The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reports that Sky Drill, by Austin artist Brent Baggett will be installed August 2 by the roadside where Spur 327 meets the westbound frontage road off South…
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Formula One Racing Brings Glittering Crowds To Austin, Artists’ Plans to Cash In Lagging
by Bill Davenport 1 commentAustin’s funky college-town ambiance will be shattered by the (distant) screams of Formula One racing in November. 300,000 visitors are expected for the US Grand Prix on the weekend of…
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The Fort Worth Modern is celebrating ten years in its fancy Tadao Ando building by acquiring some big, fancy new art: Wall Drawing #50A, 1970, by Sol Lewitt consists of…
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Bill’s European Vacation 2012: Jenny Saville & Olympic Opening Ceremony
by Bill Davenport 0 commentPopped into the Oxford Modern Art Museum to see some of Jenny Saville’s paintings in person- they’re based on photographs, so in reproduction you miss her somewhat annoyingly self-conscious painterly…
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The new normal should be anything but. Time to fuck shit up. Dear Young DFW Whippersnapper Artists, Whatever the last “up” economy may have taught you, in your teen…
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Questions? Comments? Opinions? Send them to Laura Lark Loves You: [email protected] (or leave your message below) Mary asks, If you could describe and suggest a daily routine (things to…
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Ex-Houston artist Duncan Ganley will be taking part in the televised Olympic opening ceremony. Although all details of the elaborate show, months in the planning, are subject to a strict…
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Noting the flap over the departure of the artist-members of LA MOCA’s board of directors, D Magazine‘s Peter Simek asks if the Dallas museums ought to consider getting some. Simek…
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Pecos Rock Art Decoded: SHUMLA School’s Boyd Sees Shamanic Stories
by Bill Davenport 2 commentsTexas anthropologist Carolyn Boyd, founder of t SHUMLA (Studying Human Use of Materials, Land, and Art), an education and research center in Comstock, Texas, has put forward a detailed interpretation…
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Breaking news: this September, David Shelton will move his eponymous gallery from San Antonio to Houston. The new gallery will be located in the iconic Isabella Court building on Main…
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On Saturday, July 28, a consortium of Houston arts orgs have organized the first ever Houston Arts Resource Fair, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the University of St.…
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Pantheon Still Matters in Wall St. Journal, But The Romans Lacked Astroturf
by Bill Davenport 0 commentWall Street Journal Leisure & Arts features editor Eric Gibson, in a fit of summertime art history 101, re-explains why the Pantheon, built in the second century AD by the…
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Nearly a year after the Dalllas Un-biennial, The Los Angeles Times‘ Jori Finkel spots a trend against biennials’ “supersized display of art objects.” Elisabeth Sussman, who co-curated the Whitney Biennial…
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Nasher Makes Sexy with Ernesto Neto: Cuddle on the Tightrope
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 2 commentsErnesto Neto (pronounced NEH-toh) may have created the world’s cleverest aphrodisiac: it takes a while to realize Cuddle on the Tightrope is a journey into a vagina, but as soon…
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Postal worker Herbert Vogel who, along with his wife Dorothy, a reference librarian, amassed a monumental collection of apartment sized works by a who’s-who of modern artists, has died. The…
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See it before it closes!: Yasuaki Onishi at Rice Gallery
by Kelly Klaasmeyer 2 commentsYasuaki Onishi’s reverse of volume RG is the latest great installment in Rice Gallery’s 16-year-run of site-specific installation work. Onishi has used hardware store plastic sheeting and black hot glue…
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Culturemap Austin has an update on a prominent crew of Texas participants in this years Burning Man Festival in Nevada. Lead artist Troy Stanley, his fiancée Amberry Jam, and crew…
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LA MOCA on Life Support: NY Times Roberta Smith Call Deitch’s Tenure “Disappointing”
by Bill Davenport 1 commentEven NY Times critic Roberta Smith, originally a supporter of LA MOCA’s bold move in appointing flamboyant gallerist Jeffrey Deitch as its new Director, admits his tenure has been disappointing.…
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Stephen Vitiello is a sound artist who teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has exhibited around the world and collaborated with artists such as Pauline Oliveros, Tony Oursler, Julie…