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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Marfa is full of curious things, and the Ayn Foundation is one of the most curious. The windows of the two storefronts of the old Brite Building downtown are covered with white…
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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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Art education at it’s best. Stephen Colbert and Steve Martin go all art insidery on the Colbert Report last week. With cameos by Frank Stella, Shepard Fairy and Andres Serrano;…
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An enormous inflated creature crouches atop the building housing Marty Walker Gallery. It’s a Macrodon, a creature born from Billy Zinser’s expressionistic, Philip Guston-ish paintings, and brought to life as…
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Searching for the sublime in Miami: and I don’t mean mojitos… …although they were delicious at the MFAH/Cruz Diez foundation party at the Raleigh Hotel on Thursday night, where several…
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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…
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Open your wallets! The Impressionists (and post-impressionists) are coming to Houston in February 2011. 50 "Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art" will be on loan to…
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Amarillo is painting a 10 foot wide paint-by-number mural of the Palo Duro Canyon, in the style of Vincent Van Gogh. It’s likely the biggest paint-by-number anywhere, and certainly the…
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According to muckrakers The Council for Artists Rights, "Texas art historian" Sam Blain will "divulge Dallas, TX, and U. S. art world history never before published" tomorrow in his new…
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The only art-related scuttlebutt to come out of the Wikileaks-released diplomatic cables details an offer by the US Government to help Spain with it’s claim for a share of $500…
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Dan Havel and Dean Ruck are at it again; they’re moving an old house from 3012 Erastus St. in Houston to a new site on Lyons Ave. and re-constituting it…