Drive-by reviews of Austin's summer shows at the Blanton, Lora Reynolds, WATW and Big Medium.
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Many of the greatest avant-garde breakthroughs of the twentieth century were being incubated in the kindergarten classrooms of the nineteenth.
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The Lawndale Artist Studio Program has selected Josh Bernstein, JooYoung Choi and Lina Dib as their ninth round of artists in residence. The program will provide these artists with studio…
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It's a sunny summer show, but these aren't playful kids indulging sweet-toothed fancies.
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New works by six El Paso artists that have been funded by the City of El Paso’s Artist Incubator Program, will debut at various El Paso venues in the next…
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That’s the era we live in: No blank walls no matter how desperate or cheap we may be. Are blank walls that bad?
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The works do not demonstrate compelling draftsmanship – not every scribble can be sweet-talked into a masterpiece.
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America is over, and the last stand of our compromised, imperial American identity is being staged here at the bottom of the nation.
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Dallas arts patron Edith O’Donnell has made a $17 million contribution to UT Dallas to create the new Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History. “UT Dallas excels in science and…
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The Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth has announced the the acquisition of Peaches and Grapes in a Chinese Export Basket (1813) by Raphaelle Peale (1774–1825). Though they have works…
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BLACK DROP: Astral Observations In Spring, TX
by Peter Lucasby Peter LucasThe transit of Venus across the Sun, the history of recorded image, and the intersection of three Texas art institutions.
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Now that Glasstire editor Bill Davenport and publisher Rainey Knudson released this week’s Top 5 countdown on video, it seems everyone wants to jump on the YouTube bandwagon to chat…
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On the surface it seems elementary, but I can’t think of a more sophisticated sensibility than true comic absurdity.
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When I went to visit Soto: The Houston Penetrable at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, I took six kids along to counterbalance my jaded adult art-critic cynicism.
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Skin and Bones is an opportunity to see a complete goofball and romantic fall brutally in love with something as fickle as drawing, over and over and over again.
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Tom Tierney, illustrator of the long-running and popular series of paper doll books for Dover Publications, died on July 12 at his home in Smithville, TX at age 85. The…
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The El Paso Museum of Art Foundation, the nonprofit which funds acquisitions, conservation/preservation, education and interpretation, not provided for by the City of El Paso, has announced it’s new executive…
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Galveston has a new monument, a pink dolphin carved from red limestone quarried from Corpus Christi. The dolphin-sized statue, installed at R.A. Apffel Park/East Beach on the island and conceived…
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When’s a treehouse on a freeway? MetroNational, the real estate corporation that runs the Memorial City Mall in West Houston is putting the finishing touches on Treehouse Memorial City, a…
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Why would anyone who is truly creative stay in this state if they could live elsewhere?