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,…
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I had an art trek. There were three openings and I was determined to make it to all of them. I succeeded (mostly). Opening #1 was a performance piece by…
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I’ve loved Mona Hatoum‘s work since I first saw it in 1993 at the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens. The exhibition was called Four Rooms and Hatoum was one of…
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Met Star Floral Designer Chris Giftos Emergency Guest of Honor at DMA Art in Bloom Luncheon
by Bill Davenport 1 commentChris Giftos, former Director of Special Events and Master Floral Designer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art has agreed to step in as the keynote speaker and guest of honor…
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Is it the last gasp of artistic desperation? Drawing’s ironic abasement before the god of photography? Or just way to make a little money? Houston artist Whitney Riley is starting…
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Rice University dedicated a pair of big, seated figures by Jaume Plensa at a ceremony on the Rice campus last tuesday. The piece, titled Mirror, is similar in style to…
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Artadia, “the fund for art and dialog” has just announced a big multi-year grant from the Houston Endowment for its upcoming programs. In other Artadia news, longtime executive director Lila…
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Iconic LA sculptor Ken Price, 77, died early today after struggling with tongue and throat cancer for several years. He recently completed preparations for his retrospective, which opens this fall…
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Biggest Open House in Texas: Explore UT to Again Feature Temporary Art Project
by Bill Davenport 0 commentUT’s Blanton Museum has commissioned alum Jules Buck Jones to create a temporary outdoor installation in the museum’s Faulkner Plaza for the annual Explore UT event, set for March 3,…
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Houston’s New Gallery/Thom Andriola celebrates it’s relocation into temporary quarters at 3225 Milam, next to PG Contemporary, with a grand opening on March 2 from 6-8. The gallery is in…
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In many ways, Nancy Zastudil was the inspiration for this series of interviews about sustainable practices. We worked together at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the…
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Dr. Francine Carraro, executive director of the Grace Museum in Abilene, has resigned. An expert in early Texas art, she had held the post since September 2008 when she came…
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Worn but Unwilted, San Antonio’s New Wooden Buddha Actually 800 Years Old
by Bill Davenport 0 commentArt Daily reports that the San Antonio Museum of Art has acquired a really nice woooden Amita Buddha from the late 12th century with funds provided by Lenora and Walter…
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Fun Facts About Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals, Coming to Houston’s Hermann Park in May
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Hermann Park installation is part of a six-stop US tour that includes New York, Los Angeles, Princeton, NJ, Washington D.C., and Pittsburgh. The 12 monumental bronze heads each weigh…
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Fort Worth’s Home-Grown Vaquero-Sculpture-With-a-Pistol-Controversy Dies with a Whimper
by Bill Davenport 2 commentsEchoing, in diluted form, the debate over the appropriateness of Luis Jimenez’ famous pistol-waving Vaquero, copies of which are sited on Houston’s Northside, and at the Crystal Bridges Museum in…
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If the winters continue to be as warm as this one, scientists say that the vampire bat, scourge of the Mexican cattle industry, could begin to find suitable habitat north…
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An amusing and embarrassing story in today’s NY Times relates how UC Berkeley accidentally sold a carved redwood panel by WPA artist Sargent Johnson for $150 (+tax) from it’s surplus…
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Vidor Sculptor Charlie Stagg Dies After Fall Into Fire Pit at Backwoods Visionary Compound
by Bill Davenport 4 commentsVidor sculptor Charlie Stagg died yesterday at UTMB in Galveston from burns suffered when he fell into an open fire pit at his eccentric folk-art style glass bottle and cement…