Giant art commissions by two Houston-based artists have been selected as among the top public arts projects in the U.S. by the Public Art Network Year in Review. Patrick Renner…
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On July 5 East-Austin artist space Canopy and Art.Science.Gallery will host The Tesla Project, an all-day celebration of the genius of Nikola Tesla, the popular scientist/inventor/über-geek. The free extravaganza is…
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If you’re an artist with a couple of extra hours on your hands today, you might just make the deadline: The City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs has put…
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Via the San Antonio Express-News: Debuting tonight at 9 p.m. “a 24-minute video collage of images set to music” called The Saga will be projected onto the face of the…
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The Texas General Land Office announced this week that ultra-wealthy British musician Phil Collins will donate to the state of Texas his massive and massively valuable collection of artifacts from…
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CBS-DFW ran a story yesterday that brought to light something I hadn’t seen before: North Richland Hills (a small city between Dallas and Fort Worth) has since 2007 taken a…
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A DFW-based art and antiquities appraiser yesterday pleaded guilty to the U.S Department of Justice for trafficking in illegal wildlife horns and ivory. Ning Qiu, 43, of Frisco, is charged…
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Wendy Watriss, co-founder of FotoFest in Houston, is speaking this Thursday evening at the San Francisco Art Institute as part of Photoalliance‘s 2014 lecture series. FotoFest is, of course, the…
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The Wall Street Journal (paywall) reports on a meta-analysis out of the University of Toronto that gathered the results of 15 recent studies from seven countries that mapped the MRI…
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For the next six weeks, 10 billboards along I-10 between Beaumont and Brookshire will bear quotes by modern author Gertrude Stein. Some, like “in the morning there is meaning” and…
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Hot on the tail of the Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas scholarship winner announcement, the group is releasing information about its upcoming CADD FUNd: Winner Takes All [sic] event happening…
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Ivy-League fixture, philosophy dynamo and prominent activist Dr. Cornel West was in Dallas on Friday, June 20, and paid a visit to local conceptual artist Lauren Woods’ permanent installation, titled…
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In a bid to raise awareness of the city’s overwhelming stray and neglected dog population, Houston’s DiverseWorks has teamed up with two other non-profits, Barrio Dogs, Inc. and Box 13…
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Three of the beloved “Six Frogs Over Tango” will return next week to their original Lower Greenville Avenue perch in Dallas after their long exile to the Carl’s Corner truck…
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Texas Tech University in Lubbock has unveiled the newest piece of public art on its main campus as part of its Public Art Program for the Texas Tech University System.…
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Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas (CADD) has announced the winner of its annual art student scholarship: Christian (Beatle) Gietema, who just graduated from Dallas’ Booker T. Washington High School For…
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Excellent and long-running artist-in-residence program Artpace in San Antonio will begin its online call for Texas artist applications on June 25, for a residency in 2016. The call applies to…
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Michael Sieben, an artist and co-founder of Austin’s Okay Mountain collective as well as an acclaimed graphic designer and illustrator, was recently commissioned by the Dallas Contemporary to create a…
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There’s a public toilet-as-tourist-attraction in Sulphur Springs, Texas, next to the giant chess board in its town square, that may or may not be a knockoff of artist Monica Bonvicini’s…
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Via the Amarillo Globe-News, Stanley Marsh 3, the “merry prankster and eccentric multimillionaire” died Tuesday, according to Marsh family attorneys. He was 76. For years he was best known as…