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.…
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From satirical newspaper, The Onion, on Feruary 2: TERRIBLE ARTIST THINKS LATEST PIECE REALLY REPRESENTS A CULMINATION OF EVERYTHING HE’S BEEN WORKING TOWARD ALL HIS LIFE Burlington, VT—Citing a lifetime…
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A while back I bought some fancy sunscreen in Rice Village and then went to the nearby Starbucks for an iced tea. My credit card company put a hold on…
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Sarah Castillo’s Lady Base to Open in SA’s South Flores Arts District
by Bill Davenport 0 commentAlana Coates reports on Lady Base, a new gallery in San Antonio’s South Flores Arts District, in the most recent issue of Artmagazine SA. Run by artist Sarah Castillo, the…
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When British artist Damien Hirst split with Gagosian Gallery last December, the “insanely wealthy” artist was reported to be worth $215 million, making him the world’s richest artist. Living artist,…
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Infinite Perfection, the latest show at Tiny Park Gallery in Austin, is a solo exhibition of Joseph Phillips‘ work. There’s not much to say about the show that hasn’t already…
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After 60 Years, DMA Crows Over Its First Catalogue of South and Southeast Asian Art
by Bill Davenport 0 commentAfter nearly sixty years of collecting, the Dallas Museum of Art has the publication of “The Arts of India, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas“, surveying 140 pieces from the Museum’s…
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East Texas Gold Rush: SFASU’s Texas National Competition-$3500 in Prizes, Deadline on Feb. 9!
by Bill Davenport 0 commentStephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches is gearing up for the 19th Annual Texas National Art Competition, a juried show open to artists nationwide, this time judged by art…