The iconic portraits of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will be ending their U.S. tour at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in April.
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Reforms and Echoes: Recent Exhibitions and Events in San Antonio
by William Sarradet 0 commentWilliam Sarradet writes about recent San Antonio art exhibitions, performances, art walks, and more.
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City of Houston Awards $9.9 Million in Grants to Artists and Nonprofits
by Jessica Fuentes 0 commentThe City of Houston Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs in collaboration with the Houston Arts Alliance has awarded a total of $9,998,343.77 in grants to 87 individuals and 151 arts and cultural nonprofits.
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Leslie Moody Castro on how a trip to the Estonian border town of Narva brought up memories of her family and life on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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North Texas Community Foundation Awards $32,000 to Two Fort Worth Nonprofits
by Jessica Fuentes 0 commentThe North Texas Community Foundation, a nonprofit organization that manages charitable gifts, has announced an award totaling $32,000 for Arts Fort Worth and Art Tooth.
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Hubbard and Birchler Tell the Story of Forgotten Artist Flora Mayo
by Jessica Fuentes 0 commentThe narrative is intriguing and can be contextualized as part of a larger movement of revisiting and investigating the lives and work of women artists who have been overlooked, undervalued, and sometimes completely forgotten by the art historical canon.
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South Texas’ artists and artist-run spaces are projecting familia into an uncertain future.
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Here’s a 717-Gigapixel, 5.6-Terabyte Photograph of Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch”
by Brandon Zechby Brandon Zech 3 commentsThis photograph of Rembrandt's "The Night Watch" is "the largest and most detailed photo ever taken of a work of art."
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Artadia Awards $10,000 to Verónica Gaona, Robert Hodge & Preetika Rajgariah
by Jessica Fuentes 0 commentJuror Natalie Dupêcher, Assistant Curator of Modern Art at the Menil Collection states, “In these very different but rigorous and richly imaginative practices, Hodge, Gaona, and Rajgariah each explore some of the most pressing issues of our time.”
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Dan Phillips, the Huntsville-based artist, architect, and educator, died on December 21, 2021 after a long battle with cancer.
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Jessica Fuentes, William Sarradet, and Brandon Zech discuss anticipated upcoming exhibitions, including the Obama Portraits' trip to Houston, a solo exhibition of Wendy Red Star at SAMA, and a focus on female portraits at the Modern.
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Janavi Mahimtura Folmsbee and other Texas Artists Commissioned to Create Public Art at Bush Intercontinental Airport
by Jessica Fuentes 1 commentTen Texas artists and art teams have been selected to complete public art works at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport.
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La muerte y el diablo siempre están al acecho: El muy católico cuerpo (de obras) de Lisette Chavez
by Ruben C. Cordova 0 commentLos hilos de la fe y la incredulidad están profundamente entretejidos en el arte de Lisette Chavez.
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Often art either asks the audience to ignore their surroundings or references the site as an afterthought — it really thrills me when a site-specific work utilizes the nature of a site to successfully drive a concept home.
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How do people cope under circumstances that deny explanation? How does belief operate?
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Paris is Looming: Canvas & Silk at SMU’s Meadows Museum, Dallas
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 0 commentFashion is psychology. It deserves respect as the most personal of design fields, and the most operative visual expression of an individual’s identity.
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Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Announces New Partnership for Artists-in-Residence Program
by Jessica Fuentes 0 commentThe Contemporary Art Museum Houston and Radom Capital have announce a partnership to support CAMHLAB, an artists-in-residence program in Houston's Montrose neighborhood. The program's first four artists include Eepi Chaad, Two Star Symphony, Frame Dance, and Dana Caldera.
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Today: Goldfish
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Sundance Square and Artspace 111 Mural Open Call Deadline Approaches
by Jessica Fuentes 0 commentThe second round of open calls for the Sundance Square and Artspace 111 Consulting, "Temporal Integral Mural Exhibition (T.I.M.E.)" closes Wednesday, January 5, 2022.
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Carol Bove is a magician. She cleverly reinvigorates the tradition of gigantic, supposedly heroic, and weighty commercial steel sculpture, subverting the usually orotund voice present in this type of artwork.