The fifth annual Dallas Art Fair will return to the Fashion Industry Gallery on April 11-14, 2013 This year’s fair will showcase over 80 galleries, and kicks off on Thursday,…
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Ball-Nogues, Gaspar Enriquez and Mysterious Davidoff Chosen for El Paso Stadium Commissions
by Bill Davenport 0 commentAfter a nationwide search, The City of El Paso has selected Ball-Nogues Studio of Los Angeles, Gaspar Enriquez of San Elizario, TX and Robert Davidoff of El Paso to design,…
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Sherman Wows Dallas in Prada’s Pink Platform Geisha Shoes as Retrospective Opens at DMA
by Bill Davenport 0 commentLeave it to the NY Post to cover the glam reception of Cindy Sherman in celebrity-conscious Dallas. Oddly, the Post piece features a straightforward photo of Sherman from Getty Images:…
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The 47th annual conference of the NCECA, the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, convenes in Houston next weekend, March 20-23, with a full-to-bursting program of exhibitions, demos,…
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Houston Artist Beth Secor talks about her mania for Virgin Mary figurines and old group photos, then impersonates a dog yanked back by a short leash.
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Engines of War: Mitchell and Mulcahy’s Second War Photography Project to Open in New York
by Bill Davenport 0 commentDallas curators Charles Dee Mitchell and Cynthia Mulcahy’s latest project, Engines of War opens on March 28 at Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert in New York. Intended as a photographic…
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David Johndrow, Bill Hicks and Jim Beam (An Interview)
by John Aaspby John Aasp 0 commentAs Instagram portfolios overflow with images taken with ever-improving iPhone cameras, Austin-based artist David Johndrow continues to make platinum-palladium, cyanotype and gum bichromate prints, observing minute details that most of…
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Kitties in Space: Art Pod Spotlights Under-Funded Texas School Art Programs
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Woodlands High School Art Club, under the direction of TWHS art teacher Jim Kitchen, will transform a PODS storage container into a temporary art studio at the Woodlands Waterway…
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This afternoon, Houston’s boldly colored, but usually vacant, Central Library Plaza is the site for the kick-off festivities for the Texan French Alliance for the Arts’ Open the Door project,…
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Infinite and Repeating: An Interview with Morgan Rush Jones
by Katie Gehaby Katie Geha 0 commentMorgan Rush Jones grew up in Ohio, moved to New York to study photography and then arrived in Austin two years ago to make work on his computer while exploring…
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Spare Parts Initiative Seeking Scrappy New Public Art for Fort Worth Ave. in West Dallas
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Spare pARTS Public Art Initiative, the DIY public art program of the Fort Worth Avenue Development Group that brought the curious Mobius Bench by Glissman & Horn to West…
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On April 10, Austin’s Gallery Shoal Creek will move into new quarters in the Flatbed Building at 2832 E. MLK Blvd. The gallery will keep its name and continue to…
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Among the many details of new Pope Francis I’s past life and attitudes that are being sifted today is his involvement in one of those art scandals that are meat…
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On Friday, March 15, The Art League of Houston will celebrate the life of Cholla Kepner with a memorial service from 6-7:30 p.m. Cholla was an instructor at the League…
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New Sol LeWitts in Austin Celebrated with Tortillas and Tours March 21.
by Bill Davenport 0 commentTwo new works by artist Sol LeWitt have been installed at the Bill & Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex and Dell Computer Science Hall at UT. Circle with Towers, at…
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CAM’s New Shows Keeps The Dialog Going- Thank you, CAM!
by Leslie Moody Castro 1 commentRecently I had a chance to talk with Nina Hassele, director of Contemporary Art Month (CAM), and CAM Board Member Leigh Baldwin; both told me all about CAM past and…
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The Galveston Artist Residency and Bill Davenport (that’s me!) are collecting all kinds of things found on beaches near Galveston into one room on April 19, for a regional show…
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Remüv Hate and Be Someone: Persistent Hopeful Graffiti Rebrands Houston
by Bill Davenport 14 commentsLast September, two enormously visible pieces of street art rebranded Houston as a more hopeful city, at least to users of the I-45 freeway through downtown, effectively everyone. Two phrases,…
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Picasso Black and White has all the ingredients of a blockbuster exhibition. The featured artworks are historically significant examples from the best known periods of the artist’s work installed chronologically.…