Speaking of online magazines, NEA Art, the National Endowment for the Arts’ quarterly magazine is running a feature on Donald Judd’s Marfa, highlighting Judd Foundation, Chinati Foundation, and Ballroom, Marfa,…
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Big cities with vibrant art scenes have big art fairs, right? Sure. So it stands to reason that Houston, home of lots of great art, should have one as well.…
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Art Nexus in North Texas: Fort Worth’s 6th Day in the District, TASA Conference Saturday
by Bill Davenport 1 commentSaturday, September 24 is the Fort Worth Cultural District’s 6th Day in the District event, which means free admission and myriad performances and special events throughout the nexus of museums,…
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Plans for the Independent Arts Collaborative are moving forward. In June the IAC bought a chunk of land at from the city, now they’ve hired Webb Management, a New York-based…
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Until Thursday September 15, I had never once been to an art fair. I find this astonishing since I am 55. I once had a piece in an art…
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Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan at the Meadows Museum
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 0 commentIs it okay to look at stolen objects? Can advanced technology assuage the guilt of looking at stolen objects? How about the guilt of exhibiting them? The University of Chicago…
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Rubell Catering/Installation to Bring Genre-Bending Creation to Dallas Contemporary Fundraiser
by Bill Davenport 0 commentAs part of their Legendary fundraiser, the Dallas Contemporary has commissioned catering artist Jennifer Rubell (daughter of Miami art collectors Don and Mera Rubell) to cater/create a participatory artwork involving…
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Here it is: our live blog of the Houston Fine Art Fair! We’ll be posting images throughout the fair. (Don’t forget about our contest for Best and the Worst art…
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Enter our Contest for the Best/Worst of the Houston Fine Art Fair and WIN!
by Glasstireby Glasstire 3 commentsHey Houston art fans: we’re having a contest for the Best and the Worst art in the Houston Fine Art Fair. Send your images and captions to [email protected] and if…
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Glass-and-Limestone Sculptor Damian Priour dies at 61; Native Texan Noted for Monuments and Community Involvement
by Bill Davenport 0 commentTravis County Sculptor Damian Priour died Wednesday after a years-long struggle with cancer. He was 61. Priour’s symbolically abstract glass and limestone sculptures adorn the Austin Convention Center and the…
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Houston Museum District Day Saturday: Everyone Doing Everything All At Once!
by Bill Davenport 0 commentOn Saturday, September 17, Sixteen museums congregated in southern Montrose are collectively celebrating themselves by offering free admission and nonstop free events, films and activities: everything from tai-chi to Czech…
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As a follow-up to my article, “Mind Games, Museums, and Suggested Donations,” I’ve been looking into the ways that museums set their general admission prices. Discussions regarding museum admission often…
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Houston’s first art fair opens tonight from 6-9 with a $100 a ticket fundraiser benefiting the Core Program. I swung by the George R. Brown Convention Center yesterday as the…
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Carolyn Sortor’s Big Fat Video Wedding Saturday: Dallas Cremistress Makes a Spectacle of Herself
by Bill Davenport 1 commentDallas video artist and curator Carolyn Sortor is getting married Saturday, and her fiancé Ben’s wedding present to Carolyn is to let her make an art project out of it.…
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This wasn’t meant to be a column about art fairs—it was meant to be about wealth and conservatism—but art fairs are something I know and wealth and conservatism are major…
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Houston Readies for the Inaugural Houston Fine Art Fair: Preparations Reach Fever Pitch
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe first-ever Houston Fine Art Fair (HFAF) happens this weekend at the George R. Brown Convention Center, offering a broad spectrum of artworks from contemporary to modern masters, for both…
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Ben Flynn, aka international graffiti artist EINE to paint Dallas walls Tuesday and Wednesday for Goss-Michael/MTV RE:DEFINE charity auction.
by Bill Davenport 0 commentBen Flynn, a.k.a. EINE, internationally acclaimed British graffiti artist, will paint two locations in Dallas including the construction wall at the 42-story Museum Tower and on the side of a…
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Richard Hamilton, the British artist whose widely reproduced collage Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing? (1956) is often pointed out as the…
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So you wanna be an artist. A successful artist. Then these are some rules to live by. Granted, artists are good at breaking rules (and should), and you can take…
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Similar but Different #22: Waiting For Winter But Will Settle for (a) Fall
by Margaret Meehan 0 commentSimilar but Different #22: Waiting For Winter But Will Settle For (a) Fall, daydreaming about grey skies, empty branches and temperatures below 60 degrees. http://youtu.be/mRhVI7cpcS4 Amy Cutler- Above the Fjord,…