A bronze and granite grouping by Laredo sculptor Armando Hinojosa depicting a vaquero, two longhorns, settlers, a conquistador, and a boy roping a goat was unveiled amid festivities at the…
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Jacqueline Buckingham Anderson, Houston native and wife of relatively new DMA Director Maxwell Anderson, is profiled, posed and photographed (again!) in the Dallas Morning News. Who are we to rain…
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Doug McCash of the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports on a controversy at that city’s Contemporary Arts Center. Echoing last year’s Arthouse (Austin) debacle, the CAC rented some of its space…
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Aurora Grows Roots: Wayward Micro-Cinema Moving to Medium-Cinema space
by Bill Davenport 0 commentSwamplot has photos of Aurora Picture Show’s new digs at the old Molly Gotchman Art Compound just off Kirby Drive in Houston. The new space will give the film org…
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Corpus Christi Galleries and the Rockport Art Center
by Colette Copeland 2 commentsTwo weeks ago, I took a road trip to the coast to jury a student exhibition at Rockport Center for the Arts. I spent Saturday in downtown Corpus Christi which…
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After a nearly two-year hiatus, Austin’s Okay Mountain Collective is opening a new show in a new space at 1619 Cesar Chavez St. Leif Low-beer’s Just Do It opens April…
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The Blanton Museum in Austin has announced two new hires and one promotion, filling up vacancies. Colette Crossman, currently the Blanton’s administrator of arts and programs, will be Curator of…
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Houston’s Orange Show opens it’s 2012 season with the traditional Easter Orange Hunt on Saturday, March 31. Bring your kids to scour Jeff McKissack’s folk art creation for goodies, followed…
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Hilton Kramer, chief art critic for the NY Times from 1973-82, has died at age 84. Like many critics whose careers grew up with postwar American art, Kramer never feared…
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It’s not uncommon to walk the streets and stumble upon a vendor selling their wares laid out on top of a blanket directly on the street in Mexico City. This…
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Rigoberto Gonzalez Alonso in Harlingen and Houston: Corridos Baroccos, Part II
by Sarah Fischby Sarah Fisch 6 commentsContinued from Part I… V. Reynosa, Narcolandia and sad, sad data It’s important to point out that Rigoberto Gonzalez is not a Chicano artist, though he shares a lot of…
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Art on the Green is an outdoor art installation brought to life by curator Andrea Mellard at AMOA-Arthouse’s Laguna Gloria. Austin artists, architects, and landscape architects were invited to design…
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On March 15, San Antonio City Council unanimously approved the San Antonio Local Filmmakers Grant (LFG), a $25,000 grant to support local filmmakers who have at least $25,000 in funding…
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Philanthropist Isabel Brown Wilson passed away on Tuesday, March 27 at the age of 80. Daughter of Houston entrepreneur George R. Brown and Alice Pratt Brown, she served on the…
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20 Awkward Items on Richard Phillips, International Art God
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 0 commentIntro: This year’s honoree for Two x Two for AIDS and Art will be Richard Phillips, who is loved by celebrities and name-brand clothing and makes glossy, highly artificial compositions from…
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GT News Net Hauls Old Boots and Dogfish: Cat Apps, Body Painting, Toilet Art
by Bill Davenport 0 commentSome days it’s juicy scuffles, museum intrigues, outlandish art projects, or even valuable information; some days Texas arts-related news is old boots and dogfish. Culturemap Houston has a piece on…
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Statements made by artists are often regarded as the key to understanding their work. Art critics look to artists to set the theoretical framework surrounding their art; art historians use…
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UNCLASSIFIED: G Gallery Brawl Footage To Be Screened at Tribunal TONIGHT!
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThis just in: “Attention: HOUSTON, Ivete and I will be at G Gallery in Houston today at 6:30pm for a military tribunal in which the video of the opening will…
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An unnamed, curious Swamplot reader was “roaming around taking pictures at the Rodeo on Sunday when I noticed the ramp down to the floor of the Astrodome was open and…
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The Houston Chroncle‘s Molly Glentzer profiles the latest progress at the newly opened Houston Museum of African American Culture on Caroline St., and its energetic director John Guess, Jr. Just…