Art 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.
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The Idea Fund has announced its ten 2014 grantees! The following Texas-based artists and artist collectives will each receive $4,000 to create and showcase innovative artistic projects in the coming…
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The Contemporary Austin to Send Artists Back to School
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 2 commentsOne would think that artists in a university town would be sick of classes after finishing up five or ten years of art school, but after a few years away…
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Entrenched in the world of pattern, Thorne's paintings mix faux bois, window shades, bricks and tiles. Vidal's tent evokes a dream of an arctic "world saturated in blue."
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Houston artists Robert Hodge and Robert Pruitt are two of this year’s recipients of the Joan Mitchell Foundation’s Painters and Sculptors Grant Program. Twenty-five individual artists, chosen through a national…
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The National Endowment for the Arts has announced its 2014 grants to arts organizations and some Texas groups received a good share of the $25.8 million given nationally. In addition…
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Wegman's hilarious slapstick conceptualism and Stine's tight, focused paintings talk about the life in the artist's studio and the simple act of inventing something.
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John Adelman follows the rules. Precise and odd, they dominate every mark.
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Airport art has been getting much attention lately, according to the surge of reviews and “best of” lists, such as those put out recently by The Huffington Post, The Wall…
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The apartment gallery is to the critic as the firefly is to the concerned biologist. Both a signs of a healthy ecosystem. Many of us lament the passing of an Austin original that will light up 49th street no more.
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The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) has announced that Elizabeth Kozlowski will join its staff as its new curator in January. Kozlowski recently received her Masters in Museum Studies…
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Thanks to the keen eyes of some TV crime drama watchers at GalleristNY, someone noticed that the paintings in last night’s episode of the CBS show Elementary were those of…
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Art League Houston Reinstates Open Call for Exhibitions
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe Art League Houston (ALH) has announced an open call for exhibition proposals for the spring of 2014, which is kind of a big deal since the last time it…
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What’s in a Handshake? The Art Guys Agree On Painting, Again
by Joshua Fischer 0 commentThere are thirteen major painting exhibitions currently on view in Houston. A humorous but meaningful event at The Art Guys studio cast them all in a different light.
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Under the mistletoe, Texas artists looking for a little year-end green and buyers looking for unique gifts get together, doing an end-run around the artworld's high prices.
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For most—if not all—the artists here, the difficult task was to come to terms with an event of world-historical proportions that occurred while they were infants or prior to their birth.
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The BBC London News reports that two artworks by Damien Hirst were stolen from the Exhibitionist Gallery in Notting Hill early Monday morning. The gallery only opened this past September…