Echoing, 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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News
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…
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Vital film document, Come Back, Africa screens at the MFAH. “This film was made secretly in order to portray the true conditions of life in South Africa today. There are…
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News
Bart Barry Corpus Christi Boxing/Art Review Quotes Shakespeare, Too!
by Bill Davenport 0 commentFor fans of combined boxing/fine arts news coverage, Bart Barry has a piece on 15 rounds.com that critiques both the art Museum of South Texas’ Art of the Dive: Portraits…
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News
Surprise! Obama’s 2013 Budget Doesn’t Axe the Arts; Gator Pool Frothing in Anticipation
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe president’s 2013 “re-election budget” has got my vote: Allen Keckonen of the San Antonio Art Festivals Examiner has waded through the numbers and concludes that last fall’s cuts for…
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The exhibition In the Interest of Time presents three projects by the Brooklyn collaborative Smudge Studio, comprised of artists Elizabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse. Their primary subject is the landscape,…
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There is a proliferation of exhibitions featuring abstract painting in Houston right now. Gallery Sonja Roesch, Sicardi Gallery, and Hiram Butler Gallery have group exhibitions featuring abstract painters, and there…
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Scott Sustek’s “Working Cowboy”, an over-life-sized sculpture of a waving man with a rope and saddle, was installed outside San Angelo on highway 87 near the intersection of Bryant Boulevard…
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will be supporting the the 2012 “Doodle 4 Google” contest by exhibiting the Texas state finalists’ drawings this summer. The annual competition invites students…
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Bandele Tyehimba, owner of Pan African Connection, an African art gallery and meeting place for progressive organizations in South Dallas, has died. The 58-year old gallerist and activist went to…
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There are few times that I complain about living in Mexico. There are even fewer things that bother me about living here. Generally, I love everything about the country and…
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UT Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art has appointed Molly Hasie Sherman as Director of Development effective April 1. A University of Texas alum, Sherman has twenty years of fundraising experience,…
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A 30-minute PBS documentary on the newly completed Asia Society Texas Center building is in the works. Houston PBS is producing the video, the third in their “Houston Arts” series,…
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The Houston Public Library is taking submissions for its 4th annual Teen Film Festival. With cash prizes for the best short documentary, music video, animation and seven other categories (including…
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Op Ed
The Chupacabrona Tour, Part 1: Eisenstein in Corpus Christi, or A Fresh Eye
by Sarah Fischby Sarah Fisch 2 commentsOf Soviet film theory and experimentation in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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Here are some brief thoughts on the Virginia Overton show, called Deluxe, at the Power Station — my sort of parenthetical reading to Overton’s larger themes here of memory, labor and spectacle. I…
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Entry forms for the 25th Houston Orange Show Art Car Parade are online now! If you don’t have a car, at least vounteer. The parade is set for Saturday,…
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A few months back while at Artpace I saw the work of Scottish artist Graham Fagen and connected with his installation. Teeth have been a constant in my own work…