For many who visited Riley Holloway’s recent exhibition at Dallas’ Fairmont Hotel Gallery, it was the first they had heard of the Fairmont’s artist-in-residence program, although it was established in…
Paula Newton
-
-
After six years, Houston’s DARKE Gallery is closing its doors. Adding the announcement at the end of a press release for its upcoming and final gallery exhibition, owner Linda Darke…
-
David Altair Karave and a group of East Austin artists, architects, engineers, and volunteers are creating a “Psychokinetic Child,” a 20-foot tall mechanical newborn baby head. The gigantic, interactive…
-
The public relations fight between the Nasher Sculpture Center and the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System just got a lot nastier. The Dallas News has published an article about…
-
The Dallas Museum of Art is covering all the bases in presenting the city’s art history. In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination, they (and the Amon…
-
Minimalist artist, sculptor, and sometime musician Walter De Maria died yesterday of a stroke at the age of 77. Best-known for The Lightning Field (1977), a mile-wide land-art piece in…
-
There was something exciting about Houston’s annual Museum District Day and watching people make the ridiculous attempt to visit each and every participating museum in one (usually hot and steamy)…
-
An article in today’s Hyperallergic lays out possible devastating cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities. While Obama proposed his 2014 fiscal year budget in April, which…
-
Jeffrey Deitch’s departure is a done deal. He officially informed the LA MOCA board yesterday of his resignation and the museum issued a written statement. Deitch will stay on “to…
-
If El Paso has an inferiority complex about its art scene and its cultural history, the El Paso Illustrator Collective (EPIC) wants to turn that all around with a little…
-
For those who prefer skin as the ultimate medium for fancy art, the Austin Convention Center is hosting the “Body Art Expo,” the world’s largest tattoo convention, this Friday through…
-
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Nasher Sculpture Center has commissioned ten public art works at ten diverse sites throughout Dallas, in an ambitious, citywide sculptural art project dubbed…
-
The LA Weekly reports that Jeffrey Deitch will be leaving the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (LA MOCA). Their sources say an official announcement from the museum will be…
-
Most artists would be excited to get a New York gallery show, but a solo exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem is a really big deal. The same day…
-
News
The Public in Public Art: Houston Community Helps Create “Funnel Tunnel”
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonArtist Patrick Renner and the Art League Houston held a “Funnel Tunnel Painting Party” on Saturday and, in spite of some early-day ominous skies, tons of folks showed up to…
-
The Fort Worth City Council plans to call for a $292 bond election in May 2014 to build new roads, parks and facilities. In order to educate voters and to…
-
For San Antonians who love their art and love their bikes, San Anto Cultural Arts (SACA) will hold one of its Bicycle Mural Tours this evening, beginning at 6 pm…
-
Houston’s Rice University has installed its latest public art project, Mark di Suvero’s sculpture “Po-um (Lyric).” University Art Director Molly Hubbard refers to the work as a “mobile”; the six-ton…
-
There are many projects, events, and exhibitions commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas. (Hotel Texas: An Art Exhibition for the President and…
-
It’s official! As of today, the AMOA-Arthouse will now be called The Contemporary Austin. In traditional marriages, the wife takes the name of the husband; a few modern marriages hyphenate…