The Exploring Latino Identities series examines issues in Latino/Latin American contemporary art through interviews with artists, art historians, and others. In this installment, Dr. Rex Koontz discusses the evolution of…
May 2013
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There are plans in effect for a new double museum in downtown Katy, Texas: the Katy Contemporary Arts Museum (KCAM) and the Texas Gun Museum. Local art enthusiast Ana Roman,…
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Leah Meltzer is a young and ambitious performance artist who recently moved to Austin from New Orleans. She attended the Parsons School of Design
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The Texas Biennial has added a few names and announced the complete list of artists selected for the 2013 Texas Biennial. For information on the Biennial, the curators, venues, and…
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Jimmy Jalapeeno, Texas Painter and Photographer, Has Died
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonPainter and photographer Jimmy Jalapeeno died peacefully yesterday afternoon, surrounded by friends and family. Born Albert James Bonar in 1947, Jalapeeno was a lifetime Texas resident, where he made art…
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This Weekend: Morris Engel’s “The Little Fugitive” at MFAH
by Peter Lucasby Peter LucasThis Friday through Monday, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston is presenting daily screenings of the rarely seen classic, The Little Fugitive, via a beautiful new 35mm print made by…
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The Whitney’s New Logo: Designers Watching Too Much “King of the Hill”? Or Not Enough?
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe Whitney Museum of American Art unveiled its new brand identity redesign on Tuesday, and it is already provoking online design chatter, including the interesting Hyperallergic article yesterday. The Amsterdam-based…
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The folks at the 2013 Texas Biennial have announced most of their selection of this year’s participating artists. The official press release is supposed to come out today, but they…
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Houston art student Uriel Landeros, who faced up to ten years for felony graffiti and criminal mischief charges, was sentenced to two years on the graffiti charges. Landeros was accused…
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Jeff Gibbons: Chee$e = Milk’s 4th State of Matter, Chances Are, Intermission and The Brite Sun
Overall, Jeff Gibbons’ show(s) at Oliver Francis Gallery in Dallas is great—please go see it. It feels a little disjointed, but dealing with it by apologetically making the exhibition into…
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Texas Biennial 2013 to Leak Artists Today—Full List Tomorrow!
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonAccording to the Texas Biennial’s Facebook page, they will begin previewing selected artists throughout the day, via Facebook and Twitter. They plan to release the full list on Wednesday, so…
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Austin Festival Explores the Techno-Future, Houston Show Presents the Techno-Past
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThis weekend, the Austin Museum of Digital Art will hold the PROTOS Digital Art and Prototyping Festival—four days of daytime events (free!) and nighttime events (not free!) at the Long…
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Barbie Identity Crisis Reaches All Time High: from Artist Videos to Occupy Protest
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThose who have been following the work of Texas-based artist Lauren Kelley know that she sometimes uses Barbie dolls in her still photography, video works, and collages as a means…
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Just as Marfa’s Stonehenge (artist Donald Judd’s untitled, half-mile-long series of concrete boxes) beautifully frames and fractures light, landscape, and viewers’ own meditations, so does the CineMarfa film festival with…
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No Time to Visit a Remote Rainforest Surrealist Sculpture Garden? There’s an App for That!
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonApple is set to release the latest app by Texas artists Robert Ziebell and Anthony Thompson Shumate, Las Pozas: Steps & Falls, next week. Lens-based artist Ziebell, one of the…
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The Exploring Latino Identities series examines issues in Latino/Latin American contemporary art through interviews with artists, art historians, and others. In today’s installment, multimedia artist, writer, DJ, and recent Austin-NYC…
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Experimental Film in Austin: Tonight Turkey! Tomorrow the World (in 35mm)!
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThere seems to be a recent interest in Turkish film, as proven by the recent inaugural Turkish Film Festival at the MFAH, and now Austin’s Experimental Response Cinema (ERC) is…
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Videographer John Carrithers asks Houston artist Emily Sloan what she would be doing if she weren’t an artist: “One thing I almost did was social work. I felt like art…
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There’s Another Westheimer in Houston: Dr. Ruth Visits MFAH for Chat With the Director
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonTickets are now on sale for the next ”Conversations with the Director” at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The series launched on April 23 with a conversation between MFAH…
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I spent the week of May 1-7 in New York to see galleries/museums and attend a curator conference. As an obsessive photo taker, I thought it might be fun to…