The 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,…
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Please Don’t Mist the Art! Flower Show To Feature Horticultural Interpretations of MFAH’s Collection
by Bill Davenport 0 commentLike global warming, and with similar speed, contemporary art’s omnivorous inclusion of the temporary and the handmade has caught up with the traditional art of flower arranging, as it has…
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35th Annual Master’s Thesis Exhibition at Blaffer Art Museum
by Debra Barrera 6 commentsNewly renovated Blaffer exterior About three years ago I installed my Master’s Thesis Show at the Blaffer Art Museum. Every piece in my exhibit was ready-made sculpture and vinyl…
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Jacqueline Buckingham and DMA Director Maxwell Anderson Announce Divorce on Facebook
by Bill Davenport 0 commentIn a joint letter to “family, friends, and colleagues,” glamorous Jacqueline Buckingham and DMA Director Maxwell Anderson announced their divorce on her website and her facebook page on April 9.…
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The Hermitage Artist Retreat along with the Greenfield Foundation have announced that Houston painter Trenton Doyle Hancock is the winner of the $30,000 Greenfield Prize, awarded this year in visual…
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Senorita Cinema, Stephanie Saint Sanchez’s Latina film festival is seeking short films and videos by Latinas for this year’s fourth annual event, set for June 7-9, at locations around Houston.…
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You can’t miss the compound on San Antonio’s West Side as it sits in the middle of Leal Street. Warhol-inspired Campbell’s soup piñatas mixed in with lush, green vegetation greeted…
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Looky Hooky: Dallas Art Fair Lures Workers With Free Professionals Day Friday, April 12
by Bill Davenport 1 commentWhy should ogling acres of fine art be the exclusive province of the leisured? For the first time in its five year run, the Dallas Art Fair, partnering with CultureMap,…
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For those of us who just can’t get enough contemporary art, this week’s Dallas Art Fair has sparked several fair-like events in its train, in addition to the fair’s own…
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Brushed with Greatness: Vuitton and Koons Join Picasso and Tinterow at Houston’s MFAH
by Glasstireby Glasstire 2 commentsTo kick off its new “Conversations with the Director” lecture series, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston is splurging on a big name: high-end artist Jeff Koons will discuss his…
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On a late Friday afternoon in March as rush-hour drivers braked their way through the I-10 and Loop 1604 intersection, San Antonio artists got their first formal introduction to the…
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On Saturday, April 6 from 8 a.m.-3 p.m., the Museum of Cultural Arts Houston is selling off a pile of broken and not so broken musical instruments, art supplies, furniture, …
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Laura Gilbert, writing in The Art Newspaper, has a fascinating account of the gray market in salvaged art, a suddenly important and visible secor of the at market dealing in…
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Three exhibitions currently on view in DFW highlight work in clay by three artists spanning four centuries. C.D. Dickerson is Curator of European Art at the Kimbell Art Museum and…
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Glowing Hoopers and Sparkle Heads: Houston Silo’s 10th Anniversary Tonight
by Bill Davenport 0 commentSpring Glow, a quasi-art party and light show “Where Mad Max Meets Houston” is set for tonight, April 5, at The Silo, the concrete shell turned alterna-venue at 4601 Clinton…
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The Houston Arts Alliance has cooked up a new marketing push labeled “Houston is Inspired,” and is convening a forum for the managers and PR people from Houston art organizations…
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Disorganized Documents of Houston Art history: CSAW Reminiscences, Now on Video!
by Bill Davenport 0 commentHouston artist, welder and filmmaker Lee Benner has put together a film tribute to Houston artist Mike Scranton and the good old days (the 1980’s) at Commerce Street Artist Warehouse,…
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Austin Art Mag Cantanker Says Thank You and Goodbye, But it’s Never Too late to Buy a Box Set!
by Bill Davenport 0 commentCantanker, after fourteen printed issues of themed interviews, artist projects and other “bizarre and interesting things” has called it quits with an email of thanks from the editors, and a…
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Katie Wynne‘s A chain of non-events at Lawndale is an installation of various bits of crap semi-connected to one another. I don’t say “crap” in a pejorative way. I use it in the way…