Blouin Artinfo has a report on the Dallas Art Fair’s social side, grudgingly admitting that the fair, and the city “maybe — just maybe” has a shot at becoming an…
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Art Fairs are the funnest no-fun events in the artworld. Take Dallas, for example: the first thing I saw was this swing, installed on the grassy lawn outside the Fashion…
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Credit Sequence -Gray day, I’m on 59, heading down to TSU. At freeway speed, the weather renders most of the adjacent buildings invisible, only the brightest planes of blue, red,…
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The City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs unveiled 7 new public art commissions this week at Dallas Love Field Airport. The Love Field Art Collection is part of the…
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A few nights before I saw the Cindy Sherman retrospective at the Dallas Museum of Art, I dreamed about Cindy. Picture a big warehouse building like Warhol’s New York Factory…
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Lacking a convenient building to demolish, the Art League Houston is sending out a call for scrap lumber for Funnel Tunnel, Patrick Renner’s 185-foot public artwork now beginning construction along…
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Houston artist David McGee recalls an encounter with a Picasso impersonator on TV for videographer John Carrithers.
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Temporary Services “Socialized Media–Designated Drivers, Interactive Records and a Booklet Cloud”
by Katie Gehaby Katie Geha 1 commentThe art collective Temporary Services’ exhibition at The University Galleries at Texas State in San Marcos acts a tutorial for the social art practice the group engages and promotes. The…
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This Friday, April 12, from 7-10 p.m., Big Medium, the Austin art org behind the upcoming West Austin Studio Tour (as well as the Texas Biennial, the former Cantanker Magazine,…
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Please Don’t Mist the Art! Flower Show To Feature Horticultural Interpretations of MFAH’s Collection
by Bill Davenport 0 commentLike global warming, and with similar speed, contemporary art’s omnivorous inclusion of the temporary and the handmade has caught up with the traditional art of flower arranging, as it has…
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35th Annual Master’s Thesis Exhibition at Blaffer Art Museum
by Debra Barrera 6 commentsNewly renovated Blaffer exterior About three years ago I installed my Master’s Thesis Show at the Blaffer Art Museum. Every piece in my exhibit was ready-made sculpture and vinyl…
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Jacqueline Buckingham and DMA Director Maxwell Anderson Announce Divorce on Facebook
by Bill Davenport 0 commentIn a joint letter to “family, friends, and colleagues,” glamorous Jacqueline Buckingham and DMA Director Maxwell Anderson announced their divorce on her website and her facebook page on April 9.…
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The Hermitage Artist Retreat along with the Greenfield Foundation have announced that Houston painter Trenton Doyle Hancock is the winner of the $30,000 Greenfield Prize, awarded this year in visual…
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Senorita Cinema, Stephanie Saint Sanchez’s Latina film festival is seeking short films and videos by Latinas for this year’s fourth annual event, set for June 7-9, at locations around Houston.…
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You can’t miss the compound on San Antonio’s West Side as it sits in the middle of Leal Street. Warhol-inspired Campbell’s soup piñatas mixed in with lush, green vegetation greeted…
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Looky Hooky: Dallas Art Fair Lures Workers With Free Professionals Day Friday, April 12
by Bill Davenport 1 commentWhy should ogling acres of fine art be the exclusive province of the leisured? For the first time in its five year run, the Dallas Art Fair, partnering with CultureMap,…
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For those of us who just can’t get enough contemporary art, this week’s Dallas Art Fair has sparked several fair-like events in its train, in addition to the fair’s own…
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Brushed with Greatness: Vuitton and Koons Join Picasso and Tinterow at Houston’s MFAH
by Glasstireby Glasstire 2 commentsTo kick off its new “Conversations with the Director” lecture series, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston is splurging on a big name: high-end artist Jeff Koons will discuss his…
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On a late Friday afternoon in March as rush-hour drivers braked their way through the I-10 and Loop 1604 intersection, San Antonio artists got their first formal introduction to the…
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On Saturday, April 6 from 8 a.m.-3 p.m., the Museum of Cultural Arts Houston is selling off a pile of broken and not so broken musical instruments, art supplies, furniture, …