After a three-year run in Houston’s Isabella Court building alongside Inman Gallery, Art Palace, and Devin Borden, David Shelton is set to move his eponymous gallery to 4411 Montrose. He’s taking the…
December 2015
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If you give yourself less than ten minutes to compile a mental list of international and regional artists who’ve dealt with guns in their work, you rack up an impressive number really quickly.
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Earlier this week, the U.S. National Parks Service posted a job listing looking for a photographer to take large-format documentary photographs of America’s National Parks. In addition to extensive travel…
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Leigh Anne Lester is known for art that focuses on the changing conditions of humans and the environment.
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Last year, the San Antonio Express-News hit the nail on the head when they named Adriana Corral one of five S.A. artists to watch. She is now one of 10…
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“Crusader: that’s not politically correct.” “But that’s what it is! The Crusades!”
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News
Pro-Gun and Pro-Art at Austin’s Mock Mass Shooting “Performance”
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonA group of pro-gun activists are planning to stage a mock mass shooting near the University of Texas at Austin campus, reports the Houston Chronicle’s Lauren McGaughy. The organizers describe…
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The Texas Commission on the Arts announced its 2016 Cultural District Project Grants across the state, which total around $1.5 million, with a whopping $500,000 of it going to the Dallas Museum…
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Glasstire captured some scenes at the opening of an exhibition at Beefhaus in Dallas
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Review
As Above So Below: Art of the American Fraternal Society, 1850-1930
by Gene Fowlerby Gene FowlerWhat makes these fellows odd? And why are they proclaiming it so publicly? Why are they organizing like this? Exactly how odd are they?
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Tomorrow night (December 10 at 6pm), the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center and the Buffalo Bayou Partnership will present “Unsilent Night.” Sound artist Phil Kline has been doing this event for…
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For the second time today we report on the Metropolitan Museum of Art, only unlike the first post, this item brings you good tidings of great joy. The Met began uploading…
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According to the New York Post, a Manhattan man is suing the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the paintings on display that depict Jesus Christ as an “Aryan” male. Per…
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All along I've been struck by the work’s consistency in witty concepts, a tension of opposites, and its underlying sexual charge.
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This coming Sunday marks the closing of Dallas’ RE Gallery. The Cedars space was founded as the side project of Wanda Dye, who at the time was an architecture professor at…
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The Artful Bachelorette started a few years ago in New York and its “Drinks, Drawing and a Nude Model” twist on the bachelorette party became a hit. It was written…
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Lately it seems the charges of offensiveness are flying around faster than a frail 80-year-old burning at the stake in colonial Massachusetts.
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The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) has recently announced that they are searching for four new assistant professors. Of course, all of the positions require a MFA—and a move to…
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Houston’s Moody Gallery is opening an exhibition today in celebration of its 40th year in business. Betty Moody first opened the gallery in 1975 in the River Oaks shopping center…
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Xiaoze Xie’s show at Talley Dunn Gallery in Dallas explores the assertion that journalism is the first draft of history in a beautifully painted way while it also examines just how rough a draft it is.