Eva Zeisel was a ceramic artist and designer who revolutionized tableware. She died yesterday at 105 after an amazing life that included being falsely accused and imprisoned for 16 months…
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It’s not technically over yet, but Elda Silva of the San Antonio Express-News has wrapped up the visual arts in her city for 2011 in yesterday’s paper, highlighting a catholic…
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A bill under consideration in the US House of Representatives could, if passed, have far-reaching effects on the use of copyrighted material on the web, and on artists rights to…
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End of year lists allow a critic to consider the past year and tally up the most exciting cultural moments. I decided to take a less introspective approach and gave…
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News
Artist and Advocate Frances Bagley Receives 2010 Moss/Chumly Award from Meadows Museum
by Bill Davenport 0 commentFrances Bagley is the winner of this year’s Moss/Chumley Artist Award, recognizing a North Texas artist who has been important as an arts advocate. The annual award is handed out…
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The NY Times (via Texas Monthly) briefly profiles six Texas women who are continuing the tradition of Ima Hogg and Velma Kimbell by making important contributions to the Texas art…
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Seminal postpainterly expressionist Helen Frankenthaler died on December 27 at age 83, after a long illness, reports Art Daily. Since her first solo exhibition at NY’s Tibor De Nagy gallery…
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FOCUS: KAWS at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 2 commentsBrooklyn artist KAWS hurls the onlooker into a cartoon’s daytime nightmare with effectively targeted film and television favorites, calling forth a sense of the unexpected that is fun and funny but also…
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What’s New News: Interactive Racks Hit the Streets for Donnett’s Idea Fund Project
by Bill Davenport 0 commentNathanniel Donnett’s What’s The New News project has hit the streets of Houston’s Third Ward, placing eight customized newspaper racks at neighborhood sites, reinterpreting original news stories at these sites…
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End-of-2011 recommendation: Justin Boyd’s boids at Artpace
by Sarah Fischby Sarah Fisch 4 commentsYou have until the 31st to be enchanted and freaked out by Justin Boyd's magnificent sound sculpture, “Natural Black, Sprinkled With Cosmic Iridescence" at Artpace. It's a Window Works visual/sound installation, so all you have to do is park out front and listen. "Open" 24 hours a day. Particularly enchanting at night. Don't miss this crazy thing.
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If you need something to read during the dead week between Christmas and New Year’s, Daniel Grant has written a lengthy, and slightly technical dissection of the developing morass of…
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MFAH to Unleash Massive Latin American Art Database at January Conference
by Bill Davenport 1 commentIt’s currently under construction on Friday, January 20 the MFAH’s much touted International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) digital archive goes online at www.icaadocs.mfah.org. After 10 years…
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Our 10th Anniversary Farewell: John Perreault on Robert Rauschenberg’s Glass Tires
by John Perreault 0 commentBack in 2001, our founder Rainey Knudson named this site in honor of Robert Rauschenberg’s cast glass tire sculptures. The glass tires were made at UrbanGlass, a nonprofit glass…
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Wired UK‘s Mark Brown reports that a team of British geologists have pinpointed the site of the quarry from which Stonehenge’s eponymous stones were transported. Robert Ixer of the University…
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CAMH Re-Accredited by AAM: Distinction Accompanied by Mild Rejoicing
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Contemporary Arts Museum Houston has been re-accredited by the American Association of Museums (AAM), after a rigorous multi-year review, becoming one of the elite 4% of museums in the…
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There was an earthquake a few weeks ago. It was a 6.8 that originated from the state of Guerrero only a few hours south of Mexico City. For those that…
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Nativity Scenes Should Be Colorful, Life-Sized, and Plastic
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 4 commentsMerry Christmas! The holiday hoopla is drawing to a close and decorations will soon be coming down. This means I will soon drive down Gaston Avenue to discover that my…
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This is Guillermina “Gisha” Zabala, an artist and filmmaker from Argentina who makes her home in San Antonio with her Uruguayan husband Enrique Lopetegui, music editor of the San…
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When we were driving to Marfa there was a shift in the landscape. We entered the desert. “It’s like we’re on Mars,” I said and my friend stretched out his…
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The Austin-American Statesman’s Jeanne Claire van Ryzin reports that longtime Arthouse Director Sue Graze will be teaching a graduate seminar at UT called “Staying in the Game”, focusing on career…