Dallas’ 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…
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The 5th Texas Biennial, taking place at multiple venues across the state September 5- November 9, 2013, has chosen a long list of curators: Bill Arning Director, Contemporary Arts Museum…
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As another exploration of the catalysts that drive human behavior, Jill Magid has continued her investigation of gun violence in Texas with the exhibition titled Faust 24 at Galería Labor…
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Chamberlain Building Decrepit: Chinati Issues Plea for Fix-It Dollars
by Bill Davenport 2 commentsAccording to an email broadcast last week, The Chinati Foundation’s John Chamberlain Building needs roof repairs, the adobe and concrete walls need patching, and the Donald Judd-designed wooden doors and…
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Women and Their Work Selected for $50,000 Rauschenberg Grant; Organizing Austin Tree Memorial
by Bill Davenport 0 commentAustin nonprofit Women & Their Work, has invited visual artist, Beili Liu, architects Emily Little and Norma Yancey, and landscape architects Christy Ten Eyck and Cassie Bergstrom to collaborate on…
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How can good people appreciate despicable behavior? What can it seriously tell us about the values we hold? These questions are repeatedly addressed and challenged by artists and filmmakers, to…
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The Art Newspaper (Art Basel Edition) reports that the fiscal cliff, and attendant economic uncertainty if anything, has been good for sales of high-end art at the Art Basel Miami…
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In celebration of the Menil Collection’s 25th anniversary this fall, Calvin Tomkins spoke at the Menil in conversation with director Josef Helfenstein. Because of the occasion, their discussion centered around…
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We arrived at Blue Star Thursday night to a performance of Justin Randolph Thompson’s Tossin’ the Rag as part of his exhibition Meet Me in the Bottoms. A rag doll was…
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If not completely exhausting, the end of each semester can be pretty gratifying. The students are relieved to be finished, turning in their last papers and tests, sometimes telling you…
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“I’m Sorry, You Can’t Take Photographs Here”: Museum Copyright Claims Debunked in Fordham Law Journal
by Bill Davenport 6 commentsMuseum Policies and Art Images: Conflicting Objectives and Copyright Overreaching, a new paper by Kenneth D. Crews of Columbia University’s Copyright Advisory Office, published in the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media…