The Linda Pace Foundation in San Antonio has announced the appointment of Dr. Maura Reilly as its new Executive Director. The New York- and Sydney-based curator is recognized internationally for…
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Less than six weeks after long-time Executive Director Susan Myers retired, the Holocaust Museum Houston has announced that Dr. Kelly J. Zúñiga will assume the role, beginning July 17. After…
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The University of Houston’s School of Art has finally hired someone to fill gap left by Suzanne Bloom when she retired last spring after 35 years. Keliy Anderson-Staley will join…
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Artists Who Steal Art: When Is Appropriation Simply Theft?
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonKay Smith, an artist from Big Springs, Texas, was having a down day when she decided to cheer herself up by visiting the new T.J.Maxx in Midland. Perusing the…
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Lee Littlefield, Houston Sculptor and “Pop-Up” Artist, Has Died
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonAfter being hospitalized due to a recent car accident, artist Lee Littlefield was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. He was released a few days ago and died at home,…
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Making Leaders and Making Money: TFA to Present How-To Workshop
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonMost arts organizations will agree that they could use stronger leadership and more money, so Texans for the Arts (TFA) is putting together an all-day workshop called “Arts Funding and…
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Señorita Cinema, the Texas All Latina Film Festival, founded by Houston filmmaker Stephanie Saint Sanchez, is back! If you missed last night’s opening night screening, there are still more…
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If You Love Something, Set it Free: Nasher to Announce First Citywide Sculpture Project
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe Nasher Sculpture Center knows how to hold a press announcement: with a celebratory release of homing pigeons! Early this year, the Nasher announced that it would present an exhibition…
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Do kids in West Texas act all bored and think they’re stuck out in the middle of nowhere, or do they realize they have access to the hippest summer camp…
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An expanded version of the web site s[edition] launched yesterday, creating a new platform for digital artists to sell their work to buyers around the world. If successful, more digital…
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Dallas city officials declared the month Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month and CentralTrak has started off June with a loud, queer bang. First they presented 214 Trans4m: Fotos…
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Anderson and Rawlings Costar Again! Dallas to Host Global Cultural Districts Network
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonMaxwell Anderson, the director of the Dallas Museum of Art, and Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings have announced that Dallas will be the site of the 2014 New Cities Summit,…
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How to Unmake a Museum: North Texas on Slow Path to Change Its Mind
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonArts Center of North Texas (ACNT), approved by voters in the early 2000s, was meant to include several performance halls and outdoor sculpture gardens. But the project, jointly owned by…
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Beach Days Art Nights: This Summer’s Galveston Art Walks
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe best way to buy/sell/look at art during these hot summer months is to be able to work in a swim in the Gulf on the same day. Every six…
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Photographers Can Sign Up Now and Still Take Nine Months to Make Some Good Art
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonEarly registration is now open for the 2014 International Meeting Place, FotoFest’s portfolio review program in Houston. March seems a long way off and $860 (the cost of one 4-day…
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Everyone’s favorite art critic/grumpus Dave Hickey called Norman Rockwell “the last great poet of American childhood, the Jan Vermeer of this nation’s domestic history.” This week the McNay will open…
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Judd’s Manhattan Home Opens to the Public (This Time For Real)
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonWhile it was quickly revealed to be a hoax by Detroit artist Tyler Taylor, for a short time last week, visitors to Airbnb were excited at the possibility of renting…
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Well, it happened: The Joanna hosted its final art opening/frat party Friday night, featuring paintings and mug shots by Bill Willis. The Houston gallery has been the late night art…
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East Dallas Gallery Day is all day today (well, 12-8 PM) but, if you get there early, you can grab a gift bag (each gallery has them for the first…
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Oak Cliff Artists Celebrate Texas Counterculture History
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonDeveloped to coincide with the DMA’s DallasSITES project, which surveys 50 years of contemporary art in Dallas, the exhibition Made in Oak Cliff features the early ’70s work of the…