On Tuesday evening (October 29, 6 pm), the Menil Collection will host a conversation between Belgian artist Luc Tuymans, whose new exhibition Nice. Luc Tuymans is on view at the…
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Pirates and Farmers is dense, delicious, and dripping with "limos, homos, bimbos" set in that "dazzled libido of shiny America"—Las Vegas.
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It’s an everyman’s Citizen Kane set under Texas skies, interpreted through the alienation of a Sam Shepard play and the quiet longing and restrained hope of a Wim Wenders road movie. In other words, it is really, deeply good.
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Adrian Piper Pulls Out of CAMH Traveling Show, Calls for Multi-Ethnic Exhibitions
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentWhen Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) late last year, it generated a lot of excitement and received some positive and…
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Craft Center Looking for New Artists (Craftspeople?)-in-Residence
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentApplications are now being accepted for the 2014 cycle of artists-in-residence at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC). 5-10 residencies are awarded each year for lengths of 3,…
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Dallas wins again, by presenting Dallas!
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The Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) has announced a new project in Houston’s East End in the fall of 2014 called “Transported + Renewed.” It is three-month creative “placemaking” project that…
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Made from humble materials, the exhibit has a suspenseful, Romantic quality as if Caspar David Friedrich had built sets for a Japanese horror movie.
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The San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) has announced the appointment of Merribell Parsons as Curator of European Art. The Museum has a small but choice selection of European art…
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The answer to the urgent problems of the world might not lie in yet another elegant, feel-bad-to-feel-good art installation.
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The New York-based nonprofit organization Creative Time commissions and presents ambitious public art projects in New York and elsewhere. They also host the Creative Time Summit every year, inviting innovative…
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Nasher XChange is as much about learning about Dallas as it is about seeing art.
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On Friday, October 25, noon-4 pm, the University of Texas at Dallas is hosting a Campus Preview Day for its new $60 million, 155,000 square-foot facility that houses programs in…
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Fusebox Festival founder/director Ron Berry has announced that Austin’s next annual hybrid art festival will be free to the public. Calling the initiative “Free Range Art,” the free entrance is…
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Texas Gets Literary with Two More Book Fairs
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentHouston hosted the Zine Fest Houston just weekend before last, and now there are two upcoming book fairs in as many weeks so, apparently, some Texans still read, write, and…
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Return to Earth at the Nasher Sculpture Center
by Lucia Simekby Lucia Simek 0 commentHow to say this? Oh, yes: ceramics make me lusty.
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Blanton Museum to Rock the Stage (or Conference Table) at SXSW
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentJust when pop musicians are tripping over themselves to be declared “performance artists” by the art world, Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art is working it all backwards and inserting itself…
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First Annual SLAB Parade a Success: “Houston Brings It!”
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 2 commentsThe first official SLAB Parade + Family Festival took place yesterday at Houston’s MacGregor Park with the usual food trucks, community booths, kids’ activity stations, and a stage for live…
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I actually really like stripe painting, but seeing so much of it in one place kinda makes you wonder.
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Electro-acoustic trio Konk Pack wowed audiences at Spring Street Studios, Art Palace brought dead animals to the art fair.