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…
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The Public in Public Art: Houston Community Helps Create “Funnel Tunnel”
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentArtist Patrick Renner and the Art League Houston held a “Funnel Tunnel Painting Party” on Saturday and, in spite of some early-day ominous skies, tons of folks showed up to…
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Joel Sampson: Kinetic Percussion: Rhythm Machines
by Thomas Ezekiel Williams 2 commentsJoel Sampson’s Rhythm Machines reminds me of something one might see at a Maker Faire or the Musee Mecanique, if the people who made those things were less crass.
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The Fort Worth City Council plans to call for a $292 bond election in May 2014 to build new roads, parks and facilities. In order to educate voters and to…
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Ordinary People: “Lifelike” at the Blanton Museum of Art
by Katie Gehaby Katie Geha 0 commentThe work in the show, spanning from the late 1960s to the present, creates moment after moment of “aha.” As in “Oh, wow, you mean that trash bag is made of marble?”
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San Antonio Bikers to Cruise Westside Murals
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentFor San Antonians who love their art and love their bikes, San Anto Cultural Arts (SACA) will hold one of its Bicycle Mural Tours this evening, beginning at 6 pm…
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Casey Stranahan walks through the Nasher's installation with Jeremy Strick and chats with Berlin-based artist Katharina Grosse about frameless painting and the taboo of color.
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Rice University Gets Six More Tons of Sculpture!
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentHouston’s Rice University has installed its latest public art project, Mark di Suvero’s sculpture “Po-um (Lyric).” University Art Director Molly Hubbard refers to the work as a “mobile”; the six-ton…
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Lauren Moya Ford talks with Assistant Curator Michael Wellen about the art of breakfast tacos, how museums build collections, and Latin American exhibitions at the MFAH.
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I know these people; I have worked for these people. The titles, though blunt, reveal their lifestyles: "Women on a Sailboat," "Pool," "Figure with Towel" and "The Jet Ski."
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Dallas Looking to Spread Some LOVE: Volunteers Needed
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThere are many projects, events, and exhibitions commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas. (Hotel Texas: An Art Exhibition for the President and…