The most complete skeleton of the pre-dinosaur Dimetrodon to be unearthed in 100 years is being uncovered in North Texas. Favored among kids for its enormous spinal fin and steak-knife…
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After and eight-year restoration project, the famed leaning tower of Pisa is somewhat straighter, is less likely to topple over, and is a lot cleaner. Engineers managed to straighten it…
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The Chinati Foundation helps fill those semi-arid school holidays with art activities for kids: Monday it’s Squares, Rectangles, Peanuts; festive light cubes on Tuesday, a scavenger hunt on Wednesday, kites…
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March 2011 will be the 26th annual San Antonio Contemporary Art Month, and their open-ended calendar is open-ended for submissions. Anyone planning on participating (and that can be everyone) can…
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European tax authorities have ruled that light and video projection works by Bill Viola and Dan Flavin are not art under the VAT rules, and are thus subject to a…
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83-year-old uber-kitchmeister David Addickes is packing up his Summer St. studio in Houston, and moving his operations to his former high school in Huntsville, which he bought and will transform…
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The UT-Dallas arts and technology program just got a $5 million anonymous donation to create endowed positions for research faculty. It’s the largest donation in the history of its School…
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Yesterday morning, reddish-brown mud began welling up from cracks in the concrete floor at Houston’s Inman Gallery in the Isabella Court building. The ooze pooled and spread, eventually covering much…
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Menil Director Josef Helfenstein announced that Adam Szymczyk is the 2011 Recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement. Szymczyk is the director and chief curator of Kunsthalle Basel.…
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The Andy Warhol Foundation has threatended to pull further funding to the Smithsonian Institution unless it re-instates the censored David Wojnarowicz video, A Fire in My Belly, cut from a…
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The Bucks Burnett Collection, the world’s first museum of eight track tapes (if you don’t count it’s earlier installation in Denton), will open Christmas Day (that’s Saturday, December 25) from…
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John Cage’s famous 4’33" is making a fair bid to hit the top of the British pop music charts this holiday season. Interpreted as a protest against insipid pop music…
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Huntsville alterna-builder Dan Phillips will design Houston’s new Smither Park on a half-acre next door to the Orange Show. The park is a tribute to John H. Smither, lawyer, board…
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Theodore Bale moved to Houston in March; now he’s blogging the Texas art scene for artsjournal.com. Although mostly a dance and music guy, his new blog, Texas, a Concept gets…
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The Dallas Museum of Art has named Rebecca A. Prince their new Chief Development Officer; she starts work on February 7. Before that, Prince was the highly successful Vice President…
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The Texas Film Commission has reneged on promises to pay $1.75 million in production incentives to the producers of "Machete" a B-movie shooter starring Robert DeNiro, because of a “content…
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The Idea Fund has announced a new list of out-there projects it’s funding next year: ArtScouts Houston (Elaine Bradford, Emily Link, Dennis Nance, and C.H.JoAnn Park) fir Nohegan East: An…
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Wonder what the fuss is about? This Wednesday, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston will present a screening and panel discussion of David Wojnarowicz’s 1987 video A Fire in My Belly,…
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Chinati Director Marianne Stockebrand will be signing copies of her new book Chinati: The Vision of Donald Judd at the Menil Collection bookstore on Monday, December 13, from 5-6:30pm. The…
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Peter Marzio, the longest-serving director of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, died Thursday night from metastasized cancer. He was 67 years old. Marzio began his tenure at the MFAH in 1982 and oversaw…