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,…
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At Last, A Menil Cafe! Rice Building Workshop Designs Minimalist Food Truck Pavillion Behind Bookstore.
by Bill Davenport 5 commentsOne upside of the Menil’s continuing moves towards doing things the way other museums do them is the addition of a much-needed cafe, announced yesterday. The Menil Collection and Rice…
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El Centro College Student Michelle Reyes Awarded DADA’s Edith Baker Art Scholarship
by Bill Davenport 1 commentMichelle Reyes won a check for $2,500, a mentorship, an internship, and an artist studio visit at the annual Edith Baker Scholarship show held last week at the MAC in…
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Suburban art sprawl: Marilyn Hillery Wall Dedicated at Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe community art wing at the suburban Houston Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts has been renamed the Marilyn Morgan Hillery Community Gallery, in honor of the 73-year old artist’s…
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Blogger defends privilege: Real Clear Arts Dobrzynski calls public input on museum’s new director “bad”!
by Bill Davenport 2 commentsIn an amazing post today in her ArtsJournal blog, Real Clear Arts, Judith Dobrzynski decries the Springfield, Missouri, Art Museum board’s decision to hold a public meeting and solicit input…
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Aurora’s 8th Media Archeology Festival Brings Big Electronic Fun to Houston Thursday-Saturday
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe 8th annual Media Archeology Festival is fixin’ to bring three cross-genre, high-tech artworks to Houston next week. From Thursday through Saturday, the fest, co-presented by Aurora Picture Show…
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In 2001 I lived in Baltimore, Maryland, and among other places, worked at the American Visionary Arts Museum (AVAM). The following is my recollection of 9/11. I want to thank…
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Greatest Work by Greatest Painter Who Has Ever Lived Acquired by Kimbell: Fort Worth New Navel of 18th Century Art World
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Kimbell in Fort Worth has a knack for making exciting news out of old paintings: they have announced an new acquisition, bigger than the Michelangelo monsters, more sacred than…