I mentioned in my last post that arts documentaries are arguably the heart of the Cinema Arts Festival (running this evening through Sunday). These films, at their best, illuminate the…
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Dallas Morning News Sketches of Non-solutions Add Zest to Ongoing Museum Tower Follies
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Dallas Morning News sees no resolution in sight for the ongoing Nasher-Museum Tower Glare-Off, but has sketches of some supposedly serious proposals for technological solutions, including the much-touted louvers;…
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You May Have Heard This Already: Two Important Headlines Only Tangentially Related to the Texas Art Scene
by Bill Davenport 0 commentPresident Obama Wins National Election, Will Remain In Office for Four More Years. Hurricane Sandy Pummels East Coast, Wrecking Jersey Shore and Flooding Chelsea Galleries.
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Arts People is Good People, Says New NEA-Funded Study- Or At Least They Were in 2002
by Bill Davenport 0 commentA new study, Impact of the Arts on Individual Contributions to U.S Civil Society, by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago suggests a link between engagement in the…
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Recent conversations on contemporary art are littered with language on the archive-as-artwork, mostly inspired by Derrida’s 1988 publication, Archive Fever. Exhibitions continue to spring up centered on the archive, most…
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The cryosphere is the area of the earth’s surface where water is in solid form, such as glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, sea ice and permafrost. It exists in a…
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Arts advocacy PAC Americans For the Arts Action Fund has published a presidential arts policy checklist, comparing the two candidates’ positions on arts issues. On the list of seven yes…
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Blockbuster Bust: Australian Rags Masterpieces from the Prado for Lackluster Attendance, Opens at MFAH on December 16
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Australian Newspaper gleefully reports that Australians did not flock to see the blockbuster Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado, on view for the past fifteen weeks at the…
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Cinema Arts Festival Preview … An Eye Toward Documentary
by Joshua Fischer 1 commentThe Cinema Arts Festival begins this Wednesday, November 7th and will continue through Sunday, November 11th. To kick off the festival, several video installations are already on view in the Cinema…
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SLICING UP THE CINEMA ARTS FEST (Part 1: The Verge)
by Peter Lucasby Peter Lucas 1 commentThe Houston Cinema Arts Festival is back with an eclectic program celebrating film both as art and as art document. It opens this Wednesday and runs through Sunday. As always,…
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Honeybees (Apis mellifera) have remarkable visual discrimination abilities that extend beyond simple colours, shapes or patterns. In spite of their small brains, they can discriminate landscape scenes, types of flowers…
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Conservation work has been completed on the green curtain dress, the burgundy ball gown, and the green velvet dressing gown costumes for Gone With The Wind in the Harry Ransom…
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Mega warehouse retailer Costco, known for it supersized packaging and low, low prices, is re-entering the art market after a two year hiatus. Apparently it’s going well: the fine art…
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Inter(re)view with Sally Frater, curator of “There is no archive in which nothing gets lost”
by Carrie Marie Schneider 0 commentThe videos curated by Sally Frater in There is no archive in which nothing gets lost at the Glassel School of Art speak my language: repetitive gestures performed by women…
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Last night’s inaugural Glasstire Texas Auction raised over $100,000 for Glasstire and Texas artists! Net proceeds were reportedly 90% higher than the old, silent-auction-and-outrageous-but-expensive-party style gala. Over $26,000 of the…
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Cody Ledvina launches his new made-for-Glasstire video show, “Cody Ledvina: Expierence.” Ledvina promises viewers a dazzling array of content: Texas art exhibitions, performance, concerts, lectures, studio visits, art fights, Q&As,…
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DMA Hires Al Khemir to Promote Global Islamic Art Exchanges, MFAH Announces Its Islamic Art Partnership and Loan of 85-carat Engraved Emerald
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Dallas Museum of Art has appointed Sabiha Al Khemir, the founding director of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, as the Museum’s first Senior Advisor of Islamic…
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Landeros Opening “A Circus,” Menil to Feature Chin-Defaced Painting in Anniversary Celebration
by Bill Davenport 10 commentsCulturemap attended the opening of alleged Menil vandal Uriel Landeros’ solo show Houston We Have a Problem and reported “as far as art openings go, the party was memorable .…
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The word “cosmopolitanism” conjures up worldly, cultured and possibly elitist connotations. The idea that all humanity belongs to a single moral community is a lesser-known definition of the word. Theoretically…
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Culturemap reports that Amarillo art patron Stanley Marsh 3 is the target of four lawsuits alleging that the 74 year old collector bought sex acts with a teenage boy in…