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…
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The LA Times reports that customs officials in El Paso displayed a collection of 4000 objects of archeological interest siezed in the US last thursday, before shipping them back to…
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In the wake of this fall’s Houston Fine Art Fair and Texas Contemporary Fair in Houston, someone remarked to me that art fairs are “Art Porn,” an overwhelming smorgasbord of…
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Houston performance artist Daniel-Kayne was found dead in “The Temple”, his studio/performance space in Downtown Houston on Monday afternoon. According to an unnamed source who was there when police arrived,…
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The Dallas Museum of Art decided last week that a painting given to the museum in 1931 as painter Asher B. Durand’s “In The Woods” is actually a much nicer…
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A 2,000-year-old statuette of the Greek goddess is too hot for the San Antonio Airport: an image of “Aprodite Emerging from the Sea” advertising the San Antonio Museum of Art’s…
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City Council Meeting: Interview with Aaron Landsman and Mallory Catlett
by Carrie Marie Schneider 0 commentCity Council Meeting is a participatory performance work created by Aaron Landsman, Mallory Catlett and Jim Findlay. For the past few weeks, I’ve been working with them as a “staffer” for…
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ATTENTION FUTURISTS: Report to Austin, Texas on Thursday November 1 by 7:30 p.m. for author/futurist/design visionary Bruce Sterling‘s kick-off speech at this year’s Harry Ransom Center’s Flair Symposium, “Visions…
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“Everything is being spoiled in this world. …Know what? When everything is being spoiled, we’ll be spoiled too!” So proclaim two teenage girls–both named Marie–before embarking on a romp of…
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Recently I had the pleasure of traveling to Houston for the second annual Texas Contemporary Art Fair. I was impressed, and the fair deserves a pat on the back. Considering…
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Houston, We Have A Problem: Landeros Art Show Heats Up the Newswires
by Bill Davenport 8 commentsUriel Landeros’ one-man show at Houston’s James Gallery has garnered national attention, with articles in the Houston Chronicle, the NY Times, and the Associated Press. Landeros is the 22-year old…