Those of us who so fondly remember the golden era of Suzanne Weaver’s “Concentrations” series at the Dallas Museum of Art from 1996-2009 (and credit her for being so uniquely…
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It must be a slow news week when a man calls KPRC Houston to complain about naked sculptures at Discovery Green and they actually send a camera crew to interview…
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Fairfax Dorn, Ballroom Marfa‘s co-founder and outgoing executive director, is transitioning to Ballroom’s artistic director. Today the board has named Susan Sutton as its new executive director. Sutton comes to Marfa…
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) only launched the “Arts of the Islamic World Initiative” in 2007 and initially raised enough money to acquire six objects for a permanent…
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by Sarah Cascone Mexican galleries and auction houses claim their business is shrinking because of the recently introduced anti-money laundering regulations aimed at crippling the country’s drug trafficking…
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Robert Irwin, 86 year old California light-and-space artist has finalized plans for a 10,000 s.f. building at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa with the help of Vernon and Amy Faulconer…
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Lucia Simek, who has written for this site plenty and recently finished her MFA at TCU in sculpture, is crossing over the the dark side (joke!) as the Nasher Sculpture Center‘s…
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Houston’s Memorial Park, haven of joggers, turtles and squirrels, is the subject of a twenty-year master plan, unveiled yesterday by representatives of Memorial Park Conservancy, Uptown Houston Tax Increment Reinvestment…
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A new gallery called Midway is opening in the re-igniting Fair Park neighborhood of Dallas. The space, owned by Denton transplants Lily Taylor and Sean Miller, both musicians and artists,…
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For those who not yet arted out from the Texas Contemporary Art Fair, it’s time to gear up again for the Houston Fine Art Fair (HFAF)! Billed as “The South’s…
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Houston artist Rick Lowe, founder of Project Row Houses (PRH), has been named a 2014 MacArthur Fellow. The program awards unrestricted $625,000 fellowships “to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary…
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After battling brain cancer for over two years, Houston artist Wendy Wagner died this past weekend. She was 47 years old and is survived by her husband Kenneth Finch. Wendy…
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He put the pic up on Instagram. He’s in the Urban Theater show that opens at the Modern on September 21. Enjoy.
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When it’s a battle between Art and the State, it can get ugly. Max Ernst vs. the Gestapo. Robert Mapplethorpe vs. Senator Jesse Helms. Ai Weiwei vs. the Chinese government.…
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Joan Davidow, longtime collector, art advocate and formerly head of the Dallas Contemporary, has announced along with the University of Texas at Dallas that her art collection will be installed…
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Houston’s Project Row Houses (PRH) announced that it has launched a search for a new executive director. The current executive director, Linda Shearer, has decided to step down at the…
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Alberto Mejia II is the new manager of the city of Austin’s Dougherty Arts Center. Mejia arrived in Austin this summer from Seattle, where, as a self-described “engaged idealist” he…
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Fort Worth’s Amon Carter Museum has just finished digitizing all the prints in their archives of eight important American photographers, putting more than 35,00 images online. The images are from…
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A very cool offshoot of the Arts and Crafts movement was the Newcomb Pottery collective and college in New Orleans, post Civil-War and lasting until the 1940s. It was centered…
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I do not know where I got the number seven, but here on the ground in Bentonville, Arkansas, during the press preview for Crystal Bridges‘ new State of the Art survey…