When the Big Bend Sentinel broke the news on May 30 of the Playboy Marfa installation plans, the story quickly spread to the arts journals and arts blogs. It was…
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Big Bend Bunny: Playboy Adds Giant Neon Rabbit to the Marfa Landscape
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonPlayboy Enterprises has leased some 6,500 square feet of land just west of Marfa and installed a large sculpture of a Judd-like cement box with a car on top and…
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Tiny Target, thanks for the memories.
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Brandon Zech and Christina Rees run down their favorite art and not-quite-art attractions you can spot from your car while driving across the state.
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Having easy answers to the riddle makes it a short riddle.
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We really do get why you might have a dim view of Texas. We just don't agree with you.
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When thinking of Instagramable places in Texas, certain spots come to mind: Prada Marfa, Cadillac Ranch, and Austin’s “i love you so much” wall, to name a few. TIME, however, just released…
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The latest act of art vandalism occurred yesterday afternoon at the Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. A man splashed a red substance on a blank…
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Questions of stewardship keep coming up in regards to art in public spaces, like Tom Orr and Frances Bagley’s piece in White Rock Lake which is on the docket for…
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Due to the Prada Marfa vandalism that occurred earlier this week, there has been a lot of talk lately about art’s role in bettering society, what with the vandal’s mission to…
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When Prada Marfa was inaugurated it seemed self-evident that this would lead to a situation like we find today: johnny-come-lately corporate giant seizes upon the precedent and employs it to culturally legitimize advertising.
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This summer, Ballroom Marfa hired a new curator, Mike Bianco. He replaces Alicia Ritson, who began the graduate program at the Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies this fall.…
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Well, no one saw that coming. Except me. And probably everyone else. Erik is gone, and just in case his all-around suckitude and very specific lack of talent weren’t enough,…
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From Lora Reynolds Gallery: “Lora Reynolds is pleased to announce Spatial Moto, an exhibition of new and recent work by Erin Shirreff and the artist’s second presentation with the gallery. Shirreff…
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Jessica Fuentes, William Sarradet, and Brandon Zech count down some of their favorite art books of the year.
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From Various Small Fires: “Various Small Fires is proud to present its inaugural exhibition at VSF Texas, the gallery’s newest location situated in Downtown Dallas. Presented in two parts, Texan…
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John Wesley, the New York-based painter with deep connections to Texas’ Chinati Foundation, died on February 10, 2022.
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The exhibition surveys more than 70 years of the House of Dior’s legacy and global influence.
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Everyone in the art world complains about the art world all the time: "We all hate the art world and we’re not part of the art world!"
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In case you missed last year, here's a five-minute summary of some of the more notable Texas art occurrences.