The San Angelo Museum of Fine Art is partnering with William Reaves Fine Art, a Houston gallery specializing in historical Texas art, to hold an art sale and fundraiser at…
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Asia Society Texas Center reports that Martha Blackwelder has announced her plans to step down as Executive Director after overseeing six years of expansion. Blackwelder will be leaving her post…
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Art-chitects Daniel Mihalyo and Annie Han of Lead Pencil Studio discuss their building-in-a-gallery project at UT’s Visual Arts Center’s Vaulted Gallery in a new promo video produced for Glasstire, below.…
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With newsy artworld tidbits slowing to their usual weekend trickle, the potential merger between the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the critically acclaimed but financially unsound Los Angeles…
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Puro Chingon Collective has organized their first ever “Shopping Party” at Treasure City Thrift, 2142 E 7th St. in Austin. Boasting free caricatures by Chingozine artists, free gift with every…
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art Bids to Take Over Los Angeles’ Imploding Museum of Contemporary Art
Perhaps forming the Los Angeles County Museum of Contemporary Art, LACMOCA, and saving two letters!? Talk about merging the two institutions has bobbed to the surface before, most recently in…
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Set your DVR or make plans to watch the world television premiere of Art Car: The Movie. Co-directors Ford Gunter and Carlton Ahrens traveled across the country talking to artists…
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dcU, a new program from the Dallas Contemporary, is bringing professors from North Texas colleges to speak on their topics of expertise at their monstrous Glass St. warehouse. Tickets are…
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The third annual Houston Fine Art Fair will move back to the George R. Brown Convention Center this fall, after being bumped to the Reliant Center in 2012. In HFAF’s…
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The Houston Arts Alliance is bringing in Randy Cohen, vice president of research and policy at American For the Arts, an advocacy org, to spread the gospel of quantitative surveys…
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On March 7, Douglas Steel, founder of the iE Collective, will be lecturing at UT El Paso’s Rubin Center on the use of LED lighting as “an artistic approach to…
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The Houston Fringe Festival has just announced an open call for fringey performers and companies of all stripes for its 6th annual event in October. Describing the festival’s mission as…
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The Houston art Alliance is looking for an army of volunteers to take part in their upcoming “social art action,” Konstantin Dimopoulos’ Blue Trees, at locations around Houston and Galveston.…
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Visual artist and songwriter Terry Allen has a new CD out- titled “Bottom of the World,” his first musical release since “Salivation” in 1998. Andrew Dansby had a detailed track-by-track…
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Architect and art collector Bill Stern died Friday, of pancreatic cancer. He was 66. Stern moved to Houston in 1976, immediately finding a place in the booming city’s cultural crust.…
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Twenty-six venues across Corpus Christi are participating in that city’s month-long event, Organized by K Space Contemporary and K Space Board Member Lynda Jones. While the fest’s website is still…
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Dallas Contemporary Taps Local Street Artists For Two Mural Projects: Sour Grapes and JMR to Paint Belmont Hotel
The Dallas Contemporary has announced that it will commission Dallas-based street artists JMR and SOUR GRAPES to each paint 60+ feet of an existing wall at the Belmont Hotel as…
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Houston multimedia artist Wendy Wagner, who, for the past year, has been in a very public battle with brain cancer, (her show, Wendy Wagner: Look to the Left, on view…
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Orange Show Adopts 70-Foot Blue Saxophone: Long-time Richmond Avenue Icon Moving to Houston’s East End Today!
The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art has acquired Bob Wade’s “Smokesax,” the much-beloved 70’ tall blue saxophone that for the past 20 years has made its home at 6025…
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Texas Biennial Announces a Clean Well-Lighted (and Free!) Place at SXSW, Last Call for Biennial Artists
The organizers of the Texas Biennial have announced a series of free public readings in a street-level storefront on Congress Ave. in Austin, amid the hubbub of music and media…