What’s made Frank Stella a household name many times over isn’t necessarily what makes him important.
August 2016
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On August 1, a law went into effect in Texas that made it legal to carry concealed firearms into public university campus buildings. Next week, students at the University of…
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For the past week and a half, 207 nations and 11,178 athletes have been battling it out in Rio for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. This year’s festivities have not been without their…
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In order to accept any of the projects and proposals in McFadden's presentation you must first accept the premise that artists deserve to make a living making art. They don't.
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The Sustainable Arts Foundation is offering awards of up to $6,000 to writers and artists with children. The money can be used for costs such as childcare, workspaces, new equipment,…
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A few days ago, the New York Times published an article about artist Nick Cave and his upcoming exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. For the show, Cave…
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What I admire most about Meow Wolf is that they explicitly want out of the art world. They want their freedom, and they figured out how to get it.
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News
Contemporary Austin’s Reopening Includes Monika Sosnowska & Jim Hodges
by Glasstireby GlasstireFor the past few months, The Contemporary Austin’s Jones Center has been undergoing a major $3 million renovation. The project includes an expansion of the institution’s exhibition space (from 5,100 square feet…
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Texas art critic/historian/curator Andy Campbell has recently accepted a position at the USC Roski School of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California. A graduate of UT’s art history PhD program, Campbell wrote regularly for the…
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Welcome to the fourth installment of Studio Sounds, where I share some music I’ve been enjoying in my studio recently, often broken into four categories.
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The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas has announced the fall season lineup for its ongoing 360 speaker series. Via Nasher: the series “…features conversations and lectures on the ever-expanding definition of…
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As recently reported by the Houston Chronicle and Artforum, Rice University’s new Moody Center for the Arts (MCA) will open to the public in February 2017. Although last year’s press…
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For the past four years, Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio has partnered with Künstlerhaus Bethanien (KB) in Berlin to send over/exchange artist residents. Blue Star sends Texas artists to Berlin each…
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Well, we’re ashamed to have missed International Cat Day on Monday, August 8, but we’ll try to make up for it by sharing an article from the Austin American-Statesman about…
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Summer special! Rainey Knudson travels to Washington D.C. and gets the scoop from the city’s art insiders on what to see when you visit the nation’s capital.
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Fragments suggest a collection of things seen without bothering with the order in which they were seen before they found their way through Morrow’s Prismacolor onto paper.
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According to Eater Houston, there will soon be a new gallery in town. Why is Eater reporting on this? Because it will also be a café. And an art school.…
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In April, the Galveston Artist Residency (GAR) launched the first edition of its quarterly arts zine called BINDER. Published by Super Hit Press (along with GAR), the first volume features…
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Review
Juan William Chavez, Andy Coolquitt, and Rachel Maclean at Artpace
by Chad Dawkinsby Chad DawkinsAll three of the artists' shows at Artpace work with the collapse of art into other facets of life. Time off is time to work
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Sigmund Freud explained artistic motivation from the viewpoint of a psychoanalyst (a defense mechanism protecting against neurosis), but now Jason Horejs, founder of Xanadu Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona, has explained…