It's the hue-riffic essence of what Silkwörm Gallery and Studio owner, Joe Mc Hug says is a “Post-Chicano” sensibility.
June 2013
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San Antonio Shuffle: Former Pace Director Named Interim Manager of Blue Star
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonOnly days after the Linda Pace Foundation announced the appointment of its new director, the Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum announced that Steven Evans, former Pace Foundation director, will serve…
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Big Bend Bunny: Playboy Adds Giant Neon Rabbit to the Marfa Landscape
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonPlayboy Enterprises has leased some 6,500 square feet of land just west of Marfa and installed a large sculpture of a Judd-like cement box with a car on top and…
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Dallas’ Museum Tower Finds Solution to Sunlight Issue: Fix the Nasher
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonYesterday morning, the Museum Tower in Dallas sent around a press release with the title “Museum Tower Engineers Develop Solution to Reflections on Nasher Sculpture Center” and now the Nasher-MuTo…
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Koraïchi's complex, illegible banners and the white magic they enact suggest the western perception of Islam today: without education and awareness, we are locked out of understanding.
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At some point Monday night/Tuesday morning, someone threw a large cinderblock through the front window of the Okay Mountain gallery space in Austin. Although the cinderblock crashed through the window…
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Menil to Begin “Neighborhood of Art,” Appoints Landscape Architect
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonIn a step towards the realization of its master plan for a “neighborhood of art,” the Menil Collection has appointed landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh to enhance and expand the…
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CentralTrak Sculptor Unveils Prosthetic Art, Then Has Unexpected Amputation
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe sculptures of R.E. Cox are rarely exhibited, but they fit perfectly into the current group exhibition at UT Dallas’ CentralTrak gallery, That Mortal Coil: Rebuking the Ideal in Figurative Art.…
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A three day summit of creative music including performance art, film, and installations is about the coolest electronic music geek-out session I can think of.
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The Linda Pace Foundation in San Antonio has announced the appointment of Dr. Maura Reilly as its new Executive Director. The New York- and Sydney-based curator is recognized internationally for…
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Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey at Amon Carter Museum of American Art
by Lucia Simekby Lucia SimekBearden and Homer cleverly spin experience into a something we can all sing—Cyclops, Circe and Nausicaa are recounted in colorful and expressive collages, which take cues from Matisse’s cut-outs and blend them with African tropes.
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Less than six weeks after long-time Executive Director Susan Myers retired, the Holocaust Museum Houston has announced that Dr. Kelly J. Zúñiga will assume the role, beginning July 17. After…
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Season is dedicated to the act of fishing and its trappings—in the center of the gallery, the hacked-off bow of a sailboat lies atop a white table like the carcass of an enormous fish that’s been laid there for cleaning.
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The University of Houston’s School of Art has finally hired someone to fill gap left by Suzanne Bloom when she retired last spring after 35 years. Keliy Anderson-Staley will join…
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Artists Who Steal Art: When Is Appropriation Simply Theft?
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonKay Smith, an artist from Big Springs, Texas, was having a down day when she decided to cheer herself up by visiting the new T.J.Maxx in Midland. Perusing the…
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Lee Littlefield, Houston Sculptor and “Pop-Up” Artist, Has Died
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonAfter being hospitalized due to a recent car accident, artist Lee Littlefield was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. He was released a few days ago and died at home,…
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Organized by the DMA’s Olivier Meslay with help from the Amon Carter, it's a small, thoughtful gem of a show, and dense with emotion—a surprise grenade of grief, wishful thinking, and soul searching.
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Making Leaders and Making Money: TFA to Present How-To Workshop
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonMost arts organizations will agree that they could use stronger leadership and more money, so Texans for the Arts (TFA) is putting together an all-day workshop called “Arts Funding and…
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Señorita Cinema, the Texas All Latina Film Festival, founded by Houston filmmaker Stephanie Saint Sanchez, is back! If you missed last night’s opening night screening, there are still more…
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Using themselves and their bodies as inception, means and end to art production, Jonas and Pane's work is a precursor of today’s predilection for transforming private aspects of existence into spectacle.