The Nasher Sculpture Center is now announcing the fifth of its ten plans for the Nasher XChange citywide sculptures commissioned for its tenth anniversary. The first of the announced projects…
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Why Things are Falling Apart is a book I bought, then put off reading because, not having done my homework about the author, I feared it was written by some Tea Party wingnut.
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Deadline Approaches for 3-Month Poolside Artist Residency
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentFor many who visited Riley Holloway’s recent exhibition at Dallas’ Fairmont Hotel Gallery, it was the first they had heard of the Fairmont’s artist-in-residence program, although it was established in…
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After six years, Houston’s DARKE Gallery is closing its doors. Adding the announcement at the end of a press release for its upcoming and final gallery exhibition, owner Linda Darke…
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Austin Artists Building Giant Baby Head to be Burned
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 1 commentDavid Altair Karave and a group of East Austin artists, architects, engineers, and volunteers are creating a “Psychokinetic Child,” a 20-foot tall mechanical newborn baby head. The gigantic, interactive…
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Most of the works are some version of a flattened blob of cast concrete, cradling a block coated with either colored sand or crystals. They could as easily be religious relics as construction site debris.
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Chinquapin Pilgrimage: Searching for Forrest Bess
by Robert Boydby Robert Boyd 10 commentsMatagorda Bay was like a giant, naturally formed James Turrell. It doesn't seem all that strange that someone living here would start to see things.
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The public relations fight between the Nasher Sculpture Center and the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System just got a lot nastier. The Dallas News has published an article about…
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The Dallas Museum of Art is covering all the bases in presenting the city’s art history. In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination, they (and the Amon…
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Suddenly the show rushes into focus. Of course the tiled painting is a detail of the floor of his bathroom (it looks just like the floor of my bathroom!).
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Minimalist artist, sculptor, and sometime musician Walter De Maria died yesterday of a stroke at the age of 77. Best-known for The Lightning Field (1977), a mile-wide land-art piece in…
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There was something exciting about Houston’s annual Museum District Day and watching people make the ridiculous attempt to visit each and every participating museum in one (usually hot and steamy)…
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An article in today’s Hyperallergic lays out possible devastating cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities. While Obama proposed his 2014 fiscal year budget in April, which…
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Jeffrey Deitch’s departure is a done deal. He officially informed the LA MOCA board yesterday of his resignation and the museum issued a written statement. Deitch will stay on “to…
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If El Paso has an inferiority complex about its art scene and its cultural history, the El Paso Illustrator Collective (EPIC) wants to turn that all around with a little…
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For those who prefer skin as the ultimate medium for fancy art, the Austin Convention Center is hosting the “Body Art Expo,” the world’s largest tattoo convention, this Friday through…
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Peter Lucas previews some of the 30+ films being shown at Houston's QFest.
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In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Nasher Sculpture Center has commissioned ten public art works at ten diverse sites throughout Dallas, in an ambitious, citywide sculptural art project dubbed…
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The LA Weekly reports that Jeffrey Deitch will be leaving the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (LA MOCA). Their sources say an official announcement from the museum will be…
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Houston Artist Gets Tons of Love from the National Press
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 1 commentMost artists would be excited to get a New York gallery show, but a solo exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem is a really big deal. The same day…