The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) will bestow is annual awards at a ceremony at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston on Friday, March…
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In June, Gwendolyn H. Goffe, Associate Director for Investment and Finance a the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will retire after 25 years of behind-the-scenes leadership. Recruited by late MFAH…
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The Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum has opened in the Harwood District in Dallas, displaying 60 of the hundreds of pieces of Japanese armor and weaponry collected by Dallas real…
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Los Angeles’ tabloid-celebrity Museum of Contemporary Art has had another breakup- Jori Finkel of the LA Times Culture Monster column reports that the MOCA board has rejected offers from LACMA…
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The fifth annual Dallas Art Fair will return to the Fashion Industry Gallery on April 11-14, 2013 This year’s fair will showcase over 80 galleries, and kicks off on Thursday,…
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After a nationwide search, The City of El Paso has selected Ball-Nogues Studio of Los Angeles, Gaspar Enriquez of San Elizario, TX and Robert Davidoff of El Paso to design,…
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Leave it to the NY Post to cover the glam reception of Cindy Sherman in celebrity-conscious Dallas. Oddly, the Post piece features a straightforward photo of Sherman from Getty Images:…
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The 47th annual conference of the NCECA, the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, convenes in Houston next weekend, March 20-23, with a full-to-bursting program of exhibitions, demos,…
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Houston Artist Beth Secor talks about her mania for Virgin Mary figurines and old group photos, then impersonates a dog yanked back by a short leash.
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Dallas curators Charles Dee Mitchell and Cynthia Mulcahy’s latest project, Engines of War opens on March 28 at Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert in New York. Intended as a photographic…
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The Woodlands High School Art Club, under the direction of TWHS art teacher Jim Kitchen, will transform a PODS storage container into a temporary art studio at the Woodlands Waterway…
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This afternoon, Houston’s boldly colored, but usually vacant, Central Library Plaza is the site for the kick-off festivities for the Texan French Alliance for the Arts’ Open the Door project,…
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The Spare pARTS Public Art Initiative, the DIY public art program of the Fort Worth Avenue Development Group that brought the curious Mobius Bench by Glissman & Horn to West…
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On April 10, Austin’s Gallery Shoal Creek will move into new quarters in the Flatbed Building at 2832 E. MLK Blvd. The gallery will keep its name and continue to…
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Among the many details of new Pope Francis I’s past life and attitudes that are being sifted today is his involvement in one of those art scandals that are meat…
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On Friday, March 15, The Art League of Houston will celebrate the life of Cholla Kepner with a memorial service from 6-7:30 p.m. Cholla was an instructor at the League…
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Two new works by artist Sol LeWitt have been installed at the Bill & Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex and Dell Computer Science Hall at UT. Circle with Towers, at…
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The Galveston Artist Residency and Bill Davenport (that’s me!) are collecting all kinds of things found on beaches near Galveston into one room on April 19, for a regional show…
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Last September, two enormously visible pieces of street art rebranded Houston as a more hopeful city, at least to users of the I-45 freeway through downtown, effectively everyone. Two phrases,…
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A Rose Is A Rose, but San Antonio’s Blue Star Contemporary Art Center is now the Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum
After 27 years, The Blue Star Contemporary Arts Center is going museum. The Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum‘s programming won’t change- the primary motive appears to be adding the fillip…