229 Search Results for “February 2”

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    Nic Nicosia Installs the Hoffman Tower Room Project

    Contemporary artist Nic Nicosia  installed a room dedicated to his work in a patron’s gallery in Dallas called the Hoffman Tower Project Room, in February 2015. He describes creating the installation specifically for the room. With the installation in Marguerite Hoffman’s, Tower Room, I have presented photographs, drawings, sculpture, and a site-specific wall drawing. The photographs represent three separate bodies of work. in the absence of others, 2010-2011, stories, 2013, and the grid piece, More …

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    Asia Week New York As Seen by Asia Society Texas

    Asia Week New York, which concluded March 22nd, is a forum for the burgeoning markets in Asian art and the interest in Asian art from museums both encyclopedic and contemporary. Bridget Bray became Director of Exhibitions at Asia Society Texas Center in Houston in February 2014. She joined ASTC from the Pacific Asia Museum where she had been curator since 2005. She talked about Asia Week New York, which she visited. Help More …

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    Remembering Robin Rule, Denver Gallery Owner

    Robin Rule, the passionate and complicated Denver gallery owner, died of cancer on December 29, 2013, age 55. Her indomitable spirit animated the Denver art world from 1987 to 2013, and her legacy will forever be tied up with the issues of the contemporary art world today in which complex loyalties and the difficulty of maintaining a business as a woman owner without patrons, backers or trust fund still apply. Rule More …

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    Front Range Women, Abstract Line and More: Denver Art Preview

    A Denver Art Preview. From  a focus on women artists of the Front Range, through painting and sculpture with abstract line, the first few months of 2014 reveal a span of new art shows in Denver, worth viewing between football games, snowboarding trips and waiting in line at the marijuana shops. The Transit of Venus: Four Decades, Front Range Women in the Visual Arts January 10 – February 23, 2014 More …

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    Art for the Few? Or Art for The Many? Year-End Reflections

    If media coverage at the end of a year can seem like a redux of sameness — big money, big deals — consider in arts media the equity gap between the few stories that seem to get told hundreds or thousands of times, versus the thousands of stories that don’t get told a single time. (An inner voice says, “Don’t now try to argue for fairness.” Ok.) Here, though, is More …

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    Comic 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 and Paul McCarthy. Blue Planet (84 ¼ by 60 inches), a painting by Dunham (father of Lena Dunham of Girls fame), renders the largest form of the canvas blue in an ovoid, amorphous blob, central to the composition. More …

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    SITE Santa Fe Announces Biannual Series on Art of the Americas, Tilts on North-South Axis

    “A radical rethinking of SITE’s signature exhibition,” and a “reimagined series,” were just two of the phrases that SITE Santa Fe Phillips director and chief curator Irene Hofmann used on Monday night at the Farmer’s Market Pavilion in Santa Fe to describe what will become, in summer 2014, the first of a three-part series of biannual exhibitions focused on contemporary art of the Americas. Replete with a new name and More …

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    Interview with Matt Hines of The Eastern Sea

    The Eastern Sea just kicked off their national tour in Austin with a show at Stubbs (with Dana Falconberry) in support of their new album Plague. This tour will take The Eastern Sea to Denton, Tulsa, Memphis, Atlanta, Athens, Annapolis, Asbury Park, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Houston and New Orleans. We sat down with the band’s founder and principal songwriter, Matt Hines, at Spider House Cafe to discuss the recording of Plague More …

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    Art Feasting in Santa Fe

    Place: Santa Fe. Time: A crisp winter’s evening the end of February 2012. It isn’t snowing, the air is dry, cool, as I walk around the plaza, and up on Canyon Road wearing a coat–no hat or gloves are needed. It’s pleasant. I’m with my cousins from Texas and a friend from New York. We’ve wandered through about six galleries when our friend from New York proclaims with her German More …

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    Doodle 4 Google – At Three Western Museums

    The Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper, Wyoming has been chosen to team up with Google for the fifth annual “Doodle 4 Google” contest. On February 25, 2012, from 1-4 p.m. students of all ages can drop by the Discovery Center and doodle around during this special event. Students nationwide, from kindergarten through 12th grade, are also invited to doodle their own rendition of the Google logo for a chance to More …

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    Learning Secrets Presents Teengirl Fantasy and Jacques Renault

    We didn’t think we would ever recover from that bombastic 8th anniversary party Learning Secrets threw for themselves a couple of weeks ago. But now that we are finally seeing straight, Learning Secrets have announced their next big throw-down — on February 25th they are bringing Teengirl Fantasy and Jacques Renault to Austin for an epic 18 and up night at the brand new Beauty Ballroom location off of East More …

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    Caldera Gallery Brings Some New (Cool) Heat to Santa Fe

    We in Santa Fe, have been suffering from an epidemic of awful, unimaginative, hotel-ready art.   Neon coyotes, sad Indians, and post-modern splatterings have nearly eviscerated our cultural soul.  This isn’t hyperbole; our economic lifeblood, after all, is art (and tourism).  To be pigeonholed as a kitsch capital could mean the death sentence. And yet, and yet. For those many who might have thought that Santa Fe had become a depressing More …