Painting is to Art History as Jesus is to Easter Sunday – you can count on celebrating resurrection at least once a year. Painting never vanished and won’t (or theater,…
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Suburban Art Edu-tainment Watch: Art Class and Wine Glass Fulfills Hickey’s Prophecy of “The Return of Social Space.”
by Bill Davenport 0 commentCritic Dave Hickey subtitled his seminal UltraLounge show of 1998 as “the return of social space (with cocktails).” A new Houston business melding art instruction with socializing and drinking called…
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Border artist seeks haven in El Paso: Mago Gándara leaves Juarez studio after threats
by Bill Davenport 0 commentToday’s El Paso Times profiles 82-year old muralist Margarita “Mago” Gándara, who recently abandoned her Juarez studio of 40 years to take up a new, diminished life in El Paso…
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Pricing strategy. In the for-profit world, business school classes spend semesters on the topic, entire books are written on its nuances and staff positions—even departments—are devoted to analyzing, tweaking and…
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Will Michels’ Made by Will released by HCP and nominated for Blurb people’s choice award
by Bill Davenport 0 commentMade by Will: Selections from Four Portfolios recently published by Houston Center for Photography has been nominated for BLURB’s 2011 Photography Book Now People’s Choice Award. The catalog marks HCP’s…
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Art Museum of South Texas goes green with new solar-power array from Green Mountain
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Art Museum of South Texas has sprouted a $140,000 solar array courtesy of Green Mountain Energy Co.The array was funded by customer donations to company’s Big Texas Sun Club…
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Penny wise and pound foolish: without an arts commission, Kansas loses federal NEA money. Could Texas be next?
by Bill Davenport 0 commentKansas governor Sam Brownback vetoed funding for the Kansas Arts Commission recently, substituting a non-governmental foundation he hoped would be able to distribute Kansas’ share National Endowment for the Arts…
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Underground video artist makes otherworldly art from where she is, and puts it right where you are. While speaking in lolcats.
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Stranger than fiction: a close look at the McNay’s Milkmaids with Liz Lloyd
by Bill Davenport 1 commentHenri Rousseau, the first outsider artist to make it big, didn’t always paint lush foliage, ripe fruits and riper women; in 1906 he painted Landscape with Milkmaids (and a mighty…
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Amnesia Houston blog gathers steam, vintage tweets, old maps and a fat slice of preservation advocacy!
by Bill Davenport 1 commentThe preservation advocacy blog, perversely named Amnesia Houston, by “James Glassman, Houstonian” is gathering steam: from one post in 2006, another in 2007, he’s gone to nearly one per month…
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Every December I wait anxiously for The Lives They Lived edition of The New York Times. It’s not because I am morbidly wanting to see who died so much as…
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Amarillo philanthropist Mary Ware dies; founder of museum art alliance
by Bill Davenport 0 commentAmarillo philanthropist Mary Ware water-skied and snorkeled until she was 75 and played tennis for another 10 years after that; she died of natural causes Tuesday at age 89. The…
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Assessed by the best: AMSET gets a visit from Heritage Preservation’s Conservation Assessment Program
by Bill Davenport 0 commentSometime later this year, a professional conservator will spend two days assessing the state of the Art Museum of Southeast Texas‘ collections and identifying the museum’s conservation priorities. It’s all…
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Art in the woods: La Reunion TX 5th Art Chicas and now, Art Chicos program
by Bill Davenport 2 commentsLa Reunion TX, the nascent artists’ residency program in west Oak Cliff near Dallas, will add a new contingent of male Art Chicos to its highly successful Art Chicas mentoring…
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When it comes to art, using the word ‘crisis’ is always a massive overstatement. Between the crises in painting, criticism, and photography you’d think that art was in some real…
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Dallas billionaire Republican philanthropist Charles Wyly was killed Sunday, August 6 when his car was hit by an S.U.V. near the airport in Aspen, Colorado. He and his brother and…
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Second art bashing episode earns Susan Burns a place in the crazy art attack toplist
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Washington Post reports a second art-bashing at the National Gallery of Art by serial art basher Susan Burns, the woman arrested for assaulting Gauguin’s Two Tahitian Women in April.…
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Moving art experiences: Jimenez’s Los Lagartos, Winn’s Morning Glories being relocated
by Bill Davenport 0 commentIn the slack summer news season, sometimes nothing’s more exciting than moving a big, weird object from one place to another. Local news outlets report the airlift of Buck Winn’s…
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Artpace’s new old blog, APB, or the Art Pace Blog by any other name
by Bill Davenport 0 commentAccording to Artpace’s August 12 email blast, the San Antonio org has a “new” blog! After “testing the waters for quite some time now,” Artpace has begun publishing APB (Art…
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Annual MAC Membership Exhibition – “Meltdown”
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 0 commentThe membership show. It has one hundred eighty-something pieces of artwork and no curator. Any member can bring one work of their choosing that expresses the year’s central theme. This…