UT’s Blanton Museum of Art has appointed Veronica Roberts as curator of modern and contemporary art. She is currently adjunct associate curator of contemporary art for the Indianapolis Museum of…
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On Thursday The Whitney Museum announced three curators for the 2014 Whitney Biennial: Tate Modern film curator Stuart Comer, curator of film at Tate modern, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia…
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Second only to Halloween as an art-saturated holiday, the end of each year is an orgy of group gift shows, holiday decorating events, and year-end pleas from nonprofits happy to…
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The Idea Fund has announced the ten Texas-based artists collectives with unusual projects for their 5th round of grants: The Bridge Club – Art and Performance Collaborative (Huntsville); Erin Curtis…
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Cyrus Cylinder Rolls in to Houston: Conqueror’s Ancient Edict Revered For Fairness, Oldness
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe British Museum has announced that the Museum of Fine Arts Houston will be one of the stops for the Cyrus Cylinder, a 9-inch piece of baked clay shaped like…
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Daily Dose of Dis: Two Bits of Lukewarm Art-Snark in Today’s Headlines
by Bill Davenport 0 commentConservative commentator Glenn Beck has made another of his periodic stabs at art criticism, grabbing a little media attention (like this, sigh) for dunking a photograph of President Obama in…
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Cody Ledvina: Expierence (Brandon and the Boys)
by Cody Ledvinaby Cody Ledvina 0 commentCody and his puppet pal Brandon visit with Jeremy DePrez, Geoff Hippenstiel and Jonathan Ryan Storm.
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Pedro Alonso and Lilia Kudelia join Dallas Contemporary as Adjunct Curators: Glamour Shots Attached
by Bill Davenport 0 commentYesterday, a “press communiqué” from the Dallas Contemporary announced two new adjunct curators: Pedro Alonzo and Lilia Kudelia will joi the org, helping to “enhance the institution’s mission of presenting…
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San Antonio Sets HemisFair Park Art Plan Community Meeting for Dec. 5
by Bill Davenport 0 commentOn Wednesday, December 5, the public is invited to talk over the proposals with Mikyoung Kim, consultant for the HemisFair Park Public Art Plan from 6-7:30 pm at the Magik…
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By the time this is published the new curator of modern and contemporary art at the Blanton Museum may have been announced. I was told last week that an offer…
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Dallas Museum of Art to Offer Free Membership And Free Admission Starting in January
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Dallas Museum of Art announced yesterday that it will return to free general admission in January 2013 and launch an unusual new free-membership plan. The new program, DMA Friends…
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National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman announced yesterday that Artpace San Antonio is recommended for a $60,000 NEA Art Works grant to support its core International Artist-in-Residence program.…
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Art critic Jerry Saltz has gotten the collecting bug- but, not being able to afford the seven-figure prices of the Gerhard Richter paintings he craved, instead challenged artists to fake…
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What & when are your copyright rights? Keep your hands off my image! The other Saturday I wrote a small musing on the art business practices; half the comments in…
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Casting Call for an Austin Apocalypse: Urban Shield Disaster Exercise Looking For (Fake) Victims
by Bill Davenport 0 commentOn Saturday, December 1, 2012, thousands of volunteer victims are needed to participate in a regional hazardous materials training exercise at the Travis County Exposition Center, 7311 Decker Lane in…
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Hive Swarms Towards Reality: Chron Outlines Its History, and Future
by Bill Davenport 2 commentsHive, Nestor Topchy’s “master-planned, artist-centric utopia” is stepping closer to becoming a reality- Lisa Gray reports in the Houston Chronicle that the seven-story dome constructed of shipping containers, housing work…
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Paintings, Move Over: New El Paso Juried Photo Show Fills Gap in West Texas Expression
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe El Paso Art Association has spun off a new photography show from its annual juried “Arts International” show, which ceased to include photographs last year, due to lack of…
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Dallas Art News Asks Meadows Curator Nicole Atzbach Nine Silly Questions, Gets Nine Silly Answers
by Bill Davenport 0 commentDallas Art News founder Michael Roman “spent a few minutes” interviewing new Meadows Museum curator Nicole Atzbach and posted his results yesterday; among a list of less than startling revelations…
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Michael Bise: Life On the List, Chapter 2
by Michael Biseby Michael Bise 3 commentsThe Glasstire Drawing Project presents Chapter 2 of Michael Bise’s “Life On the List,” an autobiographical comic about life on the heart transplant list. For Chapter 1, click here. CHAPTER…
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Artists, Galleries, and Collectors: How the business of the art world works, sometimes…
by Meredith Jack 9 commentsI appropriately write this on “Small Business Saturday” and artists and galleries are among the smallest businesses around. But, as I say in the essay, few seem to know how…