Follow Chupacabrona across the Rio Grande Valley, along the border, and into West Texas, and see challenging contemporary work from this under-reported region. You can donate, too.
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The Chupacabrona World Tour (of South and West Texas)
by Sarah Fischby Sarah Fisch 1 commentThe Chupacabrona Tour: One woman, a car, a computer and a camera set out to cover challenging contemporary art in South and West Texas.
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Art Lite Online: Austin’s Artmuse.com Takes a Stab at Cheap Ethical Art Sales
by Bill Davenport 3 commentsTwo-year old web art and print gallery Artmuse.com, out of Austin has redesigned its website and is making another marketing push, trying out a business model based on providing an…
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Mob Rule in Bordertown: El Paso Museum Members Choice To Select New Chicano Artwork
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThis Thursday, members of the El Paso Museum of Art gather for a strange ritual: voting on museum accessions! Every year at their Member’s Chioce event, the self-anointed group reviews…
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Gaile Robinson, art critic for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, made the trek to the new Crystal Bridges Museum of Art in Bentonville, Arkansas and turned in a detailed report on…
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Something This Way Comes: Randy Wallace’s “Postdimensionalman”
by Hills Snyderby Hills Snyder 0 commentI’m a lucky guy. I’ve already outlived Doc Holliday by twenty-four years and just the other day I came upon a new Randy Wallace piece, Postdimensionalman, at Trinity University in…
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There’s a Teer in my Beer: Houston’s Gonzo247 “Urbanizes” Saint Arnold Logo Into Graffiti Art
by Bill Davenport 1 commentGonzo247 of Aerosol Warfare has just put the finishing touches on a mural in the second floor of the Saint Arnold Brewery in Houston’s Fifth Ward. Gonzo has become the…
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The Rockport city council voted on November 8th not to accept the Cora Keeler Art Collection after all, despite the efforts of the city’s Keeler Collection Acceptance Committee, which tried…
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The new permanent installation at Montrose’s busiest intersection, Montrose and Westheimer, is a laudable example of public art that truly reflects the ethos of its surroundings as well as trends…
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Life Out Of Balance, Writ Large – Koyaanisqatsi Tonight at the MFAH
by Peter Lucasby Peter Lucas 2 commentsI want to call attention to one film in the Cinema Arts Fest that, while nestled quietly and rather buzzless in the schedule between exciting premieres, audiovisual performances, and parties,…
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From Copenhagen to Chuck Wagon: Judd Foundation Hires Tate Conservator Carlsen
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Judd Foundation in Marfa has hired a former senior sculpture conservator at the Tate in London to look after their art in the windy West Texas desert. Mette Carlsen…
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Take That Dolcefino! Houston Ad Campaign Makes Paying HOT Tax a Privilege
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Houston Convention and Visitors bureau is trying a bit of marketing jujitsu: instead of bemoaning the Hotel Occupancy Tax that slaps an added 7% onto your bill, they have…
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Austin Merger Mania Strikes Houston Nonprofits: Fresh Arts and Spacetaker Rumored to Tie the Knot
by Bill Davenport 1 commentThis just in: Houston non-profits Fresh Arts Coalition and Spacetaker are reportedly “in talks” to merge. The Glasstire mission statement match-maker shows that the new couple have many shared interests,…
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One pitfall of installing dreck on your campus is that future webmasters may feature it online, unwittingly delivering backhanded insults to your university’s programs.
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Letter from LA: “Roland Reiss, Personal Politics: Sculpture from the 1970s and 1980s”
by David Pagelby David Pagel 2 comments“Roland Reiss, Personal Politics: Sculpture from the 1970s and 1980s” at the Pasadena Museum of California Art is not part of “Pacific Standard Time.” The Getty-funded project, advertised as a…
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The world premier of Art Car: The Movie! happens this Sunday evening at the Miller Outdoor Theater, and it’s free! The film, by Del Monte Films, follows a handful of…
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Chron Critic Britt Goaded into Counter-Art by Art Guys Menil Tree-Marriage Stunt
by Bill Davenport 0 commentHouston Chronicle art critic Douglas Britt relates his efforts to create a critical piece of counter-art in response to the upcoming Art Guys Marry a Plant dedication at the Menil…
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The wordless rewards at the end of Over, Under and Through: Margaret Meehan at Women and Their Work
by Christina Rees 1 commentLook. We have a problem here that creative people are learning to circumvent. The economy is awful, and while auction-house prices are staying weirdly 1%-er high, the rest of the…
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The other night I was having a kind of tepid argument with friends about art. It ended with a friend saying to me, “Well, you are a critic.” It didn’t…
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Over October 26 – November 1, I visited New York to trudge through an early snowstorm (and the resulting slush and sludge) to see a round of recently opened gallery…