Pure, honest camp, the show feeds off the local nostalgia of last year’s traumatic blaze, in which an electrical fire destroyed the iconic statue of Big Tex.
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Houston’s Other Film Festival: Our Image Features Black Filmmakers
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 1 commentThere should be a lot of upcoming press about the Houston Cinema Arts Festival, which just held this year’s launch party and announced the festival’s schedule beginning November 6. Sneaking…
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Contemporary Austin Pairs Up Artists with Teens for Collaborative Exhibition
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe Contemporary Austin is now accepting applications for its Advanced Young Artists Program (AYA), in which Austin-area high school students are paired up with artist-mentors. Starting in mid-January, each teen…
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Smithsonian Institution’s 19 museums and galleries will reopen today. The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden updated its website only moments ago; its public reopening has been moved…
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Houston Rap Scene Focus of Upcoming Photo Book
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 1 commentDocumentary photographer Peter Beste, who grew up in the Houston area, is probably best known for his photo series and book True Norwegian Black Metal, which came from spending seven…
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Mark Rothko’s Untitled (No. 11) is going up for sale at Christie’s in New York next month. The painting has been featured prominently in major museum retrospectives including a seminal…
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Report Card from the TX Contemporary Fair Organizers
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 2 commentsWhile some dealers at the third annual Texas Contemporary Art Fair, which took place this past weekend in Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center, mumbled politely tepid descriptions of this…
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The Art Foundation's (artists Ryder Richards, Lucia Simek and Andrew Douglas Underwood) installation for the Texas Biennial is inspired by Jonathan Lethem’s novel Chronic City.
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El Paso filmmaker César Alejandro has announced that he will be producing a documentary about the career and legacy of sculptor Luis Jiménez. The El Paso Times reports that it…
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Only a Few Weeks Left to Declare an Outstanding North Texas Artist!
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe Moss/Chumley Award has been handed out to an “outstanding” North Texas artist since 1995 and the Meadows Museum at SMU is accepting applications through Monday, November 4 for this…
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Giant Floating Fabric Installation to Open at UT Today
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 1 commentThe University of Texas at Austin will host an opening party for a temporary installation called Social Helium this afternoon from 2-4 pm at the West Mall Fountain. Its creators,…
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One of the worst and best things to happen at this year’s Texas Contemporary Art Fair was a car crash.
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High Art Tailgate Partying for Cowboy Fans: Anish Kapoor Giant Mirror Sculpture Installed
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 2 commentsThis weekend, the Dallas Cowboys have added the first outdoor sculpture to its art collection at AT&T Stadium, which now includes 56 works of art, including 13 commissioned pieces. The…
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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…