The big news this weekend is the arrival of Michael Heizer‘s “big rock” at LACMA, attended by hundreds of onlookers lining Wilshire Boulevard with their camera phones at 4:30 a.m.…
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The Social Network, Arts and Culture Edition: Robert Stein Named DMA Deputy Director
by Bill Davenport 0 commentMuseum internet guru Robert Stein has been announced as the new Deputy Director of the Dallas Museum of Art. Stein is currently Deputy Director for Research, Technology, and Engagement at…
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This just in: “For the safety of our artists, attendees and organizers, Luminaria 2012 is postponed due to the inclement weather. The organization committee involved with producing Luminaria will be…
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Smithsonian’s Sheryl Kolasinski to be New Menil CEO and Deputy Director
by Bill Davenport 0 commentAfter a national search, Josef Helfenstein, director of the Menil Collection, has named Sheryl Kolasinski to fill the institution’s newly minted position of Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer. Kolasinski…
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CAA Part II: Design, Food, Weegee and Naked Hollywood
by Colette Copeland 1 commentThe College Art Association Conference was a great excuse to play in L.A. for a few days. Arriving at the swanky L.A. Marriott Live hotel, I immediately noticed the…
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The Dallas division of the FBI is crowing over the confession of an Allen, TX couple who used art as the bait for a scheme they used to defraud two…
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Scott Peveto, former McClain Gallery director has set up on his own in the old New Gallery space at 2627 Colquitt Colquitt Street in Houston. Peveto, “A fine art resource management…
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German-born New Yorker Josephine Meckseper traveled to Electra, the self-described “pumpjack capital of Texas” to gather source material for her new installation, Manhattan Oil Project, observing working pumpjacks in the…
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Flex-Us [In Cooperation with Muscle Nation] at Ro2 Art
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 1 commentDanielle Georgiou, Danseuse Privee, 2012 and Willie Baronet, Unseen, 2012. Photo by Alisa Levy. Ro2 Art has two spaces in downtown Dallas within walking distance of each other and a…
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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran a short feature about Marfa in today’s paper, and though Judd, Chinati, and modern art art all prominent themes, it’s nice that the Mystery Lights, Marfa’s…
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The Chupacabrona Tour, Part 2: On South Texas Identity, or The Wild Nudes of McAllen
by Sarah Fischby Sarah Fisch 1 commentSouth Texas: vast, under appreciated, and misunderstood, Also: naked. Check it out.
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Last December, before my visit to Crystal Bridges, I wrote about the challenges of being a museum funded by Wal-Mart money and located in Bentonville, Arkansas. I had interviewed the…
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Vietnam War Re-Enactment at Houston’s G Gallery Opening Interrupted by Real Brawl
by Bill Davenport 18 commentsThe photograph may be blurry, but art/combat blogger Robert Boyd got the shot as he reported on Saturday’s opening at G Gallery. The show, by by Otis Ike and Ivete…
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My Painting is Tomorrow’s Painting. Watch and See: Bess in The Limelight as 40 Works Go on Sale to Benefit Anderson Cancer Center
by Bill Davenport 1 commentChristie’s is selling off forty paintings by Forrest Bess, legendary Texas fish-camp hermit and symbolist painter to benefit the UT’s MD Anderson Cancer Center in a private sale running from…
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The saying goes that if you are a curator you educate yourself publicly. In other words, you are constantly in a process of learning and integrating that knowledge into exhibitions…
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South by Southwest is coming to Austin, and visual and dramatic arts groups are hunkering down to weather the tsunami of visitors almost exclusively focused on music, film and technology.…
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My grumble with College Art Association conferences is that historically the programming primarily targets art historians. Last year’s New York conference was a notable exception with some of my favorite…
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There’s no place like home, and the Galveston Art Center misses theirs, the 1878 First National Bank Building at 22nd and Strand, which at the time of hurricane Ike was…
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The upcoming Dallas Biennale, opening March 29 at Neiman Marcus downtown and later distributed among several venues is to be a “large-scale survey exhibition of international artists” organized by the…
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Some say that Black History month no longer needs to be celebrated. The belief is that these marginalized histories can be framed beyond the margins and understood within larger conversations…