Mimi Swartz of Texas Monthly has been busy since Friday, when Glasstire published the Art Guys’ announcement that their controversial piece, The Art Guys Marry a Plant, was to be removed from the Menil Collection’s lawn, where it has been planted since 2011. On Friday, Swartz was CC’d a scathing email from artist James Surls [...]
Construction of Patrick Renner’s 185-foot Funnel Tunnel begins on February 1. The public art sculpture/installation will be made of reclaimed wood and will snake through the trees on the Montrose Blvd esplanade opposite Art League Houston. The piece is Funded by a City’s Initiative Program Grant from the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA).
In his latest link-filled newsletter, Bart Weiss of the Dallas Video Festival takes note of Texans participating in this years Sundance Film Festival happening January 17-27 in Park City Utah : “Lone Star projects headed to the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Some Dallas VideoFest alumni include A Teacher by Hannah Fidell, whose short films, The [...]
San Antonio artists Meg Langhorne and Donna Pardue have announced a new endeavor, The Epitome Institute: “Esteemed Artists, Art Patrons and Dissertators: “We wish to introduce you to our new endeavor: a jeu d’esprit, artist-run exhibition space, think tank, cultural repository and aesthetic research organization. We welcome culture bearers and curators from many varied fields [...]
Book your reservations now to attend the third biennial Texans for the Arts Arts Advocacy Day in Austin. The day’s events include a breakfast rally, advocacy training, and Capitol visits to elected officials. Contact your representatives’ staffers and schedule your visits that day between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Texans for the Arts will provide [...]
Dallas mother-and-son gallerists Susan Roth Romans and Jordan Roth of RO2 Art are taking over the curation of the Magnolia Theater Gallery upstairs, inside the Magnolia theater at 3699 McKinney Ave. from Scott Horn and Nicole Cullum Horn, who are focusing on other projects. The Roth’s first show, Alisa Levy: Culmination of a Gesture, opened [...]
The city of El Paso is looking to build a public collection of artwork by local artists to be displayed in City buildings, and they’re in a hurry. Approximately $200,000 is available to purchase existing artwork from professional artists over 18, living and working in El Paso, who are invited to offer artworks for sale [...]
Museum Tower, the embattled “42-story luxury residential high-rise located in the heart of the Dallas Arts District”, has announced an alliance with Sotheby’s International Realty as its new marketing partner. Steve Sandborg, Vice President, Sales and Marketing for Museum Tower, called the reinforcements “a natural transition that dramatically expands the capabilities of our in-house sales [...]
The Meadows Museum has announced that Stephen Lapthisophon is the recipient of the 2012 Moss/Chumley Artist Award. The award is given annually to an outstanding North Texas artist who has exhibited professionally for at least ten years and has a proven track record as a community advocate for the visual arts. Lapthisophon received the award [...]
Ruth Carter Stevenson, Philanthropist and President of the Board of Trustees of the Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth, daughter of oilman, newpaper publisher and fierce Ft. Worth booster Amon G. Carter Sr. (1879–1955), died at her home in Ft. Worth on January 6. She was 89. Stevenson was solely responsible for seeing that her [...]
Alleged Menil Picasso vandal Uriel Landeros surrendered himself to federal marshals at the at the international bridge near McAllen, Texas on the US/Mexico border. His lawyer, Emily DeToto, brokered the surrender, which she sai was prompted by urgings from Landeros family. He is expected to be brought to Harris county in a few days to [...]
There’s a new gallery in Fayetteville, TX, and it’s starting out with a bang: Joan and Jerry Herring of the new Red and White Gallery will host ubiquitous monumentalist Jesis’ Moroles “Rings of Granite,” opening January 12 at their space at 102 West Main. It’s their second show: the gallery opened in December 2012 with [...]
Haydeé Muñoz De la Rocha of Art Magazine San Antonio has a detailed wrap-up of the state of the art in her city, noting the gallery closings at the newly-commercialized Blue Star Art Complex (which is still undergoing traffic-snarling renovations), the sprouting of new artist-run spaces which she calls the “core of San Antonio’s art [...]
ARTPIX, Houston-based art-magazine-on-a-disc, has released a 3-disc DVD, Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Park Avenue Armory Event 2011, in collaboration with the Merce Cunningham Trust. The DVDs document the final performance of the Cunningham Company at the Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue at 67th St. in New York on December 29-31, 2011. Six performances featuring [...]
The organizers of the 2013 Texas Biennial invite all artists living and working in Texas to submit their stuff from now until February 28 for possible inclusion in the latest, 5th, edition of the sprawling, multi-city showcase. The Texas Biennial will take place September 5 – November 9, with exhibitions in Austin, Dallas, Houston, San [...]
Dallas’ Crow Collection of Asian Art has installed several new works of Asian sculpture over the last few months as their outdoor sculpture garden nears completion: a stone Chinese warrior, used as ballast on cargo ships, a well-weathered, 9th century head of a “makara”, a composite crocodile/elephant beast (sorry, no pic), and The Sweepers (2012) [...]
This news just in from Houston artist Bert Long and Joan Batson via Margaret Losinski: “Unfortunately the news about Bert is not good. He has been diagnosed with Stage IV pancreatic cancer that has spread to other organs. He is in good spirits and will undergo some chemo, although not the very aggressive, debilitating type. [...]
X Marks the Art, a public/private arts initiative that aims to activate underutilized and vacant downtown properties in San Antonio opened its second round of installations in mid December. Titled “Cut and Paste” and curated by artist Cruz Ortiz, the show features over 15 installations, by 22 artists in 14 vacant downtown properties, loosely linked [...]
On June 30, 1988, Austin Friends of Folk Art was formally incorporated as a 501c3 non-profit organization, complete with bylaws, officers and directors, and a mission to promote public appreciation of folk art, which AFFA defines broadly enough to accommodate everything from urban mural art, Feng Shui and Southwest petroglyphs to Moroccan fortune-telling, Oaxacan wood [...]
This just in from lawyer Keith Jaasma of the Houston office of Patterson & Sheridan, LLP: Sculptor Bob Pack’s Pack Sports Bronzes, Inc. of Sugar Land (which has created numerous sculptures of some of the world’s greatest golfers) has settled its copyright infringement suit against Big Statues, Inc. of Provo, Utah over their unauthorized copying [...]
