Houston artist David McGee was awarded a 10-day residency in France by the Texas-French Alliance for the Arts at their fundraising auction/awards party at the Decorative Center in Houston. Chosen…
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Lawndale Art Center‘s annual market/design event has evolved into something very, very cool. It started out life 16 years ago (if my math is correct) as the “20th Century Modern…
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Ai WeiWei was detained as he attempted to board a plane for Hong Kong at Beijing Airport yesterday. Ai, who designed the Olympic bird’s nest stadium and the recent porcelain…
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Archeologists have uncovered a cache of pre-Clovis stone tools near Killeen, definitively pushing the date of the original colonization of central Texas back by 2,000 years, and “putting the nail…
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Houston’s Lawndale art Center is hosting an app launch party for Lawndale resident Anthony Thompson Shumate, who has co-created the iPad app with APPlesauze LLC, an artist-run app-developer. The app…
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If March is for Media, April is for Art in Austin, and SXSW style, too much is never enough! On site, Art Week, Art City Austin, Texas Biennial, Fusebox, Art…
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Melba Toast
Similar but Different #14: A Deeply Caring Vote of Confidence
by Margaret Meehan 1 commentThe above video is based on a letter by the artist Sol LeWitt written to the artist Eva Hesse with slight alterations by Levni Yilmaz… Below is the actual letter…
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Thanks to a proposal by Rep. David Simpson, R-Longview, the Texas state House today voted to remove all remaining state funding to the Texas Commission on the Arts, which has…
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Heights area H Gallery and its owner Heidi Powell-Prera were the subject of a scathing investigative piece in the Houston Press, accused of stiffing artists, pumping up their career hopes,…
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“Fine Arts Marketing, Writing, Concepts & Event Production” consultant Ilana Vardy has been hired as associate producer for the upcoming first-ever Houston Fine Art Fair, to be held Sept. 15…
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The alternative to this weekend’s Dallas Art Fair is the Suite Art Fair at the Belmont Hotel, 901 Fort Worth Avenue, Dallas, on April 8-10. Organized by Brian Gibb of…
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Art Lies, the regional art mag with national ambitions, will cease publication of its printed journal and website content as of May 2011. Seventeen years and 68 issues after its…
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Sterling Allen’s show up at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, called Housing Edition, is a twenty-first century lesson in the old adage “You are what you eat.” Given the sure fact…
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I took a little hiatus from writing about art because I needed to sort out some thoughts. I have not been visiting gallery shows or museums recently because I have…
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Answers to Questions: John Wood and Paul Harrison, currently on view at Houston’s Contemporary Art Museum, will close two weeks early for the installation of a new roof, funded by…
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Design Fair 2011 at Houston’s Lawndale Art Center has been retooled from their popular mid-century modern market to include “cutting edge contemporary design.” Furniture, glass, ceramics, lighting, books, metalwork and…
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In 2010, Lane Hagood re-created the “Mary’s Mural”, a former public icon and landmark of Houston’s Montrose neighborhood. The revived painting, made at the Johanna (an artist-run space in the…
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San Antonio’s seventh Colloquium, aptly named “Colloquium No. 7, will take place at the El Tropicano Riverwalk Hotel, 110 Lexington Ave, San Antonio on Tuesday, March 29th, from 7-10pm. No.…
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The University of Houston’s Red Block Bash annual open studios/art showcase party is this Thursday (THURSDAY?!), March 31 at the UH art building. Their facebook page promises free food, free…
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When I officially embarked upon YESQUEST 2011 (Where I’d say Yes! to everything), I just didn’t think…well, I just didn’t think. As I’ve spent the last few years in front…