Michele Monseau is holding a one night studio liquidation sale tonight at Three Walls in San Antonio; the pop-up sell off, titled “Take Me, Please”, or “Let’s Swap (Some Spit)”,…
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Seminal Los Angeles artist Mike Kelley Found Dead at 57, Apparently A Suicide
by Bill Davenport 0 commentMike Kelley, a major figure in the “pathetic aesthetic” of the 1990’s was found dead in his home in Los Angeles on Tuesday night by police, called in by a…
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Frieze Art Fair, scheduled for May 4-7, 2012 on Randall’s Island, Manhattan, has announced the names of eight artists commissioned to create pieces for the inaugural show. John Ahearn, Uri…
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New Asia Society Building in Houston Reflects Either “Shared Future” of “Different Balance of Power”; Grand Opeining in April
by Bill Davenport 0 commentCiting an more interconnected world, and the growing role of Asia in international affairs and commerce, the Asia Society, founded in 1956 by John D. Rockefeller to explain Asia to…
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Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrences/ Documented Assignments at the Dallas Museum of Art
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 0 commentThe vertical lines of factories electrify the sparse mechanical sensibility of Mark Manders, even as the DMA’s gallery space is drained of color to fit this factory’s demand for the…
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When I ask Mark Goodman, Graduate Academic Advisor in the Department of Art at the University of Austin, what he wishes he could tell his 25-year-old self about a career…
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It was too loud to talk to her at her at last weekend’s Glasstire/Fresh Arts Disaster Ball at the Colombe D’Or, so Diverseworks is inviting artists to meet and greet…
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The Dallas Observer‘s Anna Merlan visited the site of one of Renowned street artist Shepard Fairey’s murals-in-progress in west Dallas. Fairey is in town at the invitation of the Dallas…
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The Benefits of Eating with Strangers:The CADD Mystery Dinner
by Lucia Simekby Lucia Simek 4 commentsMy husband and I were invited to CADD’s (Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas) latest event this weekend — The CADD Mystery Dinner: Eat Your Art Out, and I have to…
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The Fish Market: Trail of Stolen French Art Leads through San Antonio
by Bill Davenport 0 commentA ceremony was held last Wednesday in Washington to return a Pissarro monotype, Le Marche aux Poissons, to the French ambassador, Francois Delattre. The print had been allegedly taken from…
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The Austin American-Statesman’s Jeanne Clair Van Ryzin saw Ink Tank Lab’s recent house installation Last New Year, in a bungalow at 1319 Rosewood Ave. Sorry, it’s too late to see…
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“The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991” at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
by Rachel Hooper 2 comments“The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991” on view at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston through April 15 is a rare opportunity to see some of…
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You Visit the Creative Arts Center
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 0 commentWelcome to the Creative Arts Center, hidden gem of East Dallas. You are visiting on the first Saturday of classes in the new year, so some of the most popular…
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A trail of 23-foot Comanche Arrows is being installed by retired farmer-turned-metal-sculptor Charles A. Smith in the pannhandle. The arrows, stuck into the ground as if they fell from the…
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Dallas curator/writer/collector Charles Dee Mitchell‘s Lakewood home was critiqued in Friday’s Dallas Morning News. Mitchell’s enviable combination of topflight contemporary art, modernist design and livable comfort (and his Cinderella-story career…
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Indy Grits Andy Smith to Jury Aurora Extremely Shorts Festival- 2012 Call For Entries Open Now!
by Bill Davenport 0 commentAurora Picture Show is again looking for adventurous three-minute or shorter films and videos from around the world- it has opened submissions for the 2012 edition of its popular, long-running…
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Cool People Doing Cool Stuff: Houston Counter Crawl 3 at High Noon TODAY
by Bill Davenport 0 commentBeginning at El Rincon Social in Houston’s East End, Counter Crawl III, is a sprawling multi-venue art festival which takes place at different underground, off-the-beaten-path type spaces where “cool people…
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Dallas’ institutional brotherhood weighs in on Dallas’ art scene at DMA State of the Arts
by Lucia Simekby Lucia Simek 70 commentsLast night, the DMA hosted its latest State of the Arts panel, on the topic of contemporary art in Dallas. The panel was made up of a brotherhood of institutional…
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END OF THE WORLD TONIGHT: Don’t Forget to Empty Your Pockets at the 9th DISASTER BALL, Glasstire/Fresh Arts’ Fundraising Disaster!
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThis year is officially, really- we’re serious this time- the end of the world! So let’s celebrate disasters of all stripes (Will Lindsay go to jail again? will Italy forgive…
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KINGSPOINT, billed a “Houston’s largest graffiti mecca” (and recent recipient of a $4000 Idea Fund grant for 2012) is back with a vengeance as graffiti artist skeez181 & Southern Artists…