Aug232010

Meet Me at the Menil

By Catherine D. AnsponAugust 23, 2010

This fall, the big buzz is about the Menil Contemporaries, a burgeoning museum group that taps into an arts-curious audience, ages 20 to 40s, with perks such as insider tours, curator and artist encounters, and memorable experiences including behind-the-scenes peeks at installations in progress and coveted invites for weeke...

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Aug272010

The Tome We’ve Been Waiting For

By Laurann ClaridgeAugust 27, 2010

We’ve been waiting with bated breath for our talented colleague, PaperCity visual arts editor Catherine D. Anspon, to complete her contemporary art compendium, Texas Artists Today (Marquand Books, November 2010, $95). The numbered, limited-edition — only 3,000 will be printed — monograph has been 11 years ...

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Aug232010

Art Notes

By Catherine D. AnsponAugust 23, 2010

Museum Mile: At the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, an intriguing pair of exhibitions rewrites the art historical canon. “Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria” brings ancient terra-cotta and copper portrait heads (circa 9th to 15th centuries AD) from the fabled kingdom of Ife in southwestern Nigeria, t...

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Aug232010

Elaine Bradford’s Wild Kingdom

By Rob BrinkleyAugust 23, 2010

It all started with condiment koozies. Houston artist Elaine Bradford, who supplied the ethereal creatures for our fashion feature this month, began crocheting covers “for things in the fridge,” she says. “Then I moved on to logs and branches,” even truck bumpers. But it wasn’t until she saw tw...

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Aug232010

Art Notes

By Catherine D. AnsponAugust 23, 2010

Maya, Masks and Madrid: “Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea” arrives at the Kimbell Art Museum. This mystical reinterpretation of the grand Mayan culture is an intriguing archaeological blockbuster that pushes beyond the scholarly realm into the broader consciousness. Based on new excavations plus breakthro...

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