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ArtHouston 2010, the annual dog-day art afternoon, with shows at more than 30 galleries opens Saturday, July 10. Venues along Colquitt, in the Museum District, the Heights and everywhere else…
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Peter Doroshenko has been named as the new executive director of the Dallas Contemporary, replacing founding director Joan Davidow, who stepped down in 2009. Doroshenko is remembered in Texas for…
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San Antonio arts patron Catherine Halff Edson died Friday at 71. Daughter of radio station owner Hugh A.L. Halff, Edson “methodically built one of the finest private collections of Japanese…
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Corpus Christi City Council unanimously agreed to maintain arts funding, despite cuts in other areas. The city’s $668 million budget must be approved by the end of this month and…
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Midland gallerists Richard and Mary Folger were two of the five victims of a small plane crash in Brewster County Saturday night. Mr. Folger started selling art out of his…
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In Vanity Fair’s latest architectural survey, Renzo Piano’s 1987 Menil Collection in Houston is the world’s second best building since 1980. The poll of 52 leading architects and critics chose…
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The Beer Can House’s fame is spreading spreading, too. The familiar Houston attraction was featured yesterday in a short travelogue in the Toronto Sun which tells the story of John…
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The 25th anniversary edition of Kaboom Town, the major-league fireworks display in Addison, Texas, went off as planned yesterday, despite intermittent rain and everpresent mud. The event cost the town…
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Recent heavy rains in Houston have delayed Staten Island artist Scott LoBaido‘s giant American flag painting, just finished atop the roof of the Lamons Gasket Company near Hobby airport. Although…
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The five films in Matthew Barney’s "Cremaster" cycle will be shown in Austin’s Dobie Theatre July 9-16 along with the premiere of Barney’s latest film ‘De Lama Lamina.” Not avaliable…
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Born on July 3, 1738, in Boston, early American painter John Singleton Copley left his native land to pursue fame back in England, leaving behind charming and bizarre paintings like…
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Advocatcy org Americans for the Arts has published its 2010 Public Art in Review, which annually features noteworthy public art projects from across the US and Canada. In this year’s…
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Two months of time, a big ol’studio, a teeny little apartment, and all the cashola you need to produce your dream exhibition? Texas artists can now apply for ArtPace’s 2011…
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Dolph Briscoe, philanthropist, Western art collector and former Texas governor died at his ranch outside Uvalde on Sunday. He was 87. Once Texas largest landowner, Briscoe was the founder of…
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Charles Saatchi, impresario behind the "YBA" art renaissance in Britain, has announced that he will donate his London art gallery and 200 artworks worth an estimated $37 million to the…
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SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts is adding a PhD program in art history, and has hired away UT Austin’s Latin American and Latino art expert Dr. Roberto Tejada as…
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Houston artspace Labotanica is accepting applications for School of Latitudes, a four-week creative residency beginning in August 2010. Participants will get studio visits, do workshops, hear lectures/ discussions by cultural…
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Protesters slinging molasses from canisters marked with the British Petroleum corporate logo made a sticky mess of the Tate Britain Summer party in London. Eight art activists from the group…
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Kristina Van Dyke and Andrea Grover has each received Curatorial Research Fellowships from the Andy Warhol Foundation. Van Dyke, a curator at the Menil Collection, will undertake research into technology…