No one knows the ultimate fate of the 30-foot wooden Indian head that used to greet visitors at the Texas Travel Information center on I-30 outside Texarkana. In 1990 the…
2011
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Alexandre Hogue: An American Visionary opened at the Art museum of south Texas friday. The show collects 157 works by the long-lived and seminal Dallas artist, coincides with a new…
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Soda Tooth Contemporary, a gallery started by art students and graduates from Texas State University in San Marcos, is beginning the new year with their fifth monthly show, and hope…
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The Museum of Fine Arts Hosuton has unveiled a new website, chock full of browsable (but tiny) images from the museum’s collections. On the frontpage big pictures link to spiffy…
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Four Artist-Run Spaces in Houston from Cosmic Light Productions on Vimeo.
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If you drive west of Fort Worth on 183, eventually you’ll find Albany, Texas—home to the world’s largest per capita population of Princeton grads. In Albany, an old stone jailhouse…
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“Turner to Monet: Masterpieces from The Walters Art Museum,” drew a record number of visitors to the Blanton Museum in Austin, proving again the uncanny, hypnotic power of impressionist painting…
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The Texas Cultural Trust has announced its 2011 medal of arts winners. Among the writers, film-makers, musicians etc., visual artist James Drake and director of the Ransome center at UT…
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With Houston’s cheesy "tolerance bridge" idea scrapped in favor of a functionalist foot-and-bike way, the tolerance crowd have moved on to public sculptures, commissioning seven 10-foot high shiny steel figures…
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Poster artist Shepard Fairey and the Associated Press have settled their lawsuits, agreeing to disagree about who stole who’s images, splitting the profits on the popular Barack Obama HOPE image…
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Slippery roads during last night’s freeze may have conspired to cause a tractor-trailer load of paint to overturn and spill on the ramp from the North Freeway southbound to the…
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The Houston Arts Alliance is one of 100 participants in Americans for the Arts’ first Local Arts Index survey. Funded by the Kresge foundation (meaning: we don’t have to pay!),…
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It glides in under the radar while I’m enjoying a patch of midday sun or clear night sky: without warning, I miss Texas. Not the heat and air pollution…
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Houston Arts Alliance has paid up to make Houston one of the subjects for the upcoming Arts & Economic Prosperity Study IV, organized by lobbying group Americans for the Arts.…
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"Art-centric" Hotel ZaZa Dallas has announced it will collaborate with Turner Carroll Gallery and Art Advisors to bring "internationally acclaimed art exhibitions" to the newly opened Stay ZaZa Art House…
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Houston artist Dick Wray died early Sunday morning. The prolific, irascible painter’s public career spanned nearly 50 years. Born in Houston in 1933, Wray studied at the Kunstakademe, Dusseldorf, Germany,…
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Insourced, this year’s Dallas Museum of Art staff art exhibition, is on view now through March 13 on Mezzanine 2 of the DMA next to the Mayer Library. The biennial…
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The Fairmont Dallas Hotel where "everyone’s an individual," has chosen furniture maker/scrap artist Sean Springer as its first artist in residence for 2011. Springer will live at the hotel from…
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Hotels want art these days- the W Austin Hotel is going to host contemporary art exhibitions borrowed from the UT Visual Arts Center, as well as works by faculty and…
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Esther Gutstein and her new Houston pop-up art space, the Brayer Room, are profiled in Culturemap today. Taking advantage of under-utilized art space she saw in Houston, Gutson has curated…