5000 Feet is the Best, on view at the Dallas Museum of Art, is a film based on two conversations that artist Omer Fast conducted in the fall of 2010…
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Artnet magazine, the 16-year old online art magazine, ceased publication Monday. The widely-read magazine, which carried the words of Charlie Finch and republished Jerry Salz, was closed by Artnet, whose…
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Bilbao Boom: For Arts Institutions, Thinking Big Can Be Suicidal in NY Times
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe New York Times today reported on a new study on over-zealous building campaigns at cultural institutions which mentioned the Chicago Art Institue’s Modern Wing, Dallas’ Winspear Opera House and…
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Jessica S. McDonald has been appointed as the Chief Curator of Photography at UT’s Harry Ransom Center. McDonald, a curator of photography at SFMOMA, the San Francisco Museum of Modern…
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CAMH’s Newly-Extended Hours Offer Seven Days of Icy Contemporary Art Bliss
by Bill Davenport 1 commentBeginning July 3, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston has new extended hours: 10-7 Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, open late Thursdays until 9pm, Saturdays 10-6, and Sundays 12-6. That’s all seven…
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In a little carved out space of the Hoffman Galleries at the DMA, there are three pieces by Japanese artist Nobuo Sekine, founder of the Mono-ha Movement (mono-ha translates to “school of things”)…
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BlogEssayOp Ed
The Cost of Turnover, or how museums could pay more and spend less
by Claire Ruudby Claire Ruud 3 commentsThere’s been a lot of management turnover within top tier Texas museums over the past year. [Quick recap: Just 13 months ago, Simone Wicha replaced Ned Rifkin as Director of…
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Local Revolutionaries: Living Room Art with Voices Breaking Boundaries
by Diane Barberby Diane Barber 0 commentThe revolution begins at home. More specifically, the revolution begins in your living room. Since 2006, Houston’s bold and unapologetic Voices Breaking Boundaries has been taking art to the masses…
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Suspected Menil Picasso Vandal on the Run: $5000 Reward for Houston Artist Uriel Landeros
by Bill Davenport 1 commentCulturemap reports that Crime Stoppers has offered a $5000 reward for Houston artist Uriel Landeros, suspected of vandalizing Picasso’s Woman in a Red Armchair at the Menil Collection last week.…
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The Rice Gallery is celebrating Rice University’s Centennial with a new iPad app, the university’s first, cataloging the many installations that have transformed the Rice Gallery space, and like every…
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What better use for some of that Houston Art Alliance hotel tax money than to promote one of the city’s only real claims to fame, the Houston Art Car Parade?…
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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…