The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded a $504,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish a curatorial fellowship program…
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Rios' oddly beautiful, enigmatic videos feel like a personal reckoning with an immensely complex, globalized world.
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Turrell charmed the crowd of art students, professors and other Turrell-groupies with sassy comments like “I make money selling blue sky and colored air.”
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What the JFK Assassination Tells Us About Dallas (That’s the Subtitle)
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 2 commentsThere are all sorts of exhibitions, events and book releases happening in the Dallas/Fort Worth area this year of the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination—some more thoughtful, relevant, or…
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San Antonio’s Southwest School of Art (SSA) is now offering a bachelor of fine arts degree and, as of last week, it has approval from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating…
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Despite a "stormcloud of jaded hesitation," Brian Fee has a close encounter with Austin's new Turrell Skyspace.
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NICE! Luc Tuymans to Visit Third Ward to Chat with Residents About His Menil Ad
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentWhen Glasstire posted the article about the “counter-billboard” to the “NICE” advertisement placed in Third Ward’s Dupree Park by Houston’s Menil Collection promoting its current exhibition of Luc Tuymans, it…
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Arthur Danto and Lou Reed: A Weekend of Mourning for a Couple of Warhol Champions
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentArthur C. Danto, the man who coined the term “artworld,” died Friday of heart failure at his home in Manhattan. A philosopher who became one of the most widely read…
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Out of all of the types illustrated, I, the Entitled North American Thrift-Store-Clad Screeching Loser, might be the most irritating of them all.
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On Tuesday evening (October 29, 6 pm), the Menil Collection will host a conversation between Belgian artist Luc Tuymans, whose new exhibition Nice. Luc Tuymans is on view at the…
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Pirates and Farmers is dense, delicious, and dripping with "limos, homos, bimbos" set in that "dazzled libido of shiny America"—Las Vegas.
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It’s an everyman’s Citizen Kane set under Texas skies, interpreted through the alienation of a Sam Shepard play and the quiet longing and restrained hope of a Wim Wenders road movie. In other words, it is really, deeply good.
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Adrian Piper Pulls Out of CAMH Traveling Show, Calls for Multi-Ethnic Exhibitions
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentWhen Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) late last year, it generated a lot of excitement and received some positive and…
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Craft Center Looking for New Artists (Craftspeople?)-in-Residence
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentApplications are now being accepted for the 2014 cycle of artists-in-residence at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC). 5-10 residencies are awarded each year for lengths of 3,…
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Dallas wins again, by presenting Dallas!
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The Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) has announced a new project in Houston’s East End in the fall of 2014 called “Transported + Renewed.” It is three-month creative “placemaking” project that…
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Made from humble materials, the exhibit has a suspenseful, Romantic quality as if Caspar David Friedrich had built sets for a Japanese horror movie.
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The San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) has announced the appointment of Merribell Parsons as Curator of European Art. The Museum has a small but choice selection of European art…
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The answer to the urgent problems of the world might not lie in yet another elegant, feel-bad-to-feel-good art installation.
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The New York-based nonprofit organization Creative Time commissions and presents ambitious public art projects in New York and elsewhere. They also host the Creative Time Summit every year, inviting innovative…