Forrest Bess (1911-1977) lived a hermit’s life in a cabin in Chinquapin, Texas. In the catalog for the exhibit Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible, Robert Gober writes, “Forrest Bess lived a life…
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Houston Arts Foundation’s Adopt-A-Monument Program Gets International Attention
by Bill Davenport 0 commentHouston Arts Foundation’s Adopt-a-Monument program, a scheme in which area schools partner with corporate sponsors to “adopt” pieces of public art and raise money for their maintenance, has been recognized…
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Bloghopper: Rainbow Brains in Dallas, Magical Blue Tree, Open Doors etc.
by GT contributors 3 commentsThe first installment of a feature collecting notes and news too short to stand alone. See something interesting? Tell us about it, with a picture, at [email protected]. Rainbow Trees in…
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Austin’s Forus Gallery Re-Opens for WEST with Tanned Guy Takes Blood Shot
by Bill Davenport 0 commentForus Gallery, an apartment exhibition space run by artists Donnie Carver and Jade Abner opened in December 2011 on 51st St. in Austin. Their inaugural show, The Prettiest and the…
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UTSA Satellite Needs Art! Exhibition Proposals for Next Fall Due May 4
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe UTSA Satellite Space is currently accepting proposals for two-person and group exhibitions happening between September 2013-February 2014. Applications are due to the UTSA Department of Art and Art History…
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AAMD Argues Against Artist’s Resale Royalties in Letter to US Copyright Office
by Bill Davenport 0 commentWhen the US Copyright Office asked for comments on proposed rules to grant visual artists a resale royalty right in their works, The American Association of Museum Directors surprisingly came…
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South Korean-born artist Soo Sunny Park has filled the Rice Gallery with an elaborate material world, with which she intends to show us the immaterial. Unwoven Light is a suspended…
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HAA Announces 2013 Grants: $215,000 Distributed to 24 Local Artists
by Bill Davenport 5 commentsThe Houston Arts Alliance has posted the names of the 24 recipients of it’s 2013 individual artist grants on its website. Chosen from among a field of just 79, the…
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Current CORE Resident Madsen Minax hails from Chicago and recently received an Andy Warhol Foundation Idea Fund grant. His film, Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance, will be screened…
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Squirrel fetus stew anyone? Homemade pipe bombs to destroy the “technical class?” Smashing windows as an initiation into homicidal mania? Pus-filled gums resulting from porcupine meat lodged at the base…
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Sixto Wagan Leaves Diverseworks to Direct New UH Center for Arts Leadership
by Bill Davenport 3 commentsLongtime DiverseWorks Performance and Artistic director Sixto Wagan has been appointed the inaugural Director of the Center for Arts Leadership at the University of Houston. Wagan, Artistic Director since 2011,…
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Hot Dog! Cody Ledvina’s One-Man Montrose Mural Project Stretches Across Vacant Walls
by Bill Davenport 2 commentsHouston artist Cody Ledvina has just finished painting a long, long dog on the side of a EJ’s, prominent LGBT bar in Montrose. He’s proud as punch, and sent this…
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You Don’t Have to be Rich to Rule My World, (But it Helps): Alumni Collectors to Speak at Blanton Museum 50th Anniversary Show
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThis Saturday, UT’s Blanton Museum in Austin is hosting a panel discussion among three major collectors (and potential donors . . .) who have loaned works the Blanton’s Through the…
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The exhibition lies in two explorations which converge in the space itself. The physical space acts as a metaphor for the process that an artist goes through while projecting themselves…
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Like the swallows of Capistrano, the Drepung Loseling monks return every year to The Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas to spend a week creating a large sand mandala,…
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The Dallas Museum of Art has announced the acquisition of Erminia and the Shepherds, an early work by the French painter Guillaume Guillon Lethière (1760–1832). The neoclassically-minded painting was shown…
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Dallas Contemporary: The Space That Only a DC-10 Could Love
by Bill Davenport 5 commentsThe Dallas Contemporary is a hangar and tends to dwarf anything smaller than a DC-10 that’s parked there. John Pomara’s transparent tapestries were no exception. Though they were six feet…
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Twenty-five year old literary journal Gulf Coast has always had a soft spot for the visual arts, and now it’s official: the magazine will merge with the recently defunct visual…
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In addition to the lobster salad, Cartier watches and who’s-who guest list, last Saturday’s Untitled Art Ball benefiting the Dallas Museum of Art featured a video parody of the popular…
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Blouin Artinfo has a report on the Dallas Art Fair’s social side, grudgingly admitting that the fair, and the city “maybe — just maybe” has a shot at becoming an…