Make sure to visit the Nasher next weekend while you’re in Dallas for the Dallas Art Fair to check out the glare. Reid Singer of Artinfo reports on trouble brewing…
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This Thursday April 12th will be the last of 2012’s Viewpoints lecture series at the University of Texas here in Austin. Invitees Sina Najafi and Jeffrey Kastner will give their…
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The Menil Collection has been granted an unspecified, but “generous” amount of money to restore 12 sculptures by the American artist John Chamberlain through Bank of America’s Art Conservation Project.…
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Thomas Kinkade, the marketing pioneer who discovered that, with proper context, reproductions of paintings could be sold for original painting prices without actually breaking the law, (at least as far…
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4th Dallas Art Fair Returns to the Fashion Industry Gallery April 12-15
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe 4th annual Dallas Art Fair launches on April 12, with a preview gala that benefiting the Dallas Contemporary and the Nasher Sculpture Center. Dallas is awash in notable exhibitions:…
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I’ve been meaning to write something here about film scores for a while. You know, some kind of analysis of the role of music in movies, with interesting, specific examples…
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Patrick Renner “Bounded Operator” at El Rincon Social
by Carrie Marie Schneider 5 commentsFirst off, let me just say that El Rincón Social is where it’s at. It’s my answer when people talk about the glory days of Lawndale, or how underwhelming the…
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The International Museum of Art & Science in McAllen, which was damaged by severe weather on March 29, re-opened on Wednesday, April 4 after “five intense days” of cleanup. IMAS…
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NasherSALON to Welcome Actress, Model, Filmmaker and Activist and Dog Trainer Isabella Rossellini on April 10
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Nasher Sculpture Center is bringing actress, model, filmmaker and wildlife activist Isabella Rossellini will be the featured speaker at The Nasher Sculpture Center’s NasherSALON, on Tuesday, April 10 at…
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Satyr’s Penis Contest: Find Hidden Details in MFAH’s Google Art and Win!
by Bill Davenport 1 comment183 pieces in the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s collection are now online in intimate detail as part of Google’s expanded Arts Project. With the Google-powered ability to zoom in…
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See the Satyr’s Penis! Museum of Fine Arts Houston Included in Expanded Google Art Project
by Bill Davenport 0 commentPhotographs of 183 works from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will be included in the growing global Google Art Project, which aims to increase the online…
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Last week, a little crowd gathered in Marty Walker’s small gallery space to look at artist Wayne White’s new show there called I Say A Lot of Things. We were…
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Nancy Cone Hanley, 74, died on April 3 of complication from an illness. Transplanted to Dallas in 1972 with her husband Tim (who survives her) Nancy was intimately involved with…
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UTEP’s Rubin Center for the Visual Arts was selected to participate in the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services’s (IMLS) National Museum Assessment Program. The MAP program, as it’s…
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Throughout a weekend of constant seismic activity and back-to-back aftershocks I braved the constantly trembling ground on Friday and made the short trek further into the San Rafael neighborhood to…
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The Boards of Houston art-boosters Fresh Arts Coalition and Spacetaker have unanimously approved a merger of the two organizations. The two orgs were of the same vintage, but had complementary…
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If you’re in Austin, or vaguely near Austin, don’t miss the talk by Mark Allen, founder of Machine Project in Los Angeles. It’s from 6:30-8pm in the UT Art Building,…
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Fuzzy Houston Countercrawl Comes Into Focus In A Conversation with Alex Tu by Carrie Schneider
by Bill Davenport 1 commentYesterday, art blog Temporary Art Review ran an interview with Alex Tu, participant/instigator/spectator in the loosely organized Houston Countercrawl, now approaching it’s fourth iteration on Saturday, April 28. Blessed with…
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Giunta’s Latin American Art History Program Gets a Big Boost From Longhorn TV, (and a Mystery Donor)
by Bill Davenport 0 commentAndrea Giunta, Director of UT’s Center for Latin American Visual Studies program has been appointed to the newly established Endowed Chair in Latin American Art History and Criticism at UT…
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http://youtu.be/deRMRh8Zjgg The blank “uh” we hear before Andy Warhol’s responses was typical of his interview style but hardly ever appears in his published interviews as it was most likely edited…