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…
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Dallas artist Fred Villanueva’s 21,000 square foot exhibition, The Art Fair of Texas, is set to open in tandem with The State Fair of Texas in Dallas on September 28. …
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Filmed in 1968 in La Jolla California, Andy Warhol’s previously unfinished film San Diego Surf will be released by the Andy Warhol Museum. The movie was shot on 16 mm…
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Catherine Couturier, for eight years gallery manager and director of John Cleary Gallery in Houston before Cleary’s death in 2008, has taken over the reins of the prominent photography gallery;…
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I have to admit that art fairs, in general, are not my thing. They seem exhausting for everyone involved from visitors to the gallery girls working the booths. With 80…
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The Marfa Dialogues: Art, Science, Drought, Food and Beer
by Michael Odomby Michael Odom 7 commentsIt wasn’t ’til Sunday morning that I got the point of the Marfa Dialogues, an extended look at art, culture and climate change over Labor Day weekend. We were trooping…
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See it before it closes!: Nick Barbee at 4411 Montrose
by Kelly Klaasmeyer 0 commentGalveston Arts Center‘s pop up show of work from Nick Barbee‘s Galveston Artist Residency is at 4411 Montrose through today, Saturday, September 15. It’s in the former Peel Gallery space…
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The Aurora Picture Show’s 9th annual Media Archeology Festival (Thursday through Saturday, Sept. 21-23) premieres a host of unique films and live audiovisual performances that transform everything from magnetic fields…
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The Awesome Foundation has arrived in Houston, and they’re handing out money. Here’s how it works: basically, it’s a micro-funding club; ten “trustees” get together, each donating $100 per month.…
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The second annual Houston Fine Art Fair opens to the public today at Reliant Center, exhibit hall C. Hoping to beat last year’s total of 10,500 visitors, the fair features…
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Two months ago, The Station Museum’s Artifactual Realities closed. Unfortunately, I first visited the exhibition a couple weeks before the end and only had a short time to really absorb…
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Art League: Texas Artist and Patrons of the Year 2012
by Joshua Fischer 0 commentTo accompany the honor of being selected the 2012 Texas Artist of the Year by Art League Houston, Aaron Parazette has transformed the Art League gallery space with a dynamic,…
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Reinvigoration, Revitalization, or Just a Clean Sweep? Diverseworks Announces New Artist Board
by Bill Davenport 4 commentsAlong with a new Director, a new space, a new Assistant Curator, and a new Director of External Affairs, venerable Houston alterna-space Diverseworks has just announced a new artist board.…
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Los Angeles’ Getty Center is free; it’s parking at the remote hilltop facility that costs, and apparently on purpose. After the Getty raised its parking fees over the summer, protests…
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Art Center of Corpus Christi Seeking Long Lost Charter Members for Birthday Party Sept 27
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Art Center of Corpus Christi is celebrating their 40th Birthday on Thursday, September 27th, just before their revived Art Jamboree festival, and is trying to track down the original…
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The Houston Fine Art Fair’s Artweek kicked off yesterday with a Blaffer Blow Out with Houston Young People for the Arts (HYPA). It’s just the first of a “a non-stop,…
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For episode 5 of ‘Gallery Girls’, let’s begin by discussing Maggie’s attempt to leave the clutches of Eli Klein. After taking a quick trip with her boyfriend to visit her…
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Once Upon a Time in the Rio Grande Valley: Roel Recio’s Cinderella Story
by Bill Davenport 0 commentDave Hendricks of The McAllen Monitor recounts the story of Roel Recio, an artist working as a laborer at NIU Urban Living, a furniture store in McAllen, whose concept for…