The Nasher Sculpture Center is bringing actress, model, filmmaker and wildlife activist Isabella Rossellini will be the featured speaker at The Nasher Sculpture Center’s NasherSALON, on Tuesday, April 10 at…
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Houston Artletter
Satyr’s Penis Contest: Find Hidden Details in MFAH’s Google Art and Win!
by Bill Davenport 1 comment183 pieces in the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s collection are now online in intimate detail as part of Google’s expanded Arts Project. With the Google-powered ability to zoom in…
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See the Satyr’s Penis! Museum of Fine Arts Houston Included in Expanded Google Art Project
by Bill Davenport 0 commentPhotographs of 183 works from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will be included in the growing global Google Art Project, which aims to increase the online…
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Last week, a little crowd gathered in Marty Walker’s small gallery space to look at artist Wayne White’s new show there called I Say A Lot of Things. We were…
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Nancy Cone Hanley, 74, died on April 3 of complication from an illness. Transplanted to Dallas in 1972 with her husband Tim (who survives her) Nancy was intimately involved with…
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UTEP’s Rubin Center for the Visual Arts was selected to participate in the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services’s (IMLS) National Museum Assessment Program. The MAP program, as it’s…
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Throughout a weekend of constant seismic activity and back-to-back aftershocks I braved the constantly trembling ground on Friday and made the short trek further into the San Rafael neighborhood to…
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The Boards of Houston art-boosters Fresh Arts Coalition and Spacetaker have unanimously approved a merger of the two organizations. The two orgs were of the same vintage, but had complementary…
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If you’re in Austin, or vaguely near Austin, don’t miss the talk by Mark Allen, founder of Machine Project in Los Angeles. It’s from 6:30-8pm in the UT Art Building,…
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Fuzzy Houston Countercrawl Comes Into Focus In A Conversation with Alex Tu by Carrie Schneider
by Bill Davenport 1 commentYesterday, art blog Temporary Art Review ran an interview with Alex Tu, participant/instigator/spectator in the loosely organized Houston Countercrawl, now approaching it’s fourth iteration on Saturday, April 28. Blessed with…
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Giunta’s Latin American Art History Program Gets a Big Boost From Longhorn TV, (and a Mystery Donor)
by Bill Davenport 0 commentAndrea Giunta, Director of UT’s Center for Latin American Visual Studies program has been appointed to the newly established Endowed Chair in Latin American Art History and Criticism at UT…
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http://youtu.be/deRMRh8Zjgg The blank “uh” we hear before Andy Warhol’s responses was typical of his interview style but hardly ever appears in his published interviews as it was most likely edited…
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A bronze and granite grouping by Laredo sculptor Armando Hinojosa depicting a vaquero, two longhorns, settlers, a conquistador, and a boy roping a goat was unveiled amid festivities at the…
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Jacqueline Buckingham Anderson, Houston native and wife of relatively new DMA Director Maxwell Anderson, is profiled, posed and photographed (again!) in the Dallas Morning News. Who are we to rain…
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Doug McCash of the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports on a controversy at that city’s Contemporary Arts Center. Echoing last year’s Arthouse (Austin) debacle, the CAC rented some of its space…
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Aurora Grows Roots: Wayward Micro-Cinema Moving to Medium-Cinema space
by Bill Davenport 0 commentSwamplot has photos of Aurora Picture Show’s new digs at the old Molly Gotchman Art Compound just off Kirby Drive in Houston. The new space will give the film org…
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Corpus Christi Galleries and the Rockport Art Center
by Colette Copeland 2 commentsTwo weeks ago, I took a road trip to the coast to jury a student exhibition at Rockport Center for the Arts. I spent Saturday in downtown Corpus Christi which…
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After a nearly two-year hiatus, Austin’s Okay Mountain Collective is opening a new show in a new space at 1619 Cesar Chavez St. Leif Low-beer’s Just Do It opens April…
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The Blanton Museum in Austin has announced two new hires and one promotion, filling up vacancies. Colette Crossman, currently the Blanton’s administrator of arts and programs, will be Curator of…
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Houston’s Orange Show opens it’s 2012 season with the traditional Easter Orange Hunt on Saturday, March 31. Bring your kids to scour Jeff McKissack’s folk art creation for goodies, followed…