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…
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is launching contemporary@MFAH, a patron group dedicated to promoting contemporary art projects at the MFAH, in concert with plans to construct a new modern…
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Americans for the Arts released their second National Arts Index survey, and the ‘health and vitality’ of the arts, as they measure it, has hit a 12-year low. It seems…
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The first annual State of the Arts Conference will take place in Austin, TX at the Omni Austin Hotel on Jan 31 – Feb 1. At the two-day meet-up, organized…
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Legendary modernist/postmodernist Brice Marden is speaking at the Rothko Chapel this Saturday "About Painting and What It Can Do," and by implication, what it can’t do as well! Free, but…
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Several San Antonio news outlets have reported that executive director Matthew Drutt is leaving Artpace, effective immediately. Drutt joined Artpace in 2006 after leaving the Menil Collection where he was…
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Last week, ago a facebook email bot calling itself Shane (?) invited me to something called "Art+ Music+ Zine Party" (?) and said "Come to the Art and Zine Party…
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A fascinating (and lengthy) study of artists as philanthropists was released by the Aspen Institute in November. It determined that "artist-endowed foundations are a sleeping giant of philanthropy." There are…
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The Blanton Museum of Art in Austin has received a $150,000 gift from the Burdine Johnson Foundation. The grant will support the museum’s school tours and the Art Central program…
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Feeling industrious? Diverseworks art space in Houston is holding an "Industry Night" Tuesday evening, January 25 from 6-8pm. Drinks, schmoozing, networking and collegial insiderism will be shared by one and…
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In a bizarre annual event, some of the furniture at the Museum of Fine Arts Rienzi House, former urban estate of art patrons Carroll Sterling Masterson and Harris Masterson III,…
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UTA prof Darryl Lauster was awarded $25,000 from the Joan Mitchell Foundation as one of twenty-five 2010 grantees. Lauster lays out thew whole business of being a contemporary conceptual artistin…
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On a cold and (believe it or not) snowy day in Dallas, Texas I found myself at the entrance of 500X Gallery on the last day of Flotsam, an exhibition…
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A memorial service for Houston artist Dick Wray, who died January 9, has been scheduled for 3:00 pm, Saturday, February 5 at the Rothko Chapel in Houston.
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As Edgar Arceneaux and Nery Gabriel Lemus point out, the “Seventh House is…significant in astrology as the house of cooperation and opposition.” With this in mind, they co-curated Project…