VIP Art Fair Tries Again to Be Huge
Artforum told us that the “VIP MFA Awardees Announced” yesterday, and that “The panel of six judges was composed of Matthew Higgs, director of White Columns; artist Diana Al-Hadid; Kate Fowle, director...
View ArticleDallas Museum of Art Receives $500,000 Grant to Expand Conservation Department
The Dallas Museum of Art received a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, they announced yesterday. The monies will “support the newly created position of Chief Conservator, ensuring the...
View ArticleLouis Grachos Announced as AMoA-Arthouse Director
Louis Grachos has been named executive director of the Austin Museum of Art-Arthouse, and will take on his fulltime job responsibilities in Austin on January 1, 2013. Grachos has resigned his post as...
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PREVIEW: Currents International New Media Festival Opens Tonight
Today, Currents—the international new media festival—hosts 90 artists including 26 international participants, also 11 venue partners this year, which will feature off-site events in tandem with the...
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Tiny Park’s Greatest Hits Exhibition and New Gallery + Preview Photos
Tiny Park, a previously small gallery in north Austin, expanded this year. I first visited the gallery, which was in the founders Brian Willey and Thao Votang’s home, in March and was impressed by the...
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Nic Nicosia Stages the Psychological at James Kelly Contemporary
Exposing the somewhat humorous turmoil of psychodramas has been a recurring theme in photographer Nic Nicosia’s works, many of whose early photographs look as if staged behind the scenes of a...
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Dallas Contemporary Loves-Hates Fashion: Inez & Vinoodh and K8 Hardy
Almost alien, skinny, young white women hardly clothed with a look of wanting in their faces and perfectly messy hair—these are the muses of fashion photography. We’ve seen spread after glossy spread...
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Undoing Boredom at Lawndale Art Center, Houston
I am preparing myself for something very dull—an exhibition Staring at the Wall: The Art of Boredom at the Lawndale Art Center in Houston. But, I wasn’t bored. In other words, I didn’t feel a sense of...
View ArticleWhat Is Contemporary Art Actually Mapping?
A map, which is usually thought of as a fixed, 2-D object, has become something else entirely in the information age—an ever-changing dataset subject to revisions. Author Rebecca Solnit, in her book...
View ArticleComic Future Makes Me Feel Blue
Comic Future, an exhibition curated by Fairfax Dorn and installed at Ballroom Marfa in Texas through February 2, 2014, reveals the dismantling of comedic devices by two of the artists, Carroll Dunham...
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