Oklahoma University (OU) announced that Emily Ballew Neff will be the new director of OU’s Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, pending approval by the OU Board of Regents, according…
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On Saturday, from 2-5 pm, the Bee Cave Sculpture Park, outside of Austin, will celebrate its grand opening and dedication, featuring eleven original sculptures now installed in the five-acre park.…
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“Forget Monticello or the Chrysler building: There may be no piece of architecture more quintessentially American than the Astrodome.” That is how Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times architecture critic, began…
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Kermit Oliver: Tracing Our Pilgrimage at Art League Houston
by Kelly Klaasmeyer 1 commentSeventy year old Kermit Oliver is a Texas legend, a self-described “reclusive” artist who kept his night shift job sorting mail at the Waco post office until this August.
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Anonymous Donor Gives DMA $9 Million to Stay Free and Digitize Collection
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 3 commentsThe Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) today announced an anonymous gift of $9 million over three years to ensure free general admission to the DMA and enable the Museum to…
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New Online Gallery from Ambitious Young Houston Group
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentMax Fields, one of the ambitious young curators behind do it: houston, has now started an online art gallery. Its inaugural exhibition features artist Lillian Paige Walton, whose exhibition, Linear…
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Houston Cinema Arts Festival 2013: An Eye Toward Documentaries
by Joshua Fischer 0 commentThe Houston Cinema Arts festival has become something I look forward to every year. Combing through the upcoming schedule, I have put together a preview of my exhausting (but not…
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A Whole New Chapter for Art History Books: 1,500 “Degenerate” Artworks Discovered in Munich Apartment
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 1 commentNews broke yesterday that 1,500 artworks—paintings by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Max Beckmann, Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka—were found in an old man’s Munich apartment in 2011. At least 300…
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George W to Move into New Painting Phase: World Leader Portraits
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentFormer President George W. Bush’s newfound painting talents have already moved him from his “self-portraits in the shower” phase to portraits of dogs and cats (and a few landscapes). Now,…
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Come to think of it, it might not be a bad idea to skip the other Houston Cinema Arts Festival screenings and just journey through the Verges.
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Elegance veers towards a kind of lyrical sentimentalism; beautiful, but dangerously close to a whirlpool of cliché.
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The first four projects of Austin’s new TEMPO (temporary public art) program will be installed in the next few weeks. The TEMPO project launched in spring of 2013 with an…
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Austinites have grown used to the THIRST tree hovering above Lady Bird Lake since it was installed by Women & Their Work in late September. Meant to call attention to…
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Number 4. While it seems like that number is overwhelmingly small, this has already proven to be one of the most emotionally exhausting projects I have ever worked on.
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Icky Farrah Fawcett/Ryan O’Neal/UT/Warhol Dispute Continues
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe University of Texas has now gone to a Los Angeles court in a last-minute bid to have Ryan O’Neal‘s star witnesses (Farrah Fawcett’s former costar Jaclyn Smith, friend Alana…
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It seems to be high fair season—art fairs, book fairs, quilt fairs. Now, Austin’s Flatbed Press has announced that it will be hosting its first annual print fair. Working in…
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DMA Names Kevin Tucker as Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Design
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) has announced that Kevin W. Tucker has been promoted to the position of The Margot B. Perot Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Design,…
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Styles and Stances: Filmmaker Charlie Ahearn brings glimpses of New York in the 80s to the Houston Cinema Arts Festival
by Peter Lucasby Peter Lucas 0 commentWild Style is not only the first hip hop movie, but I would argue it’s the only real hip hop movie.
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Houston’s Sesquicentennial Park is going to be the site of a “Bike-In Video Festival” on Saturday, November 2, 6:30 pm (screening begins at dark). Part film festival/part social experience, the…
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Remember when Art League Houston was lame? Kelly Klaasmeyer says it's been getting better for the past decade and the current round of exhibitions is solid proof.