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…
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New Bayou: Planners Talk Up Transformation of Houston’s Bipolar Waterway on July 25
by Bill Davenport 0 commentIf you’ve driven along Allen Parkway recently, you’ve seen the piles of dirt. For the next three years, Buffalo Bayou is going to be one massive construction project, and Rice…
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Folk Art Triumphant: Smither Park Extends Orange Show’s Funky Success
by Bill Davenport 0 commentSmither Park, the new folky-art mecca under construction next door to the Orange Show, is making progress. Visionary architectural sculptor Dan Phillips is busily grouting keys, marbles and tile fragments…
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The Olympics are approaching, and my mind has been wandering in eager anticipation. Will David Beckham be shot into space at the opening ceremonies to light a lunar torch symbolizing…
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Kimberly Bush Tomio, director of the Tyler Museum of Art has announced that she will be leaving the museum she has headed for 12 years to take a job in…
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MFAH director Gary Tinterow’s old Metropolitan Museum of Art connections, and the deep pockets of his new institution are paying off for the Prado: yesterday the NY Times announced that…
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Rejoice! SAMA Now Offers Free Admission in Patches on Tuesdays and Sundays
by Bill Davenport 0 commentIf you’ve been itching to see the famed Guernica Tapestry but have been put off by the $8 museum admission, rejoice! Thanks to H-E-B, the San Antonio Museum of Art…
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I’m headed to New York next week for a brief visit wrapped around a wedding. On the top of the list is Yayoi Kusama’s retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum…
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Wrong Museum Burning: Ruscha’s Exit Leaves No Artists on LA MOCA Board
by Bill Davenport 3 commentsJoining John Baldessari, Catherine Opie and Barbara Kruger in a rush to the exit, Ed Ruscha, the last artist on LA MOCA’s board, resigned Monday. The troubled museum, pulled out…
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The Smithsonian American Art Museum has bought Seven Days: Breakfast Tacos by San Antonio artist Chuck Ramirez, adding ti to their permanent collection. The large format photograph will be included…
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Laura Lark Loves You #2: Quake That Thing; California Uber Artists; Where’s a Man to Go?
by Laura Larkby Laura Lark 4 commentsQuestions? Comments? Ideas? Send them to: [email protected] (or leave your message below) Dear Readers, Welcome back to Laura Lark Loves You! Please excuse the lack of an umlaut in the…
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Meanwhile, in San Antonio: Wolverton and Guy Hundere
by Sarah Fischby Sarah Fisch 2 commentsUnpretentious art-rock and the collective ideas of the dorks: This is San Anto, y'all.
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Art Hungry Grapevine, TX Hopes to Fill New Convention Center with DIY Art Fair August 4
by Bill Davenport 3 commentsArt-Hunger, a new organization formed by Nick C. Kirk, John Worley and Mike Moffatt, is planning monthly indoor art markets for the newly refurbished Grapevine Convention/Visitors Bureau & Museum Complex…
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I really don’t understand the brouhaha over this Museum Tower thing. All I see are opportunities. Perhaps the lawyers on both sides lack vision. Lawyers, arbitrators, city council members. Not…