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…
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Famous Monsters Mutate in Summer Heat: New Mural Emerges at Lawndale
by Bill Davenport 0 commentA new mural, or rather an extension of the current one, is underway at Houston’s Lawndale Art Center. Last weekend, Daniel Anguilu, painter of the 2011-2012 “Famous Monsters” mural, began…
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On Saturday, June 16, eight galleries located in the Deep Ellum and Expo Park kick off the Summer together with East Dallas Gallery Day. Barry Whistler, The Public Trust, Kirk…
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I’d seen Bret Slater’s work before, in his studio, just prior to all of it getting zipped into a big duffle bag and schlepped across the Atlantic for Art Brussels by…
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WOAH, IAC!-Suchu Dance Inaugurates Houston’s Biggest Alterna-Venue at West Oaks Mall
by Bill Davenport 3 commentsIndependent Art Collaborative, move over! The new West Oaks Art House, the crazy-ambitious scheme to turn a 100,000 square foot former department store into a massive art venue in west…
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Fighting indifferent crowds, hot sun, and $7 beer, intrepid blogger and conoisseur of low-budget public art Robert Boyd checks out the art components of Free Press Summer Fest on his…
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Radcliffe Bailey “Memory and Medicine” and Tropical Storm Allison
by Kelly Klaasmeyer 0 commentRadcliffe Bailey’s show “Memory as Medicine” opened at the McNay last week. I first saw Bailey’s work in “The Magic City,” his ill-fated show at the Blaffer Gallery in 2001.…
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El Paso native Jake Erlich (1906-1952), for decades known as the tallest man in the world, was also an artist. Twelve of his paintings are featured in a new exhibition,…
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Houston artist Emily Sloan is taking her Southern Naptist Convention on the road to Venice CA next weekend. Sloan, also noted for being the curator of The Kenmore, and “exhibition…
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Thursday, June 14 at 8:23 p.m., Twilight Epiphany, Rice University’s James Turrell Skyspace fires up for its public debut. After a few delays, the piece’s website has gone live, listing…