Blue Star Contemporary Art Center has opened a new annex in the heart of downtown San Antonio. Blue Star LAB at 114 Broadway opened its premier exhibit, titled Fire in…
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Did you know that the explosive growth of the sugar industry in the 17th and 18th centuries inspired chefs to whip up ever more fanciful confections? By 19th century, desserts…
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The Dallas Museum of Art has announced its 2010 awards to 16 artists. Seven Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund awards, for artists between 15 and 25 years of age went…
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The Judd Foundation has announced the that it is beginning a $30 million capital campaign to restore sculptor Donald Judd’s home at 101 Spring St. in New York. The building…
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Austin’s Cultural Arts Division is cranking its fourth series of "Next Level" arts/business development workshops with "The Artspace Story" tonight, Monday, June 7th. 7:30-9pm at the Austin Playhouse (Penn Field,…
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Pacific Metro, one of kitschmeister Thomas Kinkade’s corporations, filed for bankruptcy last week to avoid paying part of a $3 million dollar judgment to two former Kinkade Gallery owners who…
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According to an article in Science Daily, a new study finds that caffeine doesn’t really work. Read what could be the awful truth here.
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What will become of your digital self after you die – your web site, blog posts, Flicker account, YouTube channel? That was the topic of a recent "Digital Death Day"…
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Dallas lost an important critical voice on Thursday. David Dillon, architecture critic for the Dallas Morning News for 25 years and a nationally recognized writer on the subject, died of…
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This year’s Frieze Magazine writer’s prize, a hefty £2000, will be awarded to scantily published (at least in print) new arts writers over 18. The deadline to submit a previously…
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Renowned East Texas Photographer and Lamar University prof Keith Carter examines his hometown, Beaumont, in a 10-page essay in the June issue of Texas Monthly Magazine. Carter explains, "We have…
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The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft fuses fashion and craft on Friday, June 4, 5:30-8pm at the opening of "The Paper Runway," a worldwide survey of paper clothing organized by…
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Artist Natasha Bowdoin will lead an animal-snowflake-paper-cutting workshop in conjunction with Andrea Deszö‘s "Sometimes in My Dreams I Fly" at Houston’s Rice University Art Gallery on Saturday, June 5 from…
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According to yet another email from the prolific John Viramontes and the Council for Artists’ Rights, Dallas “wildflower artist” Chapman Kelley has asked Dallas Museum of Art Director Bonnie Pittman…
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Footage of recently deceased gonzo actor Dennis Hopper’s 1983 Dynamite Death Chair performance at the big H speedway in Houston is now on Youtube! After a lecture/performance at the Rice…
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Louise Bourgeois died of a heart attack yesterday in Manhattan. She was 98. The creator of influential and psychologically evocative sculptures, Bourgeois, like so many 20th century female artists (see…
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Cash-strapped Brandeis University, which caused a ruckus last year in the museum world by proposing to close its Rose Art Museum and sell its colllection of moderist gems to pay…
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Austin’s Blanton Museum of art has raised the $200,000 it needed to meet a challenge grant from philanthropists Teresa and Joe Long. The Longs pledged $100,000 to bring Matisse as…
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Texas Tech University Press has just come out with the “Art of West Texas Women: A Celebration” by authors Kippra Hopper and Laurie Churchill. 150 color images in the $29.95…
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Bob "Daddy-O" Wade‘s famous 1978 giant iguana sculpture has found a permanent home at the Ft. Worth Zoo (internationally known for its collection of reptiles and amphibians), and was unveiled…