There is nothing old hat about going to the Bible for source material. Certainly not the way Paul Bryan uses it.
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It’s akin to that moment in a sceney restaurant when you hear the fifth song that is also on your iPad and you realize…oh, they’re marketing to me.
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The folks who organize San Antonio’s Contemporary Art Month (CAM) will again host the Miss CAM Antonio contest, a virtual pageant to find the perfect person to represent the local…
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Native Houstonian Mel Chin’s 40-year retrospective of sculpture, video and installations at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) opened on Thursday with a panel discussion and on Friday with…
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There’s a new gallery coming to the El Paso art community called the Cube (or, according to its letterhead and Facebook page, the “CUB3”). Plans are for three-week exhibitions, with…
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This iconic and storied Houston art space ain’t going out without a bang.
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The Menil Unveils Very Menil Plans for Drawing Institute
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe Menil Collection unveiled plans for its new freestanding drawing institute on Wednesday and the reviews are starting to come in. One might think that Culturemap Houston’s hometown familiarity with…
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An internal dialogue between the values Grant believes she's supposed to uphold and the internal thoughts that may or may not contradict them. The viewer is just listening in.
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Washington’s Corcoran Gallery Announces Takeover Deal
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe Corcoran Gallery of Art, the oldest privately supported art museum in the US, has reached a preliminary agreement with the National Gallery of Art and George Washington University (GWU)…
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Most people in the arts actually visit museums, but many others experience images—even museum paintings that art history students initially learned from textbooks—almost exclusively through the Internet. Today, the Amon…
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I rolled into Dallas on Saturday, just as many of the city's project spaces and galleries had their openings. It was also the beginning of the Dallas Biennial or DB14.
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Two Hums Make a Whole: DiverseWorks to Present Sound Performances in the Sky and Underground
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentAnd when you’re in tune, you’re in tune. -Bonnie Barnett to the LA Times on a HUM performance in a MacArthur Park tunnel One of the many, crazily ambitious avant-garde…
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Like a lot of people who work in the arts, University of Texas Art History Professor Ann Collins Johns was a little perturbed at President Obama when he dissed art…
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Seven Topics No Artist Town Hall Meeting Should Miss
by Bill Davenport 10 commentsI'm using my Glasstire soapbox to jumpstart the discussion by putting a few on the table ahead of time.
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Artists Unite! It’s Tonight! Houston’s Artist Town Hall Meeting
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentHouston artists should be finishing up their lists of hopes, dreams, and gripes because this evening is the “Artist Town Hall Meeting,” organized by Fresh Arts and Art League Houston.…
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On Sunday, a visitor walked into the Ai Weiwei: According to What? exhibition at the new Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), picked up a vase and, when approached by security,…
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A Call for Artists for Austin’s New Public Art Project
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 1 commentThe City of Austin is looking for a professional artist, or artist team, to design and fabricate artwork for the city’s Montopolis Neighborhood Center. Through its Art in Public Places…
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Bianconi entered a black duct-taped box. The box started jerking, being punched or kicked from the inside. Crisply folded white paper airplanes launched from within began peppering the wine-plied room.
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To draw attention to its current exhibition Made for Magazines: Iconic 20th-Century Photographs, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) is holding an old-fashioned photo contest. Of the 80 works…
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Lacoste, LeTigre and Louis Vuitton are his imaginary friends in the Hundred Acre Wood.