Today, the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin celebrates it’s 50th anniversary with an all day affair: everyone’s invited to Fifty Fest, a free birthday party from noon to midnight…
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What Makes Today’s Homes So Appealing? Yesterday! Lawndale Design Fair Offers Weekend of Retro Shopping
by Bill Davenport 0 commentDesign Fair 2013 at Houston’s Lawndale Art Center juxtaposes vintage modern objects of the 20th century and “cutting-edge” contemporary design for a weekend high-end shopping benefiting the art space’s…
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Appropriation artist Richard Prince and Gagosian Gallery have largely won their lawsuit versus photographer Patrick Cariou on appeal. A lower court ruled that Prince’s use of Cariou’s photographs in his…
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Through the Eyes of Texas: An Interview with Annette Carlozzi and Simone Wicha
by Leslie Moody Castro 0 commentGrowing up in Austin, the Blanton was our reference during high school art history classes. Even spread across campus from the Harry Ransom Center to the Art Building, the collection…
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Don’t Wait For Permission- Get On Over to CentralTrak’s Emerging Art Panel Discussion TONITE!
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThis evening at CentralTrak, The Green Bandana Group is presenting a panel discussion on “Not Waiting for Permission: 2nd Annual State of the Emerging Arts”. According to the organizers, “the…
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Catherine Cuellar, “The Kevin Bacon of Dallas”, (and New Dallas Arts District Director) Interviewed on Culturemap
by Bill Davenport 0 commentCulturemap Dallas interviewed new Dallas Arts District Executive Director Catherine Cuellar yesterday. She’s perfect: her favorite acitivites are “enjoying concerts and exhibits,” she eats tex-mex three times a week, cares…
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Puppies, Picasso and Public Relations: Jeff Koons Cuddles up with MFAH director Gary Tinterow to SRO Crowd
by Bill Davenport 1 commentPeople began lining up at 5:35 outside the MFAH’s Brown auditorium theater last night to see the inaugural “Conversations with the Director” featuring art star Jeff Koons, in town for…
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I recently traded the gritty Houston humidity for the strange sibling rivalry of the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Somewhere in the center of this familial spat is the University of Texas…
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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…