The Fort Worth Art Dealers Association (FWADA) is going to sit down and finally hash out the will the age-old argument about art as experience versus art as investment. Tomorrow…
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Garcia referrs to his works as a “pseudo-spiritual-technology” that suggests Christianity and science can find some points of agreement only because the machines don’t work.
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Houston Arts Community Still Remembers Anthony Palasota
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentIt has been almost five months since the death of Anthony Palasota, one of Houston’s most passionate and dedicated gallery-goers and friend to almost every artist and art-lover in town.…
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Even those who braved the heat, the lack of parking, and the crazy crowd to attend last night’s successful opening of The Big Show 2013 at Houston’s Lawndale Art Center…
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Texas Women in the Arts: When it Does and Doesn’t Matter
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 5 commentsThere are those who think gender isn’t an issue anymore (or, at least, shouldn’t be), but leave it to the Texas legislature to stir that pot and bring it to national attention.
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Lakes Were Rivers: Contemporary Photographic Practice and the Archive
by Lee Websterby Lee Webster 1 commentDigging into the Ransom Center's 40 million manuscripts, rare books and works of art, guided by the meandering lenses of the Lakes Were Rivers artists is time well spent.
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Austin Artist Goes on a Beer Run with Some Interesting Company
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentAustin artist William Hundley is one of six artists chosen to create original works for this year’s Beck’s Art Labels project. The artists on the 2013 roster were selected “because…
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Jomama Jones: Radiate at Salvage Vanguard Theater, Austin
by Lee Websterby Lee Webster 1 commentJomama, the persona of artist Daniel Alexander Jones, is a savvy disco goddess who defected from the United States at the start of the Reagan era.
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Houston Artist Spotlighted at Harlem’s Studio Museum
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe prestigious Studio Museum of Harlem in New York presents itself as “the nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally and internationally and for work that has been inspired…
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Things Get Real in Dallas: Max Anderson and Catherine Cuellar Publish Op-Ed Calling for City’s Help Against Museum Tower
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 2 commentsThe Dallas Arts District Foundation has had enough. Foundation Chairman Maxwell L. Anderson (also director of the Dallas Museum of Art) and Executive Director Catherine Cuellar published an opinion piece…
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Pat Snow's interpretations of “selfies”—the digital self-portraits common in social media, articulate the soap opera seediness of digital exchanges.
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Welcome Home: Houston Artists Transform Empty Lot into Third Ward Living Room
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 3 commentsWhat residents of Houston’s Third Ward neighborhood saw as merely a vacant, weed-infested lot where drugs are dealt and the homeless sleep, artist Robert Hodge saw as an opportunity to…
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What makes Phan such a good partner is that she doesn’t use every tool every time. She knows when to pack the glitter gun and when to leave it at home.
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Austin Rakes In Mid-America Arts Grant Money
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentSeven Texas artists and arts organizations were recipients of the Mid-America Arts Alliance’s newest grants program, Artistic Innovations, created to encourage experimentation and new projects. The M-AAA supports cultural activity…
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Summer of Love: Two More Dallas Artists Add to Airport Installations
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentIn 2009, a new public art program was developed to coincide with the renovations at Dallas’ Love Field that will be completed in 2014. To add to the mere four…
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Higher dimensions are creepy: the idea of unfelt, unseen planes of existence touching our own is like a campfire story told by PhD mathematicians.
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Summer is traditionally pretty slow for art in the steamy south so, for those who have been waiting for bribery before hitting the galleries, this weekend will be the time…
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Rice Design Alliance Sends Out Call for Crafty Idea People
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentEvery year, the Rice Design Alliance (RDA) sponsors a charrette competition, bringing together gifted designers, architects, and regular folks with good ideas from the Houston area. The RDA (along with…
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Call it Street Art, Call it Fine Art, Call it What You Know
by Bill Davenport 16 commentsLike 19th-century academicians, street artists take a jealous pride in their drawing skills, their mastery of elaborate proprietary styles, and their public reputations.
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Amarillo artist Jacob Morin has been painting over some of the city’s famous mock road signs, which have been up for many years. According to Amarillo’s NewsChannel10.com, Morin asks permission…