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…
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Not That This, a new blog about artistic happenings in Houston features posts on the Stacks exhibition at Art League Houston, street interventions by Cody Ledvina and Brother Kenyah Shabazz,…
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Michael Findlay Speaks Sanity: Connoisseurship in our Commodity Culture
by Bill Davenport 0 commentCulturemap interviewed art dealer Michael Findlay about his new book, The Value of Art, which de-myhologizes some of the current hype surrounding contemporary art prices by putting it in historical…
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Houston artist Casey Williams, in a coma due to complications from West Nile virus, missed the opening of his show at Williams Tower Gallery in Houston, but awoke in time…
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Para leer este artículo en español, por favor vaya aquí. To read this article in Spanish, please go here. “Walking, in particular drifting, or strolling, is already – with the speed…
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La Chicana Laundry Pictures’ Senorita Cinema Earns Grant from Neighborhood Centers
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe independent film festival “Senorita Cinema” has been selected to receive one of seven $1000 grants from Neighborhood Centers Inc. The festival allows Latinas to take control of their own…
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I’ve long thought of clay as a very specific medium. By “medium specific” I’m recalling the critic Clement Greenberg’s term as he defined it in his 1961 essay Modernist Painting.…
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This letter appeared in Raid the Archive: The de Menil Years at Rice. I was told it would make me cry with disappointment at what could have been. At the Rice Media…
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Dogpile of Claimants Sue Eccentric Amarillo Art Patron Stanley Marsh 3 Over Alleged Sexual Misdeeds
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe New York Times has picked up on a blossoming Amarillo imbroglio: Stanley Marsh 3 is accused of sexual misbehavior with eight young men, according to lawsuits filed in recent…
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Museum Tower’s No-Louver Study Not Good Enough: Claims Nasher Canceled Excuse Meeting
by Bill Davenport 2 commentsAccording to a media statement released today by Dallas’ Museum Tower, David Haemisegger, President of the Board of Trustees of the Nasher Sculpture Center cancelled a Tuesday meeting to discuss…
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Accused Picasso Vandal Speaks: KPRC Interviews Uriel Landeros in Monterrey, Mexico
by Bill Davenport 0 commentIntrepid local TV news reporters tracked Uriel Landeros to Monterrey, where he is hiding out from charges of felony graffiti and criminal mischief in Houston after allegedly spray painting over…
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I ran around E.A.S.T. Sunday afternoon, the last day of the annual Austin arts festival. It was a sunny and beautiful day–perfect for wandering about and looking at local art.…
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Houston native fashion designer Hyden Yoo has created sweaters exclusively for CAMH’s gallery attendants. The unique, understated pullovers have been worn by the museum’s guards since earlier this year, when…