The Dallas Museum of Art has announced the inaugural DMA Art Ball Graduate Student Prize, sponsored by the Dallas Art Fair. Maxwell L. Anderson (Director, DMA), Frances Colpitt (Chair…
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HCP Fellowships Announced: Lauren Marsolier and Marie d’Arcy Get Shows, $3000
by Bill Davenport 0 commentHouston Center for Photography has announced its 2013 fellowship winners: Los Angeles-based Lauren Marsolier won the HCP Fellowship and Houston’s Anne Marie D’Arcy won the Carol Crow Memorial Fellowship. Each…
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In Houston, recycled art-parts warehouse Texas Art Asylum is consolidating its locations: closing their retail store at 1320 Houston Avenue and moving everything (and that’s a lot!) to 1719 Live…
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Art on Fifth, “Austin’s First Contemporary Art Gallery” won’t be on Fifth much longer- a new parking garage is forcing the gallery to relocate after 15 years to 3005 South…
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ZZzzzzzz by Nathaniel Donnett was the result of his one-week residency at Art League Houston as part of the group show/mini residency STACKS, curated by Robert Pruitt. On opening night for STACKS,…
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On Black Friday, while millions were buying iPads for their six-year-olds and guns for their holsters (handgun sales broke an all-time record this year), I was staring at art in…
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Krisanne Frost (1951-2012), San Antonio Artist, Blue Star Gallery Liason
by Bill Davenport 1 commentFrom the San Antonio Current: “Krisanne Frost, well-known local artist and gallery liaison at Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, died December 6 from cancer at age 61 after being diagnosed…
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The Contemporary Art Museum Houston is loking for “activists, artists, lay(wo)men, and scholars” to participate in a series of discussions titled “Revenue Sharing,” held in conjunction with Theaster Gates’ mixed…
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Who doesn’t love to receive art books around the holidays? Full of inspiration and far more special than your average paperback, the following books will warm the hearts of all…
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CAMH Director Named CAM Curator: Bill Arning To Curate San Antonio Contemporary Art Month Perennial Show
by Bill Davenport 0 commentContemporary Art Month San Antonio has named Bill Arning as Curator of the 2013 CAM Perennial. The CAM Perennial opens at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center on March 15,…
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High Stakes High School: Goss-Michael Metroplex Student Art Contest Offers $1000 Prize
by Bill Davenport 0 commentDallas’ Goss-Michael foundation is looking for DFW area high school students for its 2013 Dallas/Ft. Worth Student Art Contest. Students drop off art relating to this year’s theme, “Conflict and…
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I know it’s not Texas, and it’s certainly not Miami, but there are some projects that are so well thought out, so surprising and so poetic that they should be…
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Newly Restored Destruction: Menil Installs John Chamberlain Anniversary Show
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Menil is topping off it’s 25th Anniversary with an installation of four major John Chamberlain sculptures in its foyer, reiterating its inaugural show of 1987. But they’ve been busy:…
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Anderson Bids for Overpriced Leonardo, Reassessing Art of the Possible at DMA
by Bill Davenport 3 commentsThe Dallas Museum of Art has scraped together a sizable pile of money from donors and made what Director Maxwell Anderson calls “a very reasonable offer” for a painting which…
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A few weeks ago, I did a quick survey of what a copyright is and how to get one. But recent reactions to a news report expand what one has…
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New Stamp Collection Commemorates 1913 Armory Show, Includes Murphy’s Razor From DMA
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe ever-ready PR department at the Dallas Museum of Art informs us that one of their pieces, Gerald Murphy’s 1924 Razor, will be featured on a postage stamp commemorating the…
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Novel Houston Art Classes Survive Through Cunning Brew of Edu-Tainment
by Bill Davenport 0 commentNon-credit classes offered by community arts orgs, without the protective umbrella of academia, are the feral cats of art education, living by their wits. Several new classes offered by Houston…
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Cecilia Gímenez, the painter famous for her comically awkward restoration job on a Spanish church fresco, is exploiting her notoriety to sell a painting on ebay to benefit the Catholic…
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The Perot Museum of Nature and Science has an exterior that looks like one of the collection’s incredible mineral crystals. Conjunctive cubes intersect each other and rest on an undulating…
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Montrose Esplanade Project, Part I: Renner’s Funnel Tunnel to Recapture Art League’s Inversion Glory
by Bill Davenport 1 commentA reinvigorated Art League Houston, under the leadership of newish director Micheal Peranteau, has commissioned a major new public piece by Houston artist Patrick Renner. Funnel Tunnel, a 180 foot…