In their new exhibition series, “Crossing Lines: Contemporary Art From Coast To Coast” the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Indiana is looking to showcase art from “all corners of…
2014
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For your casual weekend perusal, if you wish, here is a set of quick responses I had to some (though not all) of the shows I saw in London last week.
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As part of an initiative by still-new Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Gavin Delahunty, the DMA plans to originate more exhibitions of underrepresented artists, and in early 2015 the museum will…
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Chitchat on E.A.S.T., Houton Artcrawls then and now, One-painting shows, Marclay's Clock, and Peter Ligon vs Fairfield Porter.
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ArtPrize, the high-profile organization and event founded by web entrepreneur Rick DeVos and launched five years ago in Grand Rapids, Mich., is the contemporary art competition in which the public…
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Good art shipping crates and travel frames are incredibly expensive to have made by professional art handling services; they’re bulky, made to stand up to rough shipping conditions, and can be…
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Tonight! Austin to Learn About Placemaking, Fluxus, and Cat Videos
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonSarah Schultz, former Curator of Public Practice and Director of Education at the Walker Art Center (WAC), will be speaking tonight at 7pm at the Arthouse at the Jones Center.…
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Bill and Rainey Knudson discuss their picks, dis LA freeways and gobbledygook press releases, and admire grit.
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The wall text welcoming viewers to the exhibit begins with a quote from Testino where he states, “…when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something truly precious is lost."
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StoryCorps is a national non-profit that uses a “MobileBooth”–an airsteam trailer decked out with a recording studio– to make stops in cities across the country in order to record citizens’…
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From Walmart to Star Wars: Former Texan Bacigalupi Makes a Big Move
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonAfter all this week’s departure news (Annette Carlozzi leaving the Blanton; Amada Cruz leaving Artpace; and Hills Snyder leaving Sala Diaz), here’s another: former Texan Don Bacigalupi is leaving Crystal…
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During my years at SAMA, I marveled so many times as I witnessed Latino high school students with eyes glued to Alvarez's work. For many of them, it is their story too.
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Annette Carlozzi, longtime curator at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas in Austin, is retiring in December after 18 years on the job. For the Blanton Carlozzi has…
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This past spring, it was announced that Maura Reilly was leaving as director of San Antonio’s Linda Pace Foundation after less than two years on the job joining the organization…
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The latest round of record-breaking NYC auctions on November 12 set a new high (source posted the wrong pic) for Marfa/New York-based Jeff Elrod, painter of digital-abstract scribbles. His 2014 painting…
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Is It That Time Already? Fresh Arts to Host 9th Annual Holiday Art Market
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonFor the 9th year in a row, Houston’s Fresh Arts is organizing the Winter Holiday Art Market (WHAM), which will take place this weekend. WHAM offers a wide variety of…
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For Pomara, experiencing a painting as an imaginary window has been replaced by the experience of looking at a screen: computer, TV, smartphone, or tablet.
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The remains of sea urchins and lost vinyl LPs become memorials to lost signals, disappearing space probes, fading heartbeats in Dario Robleto’s installation at the Menil Collection.
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As of January 1, 2015, Anjali Gupta will be the new Director of San Antonio art space Sala Diaz, taking over from Hills Snyder, who has held the position since…
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Robert Irwin’s Park Portal Piece (Slice), installed in 1981 in Dallas’ John Carpenter Plaza, which was slated for removal when street re-routing permanently changed its site, may be re-installed after…