This year, Austin art space Co-Lab has set out to make documentaries for every exhibition/performance they have presented. During each show, the artist(s) were interviewed and the installation/performance was filmed.…
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Visual AIDS began Day With(out) Art on December 1st, 1989 as a national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis. It was meant to inspire positive…
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Britt-Darby Bustin’ Out: New Blog of Art Critic, Meth Addict, Sex Worker, Social Sculptor and Performance Artist Takes the Lid Off
by Bill Davenport 2 commentsDevon Britt-Darby, né Douglas Britt, one time art and society writer for the Houston Chronicle (he describes his status with the paper as “currently unclear”), after marrying art publicist Reese…
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Bad Photos Are Really Good Photos, If We All Share! Lomography, the Store, to Open in Austin
by Bill Davenport 0 commentAll the kids are wild about Lomography, a new retro-photography marketing gimmick that seeks to make flawed, low-tech analog film photography hip (or rather, capitalize on its hipness to sell…
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I stand staring up at Solar Arrangement, Dave Muller’s sprawling mural at Cowboys Stadium. It’s 21 feet tall by 131 feet wide and extends over the bathrooms and the adjacent…
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Post Pop Punks at Cohn Drennan Contemporary
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 0 commentPost Pop Punks proffers many stops in its pop culture parade/group program which, according to the press release, “incorporates popular cultural references, utilizes appropriation, co-opts historical icons, (and) exploits the…
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Holiday Weirdness at Texas Museums Approaches Installation Art in Scale, if Not Seriousness
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Art Museum of South Texas’ annual Holiday Christmas Tree Forest show opened on Black Friday with two dozen trees decorated to represent various countries by local schools. This is…
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UK Psychologists Report on Exotic Animal Behavior: Status and Mating Amongst Visual Artists
by Bill Davenport 1 commentA team of British psychologists have just published their findings concerning a much theorized, but little studied aspect of art world behavior: in their paper “Status and Mating Amongst Visual…
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‘Tis the Season for Shiny Trees: Surls’ White Walking Flower Installed at Rockport Art Center
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Rockport Center for the Arts unveiled James Surls’ “White Walking Flower,” on November 14. Carted in by U-haul, the piece is smaller, and white, but otherwise similar to Surls’…
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Britt-Darby Guerrila Action On YouTube: Art Guys Plant Piece “Sucks”
by Bill Davenport 7 commentsHouston Chronicle art Critic and “Art Guys Marry a Plant” dissenter Douglas Britt-Darby Darby-Britt Britt-Darby has a posted a new YouTube video. Filmed on Thanksgiving day, the video, titled “Dario…
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I went home to Iowa for Thanksgiving and between eating amazing food (my Dad is the most terrific cook ever), meeting old friends’ new babies, and writing bits of my…
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The Dallas Observer has an update on the pending lawsuit between the Dallas Museum of Art and Arnold Leon Schroeder Jr., son of art collector Wendy Reves, including the text…
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My husband is like the other 99.5% of Americans who go to the movies to be entertained, not to think. So it is with some trepidation that I asked him…
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ArtMrkt productions’ managing partner Max Fishko has announced that the the Texas Contemporary art fair will return to the George R. Brown Convention Center October 18-21, 2012, the first of…
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The best movie to see alone and/or stoned this Thanksgiving weekend is Nicolas Roeg’s 1976 existential Sci-Fi oddity, The Man Who Fell To Earth. A new film print of the…
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I live in Austin and while there is tons of art to see in this town, I believe that if you treat the state of Texas as one large city…
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Along with symphonies, dance companies, and theater groups, visual arts projects in Texas got a share of the 863 National Endowment for the Arts Grants in various categories announced last…
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Art Target of Pepper Spray Protests: Seurat, Munch Achieve Timeless Meme Status
by Bill Davenport 3 commentsNPR reported yesterday that images of Lt. John Pike of the UC Berkeley Campus Police, instantly notorious for his part in pepper-spraying student protesters Friday, were being pasted into scenarios…
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The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded Houston arts org Voices Breaking Boundaries (VBB) a $20,000 grant to develop and produce their Living Room Art series of events that…
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Archive of Shadows: Andrew Douglas Underwood at SMU
by Lucia Simekby Lucia Simek 1 commentIf you were to go into the Hawn Gallery in the Hamon Arts Library at SMU right now, you’d think you’d entered an exhibit of some of the University’s collections of old documents…