Aurora, SWAMP, MFAH and The Menil Archive are getting together to explore current trends and issues in independent media preservation. Each of them will project examples of works from their…
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Mary Ellen Carroll’s Prototype 180, the most talked about non-event of the past two years, may now actually happen. After delays and setbacks, The Sharpstown ranch house is scheduled to rotate…
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Houston sculptor Bob Fowler is dead at age 79. Fowler, best known for his sculpture of African Elephants outside the Hosuton Zoo, leaves behind many large-scale works in metal throughout…
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The 2010 Texas Sculpture Symposium will be held in Lubbock on Nov. 12-14. With Robert Strini and Jesus Moroles as keynote speakers, the symposium will be held at Tech’s almost-completed…
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The Museum of Drawing, Houston will begin operations with an awareness and fundraising effort at Boheme Cafe and Wine Bar, 307 Fairview, in Houston on Thursday, November 11 from 5-10pm…
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Photographer David K. Langford of Comfort has sued the State of Texas, the Department of Public Safety and the Department of Criminal Justice for allegedly appropriating "Day’s End 2" a…
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San Antonio artist Chuck Ramirez died today from injuries sustained in a serious bicycle accident. He was 48 years old. For nearly two decades, Ramirez was a central figure in the…
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Dame Rosalind Savill, soon-to-retire Director of the The Wallace Collection, London, and a world authority on Sèvres porcelain will explicate the history and production of this highest of high-end pottery…
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The Hunting Art Prize hands out $50,000 annually to an artist in Texas, and the deadline for entry is coming up on November 30. The competition is open to Texas-based…
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Saturday, Nov. 6th is animal day at Discovery Green park in Houston. Art cartist Mark Bradford will perform his Art Car Zoo, faces will be painted, Jungle Jim will have…
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Hanger Orthopedic Group has winnowed through the 60 submissions in its corporate headquarters sculpture contest to pick ten finalists: Bryan Dubreuiel, Montena Fink, Morgan Graff, Cody Hooper, John Howell, Seth…
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Texas renaissance man Terry Allen will tell stories at the resurrected Kessler Theater in Dallas on Saturday, November 6. Billed as "the quintessential Texas Renegade outlaw artist," Allen is a…
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On Saturday, Nov. 6, Mitchell Center artist-in-residence Marc Bamuthi Joseph will lead Life Is Living: Houston, a day-long hip-hop, environmental justice and social change festival at Emancipation Park in Houston’s…
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Dallas area art patrons Laura and Dan Boeckman have donated their collection of Mexican folk art to the Tyler Museum of Art. Consisting of 650 pieces collected in the 80’s…
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The Dishman Art Museum at Lamar University in Beaumont will host The Gulf Print Storm, beginning November 15. The "printmaking extravaganza" is designed to promote the practice of fine-art printmaking,…
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The International Quilt Festival opens Wednesday in Houston, and they’re expecting 52,000 visitors at the George R. Brown Convention Center. Themed sub-events include "Baltimore Album Review II," a show of…
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Peter Hurd’s curved 16 x 46 foot mural in the old Prudential Life Insurance Building in Houston Medical Center will be removed and re-installed at a custom-built public library in…
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Newsweek’s list of the 15 highest paid charity CEOs, puts the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s Peter Marzio at number six with a 2008 salary of $1,054,939. The Houston Press’s…
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Mexican artist Gabriel Kuri will give an artist’s talk with Blaffer Art Museum director and chief curator Claudia Schmuckli on Wednesday, November 3, at 6:30pm. Kuri’s first solo exhibition in…
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The Chinati Foundation has a new book out. Chinati: The Vision of Donald Judd, mostly by ex-director Marianne Stockebrand which traces Judd’s ideas about art in special places through his…