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…
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The Chinati Foundation in Marfa has been approved for a grant of $50,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the Robert Irwin Project, which will transform Fort…
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Culturemap reports: collectors of Latin American art gathered in Miami to rev up enthusiasm for the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s nascent International Center for the Arts of the Americas;…
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Legendary Houston artist Bob Camblin died Saturday in LaPlace, LA from complications following a stroke he suffered last year. Born in Oklahoma in 1928, Camblin studied painting at the Kansas…
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The Guardian (UK) has the back story: everything you ever wanted to know about Picasso’s messy family life and the hundreds of newly revealed works he allegedly gave his electrician…
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A Fire in My Belly by the late David Wojnarowicz, contains a brief segment depicting ants crawling on a crucifix. The piece, included in Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American…
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The NY Times style section summarizes the multiple overlapping parties surrounding art Basel miami Beach this weekend, but singles out Texas socialite Becca Cason Thrash as a case study in…
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The Art Museum of Southeast Texas is being sued, again, by a woman who claims uneven pavement at the museum led to a fall. Beaumont resident Geraldine Beckett alleges that…
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San Francisco sound artist Pamela Z will be doing her thing tonight at the brand new, not-even-open-yet Houston Museum of African American Culture! Click here for details — in the words of the LA Times,…
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The Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi is again presenting its annual Christmas Tree Forest, 21 evergreens decorated by school children, until December 17. San Antonio’s URBAN-15 Studio…
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The second annual Austin Visual Art Awards, presented by the Austin Visual Arts Association, will unroll the red carpet and dust off it tuxedo at the AT&T Executive Education and…
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The Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program has announced it’s 2010 recipients. This year they awarded $600,000 to 20 individual writers in several categories (regional newsy art bits don’t…
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On Monday, December 6, artist/activist Mark Dion will dicuss his Buffalo Bayou Invasive Plant Eradication Unit at the Houston Art Alliance, 3201 Allen Parkway Houston. The Unit consits of a…
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Houston ain’t big enough for TWO Fringe Festivals, and after three years of independent, overlapping fests produced separately by FrenetiCore and BooTown, FrenetiCore has emerged as the fringiest. BooTown will…
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Houston-based video artist Bob Ball has captured selections from Dance Salad to produce A Touring Taste of Dance Salad Festival, a film that will be screened on Thursday, December 2,…
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Solution For Hair and Makeup , a salon across Westheimer from Lanier Middle School in Houston, is hosting a student art sale on Wednesday, December 1 (that’s tonight!) from 6:30-8:30…