South 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…
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March 4 will be the final day to see the Byzantine frescoes currently nestled in their frosted glass framework at the Menil’s Byzantine Fresco Chapel. The works, which the Menil…
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The City of Austin Cultural Arts Division has announced that shawn Smith’s Vicious Venue, a sculptural installation of digital vultures made frompainted balsa wood, is the People’s Choice selection from…
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I flew down to LA last week in honor of CAA, The College Art Association. While the majority of my peers went to panels, school reunions, and were either interviewers…
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The City of El Paso has selected the first three artists for their new prioritized 2012 public art plan : Margarita Cabrera, Jose Cano and Anna Jacquez have been chosen…
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To get yourself in a properly industrial mood for the upcoming Lone Star Performance Explosion, take a look at Facebook group CSAW Lives! True Stories of Commerce Street Artists Warehouse, …
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Shepard Fairey Pleads Guilty to Evidence Shredding; May Face Prison
by Bill Davenport 2 commentsStreet artist Shepard Fairey, (wearing a suit!) pled guilty to misdemeanor criminal contempt charges connected with his altering evidence in a 2009 court battle over his use of a copyrighted…
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The LA Times‘ Deborah Vankin reports that the enormous rock for artist Michael Heizer’s Levitated Mass at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has been levitated. Emmert Costruction has…
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Austin Coming Together (ACT), “committed to ProACTive community building,” had its monthly meeting last Thursday, and among other Austin-boosting things on the agenda was the creation of an Austin Arts…
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In San Angelo, museums, artists, students and university faculty all pull hard together to create a vital art scene from a less than critical mass. Ami Mizell-Flint in the San…
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I have followed Glenn Ligon’s work over the past twenty years. He’s not known for his subtlety. In fact, he deliberately provokes his viewers. Given that his work examines race,…