Starting tonight through Sunday, Spacetaker is hosting their annual Winter Holiday Art Market (WHAM) with an explosion of goodies from Houston artists (including our own Bill Davenport)! You won’t have to Carelessly Whisper…
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Since 1992, the traditional Artcrawl open studios event takes place on the Saturday before Thanksgiving, and November 20 is no different, only bigger. The 18th Artcrawl, from 10am-9pm boasts over…
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Arthouse, Austin may have a fancy roof deck, but does not have the ability to keep food hot for an extended period of time, so you had better eat it…
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Fell asleep last night thinking how I had the Lone Ranger flashlight with me and didn’t think to use it. As if it were a different sort of object, than…
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The lucky key continued to influence my time yesterday as I wound down from writing. I turned on the TV about one am and found John Ford’s silent film, The…
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The Plano school district has dropped its ban on a textbook it pulled after a complaint about its photos of nude sculptures. The district says it changed course following "impassioned…
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The case of Christian Cutler, who was fired as gallery director at Stephen F. Austin University after a run-in with "terror babies" congressman Louis Gohmert a couple weeks ago, has…
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This is day one of One Kind Favor, a trip I’m taking around the state and into New Mexico, reversing the route taken by Jens Hoffmann, Director of the CCA…
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Despite a tabloid scandal and a brief prison term in England for co-founder George Michael, on November 19, the new Goss-Michael Foundation will re-open at 1405 Turtle Creek Boulevard in…
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Houston’s 15th Annual Citywide African American Artists Exhibition is spreading the word for entries. The show opens on February 1, 2011 at the Community Artists Collective on Holman St., and…
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While I lament the lack of legitimate arthouse venues to view offerings from the second annual Houston Cinema Arts Festival, I have to admit that I did enjoy seeing Waste…
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On November 11, 2010, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that some of the biggest names in technology, media and fine art are coming together to support Art.sy, a Pandora Radio-type…
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"Right angles are almost as scarce as Ivory-billed woodpeckers," says Times-Picayune reporter Doug MacCash of the new Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi, MI. Housing the quirky, visionary pottery of…
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Eyes Got It!, an open competition for Austin area artists will bring contestants and witnesses and a panel of local arts professionals together at Space12 in Austin on Friday, November…
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Houston-based Fotofest International has teamed up with Lens Culture, a Paris-based online international photography magazine, to organize Lens Culture FotoFest Paris 2010, a portfolio review for photographic artists with 170…
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The first retrospective devoted to French couturier Jean Paul Gaultier will make a stop at the Dallas Museum of Art about this time next year. Curated by Thierry-Maxime Loriot of…
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Swamplot reports: that in front of a small crowd of architecture folks, art types and friends, the house at 6513 Sharpcrest, Houston that is part of Mary Ellen Carroll’s Prototype…
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Hey Baby, a vaginal/birth/baby art and music experience inspired by the imminent birth of Julia Claire Wallace & John Zambrano’s baby will greet the world on Sunday night, November 14…
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For the next two weekends, artist studios, art galleries and theaters all over east Austin are open to the public for East Austin Studio Tour 9 – a chance for…
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The past few years have been a busy time for new (or renewed) contemporary art institutions in Austin. The Blanton Museum of Art opened a new and expanded building in…