Austin Green Art is working on a project it calls "the biggest art piece ever made in Austin." They’re hoping spread 2000 lbs of seeds this Thursday and Friday (weather…
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On Monday, Fort Worth’s Kimbell art museum began the much talked about site preparation for its much talked about Renzo-Piano designed addition. Trees and power lines will be moved, as…
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On Wednesday, Oct. 20, Fredericka Hunter of Texas Gallery; Rex Koontz, associate professor of art history at the University of Houston; Mary Leclère, associate director of the Core Program; and…
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Mary Ethelene Bucy, 76, passed away on Saturday, Oct. 2 in Houston. Ethelene taught art & art history at St. John’s School in Houston for 15 years. She was a…
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Last week Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight, amid a tirade against vanity exhibitions and the institutions that host them, casually says, as if it were common knowledge, "perhaps…
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Gene and Jerry Jones, owners of the Dallas Cowboys explain their vision of a 21st century coliseum combining sports, art, architecture and technology and it’s realization in Cowboys Stadium and…
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Cross-pollinating the voodoo cant of business motivational speaking with the gobbledygook of public arts policy (am I being too negative here?) 300 "fire-starters" will collaborate to "improve Houston’s climate for…
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Dallas’ Goss-Michael Foundation will open its new space at 1405 Turtle Creek Boulevard on November 19. Near the newly opened Dallas Contemporary, the former 12,000sf warehouse will hold three galleries,…
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Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage, the first solo museum show for the Hanover hoover since 1985 MoMA retrospective, opens at the Menil Collection on October 22. The show includes full-sized…
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TODAY from 2-5pm all Texas photo-related artists are invited to present their work for a maximum of 10 minutes to Toby Kamps and Michelle White from the Menil Collection, who…
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Italian authorities dropped the case against Getty Museum curator Marion True on because the statute of limitations had run out, leaving a juicy five-year long drama that hinted at backroom…
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The "official" launch of Keith Reynolds’ three month old arts-centered monthly newspaper & website The Houston Entertainicle will be celebrated with a night of art, theater, dance, music, games, piñatas,…
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OK, it’s an event; it raises money for sick kids, it’s a creative outlet, but it hurts when they call it "the largest and most recognized public art event in…
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Laredo city council voted last week to re-zone an arts and entertainment district in downtown, hoping that “we’ll start seeing more museums, more art galleries, more restaurants, more entertainment for…
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Barry’s Blog, a service of advocacy group Western States Art Federation, is running a June interview with Margo Lion and George Stevens, Jr. co-chairs of the President’s Committee on the…
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Along similar lines, Houston musical artist David Dove, founder of Nameless Sound, explains why it’s good to have real artists in classrooms in an essay on teaching experimental music to…
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Unique Homebuilding Through Phoenix Commotion, a lecture by Huntsville outsider architect Dan Phillips happens 10 am at Austin College’s Forster Art Complex Room 111. Phillips, whose works aim to reduce…
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Stranger than art: a seasonal pumpkin display on the transom above Whole Foods Market on Kirby Drive in Houston caught fire on tuesday. The bizarre blaze was quickly extinguished without…
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Last Saturday, Oct. 2 Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument in Fritch, TX hosted Flintfest 2010 , an all-day affair including a flint "knap-in" with with expert flint-knappers who made arrowheads…
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The indigenous stone heads or Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, have been gnawed at by lichen for years, causing much hair pulling among preservationists. Now, a new chemical agent developed…