Last week we reported that an older, massive work by San Antonio artist Gary Sweeney had been acquired by the city of San Antonio and installed permanently in the Henry B.…
January 2018
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Every journey has a soundtrack, and 'Road Angel' lays down a linear blast of a hum and a thrum that fills up the corners of our big ol’ melancholy highway with that amber ache that makes you feel alive.
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Big Bend Now reports that “Marfa Contemporary shuts its doors this Saturday with a final performance by New York-based artist Autumn Knight and special Marfa guests.” While Houston may be…
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The studio of the East Austin publisher, record label and print house outfit Raw Paw was destroyed by a fire in the early morning hours of Tuesday, January 2. Arson…
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Christina Rees and guest host Danette Dufilho of Conduit Gallery on a show of artists and their mentors, the trickiness of teleportation, and a Texas artist’s evolution.
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[Since publishing the news post “Disappeared Sol LeWitt Painting Slowly Reappears in Houston Home” two days ago, I have been schooled by the Menil Collection and others very knowledgeable about…
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The Austin-based collective Experimental Response Cinema (est. 2012) is following up last year’s pre-inauguration screening of a program it called F*CK TR*MP with a screening marking the one-year anniversary of Trump’s presidency. This…
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The piece is a marvelous if unpretentious centering of Sawyer's concerns.
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The only permanent art collection in The Woodlands (a master planned community outside of Houston) is at The Woodlands High School (TWHS), a public school. Over the past 7 years,…
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New Art Space Opens Outside of Austin With a Stellar Lineup of Shows Scheduled
by Glasstireby GlasstireDirty Dark Place is a new artist-run space in Kyle, Texas (just south of Austin on I35) that will, over the course of one year, host some fantastic-sounding shows by…
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Disappeared Sol LeWitt Painting Slowly Reappears in Houston Home
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonFor more on this article, see the follow-up UPDATE: Why “Unerasing” a Sol LeWitt is Impossible. – Ed. Swamplot has a great article on the slow reappearance of a…
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In the sparseness of rural living, the vacancy can be a refuge for one’s eccentricities. There are portals everywhere.
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The Rockport Center for the Arts recently named Elena Rodriguez the organization’s new Curator of Exhibitions. Born in the Dallas area, Rodriguez spent her undergraduate years studying painting, film, and media at Washington University in St.…
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So says artist Christoph Büchel, reports artnet. Büchel has started a petition calling for their preservation and protection, comparing them to Stonehenge or 20th-century land art. He is now giving…
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Today, January 7th, at the Hardy and Nance Studios in Houston, there is an event celebrating the life and work of Michel H. Draper. Before Draper passed away recently, he lived and…
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We tend to esteem a certain kind of exhibition.. $%#& Show 2018 is not that kind of exhibition.
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At a press conference earlier this week, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced that this spring, the institution will begin charging out-of-towners a mandatory admission fee. Set to…
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"Art is a cultural form, which means you can't pursue it without access to culture. There’s only so much you can do in a vacuum."
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Yesterday our friends over at Dallas’ Art & Seek published a nice story that demystifies the recent appearance of the small, house-shaped piñatas that have been popping up in…
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Gary Sweeney’s Giant “The Story of Civilization…” Acquired by San Antonio
by Glasstireby GlasstireGood news! In 2003 San Antonio-based artist Gary Sweeney completed an ambitious work, four years in the making, called The Story of Civilization Rewritten With Discarded Signs. Up until now, and…