The Dallas Museum of Art has announced that Dr. Maxwell L. Anderson has been appointed as its new Eugene McDermott Director. Anderson is currently Director and CEO of the Indianapolis…
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Lucky has been anything but. A 46-year resident of the San Antonio Zoo, the sixtyish, female elephant became a cause célèbre for animal rights activists after her longtime companion Alport…
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Enormous aisles, enormous booths, enormous art, all surrounded by a fortification of shipping containers: the TX Contemporary Fair promises already to be a whopper. From a warren of bare bones,…
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Middle School Art Teacher Fired, Charged With Felony in Bottle Throwing Incident
by Bill Davenport 1 commentCrystal Lara Andrus, an art teacher at Morton Ranch Junior High School in Katy, TX was fired Wednesday after an incident in which she, enraged over students rowdiness, allegedly threw…
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Move Over Brewseum: Dallas’ Doggies in the District Smashes Museum Pun Record
by Bill Davenport 1 comment“Doga,” yoga with your dog, a “Pawcasso Photo Shoot”, and the “Dog Day Afternoon” guide to the DMA’s Collections are just three of the activities at the upcoming Dallas Arts…
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Sources confirm the booking of Pepe, the Glasstire Pony for the opening of the TX Contemporary Art fair this Thursday evening. Although Pepe, (or Trigger, we’re not sure which) is…
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Overhaul, Transmission Failure, Near-Sinking: Shrimp Boat Project Nets a Boatload of Good Stories, and A Few Shrimp.
by Bill Davenport 1 commentAfter six months of non-stop work during the longest and hottest summer in decades, the intrepid fishermen/trans-media artists at Shrimp Boat Projects were finally able to launch their refitted vessel,…
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It. Is. On! A heated battle is brewing on the big screen as two big, new dance films come to Houston theaters. In one corner, the new remake of ‘80s…
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Recent confidential email between Glasstire founder Rainy Knudson and Heather Wagner of Juice Consulting, the PR firm handling the TX Contemporary Art Fair, reveals that the “Glasstire Pony,” as it…
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Goode Booth One of ArtPlatform’s Best Says Coagula’s Gleason
by Bill Davenport 0 commentSpeaking of art fairs in secondary cities, Houston’s Texas Gallery was picked out in a bit in the Huffington Post by Matt Gleason as one of the recent Art Platform…
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Rice Gallery Announces Steve Keene Encore Performance at TX Contemporary Fair
by Bill Davenport 0 commentRice University Art Gallery has announced a special art fair encore performance by human painting machine Steve Keene, whose 1998 performance/installation Fresh Art Daily at Rice caused lines to form…
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HIGHLY ANTICIPATED INAUGURAL TEXAS CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR OPENS WITH PREVIEW PARTY ON THURSDAY OCTOBER 20
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Texas Contemporary art fair will officially begin with a $100-a-ticket preview party on Thursday, October 20 from 6 – 7:30 p.m., with proceeds earmarked for the Contemporary Arts Museum…
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Ex-Texan Color Field Painter Stephen Mueller died in New York on September 16. The 63 year old artist grew up in Dallas, and got a BFA from UT before moving…
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So, remember how a few weeks ago I wrote about how Dallas galleries need to mount more shows with: “contemporary work by a handful of emerging and established artists under the…
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40th Anniversary of Afterimage Gallery
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 1 commentPhotographic prints have risen steadily in both collector lust and monetary value over the last hundred years, and Afterimage Gallery in Dallas has been a microcosm of the history of…
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There’s a person somewhere in Houston. They are healthy, just entering the prime of their life. They’ve left childhood but haven’t entered old age. They might be next to you…
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Aether, a new semi-annual Austin-based e-magazine that aims to engage collectors, artists, and galleries in conversation about the visual arts launched last week. The magazine is a collaboration between Rachel…
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Menil Launches Online Artists Documentation Program Archive, with Whitney and Harvard
by Bill Davenport 0 commentFormer Menil chief conservator Carol Mancusi-Ungaro began interviewing artists, in the presence of their works of art in 1990, recording their attitudes and feelings toward the works’ conservation and exhibition.…
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Nasher Sculpture Center Accepts Gifts of Texas Works by Jim Love and David McManaway
by Bill Davenport 1 commentOver the summer, Dallas Nasher Sculpture Center has acquired it’s first taste of Texas art: gifts of significant pieces by pioneering Texas found-object assemblers Jim Love and David McMananway. Love’s…
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“I’m living the dream.” This phrase (which is usually uttered with more than a hint of sarcasm by a person of privilege) refers to the idea that everyone regardless of…