retractable) roof of the Live Oak Friends Meeting House in Houston is retracting again, after being re-engineered and re-built,…
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A video of Houston photographer Shannon Reiswig, who comissioned street artist Ack to paint a marriage-proposal mural on a midtown Houston auto parts store, and had himself filmed popping the…
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The Art Museum of South Texas was awarded a $150,000 Museums for America grant from the Federal governement’s Institute of Museum and Library Services. AMSET will use the money to…
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The Menil Collection has named Toby Kamps as its new curator of modern and contemporary art! Kamps is currently senior curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, where his 2008…
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The Pearland Chamber of Commerce will unveil a "permanent artistic monolith" created by Houston artist and gallerist Lori Betz at 4:30 on Thursday, July 15, as a prelude to its…
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The Idea Fund returns for round 3 this fall, in which DiverseWorks, Aurora Picture Show, Project Row Houses, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, hand out money…
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Austin performance group Rude Mechanicals have received a $25,00 grant from the MAP fund to support Decameron Day 3: Revolution, an original, site-specific, trans-media performance installation that includes simulated acts…
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The Kimbell Art Museum will sell $60 million in bonds to pay for its controversial Renzo Piano expansion wing through the Orchard Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corp., based in the…
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The City of Austin’s knows how art and artists are useful in jacking up the rent in slumpy real estate markets, and is bringing in Matthew Kwatinetz, a project manager…
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Author Alison Macor, whose book "Chainsaws, Slackers, and Spy Kids: Thirty Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas" chronicles Austin´s colorful movie history will speak at the Houston Museum of fine…
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The new KAXM Gallery, at 1135 E 11th St. in Houston Heights opened its inaugural show last night with a red carpet, a taco truck, and many books still on…
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Prizewinners in the Lawndale Art Center’s catch-all 2010 Big Show were announced at the Friday opening. Selected by juror Paul Middendorf, Co-Director galleryHOMELAND and EAST/WEST Project Berlin, $3000 in cash…
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The new 17 Seventeen McKinney tower building in Dallas was illuminated with a skin of 86,000 LEDs simulating a waving flag for the fourth, making architects sigh, and commercial landlords…
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“Divine Lords of Tonina Creating the Universe”, a 1300-year old Mayan stela at the National Museum of Anthrppology in Mexico city is finally finished! A broken piece of the ancient…
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Three of the The Buffalo Bayou Partnerships’ boats were cast adrift Tuesday night by vandals, after an arson fire that destroyed the Osprey, the nonprofit’s pontoon tour boat and damaged…