Acro-Cats, a trained animal show featuring -you guessed it- cats (and a chicken), will be performing at the Josephine Theatre in San Antonio on Sept. 21-25. It’s return engagement, following…
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Tree of Life? It’s a John Deere 790! For Some, Cabrera’s Vintage Tractor has Totemic Power that Trumps Folk Mythology
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe first phase of Texas sculptor Margarita Cabrera’s retrospective that opened at the El Paso Museum of art on Sunday has already garnered some press attention from an unlikely source-…
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Heart Disease Fells Ape Modernist: Doc, Houston Zoo’s Painting Orangutan Dies
by Bill Davenport 0 commentDoc, a 27-year old orangutan artist, died Tuesday at the Houston zoo, euthanized after a battle with heart disease. Doc’s paintings were sold in several of the zoo’s Pongos helping…
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My Monkey + Parrot Beats Your Black Cat: Kahlo Portrait Coming to Houston as MFAH and Malba Celebrate 10th Birthdays with Latin American Art Swap
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Latin American Art Department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Malba – FundaciónCostantini, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires , Argentina, were both established in 2001…
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Ever since the mid-1970s, I’ve traveled to Houston whenever it was time for a good art fix. Back then, there were just a handful of fine art galleries to visit.…
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Aurora Awards Joan Jonas its 2011 Award at Upcoming Gala Awards Dinner
by Bill Davenport 0 commentHouston Microcinema Aurora Picture Show has named the pioneer video and performance artist Joan Jonas as its 2011 Aurora Award winner. The award will be presented at the $250 -a-plate…
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Staying in the Game: UNT Granted $40,000 for Professional Practices Seminar
by Bill Davenport 0 commentEmily Hall Tremaine Foundation recently awarded The University of North Texas Department of Art and Art History a $40,000 grant to fund the “MFA Professional Practices: Staying in…
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This year, New Texas Talent at Craighead-Green Gallery, juried by Marcie Inman, Director of Exhibitions for the Irving Arts Center, has the odor of a world gone feral, or at least…
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Austin Art Implosion Continues: Arthouse Director Sue Graze Resigns as Executive Director to Assume Advisory Role
by Bill Davenport 4 commentsSue Graze, director of Arthouse since 1999 has resigned as Executive Director to become Director Emeritus. Graze has has shepherded the org through a name change, an ostentatious makeover, a…
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Walking Tour: Art Guys Babble on Greens Bayou Street for Carrie Schneider’s Hear Our Houston
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Art Guys, in association with Hear Our Houston, a project by artist Carrie Schneider that asks people to “Ttake a walk: record your thoughts, observations, stories, memories, and…
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Taking it to the Streets: Flash Art Top 100 Poll Lets Public Choose Best Artists- Sort Of
by Bill Davenport 0 commentFlash art is polling its readers (and everyone else) to find out who to put on their annaul top 100 artists list. In the past they’ve asked curators and critics,…
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If you missed Lady Gaga’s male drag performance at the MTV Video Music Awards last night then you also missed the shock on the faces of many celebrity audience members.…
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Pervy Nude Statue! Wholesome Teen Stars! Creepy Dallas Sex Shop!
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 2 commentsACT I – SCANDAL! Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez are now immortalized in a nude sculpture to be displayed sometime in September at…
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Diane Barber to Leave Houston’s Diverseworks; William Betts to act as Interim Executive Director, Again!
by Bill Davenport 0 commentAfter 14 years at Houston’s Diverseworks Art Space, Diane Barber will be stepping down from her post as co-artistic director to pursue other projects after September 14, although she will…
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San Antonio Express-News reporter Abe Levy chronicles the works of modern day sacred artist Agustin Parra, whose works are a focus of devotion in San Fernando Cathedral and Mission San…
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Land as Lab: LHI’s 2011 Sci-Art Symposium Collects Concerned Artists Outside San Antonio
by Bill Davenport 0 commentOn the 1200-acre Watson ranch on the Medina River outside San Antonio, the Land Heritage Institute’s longhorns graze near a retrofitted dairy barn and a newly-donated portable classroom that will…
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Houston art collective Sketchy Neighbors wants your ideas! They’re inviting online suggestions for unorthodox materials and creative concepts between now and September 25, when they will choose random projects from…
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Austin City Building Officials Ease Artist Studio Code Crackdown with- A Seminar!
by Bill Davenport 0 commentHundreds of Austin artists who rely on occasional public events like the East Austin Studio Tour (E.A.S.T.) are facing a dire challenge: due to new zeal in enforcing city regulations,…
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The Ten List: How to piss off an arts writer
by Sarah Fischby Sarah Fisch 21 commentsSeptember 10 will mark the one year anniversary of Douglas Britt’s notorious and fantastic e-mail (which made Gawker!) “Houston Chronicle art coverage in the post-Preview era – Part 2”. (If…
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On Saturday, August 27th, Austin Art in Public Places celebrates the dedication of the way-finding “Obeliscos” at intersections along 7th St. commissioned as part of Jennifer Chenoweth’s East 7th St.…