Prada Marfa is a permanently installed sculpture by artists Elmgreen and Dragset, situated about 26 miles northwest of the city of Marfa, Texas. The installation was inaugurated on October 1, 2005. The artists called the work a “pop architectural land art project”. Literally in the middle of nowhere, I came across this PRADA storefront along the […]
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The Witte Museum, established in 1926 in San Antonio, is dedicated to telling the ‘Stories of Texas” from prehistoric times to the present. It is best known for it’s dinosaur exhibits. This article is about their unique (one venue only) history of Texas through Artworks where Texas or Texans are the subject and […]
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Above: the t-shirt graphics for “McNay Art Museum”, sold in the Museum’s shop. The McNay Art Museum, founded in 1954 in San Antonio, was the first modern art museum in the State of Texas. The museum was created by Marion Koogler McNay’s original bequest of most of her fortune, her important art collection […]
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The Briscoe Museum of Western Art in Downtown San Antonio has a magnificent collection focused on Western Art. The day ARTS&FOOD® spent in the museum was a relaxing and excellent learning experience – filled with both contemporary and traditional western art, plus the history of life in the frontier West and in the early […]
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The Dale Chihuly ceiling in the connecting hall from SAMA’s main building to the Cowden Gallery is one of the favorite pleasures of the museum. (Look Up, when you are in the connecting hallway!) The San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) is an art museum in Downtown San Antonio, Texas, USA. With a collection spanning […]
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ANSWER: ONE MAN – DONALD JUDD – Marfa Texas is an unlikely art oasis in a small desert town in the desert S/W of Texas. In the 1970s, minimalist artist Donald Judd moved his studio to this dusty town where everything was cheap and where he could afford space. He build several art compounds here for his studios and to display […]
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Lagniappe [Lahn-yop]: Something extra. Everywhere one turns in NOLA there is a photograph worth taking. Here are a few pics that did not make it into our current magazine issue focused on New Orleans, Louisiana (there are many more great photos which will never be published). – We put together a photo essay/slide show of […]
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Artist Mick Madzo from Excelsior, MN ART: Street Arts Festivals! (Note: from our past issue files.) The Denver Arts Festival brings together artists from across the USA Every Fourth of July weekend, Denver Colorado hosts the Cherry Creek Arts Festival in it’s upscale Cherry Creek shopping district. It is a very competitive, juried festival and […]
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Artworks are the intellectual property of the individual artists and © (copyright 2019) by the individual artist, fabricators, respective owners or assignees, Used with permission. The Life and Times of Benny Andrews (1930-2006) One of ten children, Benny Andrews was born on November 13, 1930, in Plainview, Georgia, a light-skinned, blue-eyed, blond-haired baby. James Orr […]
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Artworks are the intellectual property of the individual artists and © (copyright 2019) by the individual artist, fabricators, respective owners or assignees. Used with permission. For more creative and sensentional posts visit our art blog category!