Generally considered the father of Conceptual art, Marcel Duchamp was born on this day in 1887. Although he dabbled in Cubism, Surrealism, and spearheaded the American Dada movement together with…
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Houston Artist to Join Inaugural Joan Mitchell Center Artist-in-Residence Program
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonHouston artist Robert Hodge has been selected to take part in the launch of the Joan Mitchell Foundation’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program in New Orleans’ historic Tremé neighborhood. Of the twenty…
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Join the Suburban Collage! Kcam to Present Community Art Project at Houston Fine Arts Fair
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe relatively new Katy Contemporary Arts Museum (Kcam) is teaming up with the Houston Fine Art Fair (HFAF) to present a “community art project bringing together the many Houston suburb…
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Artadia: The Fund for Art & Dialogue is a national non-profit organization that gives unrestricted, merit-based awards to visual artists in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, New York, San Francisco, and…
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El Paso native Tom Moore died Monday morning at the age of 86, reports the El Paso Times. Moore is best known as being the illustrator for the Archie Comic…
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Just because the Supreme Court ruled last month to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide, it doesn’t mean Houston doesn’t still need its annual QFest! Now in its 19th year, the International…
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The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) announced yesterday that it is looking to fill three curatorial positions, including one new one, reports ARTnews. Those positions are: Lillian Clark Curator of…
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According to Wikipedia, Plano, Texas is known as the “Gymnastics Capital of the World.” On the front page of the Historic Downtown Plano Association (HDPA)’s web site, they throw out…
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UMLAUF Announces Prize Winners: Artists Get an Exhibition, a Lecture, and Cash
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonWhile the yearly UMLAUF Prize usually honors one outstanding art graduate student from the University of Texas at Austin with an exhibition at the UMLAUF Sculpture Garden & Museum, a…
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Former Houstonian Returns to Lead Rice’s New Center for the Arts
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonAlison Weaver, an art historian and former director of affiliates for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, has been named the first executive director of Rice University’s new…
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A few days ago, President Obama announced the creation of three new national monuments, including the Basin and Range in Nevada. The iconic landscape that includes rock art dating back…
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Hope or Despair? S.A. Arts Org Creates Forum for Environmental Discussion
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonIn conjunction with its exhibition of Nature on the Edge: Mutation and Hybridity in 21st Century Art (up for two more weeks), Bilh Haus Arts is presenting a gallery talk…
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After Executive Director Emilee Dawn Whitehurst left the Rothko Chapel left last summer, the Rothko now has a new director in David A. Leslie, reports the Houston Chronicle. Like Whitehurst,…
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C’mon, you know you have some great ideas for exhibitions—now’s your chance. New York’s CUE Art Foundation, a nonprofit presenting exhibitions and programs designed to foster the growth of up-and-coming…
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Want to know which Texans are buying art? The editors at ARTnews magazine have just released their 25th anniversary edition of the “200 Top Collectors” and seven Texans made the…
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The Alamo and four Spanish colonial Catholic missions in Texas are being designated U.S. World Heritage sites by the United Nations, as is reported by USA Today. The designation, announced…
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American history: In defiance of the Tea Act of 1773 and the whole idea of the “taxation without representation” thing, demonstrators threw an entire shipment of tea into the Boston…
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Studio One Archive Resource announced its official launching as a service organization that will work with members of the Houston arts community to help preserve their history so the stories…
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SXSW Looking for Artistic Tech Trend Nerds with Interesting Ideas
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe 23rd annual SXSW Interactive Festival, an “incubator of cutting-edge technologies and digital creativity,” will return to Austin from March 11-15. For 2016, the Interactive Festival’s Hugh Forrest has specifically…
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Josef Helfenstein is leaving the Menil! The Menil Foundation’s President Janet Hobby sent out an email early this morning stating, “At the same moment as I am sending you this…