The National Endowment for the Arts has announced it’s Art Works Grants, and 31 Texas nonprofits have benefited, to the tune of $788,500, total. Among the many organizations presenting primarily…
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On Saturday, May 11, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary is holding a night of Middle Eastern music, food and film around the last screening of artist Wael Shawky’s Cabaret Crusades: Horror…
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A lot of prints I see these days are quite genteel and pleasant. Printmaking has evolved into a rather polite art form. But this wasn’t always the case—look at Minotauromachy, on…
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Inversion House Idea Featured in Honda Ad, Havel And Ruck Sue for More Money
by Bill Davenport 15 commentsDean Ruck and Dan Havel’s popular 2005 architectural intervention, Inversion, has been pirated by admakers for Honda, according to a lawsuit the Houston artists filed last week. The ad, titled…
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Big Saddle Wins Big Money: Marshall Harris Rounds Up $50,000 Hunting Art Prize
by Bill Davenport 13 commentsFort Worth artist Marshall Harris has won the $50,000 Hunting Art Prize 2013 with “Round Up: B.F. Smith & Son Saddlery Circa 1940-1942” a life sized, highly detailed graphite…
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Better start getting ready- the opening of the new Renzo Piano addition to Louis Kahn’s already perfect, but not quite large enough Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth has a…
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Every other spring, graphic novelist Mat Johnson teaches a graphic novel workshop at the University of Houston, a collaborative offering of UH’s esteemed Creative Writing Program and almost as esteemed…
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What do you get when you cram dozens of “creatives” into a Michael Hsu-renovated warehouse complex? Canopy! Austin’s newest creative complex on Springdale road. The project anchored by nonprofit org…
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Marfa artist Julie Speed has been named the State Two-dimensional artist for 2014, and Ken Little of San Antonio has been given the honor in the three-dimensional category. Speed, known…
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River of Gruel, Pile of Pigs: Notes from Fusebox
by Katie Gehaby Katie Geha 0 commentThe composer John Cage once said, “I really think it’s important to be in a situation, both in art and life, where you don’t understand what’s going on.” This small…
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Who’s Got Time to Curate With All These Living Artists Everywhere? Dallas Museum Of Art Promotes Jeffrey Grove To New Position As Senior Curator Of Special Projects & Research
by Bill Davenport 0 commentJeffrey Grove, the DMA’s Senior Curator of Contemporary Art has been re-purposed; his new title is Museum’s Senior Curator of Special Projects & Research, a new position described as involving…
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MFAH Awarded for Publishing a Great Catalog, and Employing a Great Artist
by Bill Davenport 1 commentThis past week, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, was recognized with two honors: in London, the exhibition catalogue WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath won the “Best…
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Biggs and Collings: Suspicious Utopias, An Interview
by Michael Biseby Michael Bise 24 commentsBritish artists Emma Biggs and Matthew Collings are known as much for their beautiful tessellated abstract paintings as their staunch defense of them. Their current show, Suspicious Utopias, at Fort…
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Gary Sweeney: How To Disarm Just About Anyone
by Hills Snyderby Hills Snyder 2 comments1. What’s your favorite merit badge? My favorite merit badge was the “Fingerprinting” badge, which I’m sure they don’t even have anymore. My father was a detective and gave me…
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Too Much is Never Enough: Dallas Art Scene Panel at CentralTrak TONITE!
by Bill Davenport 0 commentCentralTrak, the UT Dallas artist residency program is hosting yet another panel discussion on the health and future of the Dallas art scene tonight, Thursday, May 2, at 7 p.m.…
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The San Antonio Art League & Museum has given Claire Golden the this year’s Ethel T. Drought Founders Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Arts. The award will be presented…
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FotoFest Seeking New Director, Watriss and Baldwin Say It’s Time for New Leadership
by Bill Davenport 2 comments“After 26 years creating and developing FotoFest, it is time for new leadership,” say FotoFest Co-founders Wendy Watriss and Fred Baldwin. “As part of FotoFest’s Board of Directors, we are…
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Susan Toomey Frost Donates Guillermo Kahlo Collection to the Wittliff
by Bill Davenport 0 commentSan Antonio collector Susan Toomey Frost has gifted Texas State U’s Witliff Collection with 120 photographs, postcards, booklets, and books documenting the life and work of guillermo Kahlo, Frida’s father,…
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Celia Eberle: motherf at Cris Worley Fine Arts
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 1 commentThe only time I have had a transcendent experience through art was while visiting Rome—until now. motherf, an exhibition of new work by Celia Eberle of Ennis, Texas, concentrates uncommon…
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Amon Carter Reveals Caves by Duncanson, 19th Century African American Artist
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Amon Carter Museum has proudly announced the acquisition of “The Caves,” a painting by prominent 19th century African-American artist Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821–1872), from the family of Cincinnati abolitionist…