Catch it while you can! The mayfly-like University of Houston Student Art Show at the Blaffer gallery opens Friday December 3 (6-9pm) and closes two weeks later on the 18th.…
2010
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Earlier this year, I simultaneously read Jaron Lanier’s You Are Not A Gadget and Steven B. Johnson’s Everything Bad Is Good for You, and found it, as you can imagine, confounding. Lanier argues that digital…
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Bookman Rocco Staino bemoaned the recent sale of drawings by Garth Williams in the Huffington Post yesterday. 44 drawings for the iconic 1952 children’s book Charlotte’s Web by E. B.…
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A retired electrician who worked for Pablo Picasso has come forward with a cache of 271 of previously unknown works by the artist, worth an estimated $80 million. Pierre Le…
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Dr. Andrew J. Walker will be the next director of the Amon Carter museum in Fort Worth. He will be on the job as director-designate on January 31, and will…
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What’s bright silver, searing orange, and weighs 6.5 lbs? Texas Artists Today, the recent mega-tome cataloging the creativity of the Lone Star State by PaperCity fine arts editor Catherine Anspon.…
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Texas artists are invited to compete to design massive stickers for the sides of the Port Aransas Ferry. The winning images will be enlarged and displayed on the sides of…
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Steve Martin, banjo virtuoso, actor, and comedian has just come out with a new novel set in the artworld. In An Object of Beauty the protagonist claws her way up…
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Houston’s Diverseworks is organizing DW2, an extensive program of workshops next spring, aimed at clueing-in a cadre of professional local artists with the skills they need to "achieve self employment…
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The Dallas Morning News’ Michael Granberry summarized the Dallas gallery migrations of 2007-2010, when several galleries, before and after the economic meltdown, moved to seek bigger and cheaper pastures in…
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Hamptons Expo Group is organizing the Houston Fine Arts Fair for next September 15-18 at the George R. Brown Convention Center, alongside the established Houston Antique Dealers Association’s Fall Antique…
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The jurors for the 2011 Hunting Art Prize will be Rachael Blackburn Cozad, Director, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Carol Damian, Director, Patricia and Phillip Frost Art…
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Jim M. Henderson, art teacher and "founding father" of the Texas Art Education Association’s VASE scholarship program, passed away on November 12. Mr. Henderson taught art education and art appreciation…
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That old Battle of San Jacinto painting found in a West Virginia attic was auctioned off in Dallas for a whopping $354,000 last week. The winning bidder has chosen to…
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On my first visit to Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage at the Menil Collection, I overheard a man behind me whispering to his companion. “You know,” he hissed, “this stuff…
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I can sense the Hermes assist as I cross into New Mexico. Out here they call him Coyote. He’s a kind of fellow traveler for me and has provided joy,…
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Artlies, once a local artrag, now an "international forum for the critical examination of artistic practice, theory and discourse surrounding contemporary art" is expanding its online publication beyond archiving its…
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D Magazine reports that architect-turned-artist Alfredo Jaar, scheduled to appear at Dallas Nasher Sculpture center and to do a brief residency at SMU, collapsed and was rushed to Presbyterian Hospital…
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Animals have always been an important part of my life and a great emphasis in my own work as an artist. They remind me that soft and cuddly things can…
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Thursday morning Jeff and I head into Lubbock in separate cars. He’ll go east to Dallas for a Texas Artists Today book signing and I’ll go north, but first we…