If you want to see how the one of the great art collecting families of Texas used to roll, mark next spring on your calendar. On Friday the Kimbell Art…
June 2014
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Jules' Airstream in East Austin may not be a mystic cave of the ancients, but with his tropical shirt glowing, he really embodies a little bit of what keeps Austin weird.
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In celebration of his upcoming bricks-and mortar art show at Andy Howell’s The Shape of Things Art Gallery and Shop in Houston (wedged into a strip center on Westheimer between…
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Giant art commissions by two Houston-based artists have been selected as among the top public arts projects in the U.S. by the Public Art Network Year in Review. Patrick Renner…
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Garcia finds a middle ground that merges childish diversions with technical fluency.
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On July 5 East-Austin artist space Canopy and Art.Science.Gallery will host The Tesla Project, an all-day celebration of the genius of Nikola Tesla, the popular scientist/inventor/über-geek. The free extravaganza is…
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If you’re an artist with a couple of extra hours on your hands today, you might just make the deadline: The City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs has put…
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Via the San Antonio Express-News: Debuting tonight at 9 p.m. “a 24-minute video collage of images set to music” called The Saga will be projected onto the face of the…
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The Texas General Land Office announced this week that ultra-wealthy British musician Phil Collins will donate to the state of Texas his massive and massively valuable collection of artifacts from…
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CBS-DFW ran a story yesterday that brought to light something I hadn’t seen before: North Richland Hills (a small city between Dallas and Fort Worth) has since 2007 taken a…
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A DFW-based art and antiquities appraiser yesterday pleaded guilty to the U.S Department of Justice for trafficking in illegal wildlife horns and ivory. Ning Qiu, 43, of Frisco, is charged…
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Myers' complicated structures have an aura of mathematic roots, if for no other reason than their resemblance to Spirograph drawings.
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Wendy Watriss, co-founder of FotoFest in Houston, is speaking this Thursday evening at the San Francisco Art Institute as part of Photoalliance‘s 2014 lecture series. FotoFest is, of course, the…
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The Wall Street Journal (paywall) reports on a meta-analysis out of the University of Toronto that gathered the results of 15 recent studies from seven countries that mapped the MRI…
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To be broke and tired for the sake of living in a rathole in Sunset Park isn’t that interesting, but living among other young people who are working their butts off to make something worthwhile is.
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For the next six weeks, 10 billboards along I-10 between Beaumont and Brookshire will bear quotes by modern author Gertrude Stein. Some, like “in the morning there is meaning” and…
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Hot on the tail of the Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas scholarship winner announcement, the group is releasing information about its upcoming CADD FUNd: Winner Takes All [sic] event happening…
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Ivy-League fixture, philosophy dynamo and prominent activist Dr. Cornel West was in Dallas on Friday, June 20, and paid a visit to local conceptual artist Lauren Woods’ permanent installation, titled…
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Nine male, gay artists explore taboos- not necessarily large cultural ones, but personal taboos ingrained through a lifetime of self-judgment.
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In a bid to raise awareness of the city’s overwhelming stray and neglected dog population, Houston’s DiverseWorks has teamed up with two other non-profits, Barrio Dogs, Inc. and Box 13…