Last night I attended the 360 Speaker Series at the Nasher Sculpture Center featuring SMU Art Chair Michael Corris in conversation with famed art critic and author Dore Ashton. I…
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Ideson Library Re-Opens: Houston Architectural Jewel Buffed to a New Shine
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe renovated and expanded Julia Ideson Library in downtown Houston opened yesterday after a five-year, $32 million restoration. In addition to restoring the gorgeous Spanish Revival interior of the original…
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All Together Now: Collaborators Confabulate in Fort Worth Tonight On The Usefulness of Creative Teamwork
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThis evening, a group of artists and curators known for their participation in prominent collaborative projects old and new, in Texas and elsewhere will meet to discuss their experiences at…
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Corpus Christi Harbor Bridge Alight! New Permanent LED Installation Unveiled and Ready for Programming
by Bill Davenport 4 commentsDark for more than a decade, the iconic Harbor Bridge in Corpus Christi is now adorned with a state-of-the-art LED lighting system. The new $2.2 million system was switched on…
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In his 2011 non-fiction book, Moonwalking with Einstein, author Joshua Foer befriends the professional “memory athlete” Ed Cooke who suggests to him that you can slow down subjective time by…
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Needless to say I was super excited when I heard there was a new Muppet movie coming out and what does it mean that I started crying the first time…
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Every writer has her biases and I’m no exception. If someone were to ask me if Abstract Expressionism were my favorite art genre, I would vehemently shake my head “no.”…
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Dallas Contemporary Collector Workshops Bring Business Approach to Art Buying
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Dallas Contemporary art Center is holding a series of novel collector-training workshops this winter, focusing on the cold-eyed assembling, caring for and insuring a collection of investment-grade art. Programming…
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Re-booting my brain after being challenged–Challenged!–on my Feeding the Beast blog. So I’ve found a couple sources of useful ideas. One is a facebook post by Ken Johnson, whose book, Are You Experienced:…
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Magid Salmi wins $1000 Gambol from Art League Houston, Kelly Alison and Emily Sloan come in 2nd and 3rd
by Bill Davenport 0 commentAt Friday evening’s opening at the Art League Houston, juror Mary McCleary awarded this year’s $1000 Gambol for Visual Art Award to Magid Salmi for small fruits embedded with computer…
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Art Guys Tree-Bride Chopped: Vandals Deface Controversial New Menil Installation
by Bill Davenport 1 commentThe Art Guys controversial piece, Art Guys Marry a Plant, installed on the Menil lawn , has been damaged. The bent tree was reportedly discovered this morning around 8 am…
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Printeresting, “the thinking person’s favorite online resource for interesting printmaking miscellany” has won a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation arts writer grants program. The blog, based out of Austin,…
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Reves-DMA Lawsuit Ends with Whimper: Judge Dismisses Heir’s Claims to Reves Collection
by Bill Davenport 0 commentArnold Schroeder’s slowly ongoing lawsuit against the Dallas Museum of Art crept into a brick wall when a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit that accused the Dallas Museum of Art…
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Turn on the Ice-Maker and Warm up the Video Christmas Tree, the Holidays Come to Discovery Green
by Bill Davenport 0 commentFor the third year in a row, Andy Mann’s Video Tree will be a highlight of the holiday fun at Houston’s Discovery Green Park. Once a fixture of downtown holiday…
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The museum of Fine arts Houston has announced that Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Gary Tinterow will be the museum’s new director, filling the large vacancy left by the death…
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Art critic Jen Graves of SLOG reports on the evolving Devon Britt-Darby Social Sculpture phenomenon, and on widespread concerns for Britt-Darby’s sanity. Britt-Darby replies on his blog with a video…
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stockpile: New Photographs by Dornith Doherty at Holly Johnson Gallery
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 0 commentWhen I was little my nana had a picture of Jesus that looked directly at you no matter where you were standing in her bedroom. It was terrifying, a touch…
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Today’s the 22nd Day With(out) Art, Texas Museums To Screen Jim Hodges Untitled Movie About a Generation of AIDS and Activism
by Bill Davenport 0 commentBeginning in 1989, The Day Without Art organizes visual artists and arts organizations originally to raise and, now to maintain awareness of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the arts community.…
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Kelly Kindred, former operations mananger for the Art Colony Association, the Houston nonprofit that organizes the two annual Bayou City Art Festivals, has been promoted to Executive Director after the…
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San Antonio’s McNay art Museum has acquired and installed Kiki Smith’s Woman and Sheep, a bronze sculpture by Kiki Smith alongside works by Tony Cragg, Philip Grausman, Alexander Liberman, George…