Embarking as a motivated flaneur is the point.
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Inspired by the career of Clint Willour, Christina Rees and Brandon Zech discuss the transformational impact a single person can have on an art scene.
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Cupid’s Revenge 2: Apollo and Daphne, From Ancient Greece to Airbrushed Fantasy
by Ruben Cordova 0 commentThis article — in celebration of Valentine’s Day — is a chronological sampling of Apollo and Daphne images from different times and places, ranging from antiquity to 20th-century fantasies.
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News
Mini Murals Program Artist Registry Announced By Houston’s Cultural Affairs Office
by Christopher Blay 0 comment"The pandemic has hit artists hard, and we are grateful to our wonderful clients for funding programs that allowed us to pay artists in 2020."
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Five-Minute Tours
Five-Minute Tours: ‘Building a Legacy: Selections from the Permanent Collection’ at Tyler Museum of Art
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 comment"Artists include Ed Blackburn, Alexander Calder, Lillian Garcia-Roig, L.O. Griffith, Sedrick Huckaby, Luis Jiménez, Coreen Spellman, James Surls, and Sarah Williams, among others."
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ArticleStaff Picks
Artists Make Love: Artist Couples Share Art Made For Each Other
by Christopher Blay 0 commentHere are eight artist couples from across the state who've made work for each other, with each other, or about love.
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Attention Austin Artists: Deborah Roberts Needs a Studio Assistant
by Christopher Blay 0 commentRoberts prefers a candidate with a background in art and knowledge of the art world, but doesn't require it.
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Five-Minute Tours: Anne Siems at Wally Workman Gallery, Austin
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 comment"Emerging from the chaos of the pandemic and the fight for social justice, the show explores a shift in consciousness to a softer and more playful way of being."
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Tady's fierce lines and rabid colors cooly embrace the rectangle, and fire visual ideas at the brain like a cyclone blasting cherry tree buds in spring.
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The 42-year archive of the gallery's history, totaling more than 80 boxes of artist files, letters, contracts, media storage platforms and more, will be available to D.C. residents and online by request.
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Christopher Blay and Christina Rees on a Salvadoran artist’s debut in Dallas, an art scavenger hunt in Austin, and a Houston artist in San Antonio whose images and words may be just what we need right now.
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Justin Jannise is the 2021 Winner of the $2500 Greater Houston Art Writing Prize
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentJannise is pursuing his Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Houston. His essay is about a sculpture exhibition along the Houston Heights Esplanade.
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True North: How Heights Boulevard’s Sculpture Installation Saved Me in 2020
by Justin Jannise 2 commentsA giant polymer concrete cabbage cannot tell you what it means; it can only be what it is.
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Five-Minute Tours
Five-Minute Tours: Kate Csillagi and Brooke Gassiot at ICOSA, Austin
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 comment"Inside the window of ICOSA, Csillagi and Gassiot create scapes using video, mixed media, and shadow play."
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The 2021 event will be a virtual experience featuring 16 award-winning films, and more.
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HCCC will reopen on this week, after being closed for nearly a month due to the increased number of Covid-19 cases in the region.
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Update: 101 Black Artists Living and Working in Texas
by Christopher Blay 44 commentsOur list ranges from artists whose works are represented in multiple national and international museums and collections, to mid-career artists, to emerging artists — some with their first couple of exhibitions in the past year.
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The Fort Worth gallery announced an open call late last year to select a muralist for the north-facing wall of its downtown space.
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Drive By
Video Drive By: ‘Artists on Site’ at Asia Society Texas Center, Houston
by Jennifer Battaglia 0 commentFeaturing works by Laura Drey, Ahra Cho, Royal Sumikat, and Brandon Tho Harris.
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Article
Apollo and Daphne: A Tale of Cupid’s Revenge Told by Ovid and Bernini
by Ruben Cordova 4 commentsDon’t mess with Cupid.