Houston art student Uriel Landeros, who faced up to ten years for felony graffiti and criminal mischief charges, was sentenced to two years on the graffiti charges. Landeros was accused…
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Jeff Gibbons: Chee$e = Milk’s 4th State of Matter, Chances Are, Intermission and The Brite Sun
by Thomas Ezekiel Williams 3 commentsOverall, Jeff Gibbons’ show(s) at Oliver Francis Gallery in Dallas is great—please go see it. It feels a little disjointed, but dealing with it by apologetically making the exhibition into…
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Texas Biennial 2013 to Leak Artists Today—Full List Tomorrow!
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 1 commentAccording to the Texas Biennial’s Facebook page, they will begin previewing selected artists throughout the day, via Facebook and Twitter. They plan to release the full list on Wednesday, so…
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Austin Festival Explores the Techno-Future, Houston Show Presents the Techno-Past
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThis weekend, the Austin Museum of Digital Art will hold the PROTOS Digital Art and Prototyping Festival—four days of daytime events (free!) and nighttime events (not free!) at the Long…
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Barbie Identity Crisis Reaches All Time High: from Artist Videos to Occupy Protest
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThose who have been following the work of Texas-based artist Lauren Kelley know that she sometimes uses Barbie dolls in her still photography, video works, and collages as a means…
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Just as Marfa’s Stonehenge (artist Donald Judd’s untitled, half-mile-long series of concrete boxes) beautifully frames and fractures light, landscape, and viewers’ own meditations, so does the CineMarfa film festival with…
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No Time to Visit a Remote Rainforest Surrealist Sculpture Garden? There’s an App for That!
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 1 commentApple is set to release the latest app by Texas artists Robert Ziebell and Anthony Thompson Shumate, Las Pozas: Steps & Falls, next week. Lens-based artist Ziebell, one of the…
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The Exploring Latino Identities series examines issues in Latino/Latin American contemporary art through interviews with artists, art historians, and others. In today’s installment, multimedia artist, writer, DJ, and recent Austin-NYC…
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Experimental Film in Austin: Tonight Turkey! Tomorrow the World (in 35mm)!
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 1 commentThere seems to be a recent interest in Turkish film, as proven by the recent inaugural Turkish Film Festival at the MFAH, and now Austin’s Experimental Response Cinema (ERC) is…
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Videographer John Carrithers asks Houston artist Emily Sloan what she would be doing if she weren’t an artist: “One thing I almost did was social work. I felt like art…
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There’s Another Westheimer in Houston: Dr. Ruth Visits MFAH for Chat With the Director
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentTickets are now on sale for the next ”Conversations with the Director” at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The series launched on April 23 with a conversation between MFAH…
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I spent the week of May 1-7 in New York to see galleries/museums and attend a curator conference. As an obsessive photo taker, I thought it might be fun to…
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This fall, in Dundee, Scotland, printmaking professionals from around the world will gather for the 8th annual Impact International Printmaking Conference. With the theme of “Borders and Crossings: The Artist…
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UH Center for Arts Leadership is Here. So, What Is It?
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 1 commentThe University of Houston’s new Center for Arts Leadership is up and running. Fleurette Fernando, Director of the Center’s Master of Arts in Arts Leadership Program, has been on place…
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Avoid Those Long Checkout Lines at the Galleries! Fresh Arts Opens Online Store
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThere are tons of online shopping sites for contemporary art, from ExhibitionA to Paddle8, not to mention the big auction houses and individual artists’ homemade pages. Now, Houston’s Fresh Arts…
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On Saturday, May 18 is the American Association of Museum Directors Art Museum Day. Many AAMD member organizations are offering free (or reduced) admission. For money-saving convenience, here is a…
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Chatting with Sally Glass of Dallas’ semigloss. Magazine
by Leslie Moody Castro 6 commentsA few months back I took a weekend trip to Dallas, and was impressed by the young, vibrant art scene emerging there. Grassroots arts ventures have always been interesting to…
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Add Another Stop to Houston’s Gallery Row: Nicole Longnecker Opens June 1
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 1 commentThe Nicole Longnecker Gallery is the newest art space to join the string of galleries on Colquitt near Kirby in Houston’s Gallery Row. “Our gallery offers a wide range of…
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A Multinational Quilt of Uniform Patches, B.O., and Mustard
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentMost International Space Station missions last about six months, which means any sane astronaut needs a good thick novel, an effective mantra on which to meditate, or the love of…
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Gregory Ruppe and Timothy Harding: The Landscape is Motorized at 500X
by Lucia Simekby Lucia Simek 0 commentI’m late on this—the show I am about to review closed last weekend. It has likely been packed up and moved, making space for the next thing. Art shows are…