The second annual Austin Visual Art Awards, presented by the Austin Visual Arts Association, will unroll the red carpet and dust off it tuxedo at the AT&T Executive Education and…
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Next morning in Marfa I mail a sixth postcard to Jens Hoffmann. A funny ratio you might say to the two postcards he kept, especially considering that I also sent…
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The Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program has announced it’s 2010 recipients. This year they awarded $600,000 to 20 individual writers in several categories (regional newsy art bits don’t…
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On Monday, December 6, artist/activist Mark Dion will dicuss his Buffalo Bayou Invasive Plant Eradication Unit at the Houston Art Alliance, 3201 Allen Parkway Houston. The Unit consits of a…
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Houston ain’t big enough for TWO Fringe Festivals, and after three years of independent, overlapping fests produced separately by FrenetiCore and BooTown, FrenetiCore has emerged as the fringiest. BooTown will…
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Houston-based video artist Bob Ball has captured selections from Dance Salad to produce A Touring Taste of Dance Salad Festival, a film that will be screened on Thursday, December 2,…
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Hot on the heels of my post about the VAC’s Anthropogenesis exhibition and because nothing says Fall in Texas quite like taxidermy and animal antics… I present Similar but Different…
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In a little casita not far from downtown Marfa, Catherine Cox is working diligently to set up her studio, which she’s named Marfa Made Paper. After spending three…
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Solution For Hair and Makeup , a salon across Westheimer from Lanier Middle School in Houston, is hosting a student art sale on Wednesday, December 1 (that’s tonight!) from 6:30-8:30…
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Catch it while you can! The mayfly-like University of Houston Student Art Show at the Blaffer gallery opens Friday December 3 (6-9pm) and closes two weeks later on the 18th.…
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Earlier this year, I simultaneously read Jaron Lanier’s You Are Not A Gadget and Steven B. Johnson’s Everything Bad Is Good for You, and found it, as you can imagine, confounding. Lanier argues that digital…
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Bookman Rocco Staino bemoaned the recent sale of drawings by Garth Williams in the Huffington Post yesterday. 44 drawings for the iconic 1952 children’s book Charlotte’s Web by E. B.…
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A retired electrician who worked for Pablo Picasso has come forward with a cache of 271 of previously unknown works by the artist, worth an estimated $80 million. Pierre Le…
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Dr. Andrew J. Walker will be the next director of the Amon Carter museum in Fort Worth. He will be on the job as director-designate on January 31, and will…
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What’s bright silver, searing orange, and weighs 6.5 lbs? Texas Artists Today, the recent mega-tome cataloging the creativity of the Lone Star State by PaperCity fine arts editor Catherine Anspon.…
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Texas artists are invited to compete to design massive stickers for the sides of the Port Aransas Ferry. The winning images will be enlarged and displayed on the sides of…
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Steve Martin, banjo virtuoso, actor, and comedian has just come out with a new novel set in the artworld. In An Object of Beauty the protagonist claws her way up…
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Houston’s Diverseworks is organizing DW2, an extensive program of workshops next spring, aimed at clueing-in a cadre of professional local artists with the skills they need to "achieve self employment…
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The Dallas Morning News’ Michael Granberry summarized the Dallas gallery migrations of 2007-2010, when several galleries, before and after the economic meltdown, moved to seek bigger and cheaper pastures in…
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Hamptons Expo Group is organizing the Houston Fine Arts Fair for next September 15-18 at the George R. Brown Convention Center, alongside the established Houston Antique Dealers Association’s Fall Antique…