"American Epics: Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood" at Fort Worth’s Amon Carter Museum of American Art
February 2016
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Pics from the opening of Thorsten Brinkmann: The Great Cape Rinderhorn.
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A few days ago we reported on Vigo Expo, a new blog chronicling Lauren Moya Ford’s experiences with contemporary art in Galicia, Spain, and Portugal. We were recently informed by Ford that her…
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On Wednesday, the new Houston city council met and complained about having to pay to the artist Ed Wilson for his public artwork* in the George R. Brown Convention Center, voting…
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The show is actually a sprawling four-parter, and it expands our own outer-space references with its DIY explorations of stepping away from terra firma and venturing into the atmosphere and beyond.
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If you haven’t seen the eye-slicing scene at the beginning of Un chien andalou (1929), you haven’t been to art school. Almost 90 years after its release, the Surrealist film,…
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Pics from the opening of Dreaming of You.
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The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center (GCAC) announced that it has withdrawin as the host for San Antonio’s CAM (Contemporary Art Month) 2016 Perennial. Here is the statement released by Executive…
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Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on finding menace in artworks, the risk of imaginary worlds, and how great it is when an artist has a good website.
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On February 19 in Houston, the Menil Collection’s long-awaited exhibition William N. Copley: The World According to CPLY opens as the first U.S. museum retrospective of this odd and prolific artist’s work. It’s…
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Brown uses prints as a tool to plan out ideas for her other works. You’d think this doesn’t make sense: reduction printing is not a time-efficient process for sketching.
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There have been many musicians who have come out of art school (the Beatles, the Talking Heads and many, many more), but it also works the other way around and,…
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few days, you have no doubt seen on social media and art publications countless posts from artists, gallerists, and curators…
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"I believe that 'funny' works best in its natural habitat. Right in the jungle along with 'awful,' 'sad', 'confusing' and 'nothing.'" - Louis C.K.
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One of Texas’ longest-standing photography galleries, Photographs Do Not Bend (PDNB), is moving. Again. Now that real estate developers have figured out that they should follow artists to follow the…
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The Dallas Museum of Art announced today the appointment of Nicole R. Myers as The Lillian and James H. Clark Curator of Painting and Sculpture. She starts on Feb. 29 and…
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Why does the hair stand up on the back of my neck when I read artist statements, reviews and essays that invoke the word “community?”
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Recently I was complaining to a curator about a museum in Texas that rarely shows Texas artists. The curator replied, “Why do they have to show Texas artists?”
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Today, Art League Houston will host the second of four meetings of Art Work: A Reading and Discussion Series, a reading group that was announced the weekend of Charge 2016, the ALH’s January…
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Brad Tucker at Beefhaus, Dallas, in an opening-night performance for the group show Lips Like Sugar.