In the United States, the first-sale doctrine prevents artists from profiting from resales of their work, but Europeans have granted droit de suite (French for “right to follow”) to…
May 2013
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According to Eater Houston editor Eric Sandler, hip hop legend Bun B will collaborate with one of his favorite Houston restaurateurs to create a “performance art breakfast” in conjunction with…
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If you’re anything like me, you probably keep a mental notebook of museums that seem to do consistently interesting work; it’s pages filled with the names of people you’d want…
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BlogGlasstire
The Image Extends Past the Edge of the Plane: an Interview with J. Parker Valentine
by Katie Gehaby Katie GehaJ. Parker Valentine is an artist who lives in Austin, TX and New York City. Her recent show at Artpace San Antonio extends her drawing practice through sculpture and photography.…
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Say you were living in medieval Europe, drinking mead and passing out on a stone table, when a hologram of Carl Sagan beams in and says: “In the year 1961, Yuri…
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Houston artist Chris Cascio calls himself a “functional hoarder;” many of his pieces are diaristic presentations of collected minutiae. Videographer John Carrithers asks him why.
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The National Endowment for the Arts has announced it’s Art Works Grants, and 31 Texas nonprofits have benefited, to the tune of $788,500, total. Among the many organizations presenting primarily…
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On Saturday, May 11, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary is holding a night of Middle Eastern music, food and film around the last screening of artist Wael Shawky’s Cabaret Crusades: Horror…
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A lot of prints I see these days are quite genteel and pleasant. Printmaking has evolved into a rather polite art form. But this wasn’t always the case—look at Minotauromachy, on…
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Dean Ruck and Dan Havel’s popular 2005 architectural intervention, Inversion, has been pirated by admakers for Honda, according to a lawsuit the Houston artists filed last week. The ad, titled…
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Fort Worth artist Marshall Harris has won the $50,000 Hunting Art Prize 2013 with “Round Up: B.F. Smith & Son Saddlery Circa 1940-1942” a life sized, highly detailed graphite…
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Better start getting ready- the opening of the new Renzo Piano addition to Louis Kahn’s already perfect, but not quite large enough Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth has a…
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Every other spring, graphic novelist Mat Johnson teaches a graphic novel workshop at the University of Houston, a collaborative offering of UH’s esteemed Creative Writing Program and almost as esteemed…
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What do you get when you cram dozens of “creatives” into a Michael Hsu-renovated warehouse complex? Canopy! Austin’s newest creative complex on Springdale road. The project anchored by nonprofit org…
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Marfa artist Julie Speed has been named the State Two-dimensional artist for 2014, and Ken Little of San Antonio has been given the honor in the three-dimensional category. Speed, known…
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The composer John Cage once said, “I really think it’s important to be in a situation, both in art and life, where you don’t understand what’s going on.” This small…
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News
Who’s Got Time to Curate With All These Living Artists Everywhere? Dallas Museum Of Art Promotes Jeffrey Grove To New Position As Senior Curator Of Special Projects & Research
Jeffrey Grove, the DMA’s Senior Curator of Contemporary Art has been re-purposed; his new title is Museum’s Senior Curator of Special Projects & Research, a new position described as involving…
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This past week, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, was recognized with two honors: in London, the exhibition catalogue WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath won the “Best…
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British artists Emma Biggs and Matthew Collings are known as much for their beautiful tessellated abstract paintings as their staunch defense of them. Their current show, Suspicious Utopias, at Fort…
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1. What’s your favorite merit badge? My favorite merit badge was the “Fingerprinting” badge, which I’m sure they don’t even have anymore. My father was a detective and gave me…