Houston artist Marco Villegas is about to begin installing his solo show at the Art League in Houston. He will be at the gallery all day, every day and all…
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Artist and activist Ashley Hunt will narrate "Notes on the Emptying of a City" at 7pm on July 1 at The Eldorado Ballroom in Houston. Hunt’s deconstructed documentary, part slideshow,…
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Houston city council has temporarily given the wussy historic preservation ordinance some baby teeth, diabling the automatic waiver provision that allows Houstonians to build whatever they want after a 90-day…
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According to another non-binding, self-selected online poll, this time sponsored Reliant Park in Houston, people want to see the Astrodome preserved, at least as a shell, rather than flattened into…
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Artpace has given $5000 in travel grants to San Antonio-based artists Ruth Buentello, Naomi Wanjiku, and Mark Hogensen. Buentello will head to Italy and France to study the work of…
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Artpace has given $5000 in travel grants to San Antonio-based artists Ruth Buentello, Naomi Wanjiku, and Mark Hogensen. Buentello will head to Italy and France to study the work of…
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Archdruids and English Heritage are both disappointed as funding for new Stonehenge visitors’ center is cut by a strapped British government. Last year Gordon Brown promised £10m towards a glass…
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Cancel your plane reservations! The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has announced a loan of 50 ultra-choice French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art in Washington,…
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In an effort to curb illegal graffiti, San Antonio has initiated its Action for Art class, teaching graffiti artists legal and profitable ways to do what was once free and…
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The International Museum of Art and Science in McAllen adds another wonder to its sculpture park, already home to the largest (replica) Olmec head outside of Mexico: a 124-foot, 7-ton…
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Houston painter and educator Ann Marie Hopkins lost as many as a hundred paintings when her attic caught fire Tuesday. Hopkins, former art teacher at Woodlands High School, and currently…
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Arts patron Jane Blaffer Owen died Monday in Houston. She was 95. Daughter of Exxon founder Robert Lee Blaffer and granddaughter of Texaco founder William T. Campbell, Owen gave major…
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A super-streamilined custom Mercedes 300 Limo by Florida art cartist Antti Rahko is for sale on eBay motors. Winner of the the first place award in the 2007 and 2009…
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Artfest International, a Dallas-based company dedicated to "revolutionizing the sale of art" announced yesterday that it had "received over $1.5 million in equity financing since 2009." Claiming assets of 5.8…
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Charles Birnbaum, founder of the Cultural Landscape Foundation, sees the current economic downturn as a chance to pause and reconsider the many aggressive museum exapansions happening or proposed. Criticizing Daniel…
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Coulson Tough brought the first sculpture to The Woodlands in 1974, "The Family" by Charles Pebworth along Woodlands Parkway. Coulson launched a sculpture acquisition program, using money from The Woodlands’…
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Mayor Joe Adame and Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi officials have been discussing the possibility of moving the college’s master’s of fine arts program downtown to relive crowding on its island…
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1300 boxes of photos from the storied Magnum photo agency are now avaliable for public perusal and research at the University of Texas’ Harry Ransom center in Austin. The 210,00…
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A 10-foot bronze vaquero is taking shape, ready for placement on a plinth at North Main Street and Central Avenue in Fort Worth. "Co-sculpted" by Detroit artist David Newton and…
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The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University has teamed up with the Prado Museum in Madridin a three-year deal that will bring renowned pieces of the Prado’s collection to Dallas,…