It’s been months now since Detroit filed for bankruptcy, provoking art world nervousness as many eyed the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), the second largest municipally-owned museum in the United…
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Especially in the low light of the bar’s evening ambience, the salon-style constellation gives the impression that La Carafe is where all souls—good and bad, gloriously joyful and dreadfully serious—come to raise a glass, get at least slightly crooked, and disappear into time.
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Since 2009, Houston artist Carrie Schneider has been working as an arts facilitator for refugee youth from Burma and, for the first time, is receiving funding from the City of…
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Twofer! Texas Storytelling: Ellen Tanner and the Lizard Cult
by Joshua Fischer 3 commentsTanner's incredibly skilled oil on panel paintings at Moody Gallery each tell one of Aesop's Fables, while the Brandon hosts a fascinating look at the "Lizard Cult" of Lee Baxter Davis, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Robyn O'Neil, Georganne Deen and Gary Panter.
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The holidays can very stressful for many folks and provoke behavior that is not quite in the Christmas spirit. For those who had a spat with a loved one or…
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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…