Lubbockites who have not yet visited the newest gallery to the city’s art scene, Peachtree Gallery (which opened its doors in June) or caught the opening night of its second…
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Lindy Chambers: Paintings at Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden
by Richard Bailey 9 commentsBroken machinery is kept around for spare parts. Tires are stacked up like canned vegetables. Shady trees, window a/c units, satellite TV dishes show up like grace notes.
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Students to Present a Banquet of Art, Food, and Stories at DiverseWorks
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentNext Wednesday, Houston’s DiverseWorks will team up with students from the UH Honors College Center for Creative Work in order to present “The Great Banquet,” an evening of local food…
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Crumbs aside, napkins are a cherished material for one of San Antonio’s premier minimalist painters.
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2014 Hunting Prize Competition is On! Texas Artists Vie for the $50K Award
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe call for entries has been announced for the 34th annual Hunting Art Prize, which at $50,000 is the largest prize in its category in North America. Open to legal…
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Summer Artist Dreams and Another Residency Application
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 1 commentSummer may slow down a bit in the art world, but it’s a busy time for artists filling out applications for grants and residencies. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston…
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The tide of hateful anti-immigrant and racist rhetoric has sparked a renewed commitment by younger generation of artist-activists to speak openly on the issue.
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In conjunction with its current exhibition Texas Tough, Blue Start Contemporary Art Museum will present a “Women’s Artist Panel.” The panel will include San Antonio artists Missi Smith, Katie Pell,…
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The Nasher Announces the Future of Art: It Involves Crying Babies
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe 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 11 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)…