Finally, art is useful. Take it from Audrey Lopato, a lady sporting a spoon on her forehead afixed with a yellow headband, who runs a banana stand in a food truck…
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Few communities are close-knit enough to call to order an annual gathering and feast to celebrate each other and their space in the world, but Marfa, TX is one of…
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Unless you are very well-connected to wide art-market networks, getting renowned art professionals–curators, educators, artists–into your studio may be a long-shot, especially of you are just starting out as an…
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The National Endowment for the Arts isn’t funding art like it used to back before the so-called cultural wars led to the gutting of the budget. But that doesn’t mean…
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San Antonio’s Fl!ght Gallery, located in the popular South Flores Arts District, has announced that it will be moving to the Blue Star Arts Complex in time for the monthly…
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In the lifelong battle that is eeking out a living for most artists, navigating the mystifying world of grants and creative financial support can be a quagmire few are brave enough to…
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After setting aside only the metal siding that used to cover its exterior, at the request of a group of alumni, Rice University went ahead with its plans to demolish the…
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CORE program alumnus and director of the LA-based Machine Project, Mark Allen, comes to Houston this week pulling along a big bag of tricks to unpack—three nights + three venues…
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The Dallas Museum of Art will be the first stop on a nine-city tour of the US for Japanese artist and art world big-shot Takashi Murakami’s live action film Jellyfish…
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The University of North Texas recently purchased the massive photography collection of the Williams family, an old Fort Worth band of fathers and sons who were all photographers and who have been…
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Margaret Crow, art collector, philanthropist and wife of famed developer Trammell Crow, died from natural causes at her home in Dallas Friday night, the Dallas Morning News reports . Crow and her…
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The Dallas Art Fair kicked off Thursday, and the reports are starting to trickle in. D Magazine picks the top 10 galleries it wants you to see (beware the glut of…
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The Contemporary Austin will host an evening for teens celebrating the art of hiding, as if teenagers don’t have that skill mastered already, at an event called Le Caché: A…
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New Artist-made Creative Stations to be Implemented at the Blanton
by Lucia Simekby Lucia SimekBeginning in June, the Blanton Museum of Art at University of Texas at Austin will implement the use of a series of works of art-cum-creative work stations made by artist Leslie Mutchler,…
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McKinney Avenue Contemporary’s Executive Director Lisa Hees has announced she is leaving the art space after three years at the helm, effective June 1. Hees will pursue arts related opportunities…
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A street art collective in Austin known as SprATX has been sending folks all over town on mad-crazy scavenger hunts every Friday night. The treasure? Free art. Small token artworks…
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It’s a fairly common problem: you go to art school, make lots of stuff using all the available tools, get used to the convenience, graduate, and then lose the free…
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By popular demand, this week The Contemporary Austin premieres the film The Vision of Paolo Soleri: Prophet in the Desert for the first time in Texas as part of…
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In an effort to make art viewers look at art at a more contemplative pace, museums across the world will participate in Slow Art Day this Saturday, April 12. The…
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As if the plain old art market wasn’t enough of a rat race, more and more, as museums across the country attempt to become more entrepreneurial in an effort to…