Entries are being accepted for the Border Art Biennial 2010 / Bienal Fronteriza de Arte 2010 from now until January 31, 2010. The juried exhibition, sponsored by the El Paso…
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Bill Davenport
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Houston’s Lawndale Art Center resident artists Dawn Black, Nick Meriwether and David Waddel are giving an informal slide talk on their work and their plans this Thursday, September 17 at…
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Kicking off the fall art season with its 17th cocktail party/ awards ceremony/mini-retrospective, the Dallas Contemporary has announced year’s Contemporary Legends: zombie painter Vernon Fischer, who you all know about;…
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Based on a blog he read, your Republican Texas Senator, John Cornyn, has grave doubts about the "politicization of the NEA" calling it "particularly dangerous at a time when the…
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As Michael Peranteau mentioned to Rick Lowe, Houston’s arts community use to be much more politically active. This Tuesday evening there’s a general meeting/get together to discuss how the Houston…
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As Michael Peranteau mentioned to Rick Lowe, Houston’s arts community use to be much more politically active. This Tuesday evening there’s a general meeting/get together to discuss how the Houston…
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Rice Design Alliance (RDA) kicks off their fall lecture series on September 16 with London architect and critic Peter Buchanan. "Getting High: Towers in Architecture" gathers a lineup of internationally…
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Houston’s Koelsch gallery’s "depth of the art slump" idea is called Name that Price and it works like this: an exhibit of large works from their racks will be on…
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Seventeen Houston museums are practically standing on their heads to attract families this Saturday, Sept. 12 from 10-5 they’re unleashing a flood of special events, exhibitions and hand-on activities. Meanwhile,…
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CNN reports the latest Texas death row plea is coming from Anthony Gormley’s empty plinth in Trafalgar Square, London. The project, in which members of the public are invited to…
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Fresh Fest at Houston’s Discovery Green park, Friday Sept 11, 6-8:30pm. Free dance; free theatre; free poetry performances; free instrument petting zoo, poetry booth, free costume dress-up trunk, and free…
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Saturday, The City of Austin’s Art in Public Places Program presents a long talk with environmental artist Ned Kahn at the Thompson Conference Center, on the UT campus, Austin. Titled…
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How is the Austin economic downturn affecting Austin’s nonprofit arts and culture sector and the for-profit creative industry sector? The City of Austin’s Cultural Arts Division aims to find out…
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In 1854 the Houston Lyceum began holding weekly debates in the Harris County Courthouse on hot topics like “is wealth more to be desired than mental culture?” and “are works…
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In an effort to catch up with international art thieves and traffickers in no-no cultural property, Interpol has unveiled an online database of stolen art, containing info on 34,000 items.…
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The Dallas Project is, well, a project, that has something to do with the Centraltrak residency and artist Alexandre Moggi-Gendreau. There’s voting, and selling, and participation, all laid out in…
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Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is opening its new Green Line soon with Super Saturday, September 12 from 10am-2pm. Four new stations will be open to preview, each with its own…
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The latest in Sasha Dela’s Saturday Free School for the Arts programs takes place at 2 pm today, September 5, at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, with a talk by…
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Art writer Lawrence Weschler, author of both Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin (an expanded reissue of his 1982…
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Like many other museums, The Arlington Museum of Art is for rent, beginning in November 2009. They’re kicking off their new gallery rental program by inviting local artists to showcase…