Nasher XChange is as much about learning about Dallas as it is about seeing art.
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On Friday, October 25, noon-4 pm, the University of Texas at Dallas is hosting a Campus Preview Day for its new $60 million, 155,000 square-foot facility that houses programs in…
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Fusebox Festival founder/director Ron Berry has announced that Austin’s next annual hybrid art festival will be free to the public. Calling the initiative “Free Range Art,” the free entrance is…
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Texas Gets Literary with Two More Book Fairs
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentHouston hosted the Zine Fest Houston just weekend before last, and now there are two upcoming book fairs in as many weeks so, apparently, some Texans still read, write, and…
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Return to Earth at the Nasher Sculpture Center
by Lucia Simekby Lucia Simek 0 commentHow to say this? Oh, yes: ceramics make me lusty.
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Blanton Museum to Rock the Stage (or Conference Table) at SXSW
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentJust when pop musicians are tripping over themselves to be declared “performance artists” by the art world, Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art is working it all backwards and inserting itself…
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First Annual SLAB Parade a Success: “Houston Brings It!”
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 2 commentsThe first official SLAB Parade + Family Festival took place yesterday at Houston’s MacGregor Park with the usual food trucks, community booths, kids’ activity stations, and a stage for live…
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I actually really like stripe painting, but seeing so much of it in one place kinda makes you wonder.
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Electro-acoustic trio Konk Pack wowed audiences at Spring Street Studios, Art Palace brought dead animals to the art fair.
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Houstonia’s Five People You See at an Exhibition Opening: Who They Really Are
by Bill Davenport 13 commentsLast week, Houstonia Magazine's Michael Hardy took pot-shots at some characters at exhibition openings, but his field guide is all wrong, except for the vintage glasses.
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The Party Has Started! Nasher Celebrates Ten Years, Ten Sculptures, Ten to Ten Today
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentYesterday, Dallas’ Nasher Sculpture Center officially opened the ten newly-commissioned public sculptures in its 10th anniversary celebratory exhibition Nasher XChange and, today, it is throwing a big party with “10+…
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This Is Not a Café (Yet): Menil Launches Naming Contest for Museum Restaurant
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentHouston’s Menil Collection will be opening a much-needed museum café, designed by Stern and Bucek Architects and operated by restaurateur Greg Martin, in its 30-acre “neighborhood of art.” Everything is…
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U.S. Senate Names Project Row Houses Founder to National Council on the Arts
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 1 commentLest you think that Congress did nothing else on Wednesday besides ending the government shutdown, take a look at October 16th’s “Senate Floor Wrap Up” for some extra good news.…
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Pure, honest camp, the show feeds off the local nostalgia of last year’s traumatic blaze, in which an electrical fire destroyed the iconic statue of Big Tex.
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Houston’s Other Film Festival: Our Image Features Black Filmmakers
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 1 commentThere should be a lot of upcoming press about the Houston Cinema Arts Festival, which just held this year’s launch party and announced the festival’s schedule beginning November 6. Sneaking…
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Contemporary Austin Pairs Up Artists with Teens for Collaborative Exhibition
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe Contemporary Austin is now accepting applications for its Advanced Young Artists Program (AYA), in which Austin-area high school students are paired up with artist-mentors. Starting in mid-January, each teen…
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Smithsonian Institution’s 19 museums and galleries will reopen today. The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden updated its website only moments ago; its public reopening has been moved…
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Houston Rap Scene Focus of Upcoming Photo Book
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 1 commentDocumentary photographer Peter Beste, who grew up in the Houston area, is probably best known for his photo series and book True Norwegian Black Metal, which came from spending seven…
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Mark Rothko’s Untitled (No. 11) is going up for sale at Christie’s in New York next month. The painting has been featured prominently in major museum retrospectives including a seminal…
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Report Card from the TX Contemporary Fair Organizers
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 2 commentsWhile some dealers at the third annual Texas Contemporary Art Fair, which took place this past weekend in Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center, mumbled politely tepid descriptions of this…