170 Search Results for “February 8”

  • Part of Feb 2012 by

    Is Film History? New Media Film Fest Might Say So.

    Film is (maybe) almost history. Soon, it looks like, those hot reels–romanticized in the 1980s vehicle, Cinema Paradiso–may be relegated to folklore, the way the Kindle or iPad threatens to eclipse printed books.  According to Maxwell Gately, Chief of Projection at The Screen on Santa Fe University of Art and Design campus, The Screen could be one of the last places in the country to project authentic film print. Maxwell emphasizes that More …

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    Steven Holl Architects To Design Expansion for MFAH

    Steven Holl Architects has prevailed over architecture firms Snøhetta and Morphosis to design an expansion for the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, it was announced February 2d. Core to the program will be a new building to house art after 1900, on a two-acre site currently being used as a parking lot. That property is adjacent to the Isamu Noguchi-designed Cullen Sculpture Garden, and across the street from two other architecturally More …

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    Joel Shapiro Installation Opens at Rice Gallery

    Texas’ beloved New York artist Joel Shapiro opens in solo exhibition at the Rice University Gallery today, February 2, 2012. The show exhibits through March 18. “In a gravity-defying array of color and form, Shapiro will suspend wooden planks, vibrantly painted with supersaturated pigment, from the gallery’s sixteen-foot ceiling,” according the University’s website.  Shapiro adds, “I feel like I’ve been working for so long to have finally built up this More …

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    Austin’s Ink Tank Survives Last New Year

    Ink Tank is the latest cooperative, contemporary art lab in Austin—home of DIY. Projects from the new artist collective include: Future: Diorama!, and most recently Last New Year, which will be open for private tours in February. Curated by artist Matthew Winters, a Saint Louis transplant who attended DePaul University, Last New Year overtakes an older east Austin home with the theme: the inevitable apocalypse. Art busts through the frame More …

  • Part of Jan 2012 by

    To Calatrava or Not To Calatrava

    In November, The Denver Post reported that the City of Denver had settled with starchitect Santiago Calatrava, agreeing to pay him a $250,000 licensing fee to utilize his designs for a hotel, bridge, train station and terminal extension at Denver International Airport. The article reports that the agreement between the City and Calatrava’s design firm preclude them from utilizing proprietary design elements including some white architectural elements on the upper More …

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    2012 Preview: Yves Saint Laurent, as Apres-Ski?

    The Denver Art Museum is the only scheduled U.S. venue in 2012 for two exhibitions imagined as crowd-sources: Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective, and Becoming Van Gogh. One of these exhibitions will be the most well attended in DAM history. My prediction? Yves Saint Laurent, which opens March 25 and runs through July 8, 2012, will feature 200 haute couture garments, photographs, drawings and films will draw more crowds to Denver More …

  • Part of Dec 2011 by

    Armchair Eye Candy from Art Basel Miami Beach

    Art Basel Miami Beach has 206 exhibitors this year. I am not there but have spent the better part of the morning browsing the website to see what the major galleries are exhibiting. (Mind the opulence of minimalist surfaces.) And so here is just a short (very short) selection of some things I found really interesting (out of the overall glut of visual information on view down south) –  and a More …

  • Part of Nov 2011 by

    Theaster Gates Rising

    On October 25th  an invitation-only crowd celebrating the artist Theaster Gates filled the Rose Bar at the Gramercy Park Hotel with art, fashion and buzz. Gates has been commissioned as the artist who will create the visual identity for the 2012 Armory Show, to be held March 8th-11th in New York.  Gates’s visual identity work will be used in the design for the exhibition catalog, VIP brochure and bag, and all printed More …

  • Part of Oct 2011 by

    New Formula: Grassroots Arts Philanthropy Booms

    Long ago, “friend” was a noun and “city” was a location: Santa Fe, at the weary end of the Santa Fe Trail, from which dusty travelers launched the ambitious start of cultural tourism some 75 years ago.(This story was commissioned by the Santa Fe Reporter where it appeared on the cover on October 19.) Then, last decade, new monikers began cropping up concerning cities. Who’s Your City?, a book written by More …

  • Part of Oct 2011 by

    Globes, Maps, Flags (and Annie Lennox)

    I have a thing for globes, maps and flags and, of course, for books, even while not proving a devotee of my Ipad. So, while browsing at William Stout Publishing a couple of Saturdays ago I found one of those books that is sorta legendary, not new, but new to me in its physical book-ness and objecthood. OIO Publishers published that is such a pleasure to peruse. You engross yourself More …

  • Part of Oct 2011 by

    The Willingham Case, Rick Perry and the Death Penalty in Texas

    With Governor Rick Perry throwing his proverbial hat into the race for Republican presidential nominee, Texas has been thrust into the national spotlight.  I wish I could say the country is learning favorably about the Lone Star State; as a native Texan it’s a dear place to me.  However, what the nation has been reading about–from local papers such as the Austin Chronicle to national and international publications like the More …

  • Part of Sep 2011 by

    Solyndra Bankruptcy: Why Solyndra Blood Smells So Green

    Reuters reported yesterday that the bankrupt Fremont, Calif.-based solar firm Solyndra has been cleared for bankruptcy auction on October 27th – with a Delaware bankruptcy judge directing the firm to attend a major solar trade show in Dallas in October to solicit a buyer. And  yesterday in California, the state treasurer announced “a pause” in the state’s clean-energy funding that provides tax breaks for green manufacturers, of which Solyndra was More …