Ron Berry is the founder and director of the annual Austin performance festival Fusebox. Katie Geha (who with Sterling Allen and Travis Kent organized Files Desks Chairs for the Fusebox…
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ARTkaty: Houston Ex-urb’s First Fine Art Fair Hits Katy High School Saturday
by Bill Davenport 0 commentKaty is on a roll! Last month, FotoFest Katy featured 11 exhibitions by local art spaces in the West-of-Houston-but-not-quite-a-suburb town. Now they are about to debut their first fine art…
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Judd Foundation’s Marfa Restoration Drive Gets $300K Brown Foundation Grant
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Judd Foundation has received a $300,000 grant from the Brown Foundation for repairs to Donald Judd’s Architecture Office building in Marfa. The foundation planning to restore all its desert-worn…
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HARAKIRI: To Die For Performances at CentralTrak
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 2 commentsI tried X once; HARAKIRI is a lot like that but without the uncontrollable want of sex (okay, twice). The opening night of HARAKIRI was the first in a series…
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What Do Mark Twain, Henry Moore, Bunker Hill, and General Sam Houston Have in Common? They’re all part of the Houston Arts Foundation’s Adopt-A-Monument Program, which recruits Houston area students…
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Rice Public Art Push: Skyspace a Comin’, Art of the BRC in Culturemap
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Nasher’s James Turrell Skyspace piece may be shuttered, but Houston is Turrell territory: his third major piece in the city, an outdoor music venue/skyspace/Mayan mound temple is getting the…
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As early as 2009, there was concern over whether proposed construction next door to the Nasher Sculpture center in Dallas would impact artist James Turrell’s Tending, (Blue), which depends on…
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Rogers on “How Arrogance And Greed Made Museum Tower a Threat to The Heart of Dallas”
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe ongoing confrontation between Dallas’ Nasher Sculpture Center and the new Museum Tower next door continues to flood the Dallas press with ink, some of it must-read material: Tim Rogers…
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At least one person in the crowd at the opening of John Waters’ exhibition “Neurotic” at McClain Gallery appeared to be angling to be the next Divine. Waters was in…
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Let’s talk Deadwood. David Milch’s superlative television show was quite good at putting his audience just outside of a given situation. The characters often spoke and behaved in…
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On April 29th, both Chinati Foundation and Judd Foundation are holding a joint Community Day for their West Texas friends and neighbors. La Mansana de Chinati, “The Block” and several…
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Austin Pay Phone Revival Project Quietly Reanimating Old Phone Booths as Art
by Bill Davenport 0 commentFrom unobtrusive collages, paintings and collections housed in old pay phone nooks, to the the flamboyant, ride-able mustache seesaw by ¡el grupo!, Austin’s Payphone Revival Project has been quietly reanimating…
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Feedback Loop: Houston Arts Alliance Offers Face Time to Unlucky Losers
by Bill Davenport 4 comments“By this time, you should have received a letter from the Houston Arts Alliance regarding your Individual Artist Grant Application, and the process for following up regarding reconsideration and/or review…
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Tinterow Names Mahrukh Tarapor MFAH Advisor for International Initiatives: Former MET Staffer to Push Houston Museum’s Islamic World Program
by Bill Davenport 1 commentThe Museum of Fine Arts director Gary Tinterow has appointed Mahrukh Tarapor as Senior Advisor for International Initiatives to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Dr. Tarapor is consultant specializing…
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Bendy Bench Coming to West Dallas: Fort Worth Ave. Development Group Announces First Spare Parts Art Commission
by Bill Davenport 0 commentSpare Parts Art Initiative, a public art program of the Fort Worth Avenue Development Group, has announced their first project, “Mobius Bench” by Erik Glissman and Nicole Cullum Horn, to…
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The City of San Antonio is looking for a team of artists/designers/administrators to work out a public art plan for the proposed re-development of HemisFair Park. The team is supposed…
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Dallas Art Fair Founders Byrne and Sughrue Take on San Francisco’s FOG
by Bill Davenport 1 commentJanelle Zara of ARTINFO reports via the Huffington Post that Dallas Art Fair Founders Chris Byrne and John Sughrue are organizing modern art and design fair (not unlike the upcoming…
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The group show up at Brand 10 Art Space in Fort Worth through April 28, called Showmen, with work by artists Tim Best, Titus O’Brien, Tom Orr and Cameron Schoepp, walks an elegant line between…
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Barry Walker, former curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and curator of Prints and Drawings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston died earlier this week after an accident. Hired…
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Artist Boat Gets $3.46 Million for Undeveloped Land on Galveston Island
by Bill Davenport 0 commentArtist Boat, a nonprofit that promotes coastal preservation through eco-art and science education projects has received a $3.46 million grant from the federally approved Texas Coastal Impact Assistance Program to…