Searching for the sublime in Miami: and I don’t mean mojitos… …although they were delicious at the MFAH/Cruz Diez foundation party at the Raleigh Hotel on Thursday night, where several…
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Wonder what the fuss is about? This Wednesday, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston will present a screening and panel discussion of David Wojnarowicz’s 1987 video A Fire in My Belly,…
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Chinati Director Marianne Stockebrand will be signing copies of her new book Chinati: The Vision of Donald Judd at the Menil Collection bookstore on Monday, December 13, from 5-6:30pm. The…
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Peter Marzio, the longest-serving director of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, died Thursday night from metastasized cancer. He was 67 years old. Marzio began his tenure at the MFAH in 1982 and oversaw…
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Open your wallets! The Impressionists (and post-impressionists) are coming to Houston in February 2011. 50 "Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art" will be on loan to…
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Amarillo is painting a 10 foot wide paint-by-number mural of the Palo Duro Canyon, in the style of Vincent Van Gogh. It’s likely the biggest paint-by-number anywhere, and certainly the…
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According to muckrakers The Council for Artists Rights, "Texas art historian" Sam Blain will "divulge Dallas, TX, and U. S. art world history never before published" tomorrow in his new…
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The only art-related scuttlebutt to come out of the Wikileaks-released diplomatic cables details an offer by the US Government to help Spain with it’s claim for a share of $500…
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Dan Havel and Dean Ruck are at it again; they’re moving an old house from 3012 Erastus St. in Houston to a new site on Lyons Ave. and re-constituting it…
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The Chinati Foundation in Marfa has been approved for a grant of $50,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the Robert Irwin Project, which will transform Fort…
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Culturemap reports: collectors of Latin American art gathered in Miami to rev up enthusiasm for the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s nascent International Center for the Arts of the Americas;…
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Legendary Houston artist Bob Camblin died Saturday in LaPlace, LA from complications following a stroke he suffered last year. Born in Oklahoma in 1928, Camblin studied painting at the Kansas…
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The Guardian (UK) has the back story: everything you ever wanted to know about Picasso’s messy family life and the hundreds of newly revealed works he allegedly gave his electrician…
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A Fire in My Belly by the late David Wojnarowicz, contains a brief segment depicting ants crawling on a crucifix. The piece, included in Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American…
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The NY Times style section summarizes the multiple overlapping parties surrounding art Basel miami Beach this weekend, but singles out Texas socialite Becca Cason Thrash as a case study in…
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The Art Museum of Southeast Texas is being sued, again, by a woman who claims uneven pavement at the museum led to a fall. Beaumont resident Geraldine Beckett alleges that…
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In 2007, the German-born artist Barbel Helmert moved from San Antonio to Alpine, drawn by the wide-open skies and austere landscape. She’s found inspiration in subtle, highly textured, colorful elements…
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Vernon Fisher started off his art career as an abstract painter, but by the mid-1970s that line of inquiry came to a screeching halt. He began making small books instead.…
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San Francisco sound artist Pamela Z will be doing her thing tonight at the brand new, not-even-open-yet Houston Museum of African American Culture! Click here for details — in the words of the LA Times,…
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The Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi is again presenting its annual Christmas Tree Forest, 21 evergreens decorated by school children, until December 17. San Antonio’s URBAN-15 Studio…