Artist Patrick Renner and the Art League Houston held a “Funnel Tunnel Painting Party” on Saturday and, in spite of some early-day ominous skies, tons of folks showed up to…
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Joel Sampson: Kinetic Percussion: Rhythm Machines
by Thomas Ezekiel Williams 2 commentsJoel Sampson’s Rhythm Machines reminds me of something one might see at a Maker Faire or the Musee Mecanique, if the people who made those things were less crass.
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The Fort Worth City Council plans to call for a $292 bond election in May 2014 to build new roads, parks and facilities. In order to educate voters and to…
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Ordinary People: “Lifelike” at the Blanton Museum of Art
by Katie Gehaby Katie Geha 0 commentThe work in the show, spanning from the late 1960s to the present, creates moment after moment of “aha.” As in “Oh, wow, you mean that trash bag is made of marble?”
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San Antonio Bikers to Cruise Westside Murals
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentFor San Antonians who love their art and love their bikes, San Anto Cultural Arts (SACA) will hold one of its Bicycle Mural Tours this evening, beginning at 6 pm…
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Casey Stranahan walks through the Nasher's installation with Jeremy Strick and chats with Berlin-based artist Katharina Grosse about frameless painting and the taboo of color.
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Rice University Gets Six More Tons of Sculpture!
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentHouston’s Rice University has installed its latest public art project, Mark di Suvero’s sculpture “Po-um (Lyric).” University Art Director Molly Hubbard refers to the work as a “mobile”; the six-ton…
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Lauren Moya Ford talks with Assistant Curator Michael Wellen about the art of breakfast tacos, how museums build collections, and Latin American exhibitions at the MFAH.
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I know these people; I have worked for these people. The titles, though blunt, reveal their lifestyles: "Women on a Sailboat," "Pool," "Figure with Towel" and "The Jet Ski."
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Dallas Looking to Spread Some LOVE: Volunteers Needed
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThere are many projects, events, and exhibitions commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas. (Hotel Texas: An Art Exhibition for the President and…
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Screenings of artists' noncommercial cinema in digital form are rare enough. Showings of experimental film on 35mm are veritably unheard of.
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The Art Museum Formerly Known As AMOA-Arthouse
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentIt’s official! As of today, the AMOA-Arthouse will now be called The Contemporary Austin. In traditional marriages, the wife takes the name of the husband; a few modern marriages hyphenate…
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Thursday is a busy evening in the Houston art scene but, for antisocial art-lovers who just want to stay in, there is also a (relatively) new half-hour TV show on…
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Side by Side: Arturo Infante Almeida and Daniel Guerrero
by Gabriel Diego Delgado 3 commentsAlmeida and Guerrero make artwork that is worlds apart, but they share a small-town communal nostalgia, galvanized by an uncanny flair for the extravagant.
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Mr. and Mrs. Anderson Again! DMA Director Remarries
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentWhen Maxwell Anderson joined the Dallas Museum of Art in 2012, he brought his wife of 17 years, former actress and entrepreneur Jacqueline Buckingham Anderson, with him. The couple added…
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More Marfa-Envy from NYC: Ballroom Marfa Takes it to the Big City
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentNew York can’t seem to get enough of Marfa. Last month, Manhattan opened the recently restored SoHo home of Donald Judd, referred to by NYTimes’ Roberta Smith as “the template…
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But the wooden box yielded to the pressures of mud and flesh, and quite spectacularly burst open. Slush flooded the gallery, producing a stir among the crowded viewers.
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MFAH Disaster Conference: Gulf Coast Arts Organizations Prepare for the Worst
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentNow that it’s mid-July, it’s easy to think that summer is halfway over, but we technically haven’t even hit the one-third mark. And for those equate summer with the hurricane…
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In the latest of her Glasshouses series, Debra Barrera talks with Angel Oloshove about pop culture, transcendence, and Kokeshi dolls.
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Dallas Film Explores the Evolution of an Art Scene
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentIn conjunction with the exhibition DallasSITES: Charting Contemporary Art, 1963 to Present, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) will screen the film Dallas Art City. The film, directed by Colby…