The Dallas Museum of Art announced its 2015 Awards to Artists and, this year, ten awards were given out. Congratulations to all! The four 2015 Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund…
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The board of directors of DiverseWorks in Houston has announced the appointment of Xandra Eden as its new Executive Director and Chief Curator. Eden comes to DiverseWorks from the Weatherspoon Art…
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“Limits” is a relative term. Like beauty, it is often in the eye of the beholder. –Chris Burden Artist Chris Burden died yesterday of a malignant melanoma at his home…
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Houston-born movie director extraordinaire Wes Anderson has designed a café for Prada’s new complex in Milan, Italy. Of course it is very Wes Anderson-y (meaning: attention to detail is key), and if it…
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Take the quirkiness of the Japanese, who elevated simple emoticons to cute and pictographic emojis, and combine it with Texas pride, and you get TexMojis! When Lubbock native Sean Compton…
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Tomorrow, the Texas State Legislature will officially appoint two-dimensional and three-dimensional visual artists (along with representatives of poetry and music) to officially represent Texas for the years 2015 and ’16;…
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The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) has given its 2015 Award for Distinguished Service to Museums to Thomas A. Livesay, executive director of San Antonio’s Briscoe Western Art Museum. The…
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The Big Show, which is Lawndale Art Center‘s annual juried open show, has been around in one iteration or another in Houston since 1984, and is now open for submissions for…
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Marfa visitors and residents know that Marfa is bigger than Marfa, bigger than Chinati and the Judd Foundation, bigger than Big Bend—it’s the whole West Texas sense of independence, self-reliance,…
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CineMarfa, the annual art-meets-film festival founded as a non-profit in 2011 in Marfa by Marfa-based film lovers, is going with a science-fiction theme this for this year’s lineup. The screenings…
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Last night, the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) held its “Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest” in the Curtis Curwell Convention Center in Garland and, just as the event was about…
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Houston artist Kevin Peterson has won this year’s $50,000 Hunting Prize, for “Fire,” a photorealistic painting. Peterson received his BFA from Austin College in Sherman TX (north of Dallas) in…
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As reported by Hyperallergic, yesterday the Guggenheim museum on 5th Avenue in New York was effectively shut down by protestors calling for a change in labor conditions at the…
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The five winners for the inaugural session of the new biannual Nasher Microgrant were announced today. The grants are for $1000 each. Here is the list of Spring 2015 winners…
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Big news: Twenty works by the prominent African American artist Charles White (1918–1979) have been gifted to the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin by Drs.…
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Among the works created during his Winter 1999 Artpace residency, artist/composer Christian Marclay made a piece called Guitar Drag, but decided not to show the work in Texas due to…
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Dispatch from Marfa: Tim Crowley, Marfa’s own BMOC (philanthropist/owner of the Crowley Theater/former president of the Chinati Foundation), is in the process of building a new four-story, 55-room hotel in…
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In the midst of the current problems in Baltimore, the public schools reopen today but, after two postponements, the Orioles’ home game this afternoon against the Chicago White Sox will…
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Yesterday, Texas State art student Monika Rostvold sat on the steps of the school’s library, blindfolded and almost completely nude (except for a nude-colored thong and pasties), for 45 minutes,…
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For the second year, the Menil (via Aurora Picture Show) in Houston will participate in a new-ish international public art event-slash-series: BYOB. It means Bring Your Own Beamer, and here…