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…
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Art Fairs are the funnest no-fun events in the artworld. Take Dallas, for example: the first thing I saw was this swing, installed on the grassy lawn outside the Fashion…
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Credit Sequence -Gray day, I’m on 59, heading down to TSU. At freeway speed, the weather renders most of the adjacent buildings invisible, only the brightest planes of blue, red,…
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The City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs unveiled 7 new public art commissions this week at Dallas Love Field Airport. The Love Field Art Collection is part of the…
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A few nights before I saw the Cindy Sherman retrospective at the Dallas Museum of Art, I dreamed about Cindy. Picture a big warehouse building like Warhol’s New York Factory…
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Lacking a convenient building to demolish, the Art League Houston is sending out a call for scrap lumber for Funnel Tunnel, Patrick Renner’s 185-foot public artwork now beginning construction along…
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Houston artist David McGee recalls an encounter with a Picasso impersonator on TV for videographer John Carrithers.
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Temporary Services “Socialized Media–Designated Drivers, Interactive Records and a Booklet Cloud”
by Katie Gehaby Katie Geha 1 commentThe art collective Temporary Services’ exhibition at The University Galleries at Texas State in San Marcos acts a tutorial for the social art practice the group engages and promotes. The…
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This Friday, April 12, from 7-10 p.m., Big Medium, the Austin art org behind the upcoming West Austin Studio Tour (as well as the Texas Biennial, the former Cantanker Magazine,…