The National Guild for Community Arts Education, a 75 year old grantmaking and advocacy org, will be holding their annual conference in Dallas on November 14-17. The meet-up provides professional…
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Glasstire Texas Auction Announces Unbelievable Roster of Artists-Preview October 3!
by Bill Davenport 0 commentMark your calendar for Glasstire’s first annual Texas Auction! On Friday, November 2 from 6-9pm, Sara Friedlander a vice oresidnet at Christie’s, New York, will auction off a bucket of…
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This week I had the pleasure of watching ‘Gallery Girls’ with my parents. Any hope I had that they might find the show entertaining was dashed when the credits started…
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Arts educator Glenn Bailey has joined Fotofest as the new manager of their acclaimed Literacy Through Photography program. Bailey, who has put in five years in the nonprofit sector in…
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“Champion” Champions Local Film Industry in San Antonio with Help of City’s First $25,000 Local Filmmakers Grant
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe first $25,000 Local Filmmakers Grant from the San Antonio Film Commission has been awarded to the feature-length family drama “Champion,” Directed by Kevin and Robin Nations and shot at…
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According to the official press release, the second annual Houston Fine Art Fair (HFAF) exceeded its organizer’s expectations: “12,000 attended, millions of dollars changed hands. Over 2,000 works, from 500…
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Despite all that’s wrong in this society it’s the responsibility of the new artists to occur. The explanation that the times and the society are bad is pointless. Probably they’ve…
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Fernando Johnson of Brookhaven College won the Dallas Art Dealers Association’s Edith Baker Art Scholarship, chosen from among seven finalists from the seven campuses of the Dallas Community College District.…
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Claire Ruud Interviews New Artadia Director Carolyn Ramo
by Claire Ruudby Claire Ruud 1 commentCarolyn Ramo, Artadia’s new director, spent the last 12 years of her career in the New York gallery world, first at Nicole Klagsbrun, then as a production director at David…
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You Can Check it Out Any Time You Like: Hotel Texas Exhibit Re-unites Art From Fateful 1963 Kennedy Visit
by Bill Davenport 0 commentIn November of 1963, a group of prominent Fort Worth citizens put together a collection of modern art to decorate President John F. Kennedy’s suite at the Texas Hotel in…
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Elderly Beast Jesus Artist Sues Church for Share of Tourist Dollars
by Bill Davenport 0 commentCecilia Gimenez, the woman whose botched restoration of a small fresco in Spain produced the “Beast Jesus” internet phenomenon, is suing the Sanctuario de Misericordia in Borja for a share…
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1. New York in the fall is ridiculously seductive. I visited this past weekend and the weather was perfect–blue skies, cool breezes. I walked all around, looking at art, meeting…
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I had the pleasure to travel to Mozambique this summer to visit some friends, who had recently relocated there. We stayed outside the capital city Maputo in the town of…
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Morgan Coy of Austin record label and multimedia organization Monofonous Press has launched Transgressor, a new digital magazine “celebrating outsider philosophies and cultural trespassers.” Featuring bits on Utopian communes, the…
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Can I admit that I get a major kick out of this image? That I am thankful for it? Can I say this without losing a significant portion of the…
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A version of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” once famous as an icon of modern angst, now famous for being the most expensive artwork ever, (it sold last year for nearly…
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David Holzman (L.M. Kit Carson), the protagonist and “filmmaker” of Jim McBride’s David Holzman’s Diary (1967), is nestled in his West 71st Street apartment between movie posters and art reproductions,…
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The Dallas Art Dealers Association will present its annual Edith Baker Art Scholarship to a lucky visual art student from the Dallas County Community College District at a reception on…
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Tsunami of Vernacular Photographs Recording Every Action as if it Were of Equal Importance
by Bill Davenport 0 commentNY times blogger James Estrin contrasts the measured connoisseurship of an old-style photographic festival with the estimated 380 billion photographs taken last year by camera phones, or the 380 million…
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Everyone was wondering how the Houston Fine Art Fair‘s move to Reliant Center would work out. From what I can tell it was a good idea. It’s a newer space…