Houston’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…
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Screenings of artists' noncommercial cinema in digital form are rare enough. Showings of experimental film on 35mm are veritably unheard of.
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The Art Museum Formerly Known As AMOA-Arthouse
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentIt’s official! As of today, the AMOA-Arthouse will now be called The Contemporary Austin. In traditional marriages, the wife takes the name of the husband; a few modern marriages hyphenate…
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Thursday is a busy evening in the Houston art scene but, for antisocial art-lovers who just want to stay in, there is also a (relatively) new half-hour TV show on…
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Side by Side: Arturo Infante Almeida and Daniel Guerrero
by Gabriel Diego Delgado 3 commentsAlmeida and Guerrero make artwork that is worlds apart, but they share a small-town communal nostalgia, galvanized by an uncanny flair for the extravagant.
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Mr. and Mrs. Anderson Again! DMA Director Remarries
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentWhen Maxwell Anderson joined the Dallas Museum of Art in 2012, he brought his wife of 17 years, former actress and entrepreneur Jacqueline Buckingham Anderson, with him. The couple added…
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More Marfa-Envy from NYC: Ballroom Marfa Takes it to the Big City
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentNew York can’t seem to get enough of Marfa. Last month, Manhattan opened the recently restored SoHo home of Donald Judd, referred to by NYTimes’ Roberta Smith as “the template…
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But the wooden box yielded to the pressures of mud and flesh, and quite spectacularly burst open. Slush flooded the gallery, producing a stir among the crowded viewers.
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MFAH Disaster Conference: Gulf Coast Arts Organizations Prepare for the Worst
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentNow that it’s mid-July, it’s easy to think that summer is halfway over, but we technically haven’t even hit the one-third mark. And for those equate summer with the hurricane…
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In the latest of her Glasshouses series, Debra Barrera talks with Angel Oloshove about pop culture, transcendence, and Kokeshi dolls.
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Dallas Film Explores the Evolution of an Art Scene
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentIn conjunction with the exhibition DallasSITES: Charting Contemporary Art, 1963 to Present, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) will screen the film Dallas Art City. The film, directed by Colby…
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Skim Milk: Oliver Francis Gallery at Interstate Projects, Brooklyn
by Lucia Simekby Lucia Simek 0 commentI don't really care about Dallas for Dallas and all of that talk. I want to fully exploit the potential of exoticism that the word Dallas brings to mind to people outside of the state.
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Less Cars, More Art! Houston METRO to Add New Rail Lines with Art at Every Stop
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 1 commentHouston METRO is on the way to adding three new light-rail lines currently under construction (with two more in the works). Through its “Arts in Transit” program, each of the…
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What is Art “Worth”? Ft. Worth Art Professionals to Clear Things Up
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe Fort Worth Art Dealers Association (FWADA) is going to sit down and finally hash out the will the age-old argument about art as experience versus art as investment. Tomorrow…
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Garcia referrs to his works as a “pseudo-spiritual-technology” that suggests Christianity and science can find some points of agreement only because the machines don’t work.
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Houston Arts Community Still Remembers Anthony Palasota
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentIt has been almost five months since the death of Anthony Palasota, one of Houston’s most passionate and dedicated gallery-goers and friend to almost every artist and art-lover in town.…
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Even those who braved the heat, the lack of parking, and the crazy crowd to attend last night’s successful opening of The Big Show 2013 at Houston’s Lawndale Art Center…