The Judd Foundation has just released (online) the new Guidelines for the Care and Handling of Donald Judd Works in Metal by conservator Eleonora Nagy. The first in a proposed…
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Bill Davenport
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Luis Jiménez's controversial, colorful, fiberglass Vaquero in Houston's Moody Park is being resurfaced and repainted by national sculpture conservationists Bob and Judy Pringle, with help from Leo Aston. It should…
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During a recent visit to Houston, Claes Oldenburg gave his thumbs-up for the placement of his Geometric Mouse, Scale X, the "much loved" (and much scuffed) red steel contraption in…
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The Houston version of Mega Productions' travelling Body Art Expo (not to be confused with the similarly macabre BodyWorlds, where the people are dead) decamps at the Reliant Center on…
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The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston is touring Un-zoned Houston on Saturday, May 23. Get on the bus at 2 pm at the CAM for a "three hour tour" with architectural…
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The MFAH has just finished installing French artist Bernar Venet's 82.5° Arc x 11 (2008), or Vertical Arc, in it sculpture garden. All ten tons of steel are on loan…
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The 24-Hour Video Race begins at at 11:59 pm, Friday, May 22, at the Angelika Film Center at Mockingbird Station in Dallas. Teams are assigned a theme, prop, location and…
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The Waterlights District is like one of those massive, public/private master planned all-in-one $600 million developments Houston loved in the seventies. This one is in Pearland and, in addition to…
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Continuing her food-themed offerings, Sasha Dela, the artist who brought "Sunday Soup" to Houston, is launching Buffet, a new, "carefully curated, experimental, video-based DVD periodical" that includes the kitchen sink…
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Amid the mummy madness, the DMA has found time to hand out its annual awards to artists: Grants from the Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund for young folks went to…
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The Dallas Museum of Art will be open for 34 straight hours, from 9am on Saturday, May 16 until 7pm on Sunday, May 17, in the final days of the…
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Saturday, May 16, Etsy Dallas, the local branch of the online craft marketplace, is going offline at the Etsy Dallas Spring Bash. It's a craft fair with a reverse cyber-twist:…
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We cling to the bottom edge of a continent that is dissolving like toilet tissue into the Gulf of Mexico, with seasonal flushes by the likes of Ike and Katrina. …
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Likewise and alternatively, the Zine Fest Houston collects small presses, kitchen-table publishers, and DIY literary gurus at the Caroline Collective, 4820 Caroline St. at 2pm Saturday, May 16. Table space…
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The Kimbell has acquired one of the four known easel paintings by Renaissance master Michelangelo, and it's full of gnarly demons to boot! Although disputed by scholars, The Torment of…
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"All entries shall become the property of the Valencia Group immediately upon submission." So begins the fine print in the Hotel Sorella's upcoming marketing campaign/illustration contest for its new Monnalisa…
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Every one of the 264 entries in the 2009 Art Car Parade was a winner, but there's winning, and then there's cash. At the awards ceremony and brunch last Sunday…
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Jim Harithas, curator at the Station Museum, Marianne Stockebrand, director of the Chinati Foundation and Franklin Sirmans, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Menil Collection get together for…
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On Saturday, May 16 the new Nidhika and Pershant Mehta Arts of India gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston opens. It's the latest of five new permanent galleries…
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Bush Intercontinental Airport is getting a new sculpture by Houston artist Hana Hillerova. Titled "Houston can you hear me?", the piece, an array of twenty-four space-age, starlike clusters, will be…