Recently, I went to a screening of the documentary Gerhard Richter Painting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Going into the film, I was downright scared that I would…
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The Dallas Museum of Art has received $300,000 to support the creation of a Laboratory for Museum Innovation, which will produce digital media for museum visitors.Actually, it’s three gifts, from…
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Artist Jonas “Nina” Becker’s meme-friendly combination of quaint photographic technology, van customization, and arts education for neighborhood youth, the Mobile Pinhole Project, has sprawled across the media and the streets…
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Jessica Luther’s Smoke and Mirrors Re-Opens: Dallas Outsider Garage Art Party Last Night
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Dallas Observer chronicled the ups and downs of newly reopened Smoke and Mirrors Gallery and it proprietor, Jessica Luther on Saturday. Health problems caused Luther to close the outsider…
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Old News is Good News: Rubin Adds 11,000 Pages of Cronkite Transcripts to UT Video Piece
by Bill Davenport 0 commentNew York artist Ben Rubin will be back in Austin at the end of this month to tinker with his projected-video installation And That’s the Way It Is, in which…
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El Paso’s Downtown Arts District has so many things going on the week of June 22-30 that thay’ve launched a new website, to help keep track of it all. I’m…
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Houston sculptor Bob Pack’s “The Guardian,” a realistic statue of a police officer and a boy has stood in front of the Sugar Land police department building since 1996, but,…
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It’s almost July, and perhaps you have no interest in losing yourself in the waves of insect din and the swampy stickiness, even though it feels like swimming through music.…
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Catherine Lee is a painter and sculptor who has exhibited throughout the United States and abroad. She grew up in Texas, attended university in California and lived and worked…
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Big Country Pop-Up: Clyde, TX DIY Project “Hones In on an Art Concept Sweeping the Nation’s Larger Metropolitan Areas”
by Bill Davenport 0 commentResponding to a dearth of art venues with “a “do-it-yourself” mentality” Abilene painter Bud Clayton has organized what he’s calling “The Big Country’s first “POP UP” Gallery Exhibition” a solo…
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I always find it curious when art institutions decide to go into ambitious building programs. Typically the reasoning is the same: to offer a space in which the public is…
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Ai WeiWei: Police Block Countersuit Against Chinese Tax Authorities, Lawyer Disappears
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Guardian, UK reports that Chinese dissident and international art star Ai WeiWei’s studio in Beijing was surrounded by police today, who injured one of his staff and damaged a…
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The Dallas Museum of Art has received a half-million dollar grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to hire ex-Getty conservator Mark Leonard as its new Chief Conservator. Leonard who…
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Aerospace Engineers for the Arts? Study Claims $322 Million Economic Footprint for Dallas Arts
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe 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…