The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas has announced the fall season lineup for its ongoing 360 speaker series. Via Nasher: the series “…features conversations and lectures on the ever-expanding definition of…
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Rice U Announces Big New Art Center to Open in February
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentAs recently reported by the Houston Chronicle and Artforum, Rice University’s new Moody Center for the Arts (MCA) will open to the public in February 2017. Although last year’s press…
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Blue Star’s Residency and Renovation Lead to Trinity University
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentFor the past four years, Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio has partnered with Künstlerhaus Bethanien (KB) in Berlin to send over/exchange artist residents. Blue Star sends Texas artists to Berlin each…
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Sculpture, Cinema, and a Cat! Who Needs More Than That?
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentWell, we’re ashamed to have missed International Cat Day on Monday, August 8, but we’ll try to make up for it by sharing an article from the Austin American-Statesman about…
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Summer special! Rainey Knudson travels to Washington D.C. and gets the scoop from the city’s art insiders on what to see when you visit the nation’s capital.
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Fragments suggest a collection of things seen without bothering with the order in which they were seen before they found their way through Morrow’s Prismacolor onto paper.
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According to Eater Houston, there will soon be a new gallery in town. Why is Eater reporting on this? Because it will also be a café. And an art school.…
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In April, the Galveston Artist Residency (GAR) launched the first edition of its quarterly arts zine called BINDER. Published by Super Hit Press (along with GAR), the first volume features…
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Juan William Chavez, Andy Coolquitt, and Rachel Maclean at Artpace
by Chad Dawkinsby Chad Dawkins 0 commentAll three of the artists' shows at Artpace work with the collapse of art into other facets of life. Time off is time to work
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Finally! A Venn Diagram to Explain Artists’ Motivations
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentSigmund Freud explained artistic motivation from the viewpoint of a psychoanalyst (a defense mechanism protecting against neurosis), but now Jason Horejs, founder of Xanadu Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona, has explained…
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Stefan Simchowitz, the notorious art flipper/dealer that everyone loves to hate, is at it again. In a recent telephone interview with artnet News, Simchowitz put on his economist hat and theorized about the…
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'The X Files' and its tagline “I want to believe” seem pertinent here.
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There’s a wonderful piece in the New York Times from August 4th about Alex Schweder and Ward Shelley‘s spinning house titled “Reactor.” The collaborators inhabited a shared space for five days…
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Last month, a 90-year old retired German dentist, identified only as Hannelore K., visited Nuremberg’s Neues Museum, where a 1977 creation by the Fluxus artist Arthur Köpcke was on display,…
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This summer, the Midwest is getting a little taste of Texas: it was recently announced that Wichita Falls-based artist B.C. Gilbert has been named the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Great Plains Art Museum 2016 Artist-in-Residence.…
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Christina Rees takes us through her favorite show of the summer.
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This coming week, hip-hop artist Swizz Beatz is launching No Commission NY, a new art fair taking place in the Bronx from August 11-14. The fair, which was first presented in…
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Have your camera ready, because that's the prize: the proof that you saw, more valuable than the seeing itself.
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See New Work By the Artist-In-Residence of Big Bend (Or Be an Artist in Big Bend)
by Glasstireby Glasstire 1 commentDallas painter Dawn Waters Baker is a recent artist-in-residence of Big Bend National Park, which is a program under the umbrella of the National Parks Arts Foundation (NPAF). This September, the work she…
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Rainey Knudson and Brandon Zech on tin foil hats, stapling bananas to walls, and one artist's Instagram followers.