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…
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Suddenly, it seems the Austin collective Okay Mountain is everywhere: after their big splash at the 2009 Pulse fair in Miami (their installation Corner Store received both the PULSE prize…
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Houston art legend Bert Long, who passed out after a talk at the Galveston Arts Center and was hospitalized, is feeling beter and back at home. According to Long, "my…
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NBC reality TV show America’s Got Talent is coming to Houston looking for people who can do something amazing in 90 seconds on camera. According to their press release, thay…
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Google’s new Art Project launched yesterday, with 1000+ super-high resolution masterpieces from a scattering of global museums. Self described as "a unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed…
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Following a five thousand year old tradition, modern looters broke into the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, looking for the Gold of the Pharaohs. Citizens, some armed with sticks, detained the…
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I had a group of girl friends in college who did all sorts of hare-brained and utterly hilarious pranks on our conservative campus: throwing studded, glitzy thongs in the trees,…
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A reception showcasing the 2011 Idea Fund Grantees is happening at the El Dorado Ballroom in Houston Wednesday night, Feb 2, from 6:30-8:30. Lucky winners Elaine Bradford, Emily Link, Dennis…
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The "Cradle of Champions," a large steel sculpture made for the coming superbowl was unveiled in Fort Worth’s Sundance Square friday. The piece will be near the main stage where…
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In recent years we’ve seen more Texas exhibitions devoted to various takes on sound.
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A memorial celebration of the life of Peter Marzio, former director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, was held Sunday at the museum, with an overflow crowd in attendance…
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The NY Times reported on efforts to use arts to revitalize Texas’ smaller cities, the subject of the Texas Cultural Trust’s stimulus-funded report, “The Art of Economic Development,” which was…
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is celebrating the 10th annivarsary of it’s Latin American Art department by sponsoring "El Encuentro," a mixer where, for $7, the public can rub…
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In Baseball, Peter Schjeldahl’s 1988 essay for 7 Days magazine, the art critic cleverly made the comparison that “initiation into the mystery of baseball is like initiation into…
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The 15th Annual Citywide African American Artists Exhibition freaturing works by Regina Agu, Eugene Campbell, Yvette Chapman, Kenya Clark, Quincy Cooper, Reginald Cornett, Joseph Dixon, Damien Edwards, Michella Fanini, Anne…
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Blanton curator Jonathan Bober has accepted a new job at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Bober has been Senior Curator of European Art since 2010, and the…
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FEBRUARY!! We’ve all received the emails. Well, we as in black artists. And the emails in question are requests to exhibit our “black” arts during this celebratory…
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The Dallas Museum of Art has a new book out: Ignite the Power of Art: Advancing Visitor Engagement in Museums, published by Yale University Press. The book, by DMA director…
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Lora Reynolds Gallery in Austin won the second prize for best show in a commercial gallery nationally for "Noriko Ambe: Artist Books, Linear-Actions Cutting Project," from the U.S. Art Critics…