The Yarn Dawgz, an all-male knitting collective, have an installation at San Antonio’s Pearl Brewery. The Dawgz are Billy Muñoz & Dino Foxx, both young Latino artists. Two knitters (and…
April 2011
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In what ArtDaily termed an “unusual incident“, a woman grabbed Gauguin’s “Two Tahitian Women” off the wall of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and banged on the…
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Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum has a new website- underwritten by Houston Endowment, the Anchorage Foundation of Texas, and 20K Group, LLC, it’s lean, playful and easy to decipher. Check out…
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The Blaffer Art Museum’s new program, Window into Houston, debuts with Elaine Bradford: The Sidereal on Wednesday April 6. The project will showcase Houston artists’ projects in historic storefront windows…
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Houston artist David McGee was awarded a 10-day residency in France by the Texas-French Alliance for the Arts at their fundraising auction/awards party at the Decorative Center in Houston. Chosen…
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Lawndale Art Center‘s annual market/design event has evolved into something very, very cool. It started out life 16 years ago (if my math is correct) as the “20th Century Modern…
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Ai WeiWei was detained as he attempted to board a plane for Hong Kong at Beijing Airport yesterday. Ai, who designed the Olympic bird’s nest stadium and the recent porcelain…
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Archeologists have uncovered a cache of pre-Clovis stone tools near Killeen, definitively pushing the date of the original colonization of central Texas back by 2,000 years, and “putting the nail…
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Houston’s Lawndale art Center is hosting an app launch party for Lawndale resident Anthony Thompson Shumate, who has co-created the iPad app with APPlesauze LLC, an artist-run app-developer. The app…
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If March is for Media, April is for Art in Austin, and SXSW style, too much is never enough! On site, Art Week, Art City Austin, Texas Biennial, Fusebox, Art…
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The above video is based on a letter by the artist Sol LeWitt written to the artist Eva Hesse with slight alterations by Levni Yilmaz… Below is the actual letter…
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Thanks to a proposal by Rep. David Simpson, R-Longview, the Texas state House today voted to remove all remaining state funding to the Texas Commission on the Arts, which has…
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Heights area H Gallery and its owner Heidi Powell-Prera were the subject of a scathing investigative piece in the Houston Press, accused of stiffing artists, pumping up their career hopes,…
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“Fine Arts Marketing, Writing, Concepts & Event Production” consultant Ilana Vardy has been hired as associate producer for the upcoming first-ever Houston Fine Art Fair, to be held Sept. 15…