San Antonio artist Stuart Allen has been selected to curate the art program of HemisFair Park’s future “PlayEscape” area, reports Benjamin Olivo of the San Antonio Express-News. Allen, who has…
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Today, the famous cave is a traveling exhibition, now at Houston's Museum of Natural Science.
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Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum has named Mary Heathcott as its new executive director. Since 2012, Heathcott has been the Deputy Director at Artpace San Antonio. In 2011, Heathcott was…
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The folks at Houston’s Fresh Arts present all sorts of helpful workshops for artists, but on Wednesday evening, they are just getting down to the basics of the creative life:…
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Tomorrow evening, Monday, January 27th at 5:30 pm, the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) will host the “2014 Elected Officials Reception for the Arts” at the Hobby Center for Performing Arts.…
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Houston artist Tony Day believes in freedom. Not bald-eagle-laser-etched-on-your-Ford-truck-‘Murica freedom, but freedom of expression. Day is a Yosemite Sam for the creative process.
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El Ultimo Grito's inquiry into the collapsing of time and space in films led them to create new trailers for movies that ignore narrative to focus solely on objects and spaces.
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In addition to the ten public sculptures throughout Dallas, ambitiously commissioned by the Nasher Sculpture Center in celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Nasher has also announced that it received…
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Austin Street Artists Spread Art Love with Weekly Scavenger Hunt
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonAfter recent bummer news posts about Austin street art, it’s nice to hear about SprATX, a positive collective of artists and muralists, as reported by Austin blogger Kit O’Connell. SprATX…
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The Art League Houston and Fresh Arts will host an “Artist Town Hall Meeting” to discuss the needs of artists living and working in the Houston area. The meeting will…
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Peña embraces the artist’s endemic dissatisfaction: each work is only the latest, less than perfect, attempt.
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After Website Presents Museum Selfie Day, AMSET Presents Actual Self-Portrait Exhibition
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThose who missed the fact that yesterday was “Museum Selfie Day” have probably also suppressed the memory of the announcement by Oxford Dictionaries at the end of 2013 that it…
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1. Charles Long: CATALIN and Pet Sounds The Contemporary Austin January 18 – April 20 On View: January 18, 2014 | 10 am – 5 pm Another of the Austin…
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Tom Sale shapes a wonderful pastiche about the life of Florence Nightingale to meet his personal, obsessive needs.
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Texas Sheriff’s Office Releases “Worst Police Sketch of All Time”
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe Lamar County Sheriff’s Department recently released a sketch of a robbery suspect and the UK’s Metro reprinted the drawing in its news section in order to propose that it…
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MFAH Included in Mellon Foundation’s Pilot Program for Curatorial Diversity
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonIt’s no secret that the people who work at museums have always been predominately white, but the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is now supporting a new initiative at five major…
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Texas State Researchers Pinpoint Exact Moment of Monet Painting
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonFans of Claude Monet’s The Cliff, Étretat, Sunset (1883) can now rest easy, knowing exactly when it was painted: February 5, 1883 at 4:53 pm local mean time (plus or…
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Chris Sauter, like Jesus, invites you to stick your hand in a hole. His inter-related projects examine the false dichotomies between religion and science.
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Berni’s works explode with an unabashed, visceral materiality, and raise questions regarding the construction of artistic canons, both in Latin America and beyond.
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The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) announced that it has enrolled nearly 50,000 visitors in its DMA Friends membership program since its launch one year ago today. Touted as “the…