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…
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Like Houston’s Astrodome, Beijing’s Bird Nest Stadium, repudiated by its creator, dissident artist Ai WeiWei, and costing the government $11 million a year to maintain, is becoming a white elephant.…
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Dallas art writer and collector June Mattingly’s new e-book The State of the Art: Contemporary Artists in Texas, is out-available for Nook, Kindle and iPad. Mattingly, a Dallas artworld fixture…
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Independent scholars rejoice-The Getty Research Portal, which launched last month, makes 20,000 documents from the Getty’s collection and eight other libraries available to anyone with an internet connection. The texts,…
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Surprise! Austin’s $236 Million Culture Industry Supports 7,000 Jobs, Says Americans for the Arts
by Bill Davenport 0 commentAccording to a study by arts advocacy group Americans For the Arts, nonprofit arts and culture industry generated $236 million in annual economic activity in Austin in 2010, supporting 7,315…
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If you’ve been paying attention lately, you know Texas has a bit of a water problem. If you’ve been out of the loop, start with the woes in the little…
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Congratulations to six artists selected for awards by Big Show guest juror, Marco Antonini. Kassandra Bergman, Celia Butler, Hogan Kimbrell, Alexander Larsen, Angel Oloshove, Lucia Peña will split $3000 in…
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On July 4th, Allen, TX artist and motivational speaker Tanner Lawley began a new effort to paint the “largest oil painting of the United States of America that has ever…
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Lawndale’s annual and much-anticipated Big Show opens tonight (Friday the 13th) from 6:30 – 8:30. Curated by Marco Antonini, gallery director of Brooklyn’s NURTUREart, it’s one of the smallest and…
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Model City for the New Face of America Gets $50,000 for Transit Stop Engagement Process
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe NEA has selected UTSA’s College of Architecture for a $50,000 grant to develop a transit stop near the redeveloped Tobin Center for the Performing Arts in San Antonio. The…
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Suffer a Sea Change: Art in Galveston, 2012
by Rainey Knudson 3 commentsLet’s take a moment to check in with Galveston. Poor old Galveston, right? The city has its great old Victorian mansions and brick streets and palm-lined avenues; it also has…
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Questions? Comments? Ideas? Send them to: [email protected] (or leave your message below) Dear Readers, Thanks for the overwhelming number of responses! In this first post, I will be addressing just…
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MFAH Gets $100K Silver Polishing Grant from IMLS; UT Dress Conservators Get the Lead Out
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Museum of Fine Arts Houston will get seventeen new airtight, sulfur-free cabinets to store it’s 898-piece collection of silver alloy items, taking them out of their tissue paper and…
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It’s the All Star break, a time when the very best professional baseball players have to travel for work and the rest get a four-day vacation. It’s also the dead…