This is officially the season of painters’ painters. Three major exhibitions curated by Houston-based painters have opened in the last five months– “In Plain Sight” curated by Aaron Parazette at…
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Mustang, Luis Jiménez’s last work, aka the Big Blue Horse at the Denver Airport was reconsidered on Monday. Maybe it’s the glowing red eyes, or the prominent penis, but some…
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San Antonio Nonprofit Returns $100,000 Grant, SAY Sí Awarded with an Unexpected Windfall
by Bill Davenport 0 commentRepresentatives from SAY Sí got a big surprise (and a big check) at the 2013 Membership Kickoff Party for Impact San Antonio last Thursday, when they were awarded a $100,000…
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The Moody Foundation has awarded $20 million to Rice University for a new Center for the Arts. The 50,000-square-foot building, currently in the predesign phase, would provide lecture and studio…
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Tejas Englesmith, Houston curator, arts administrator, and radio personality, died Sunday morning, February 7 in a Dallas hospital. In the 1960’s and 70’s, Englesmith was assistant director of the Whitechapel…
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Rachel Hecker Named ALH Texas Artist of the Year 2013, Oliver Given New Lifetime Achievement Award
by Bill Davenport 0 commentArt League Houston has named Rachel Hecker as their Texas Artist of the Year for 2013. Leigh and Reggie Smith were named as Texas Patrons of the Year, and, in…
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Stupid Painting with your lack of ideas I won’t say “Conceptual Art.” It’s a lie, and not the good you-kinda-look-like-Idris-Elba lie, but more like the wretched no-such-thing-as-a-stupid-question kind of…
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Sunday’s Dallas Morning news carried an op-ed piece by Dallas Museum of Art Director Maxwell Anderson, titled Giving Back Art: How Museums See It. The piece defines the “alloy of…
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Bush in The Bath: Ex-President’s Hacked Paintings Probed by Avid Internet Psychoanalysts
by Bill Davenport 0 commentAs a result of a recent hacker attack on the Bush family, photographs of three paintings by former President George W. have gone viral on the Internet. The National journal…
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Rev Your Engines- the Orange Show’s Annual Art Car Parade Entry Deadline is March 22!
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe 25th annual Art Car Parade rolls through Houston on May 9-11, 2013, and you can be in it! Just fill out the lengthy online questionnaire, attach a picture and…
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Michael Bise: Life On the List, Chapter 3
by Michael Biseby Michael Bise 2 commentsLast month marked the one year anniversary of my heart transplant. This chapter, and indeed, this entire comic is dedicated to all the many people in the art community in…
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Austin film programmer Zack Carlson and the Alamo’s upcoming screening of rarely seen mindblower, “The World’s Greatest Sinner” Everyone knows that Austin’s original Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is the coolest. Many…
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Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art
by Kelly Klaasmeyer 1 commentJean-Ulrick Désert is a Haitian-born American artist living in Germany. His performance project Negerhosen 2ooo is one of the standouts of the soon-to-close Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art…
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Raj Mankad, editor of Rice Design Alliance’s Cite magazine, is circulating a petition asking the city of Houston to close a section of a different Houston street one night each…
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Artlies, Texas Art Mag 1994-2011, Finally Goes Online, if Posthumously
by Bill Davenport 0 commentRecently, The University of North Texas became the host for the archives of Art Lies, the now-defunct paper-and-ink Texas art magazine that began in Houston in 1994 as a free…
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For our ongoing series Glass Houses, Jack Thompson photographed Houston husband and wife collaborators Mary Magsamen and Stephan Hillerbrand, who document their home, family and possessions as part of their…
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Yesterday was a big day for venerable Houston alterna-space DiverseWorks. Exactly 30 years ago, on February 7, 1983, DiverseWorks’ inaugural exhibition was presented at Texas Commerce Tower’s 60th floor Sky…
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Academic Shows That Made Me Curse With Joy: Artists’ Books at TWU; Ceramics at SMU
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 1 commentThe formats are traditional and the originality is through the fucking roof. Artists’ books at Texas Woman’s University; ceramics at SMU. Artistic boundaries are pushed and plundered. Academia. Who knew.…
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interview with contemporary artist Todd Kelly
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Cadillac Ranch, the iconic panhandle art installation sponsored by eccentric art patron and accused sex offender Stanley Marsh 3, may be in danger of the bulldozer, according to Anthony G.…