Vincent Valdez: Excerpts for John is the eighth film in a series of short documentaries produced by Walley Films in association with Glasstire. Filmmakers Mark and Angela Walley began documenting…
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Tuesday Art Market Report: Richter/Clapton Celebrity Sale Sets Record, Warhol Market Flabby Fearing Foundation Sell-off
by Bill Davenport 0 commentFrom the Wall St. Journal: Eric Clapton’s painting by Gerhard Richter, “Abstract Painting (809-4),” sold at Sotheby’s contemporary art evening auction in London on Friday for $34.2 million—more than anyone…
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Interview with Hilary Harnischfeger and Tommy White, Part II
by Elliott Zooey Martin 0 commentPART II: Interview with Tommy White (for the Part I interview with Hilary Harnischfeger, click here.) Husband and wife Tommy White and Hilary Harnischfeger are currently featured at Front Gallery…
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Houston artspace Skydive has announced a forthcoming publication: Satellites and Socialists: On the Fringe of Houston Arts, a book of “essays, letters, fictions, floorplans, scandals and more”, to premier in…
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Invasion from San Marcos: Spaceks to Open New BLUEorange Gallery in Houston
by Bill Davenport 2 commentsJacob Spacek and Megan Spacek are opening the new BLUEorange gallery in Houston at 1208 West Gray St., next to Betz Art Gallery. The co-founders, who are both artists, both…
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Interview with Hilary Harnischfeger and Tommy White, Part I
by Elliott Zooey Martin 1 commentHusband and wife Tommy White and Hilary Harnischfeger are currently featured at Front Gallery (brainchild of artist Sharon Engelstein and her artist husband Aaron Parazette). While at first their…
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Dallas Arts District Inter-Fest Fest: Get a GLIMPSE of Next Year’s AURORA on OCT 19
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Dallas Arts District has announced a few details of GLIMPSE 2012; a night of light, video, sound, installation and free public art intended as a preview of AURORA 2013,…
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Will Henry: Nocturnes and High Plains at Hiram Butler Gallery
by Hesse Caplinger 0 commentThe future of painting is smart and sincere, is deft with a brush and a punch line, knows its talking points and keeps to them, asks questions to which…
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“Paper Space: Drawings by Sculptors” at Inman Gallery
by Elliott Zooey Martin 0 commentGiorgio 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…