Non-profit developers Artspace Inc., have struck a deal with the City of El Paso and the El Paso Community Foundation to build "affordable" live/work space for artists. The contract is…
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The crop of TX art-related Valentine’s day fluff is thin this year, but Dallas Art News has come through with a list of the best sculptures to propose in, in…
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The Texas Historical Commission honored Howard Taylor, director of the San Angelo Museum of Art with the only John L. Nau award for museum excellence for 2010. “I’m really surprised…
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A new “Trash to Treasure Art Challenge” contest has been added to the attractions of the San Angelo Stock Show and Rodeo. Along with junior barrel racing and the Mutton…
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Jaume Plensa’s Tolerance, those frothy-textured steel Buddhas that have recently appeard along the Buffalo Bayou in Houston will be dedicated in a ceremony on Tuesday, February 15 at 5pm. The…
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Hanging above the hand-me-down loveseat in my college apartment was a print of Edward Hopper’s 1940 painting Gas that I’d bought at the poster sale in our student life center.…
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Fort Worth "romantic realist" painter Scott Gentling died Tuedsay at age 68. Gentling was known as a portraitist of Texas’ gentry, including Amon Carter Sr. and the official portrait of…
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Veteran art administrator Catherine Horsey has been named executive director of La Reunion TX, the nonprofit art retreat outside of Dallas. Horsey is going to make the changeocver from the…
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Morgan Spurlock promoted his current film The Greatest Movie Ever Sold wearing a logo-embroidered suit just like the ones the Art Guys wore in their late 90’s SUITS project. Plagiarism?…
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Ceramics curator and author Peter Held is coming to Houston to present “Rolling in the Mud: Forty Years of Ceramics” this Saturday, Feb 12 at the MFAH. Held has curated…
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Governor Perry released his proposed FY2012-2013 budget yesterday, including a recommendation to suspend indefinitely the appropriation to the Texas Commission on the Arts, eliminating all state funding for the agency.…
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UH’s college of architecture will host the TEX-FAB 2.0 event on Feb. 10-13. Lovers of reptitive, futuristic modular design (aren’t we all!) congregate to exchange ideas and admire Vlad Tenu’s…
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Fighting fire with fire, The Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston has hired prestigious WORK Architecture Company of New York to fix its awkward, already over-architected 70’s era…
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Colloquium, an evening of fast-paced artist presentations followed by lively talk will take place at Transit, 1907 South St. Mary’s, in San Antonio on Feb 10 at 7pm. Artists presenting…
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Prince, the River Alexander Group, and The Goss-Michael Foundation all need to communicate better. A big-deal scholarship-raising event featuring the artist known, then formerly known, and now known again as…
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LA Photographer Uta Barth will speak at the Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth Tuesday evening as part of this Spring’s series of illustrious visitors. Barth has a new book…
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Houston multimedia artist Ayanna Jolivet McCloud will speak at 3pm this afternoon about Midland #3, Robert Ryman’s exquisitely enigmatic and eminently talk about-able white rectangle (held to the wall with…
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The second Border Art Biennial juried by Rita Gonzalez, assistant curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Itala Schmelz, director of the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil…
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Not so much a Mirror Mirror of dual identity as it is two identities that have come together to influence and create something new. Mirror Mirror #4 highlights Austin poet…
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Record cold and freezing precipitation closed art venues and cancelled events today- this newswire itself was temposrily sabotaged by an ice-crazed squirrel! The artist once known as Prince, now known…