The Dallas Observer reports on a report that the arts generate $322 million in jobs and revenue in Dallas, according to a study by arts advocacy group Americans for the…
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“You talking to who?” They heard me fine, yet each time I told a friend that I was calling Ed Hardy for a quick interview, I got the same incredulous…
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Jack Risley, associate dean of academic affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), will be the next chair and Ruth Head Centennial Professor of the Department of Art and Art History…
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Memorial to Mark a Texas-Sized Injustice: Tim Cole Monument Approved by Lubbock City Council
by Bill Davenport 0 commentLubbock City council voted to place a public marker commemorating Tim Cole, who was wrongly convicted for a 1985 rape, and who died in prison at age 39 after fourteen…
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Blindsided? CAC New Orleans and Organizational Crises in the Art World
by Claire Ruudby Claire Ruud 3 commentsAbout a year ago now, I published a series of articles introducing readers to some of the financial metrics consultants, academics, and others have used to evaluate the financial stability…
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Pablo Picasso’s Woman in a Red Armchair (1929) was vandalized last week when a man in a dark suit approached the piece and stenciled the word “Conquista” and a picture…
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Gregory Warmack, better known to a generation of folk art lovers as Mr. Imagination, one of the few outsider artists whose work was collected by the Smithsonian and reproduced in…
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Refurbished Stark Museum Opens Native American Art Gallery in Orange
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Stark Museum of Art’s renovation has made room for a permanent installation of its collection of Native American art. The exhibition: Creating from Traditions: Arts of the American Indians…
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ArtSlam at Steve Paul Productions
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 1 commentArtSlam is an auction benefiting WordSpace, a Dallas writers organization that hosts regular readings and events around town. The auction will be Sunday, June 24th, at Steve Paul Productions, a…
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Lawndale Art Center has announced its new crop of resident artists for 1012-2013: Domokos Benczédi, Nancy Douthey and Patrick Turk will each get studio space on Lawndale’s third floor, $500…
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I’ve never met Stephen Kwok, but I was drawn into the work on his site enough to go visit his solo show, “Walled Garden” at Fresh Arts (formerly Spacetaker) until…
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What the White Hides, It Also Reveals: David Aylsworth at Inman Gallery
by Rachel Hooper 2 commentsDavid Aylsworth has debuted a subtle and beautiful new group of canvases, in which the color white carries paradoxical tensions of opaqueness and translucency, form and space, content and blankness,…
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Barbara Perea First Casa Chuck Curatorial Resident, Supported with Recycled Art!
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThis September Sala Diaz will be hosting Barbara Perea, an accomplished Mexico City-based curator, critic and lecturer with a concentration in emerging media, sound and video art as the first…
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Louis Grachos, Director of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY has been named as Executive Director of AMOA-Arthouse after seven month search. He’s easing into it: Grachos takes on…
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Lights On at the Light Garden: Tim Glover’s Steel Trees to be Illuminated at WOW Roundabout June 19
by Bill Davenport 0 commentOn June 5, Tim Glover’s “Light Garden”, two 25-foot tall sculptures with multi-colored lighting displays, were “planted” in the Washington On Westcott Roudabout to form a landmark gateway to…
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Show and Tell: Chupacabrona (semi-) undocumented
by Sarah Fischby Sarah Fisch 4 commentsThere’s been a grave interruption in my tour reporting, I realize. Rigoberto Gonzalez Facebooked me thusly the other day: WTF? (I’m paraphrasing). Here’s what happened: from January through May, I amassed…
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Cinema 16: Short Art Films in Oak Cliff Film Fest
by Lucia Simekby Lucia Simek 0 commentAmos Vogel, founder of Cinema 16, courtesy Northwest Chicago Film Society I’m not sure when the guys that run the Texas Theater sleep, they keep that theater so freaking…
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Dallas artist John Wilcox has died, after a long battle with HIV. During the late 80’s Wilcox lived in New York, experiencing firsthand the AIDS epidemic that was consuming the art…
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New 107 Gallery in SA: Lullwood Collective to Take over Second Saturdays at Former LoneStar Studios
by Bill Davenport 0 commentBeginning July 14, The Lullwood Group, “an artist collective that encourages participation, fosters exploration and promotes art discovery in many forms,” will curate monthly exhibitions at the 107 Gallery, formerly …
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The Glasstire exhibition listings for East Texas, already thin, are going to get thinner: P’s Gallery, one of the few art venues in Longview, is closing at the end of…