Photos from the opening at Gspot Gallery in Houston on July 7, 2018.
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Lawndale Announces 2018-2019 Artist Studio Program Participants
by Brandon Zechby Brandon Zech 0 commentLawndale Art Center in Houston recently named the three artists selected as its 2018-2019 Artist Studio Program participants: Robert Hodge, Julia Barbosa Landois, and John Pluecker. Now in its 13th year,…
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This terrific show feels like a private walk-through of the artist’s own sketchbook.
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Warhol Foundation Comes Through Again for Texas Arts Orgs
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentWarhol Foundation Comes Through Again for Texas Arts Orgs. More at glasstire.com
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Austin’s $925 Million Bond Package Includes Money for the Arts
by Brandon Zechby Brandon Zech 0 commentAt the end of June, Austin’s city council approved a $925 million bond package that will go before the city’s voters this November. Meant to address the concerns of the…
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Dallas Company Presents a Way to Create Art with Brainwaves
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe Dallas-based company Braintone Art’s software allows anyone to create a piece of unique art using their brain’s focus picked up through an EEG headset, reports Dallas Innovates. On its…
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Rockport, under the clarion call of “Rockport Strong,” is roaring back.
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What Remains: Mari Hernandez at Southwest School of Art
by Gene Fowlerby Gene Fowler 0 commentAltering her appearance to draw from a deep well of informed imagination and fierce and graceful determination, the artist floats in space as a character emerges from her mortal force.
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This past November, Nick Barbee launched Galveston’s Art Lending Library (ALL), a project that allows members to “check out” artworks in ten-week periods, as if they were books in a library.…
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Cary Leibowitz: The Museum Show is up at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) through August 26. The Houston Chronicle describes as the exhibition as “the funniest thing in a…
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Updated: Fotofest Wants Your Hurricane Harvey Photographs
by Brandon Zechby Brandon Zech 0 commentThe Houston-based arts organization FotoFest announced this week that it is now accepting submissions for the upcoming exhibition, Seeing Harvey: Personal Stories, Public Responses, set to run from September 6 through November…
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Podcast
Art Dirt: Texas Shows We’d Like to See, and the Point of an Art Writing Prize
by Glasstireby Glasstire 2 comments“If you give the the strongest artists in Texas the space to stretch out and perform, and the resources to make really great work, they do it. They bring their game.”
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K Space Contemporary, based in Corpus Christi, began an unusual public arts project in April 2018 in partnership with Corpus' La Palmera Mall.
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Workshop Teaching Artists How to Use Instagram Comes to Rockport
by Brandon Zechby Brandon Zech 0 commentThis coming week, from July 11-13, 2018, the Rockport Center for the Arts is hosting a workshop teaching artists how to use Instagram to market themselves and their work. Taught by Humberto…
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Using Art to Protest Family Separations on the U.S.-Mexico Border
by Brandon Zechby Brandon Zech 0 commentThis Sunday, July 8, 2018, the Texas-based civic engagement organization Jolt Texas is organizing a caravan from Austin to Brownsville with the goal of using art to protest family separations on the…
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Havel Ruck’s JAM Park to Host Art Workshops and Concerts
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentDan Havel and Dean Ruck are on a roll. With their recent installation of Ripple, Havel and Ruck have transformed another building into a work of art. Earlier still, they…
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Since Hurricane Harvey, cities along Texas’ coast have dealt with the post-storm fallout in a number of ways: in Rockport, a small coastal town in one of the state’s hardest-hit…
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Artist Deadline Approaching: More Parking Meter Art For Dallas
by Brandon Zechby Brandon Zech 0 commentOver the past couple years, local governments in a number of Texas cities have commissioned artists to adapt their work to various “urban canvases”: parking meters, recycling trucks, electrical boxes,…
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Rockport, Texas continues to be post-Harvey resilient. The Rockport Center for the Arts will host its annual Rockport Art Festival this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, July 7 and 8, 10am-6pm…
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In this week's special Fourth of July video, Christina Rees and Brandon Zech dip into "Ten Texas Artworks About America."