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Going Back to the Ditch With Lonnie Holley
Calling Holley an “artist” only tells a bit part of a life whose epic origins begin in a muddy Alabama ditch.
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A 50,000-Square-Foot Juneteenth Museum Is Coming to Texas
Opal Lee, who helped make Juneteenth a federal holiday, is a founding board member, and her granddaughter Dione Sims will be the museum’s director.
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Coins Depicting Border Patrol Attack on Haitian Migrant Surface on eBay
The unofficial coins portray an agent on horseback wielding his reins like a whip and the ominous inscription “You Will Be Returned.”
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Apply for the 2022 Fellowship With Project Row Houses and the University of Houston
Two artists will each receive $20,000 in funding to help them become active cultural practitioners and research community-engaged creative practices.
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Through Art, Texans Memorialize Victims of Uvalde Shooting
From murals to a front-yard installation featuring rows of backpacks, the community is channeling its grief and rage at gun control inaction.
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The Cross-Border Work of the Rubin Center’s New Curator
“Artists are the key people who are helping us to think differently and better about not just the future, but the past and the present,” said Laura August, who’s been chosen to lead the Visual Arts center at the University of Texas at El Paso.
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Man Breaks Into Dallas Museum and Smashes Over $1M Worth of Ancient Greek Art
21-year-old Brian Hernandez is accused of breaking into the museum by smashing a door with a steel chair.
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Shahzia Sikander's Radical Take on Traditional Arts
Sikander’s retrospective Extraordinary Realities gathers together themes of female multiplicity, queer desire, capitalist exploitation, and decolonial aesthetics.
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The Prodigal Son of Spanish Baroque Art
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's deftly painted canvases are filled with earthy, convincing characters that even the most secular viewer will appreciate, if not relate to.
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When Cake Imitates Art
Fondant, pie crust, and icing are the chosen mediums of the Blanton Museum's annual bake-off, which asks competitors to recreate collection artworks as cakes.
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Memories Remade With Charcoal and Ash
Artist Dan Jian makes the point that landscapes and memory are one and the same.
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Oscar Muñoz Visualizes the Invisible
The Colombian artist’s first US retrospective is a meditation on memory and seeing.