Portland-born, Brooklyn-based Keegan McHargue, whose colorful semi-figurative paintings are on view at the booth of Fredericks & Freiser, has been announced as the winner of the 2013 TX Contemporary Award.…
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Picking up the Slack: Ware:Wolf:Haus and West Dallas
by Lucia Simekby Lucia Simek 34 commentsDeveloper WDI owns most of the colorfully painted warehouses that line Singleton and its side streets. It's also keen on drawing artists to the area to add to its retail and cultural viability.
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The were hordes of visitors celebrating at Thursday’s opening night party for the Texas Contemporary Art Fair, but it was during the quieter afternoon on Friday when a fairgoer, reportedly…
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Pick Up the New Basquiat Kicks and Some Thoughts on Art and Culture
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentReviews of the Basquiat-adorned sneakers coming out in Reebok’s 2013 Fall/Winter Collection have been popping up recently in some art websites and blogs, such as Blouin Artinfo and Arrested Motion,…
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Dallas, Dallas, Dallas: Three of a Kind for the Texas Center of Novel Projects
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Here’s the fair, blogged at it unrolls at Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center. Thursday Night Opening and VIP preview The always well-dressed Paul Middendorf was among the throng of…
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Online Chinati Weekend: Smart Stuff to Stream Live Tomorrow
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe unique Marfa art experience and the weekend’s party atmosphere don’t translate via computer screen, but Saturday’s lectures at the Crowley Theater in downtown Marfa might. Video of the lectures…
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Menil Collection Unveils Partial Plans for New Green Campus and Café
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentHouston’s Menil Collection today unveiled plans for the first phase of the renovation of its 30-acre campus. In June, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates was announced as the landscape architecture firm…
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Dallas’ Meadows Museum Acquires Major Goya Painting
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University now has its sixth work by Francisco Goya, the newest one an important late oil painting by the Spanish Romantic master, a portrait…
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Chinati Foundation Makes Worlds Monument Watch List. Yea!!?
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe Chinati Foundation released an odd statement today that it was “proud to announce” that it has been selected for inclusion on the 2014 Worlds Monument Watch list. Since 1996,…
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San Antonians Back to the Chalkboard for the 10th Year
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThis Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm, San Antonio’s Artpace will host its 10th annual Chalk It Up festival, where contemporary artists, novices, and kids all work together to…
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Ten Things You Need to Know If You Are Going to Chinati Weekend
by Thomas Ezekiel Williams 3 commentsWhat happens on the Chihuahuan Desert plateau stays on the Chihuahuan Desert plateau, but use some common sense.
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It’s art fair time (again)! This weekend, the Texas Contemporary Art Fair will take over the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, and it all kicks off with a…
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Smithsonian to Open Latino Show with Texas Artists. Maybe.
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 1 commentA large sculptural installation by San Antonio/New York artist Franco Mondini-Ruiz has recently been acquired for the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. The work…
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Zine Fest Houston 2013: The Uncensored Lit of Counter Culture
by Allison Currie 0 commentPassed down from hand to hand, an underground tradition of twenty years is coming to Houston's Museum of Printing History next weekend.
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Latest Updates in Houston Art Appraiser’s Bizarre FBI Raids
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentAfter Friday’s report of a federal terrorism task force descending on the Houston area homes of Houston art appraiser/art supporter Cecily E. Horton and her husband Andrew E. Schneck, FBI…
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New Dallas Art Collective Asks Artists to Think Inside the Box
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 1 commentSlant, a new Dallas Midtown artist collective at Valley View, is holding an open call for a group exhibition entitled Contained. In the call for entries for the juried show,…
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Houstonian subversion trio—Mark Flood, Lane Hagood, and Jeremy DePrez—look smart on these mismatched walls, which still bear traces of an auto-body shop.
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Megan Harrison Finds the Destination: Atramentite at Sala Diaz
by Scott Andrews 0 comment"I feel that I am putting myself on the continuum between the microscopic and the universal, and finding that place where I fit into all of that."
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Houston’s Artery Space Announces Closing After 26 Years
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 3 commentsMark Larsen, founder of the Artery has announced that the space will soon be closing after 26 years. The inner-city environmental art/performance space “is magic because of the abundant foliage…