However one celebrates Valentine’s Day may or may not be a private affair (and may consist of grumpily ignoring the entire day). Whatever you do on February 14th is fine,…
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San Antonio’s Witte Museum held a groundbreaking ceremony yesterday for the second phase ($60 million) of its ongoing expansion (total $100 million), reports the San Antonio Express-News and KSAT.com. The…
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In the past few days, there have been a couple of announcements from museums that are snatching up some Texas art folks. First, the Tampa Museum of Art announced that…
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Walter Liedtke, longtime curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was one of six victims of the crash of a commuter train in suburban New York City…
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The Smithsonian American Art Museum is heading a group of 14 museums across the country, The American Art Collaborative (AAC), to build a new humongous online art database, after receiving…
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Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft: HCCC Residency Deadline Approaches
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonCalling all craft artists! The deadline to apply for a residency at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) is March 1. Not sure if you’ll fit in? Check out…
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The Sarofim School of Fine Arts at Georgetown’s Southwestern University is presenting a two-day symposium called What Things May Come: 3D Printing in the Fine Arts and Sciences. The event,…
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Out in the West Texas town of El Paso I fell in love with a Mexican girl. Night-time would find me in Rosa’s cantina; Music would play and Felina would…
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Hello Austin, What’cha Knowin’? Public Art Project Allows the City to Talk Back
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonDuring the summer of 2013, the British design and research studio PAN, Tom Armitage, and Gyorgyi Galik installed their “citywide platform for play,” Hello Lamp Post in Bristol, England. Up…
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Selma Composer Returns to Houston to Collaborate with Artist Robert Pruitt on “The Rauschenberg Project”
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThis fall, Houston native Jason Moran began a multi-year residency with Da Camera in partnership with the University of Houston’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts. Besides working with…
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According to Blouin Artinfo, the “first ever exhibition of contemporary art from the state of Texas in the United States of America to be hosted in New Delhi” opened this…
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Admit it: Bravo’s “Work of Art” was a great show and the idiotic artistic clichés it portrayed are actually kind of true. For those who are jonesing to watch artists…
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The “New Sincerity” movement began with music in the mid-eighties (thanks, Austin!), spread to literary and film criticism in the nineties, and now—from the looks of upcoming events in Texas—the…
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Well, it certainly has been a busy week at the Dallas Contemporary. First, it announced the addition of two new curators to its staff; then the much-anticipated, five-years-in-the-making, take-over-the-entire-gallery-space exhibition…
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Jonathon Glus, President and CEO of the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA), may not have been getting much love in Glasstire’s comment sections since the late November brouhaha over the artwork…
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In spite of Houston’s miserable weather on Sunday evening, lots of folks came out to find out the results of two local micro grants at galleryHOMELAND. The entrants for the…
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This weekend, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) will present “Monet on Ice,” and transform Cullinan Hall into a full-size ice-skating rink. Entrance to the rink, which can accommodate…
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In conjunction with the Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence, Houston’s Menil Collection will present a panel discussion called “The Influence of Gandhi and King on Hip-Hop Culture”…
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Yesterday’s terrorist attack on the Paris headquarters of the weekly French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo left a dozen dead, including four well-known cartoonists: Stéphane Charbonnier, the publication’s top editor, as…
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For those who haven’t yet seen the latest issue of Vogue, there is a feature article on Ballroom Marfa’s new Executive Director Susan Sutton. Sutton, who assumed the position in…