The City of San Antonio recently debuted "Spheres of Reflection," a new public art project by Kaldric Dow, located in Martin Luther King Park.
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This week: Pop gets political in Austin, an annual juried LGBTQIA+ exhibition in Dallas, transborder art in El Paso & more.
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Five-Minute ToursVideo
Five-Minute Tours: Greg Edmondson at The Cole Art Center, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentA video tour of artist Greg Edmondson's exhibition at The Cole Art Center at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches.
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News
Texas Artists Jasmine Hearn and Devin Alejandro-Wilder Among 2022 Creative Capital Award Recipients
by Jessica Fuentes 0 commentCreative Capital — a nonprofit organization that provides direct funding and support to artists — has announced grants totaling $2.5 million in support of 50 projects.
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Review
Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
by Ann Dalyby Ann Daly 0 comment“Many people think photography is realistic. I think it lies. I am often astonished to see something after I have seen a photograph of it. Often it isn’t accurate. It can be quite a bit different from the real thing.”
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News
Three Houston Arts Organizations Receive Grants from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
by Jessica Fuentes 0 commentThe Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has awarded a total of $4.1 million to 49 museums and arts organizations through its Fall 2021 grants. Houston nonprofits DiverseWorks, FotoFest, and The Menil Collection are among the recipients.
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News
An Artist’s Take on the Vandalism of Petroglyphs at Big Bend National Park
by Jessica Fuentes 3 commentsOn December 26, 2021, visitors scratched the names Isaac, Ariel, Norma, and Adrian, along with the date, across a petroglyph. Fort Worth-based photographer Paul Leicht who photographed the now-defaced petroglyphs in early December, shares his thoughts on the vandalism and the importance of National Parks.
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While much has been written about Milton Avery’s work, I was unfamiliar with that of his wife and daughter. In researching their work, I became aware of what has been termed the “Avery style”.
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Five-Minute ToursVideo
Five-Minute Tours: Don Glentzer at Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 comment"With his sculptures, including wall-dependent works, Glentzer often juxtaposes delicacy and tensile strength. His colorful, slender forms and barely tethered lines dance joyfully through space, sometimes disrupting perceived edges."
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Today: Curved paintings
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News
CineFestival San Antonio Early Bird Submission Deadline Approaches
by Jessica Fuentes 0 commentSubmissions are currently being accepted for the 43rd annual CineFestival San Antonio, which will be held at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center from July 6-10, 2022.
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Interview
Meditation of the Discarded: an Interview with Lauren Winchell Bechelli
by Barbara Purcell 0 commentLauren Winchell Bechelli firmly believes in the impossibility of specificity. Her artworks are undecipherable composites of old ideas made new again.
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News
Michelle and Barack Obama Portraits Come to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston this Spring
by Jessica Fuentes 0 commentThe 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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Review
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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News
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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News
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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Drive By
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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Drive By
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."