Giorgio Vasari defined drawing as “the animating principle of all creative processes,” and since the Renaissance, drawing has been seen as the foundation of artistic invention, as the most immediate…
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Metropolitan Museum Puts Catalogs Online- Just in Time for the Holidays!
by Bill Davenport 0 commentOn Friday, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art began began putting 600 catalogs, journals and museum bulletins, 368 of them out-of-print, online. Searchable by title, keyword, publication type, theme or…
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The Cultural Landscape Foundation, a Washington D.C. based org that aims to raise awareness of historically important landscapes like The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Burlington, Vermont and the…
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El Paso Chalk-Art Fest Includes Pop-Up Storefront Spaces, Outdoor Installations
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe City of El Paso is holding it’s fifth annual Chalk the Block public art festival this weekend, beginning this evening at 6pm. The fest, running October 12 -14 in…
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K.C. Scharnberg, Program & Marketing Director at Fresh Arts and a founding member of the Horsehead Theater Company is moving to San Antonio next week to take up a new…
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Colby Bird is an artist born and raised in Austin, now living in Brooklyn, New York. He often blends the discourses of photography and sculpture, and is currently exhibiting 100…
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Tuymans Notes “Flexibility” in Artist-Dealer Relations in New Global Artworld
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Art Newspaper has a brief analysis of the new landscape of big-name artist representation in an international artworld: it’s even more cutthroat than before, or more openly so: ““the…
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Surprise! Old Texas Art Has National Audience-DMA Texas Webpages Draw Interest
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe new Texas art section of the DMA’s website got kudos from ArtsJournal blogger Judith H. Dobrzynski for making a stab at telling a regional story, counter to what she…
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The end of September hailed the 25th anniversary of the Dallas Video Festival. Changing the venue to the Dallas Museum of Art proved to be a smart move. Despite the…
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Houston, We Have a Problem: Upcoming Menil Vandal’s Exhibition Draws Facebook Fire
by Bill Davenport 17 commentsThe announcement of an upcoming exhibition featuring the work of artist Uriel Landeros, infamous for allegedly defacing a Picasso painting at the Menil Collection last summer, has sparked a Facebook…
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“Francesca Fuchs: Paintings of Paintings” at Talley Dunn Gallery
by Robyn O'Neilby Robyn O'Neil 3 commentsFrancesca Fuchs just blew my mind. It was a low key Friday afternoon, I was back in Texas for the first time since my move from Houston to Los Angeles.…
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Rothko Vandalized at Tate Modern, Homeless Russian Art Theoretician Arrested
by Bill Davenport 0 commentLondon’s Metropolitan Police Art Squad is investigating an incident at the Tate Modern in which a man scrawled words in black ink in a corner of Rothko’s Black on Maroon…
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Houston Finalists Named for Sixth Round of Artadia Awards, Winners To Be Announced at TX Contemporary Art Fair Oct. 19
by Bill Davenport 1 commentPanelists Michelle White, Curator at The Menil Collection; Margot Norton, Curatorial Associate at the New Museum, New York; and N. Dash, a New York artist, named have selected ten finalists…
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Deep in the Art of Texas: DMA Adds Texas Art and Artist Pages to Website-Archives Back to 1909
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Dallas Museum of Art has added a complete listing of its Texas Art Exhibitions to its website, creating a mine of information on regional art back when it was…
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CentralTrak, UT Dallas’ artists residency in Deep Ellum, is launching a bi-weekly artist talk series, titled Next Topic. Each session will feature an artist and culminate with an in-depth discussions…
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Short Days Bring Rice a Twilight Epiphany: Sports Field’s Lights Interfering with Turrell Skyspace
by Bill Davenport 1 commentThe Rice University Thresher reports that the school’s new James Turrell Skyspace is having some unanticipated conflicts with other uses of the busy campus. Lighting for night-time games on the…
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After a two-year stint in New York and Nebraska, Eric Zimmerman returns to Texas with the multi-site project Endless Disharmony & Telltale Ashes at Art Palace in Houston, The Reading…
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Celebrating the legendary de Menil years of the Rice Museum and Rice Media Center. The Menil Collection’s 25th anniversary this year has had me thinking a lot about its importance…
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The BBC’s Your Paintings, a website aimed at showing the entire UK national collection of oil paintings online, is just about complete. After ten years of work in the storerooms…
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Dallas’ Allison V. Smith at Marfa Contemporary
by Lucia Simekby Lucia Simek 0 commentAllison V. Smith, Godbolt, March 2007 Marfa Contemporary, a brand-new West Texas outpost of the Oklahoma City-based City Arts Center, which bills itself as “a nonprofit organization dedicated to encouraging creative…