It feels like the viewer is being led down the bizarre maze of invention, where fleeting thoughts flicker like a lotto machine and the art featured happens to be the image we landed on.
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And Now: British Curator Returns to Dallas to Open New Project Space
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentJames Cope, former director of sales at New York’s Marlborough gallery, moved back to Dallas this spring and launched COPE PROJECTS, serving as art advisor and curator. His plans were…
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Video! Virgil and Dante Visit the Nine Circles of Hell. AGAIN
by Cody Ledvinaby Cody Ledvina 0 commentA tour of the popular hells and the famous artworks therein, set to a groovy soundtrack!
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San Antonio Artist FitzGibbons Sues Alabama Development Group
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentBill FitzGibbons recently completed LightRails, a $200,000 public art light installation for an underpass in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. Originally, there were plans for three more like it, reports the San…
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UT Ransom Center Receives NEA Grant for Future Exhibitions
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe Harry Ransom Center, the humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a $500,000 challenge grant from the National Endowment for the…
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Big New Work in Fort Worth: Contemporary Art Even Mom Will Love
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 4 commentsMartin Creed’s Work No. 1357 (MOTHERS) has been installed at 1401 Foch Street in the Fort Worth Cultural District. Referred to as “Creed’s most ambitious neon project to date,” the…
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Harry Geffert: Studio Dreams at Cris Worley Fine Arts
by Lucia Simekby Lucia Simek 3 commentsAnd as with the sublime in nature, wonder is a big part of the experience of being with Geffert’s complicated work, but there is little in the work that confounds the mastery of their own execution.
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Fort Worth Artist Gives Private Tour to Former President
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentFort Worth-based artist Sedrick Huckaby has an exhibition, Everyday Grace, now on view at the Art League Houston through January 4, as well as Everyday Glory, on view at Dallas’…
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Galleries exist in a strange gradient between shop and museum, money-maker and cultural institution. Pragmatism has certainly dictated that this exhibition leans toward the former.
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Update: Dallas Art Patron Wins Lawsuit After Auction Resale
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentOn Friday, Dallas federal court jury ruled for Dallas Museum of Art trustee Marguerite Hoffman and against two well-known art dealers and Studio Capital, a Belize-registered company advised by Mexican-born…
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Magee's quirky paintings on found wood explore a personal cosmology of signs and symbols like an updated, more polished Forrest Bess.
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The Texas Contemporary Art Fair is now accepting applications for exhibitors for its 2014 show at Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center. It may seem a bit early to worry…
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The official verdict is in and The University of Texas has lost its lawsuit against actor Ryan O’Neal. On Thursday afternoon, a jury found that the Andy Warhol portrait of…
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An aesthetically pleasing smorgasbord, but the potentially powerful connection between our love of food photography and larger societal concern with consumption is weak.
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Houston Makerspace to Make Space for Makers in East Downtown
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentHouston Makerspace (HMS) has announced that it has secured a physical location at 100 Hutcheson Street in East Downtown Houston and will be hosting fun “cleaning parties” to get the…
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In April 2012, the 34-year-old Asia Society Texas Center officially opened its headquarters, a beautiful building in Houston’s Museum District designed by famed Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi. But in less…
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Critic Jerry Saltz Attacked for Comments on George Zimmerman Painting
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 1 commentArt critic Jerry Saltz has certainly been in the public eye lately—he was a regular judge on the reality-TV game show Work of Art; he gave an ecstatic review of…
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Secor uses objects and artifacts that connote her mother's presence. Huckaby sketches more than a hundred portraits of people in his neighborhood in Fort Worth.
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Curator of Latin American Art to Return to the Blanton
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 2 commentsThe Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin has announced that Dr. Beverly Adams will return to Texas as adjunct curator of Latin American Art. Adams…
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If you are in search of a show that gets a little gritty and echoes a profound darkness and pessimism, you have come to the right museum. Even the philanthropic goodwill of the Menil's founders is questioned.