Au Naturale: New Texas Talent 2011
This year, New Texas Talent at Craighead-Green Gallery, juried by Marcie Inman, Director of Exhibitions for the Irving Arts Center, has the odor of a world gone feral, or at least the world trying to remember what nature is and getting all tangled up in thorny (sometimes horny) metaphors in the process. The show is replete [...]
Austin Art Implosion Continues: Arthouse Director Sue Graze Resigns as Executive Director to Assume Advisory Role
Sue Graze, director of Arthouse since 1999 has resigned as Executive Director to become Director Emeritus. Graze has has shepherded the org through a name change, an ostentatious makeover, a staff purge that eliminated the org’s last curator, and an ugly controversy over improper use of art installations as event props. Graze will remain on [...]
Walking Tour: Art Guys Babble on Greens Bayou Street for Carrie Schneider’s Hear Our Houston
The Art Guys, in association with Hear Our Houston, a project by artist Carrie Schneider that asks people to “Ttake a walk: record your thoughts, observations, stories, memories, and knowledge along the way,” collecting an intimate walking-pace oral history of this car-culture city, have recorded Greens Bayou Street, a twelve-minute tour of a few [...]
Taking it to the Streets: Flash Art Top 100 Poll Lets Public Choose Best Artists- Sort Of
Flash art is polling its readers (and everyone else) to find out who to put on their annaul top 100 artists list. In the past they’ve asked curators and critics, now they’ll listen to everyone, sort of. People taking the poll are asked to choose “Who are the 5 most interesting artists to have emerged [...]