Monday February 6, 2012 …one of the great threats to any art network — call it a scene, a world, whatever — is the threat of suburbanization. By that I mean: making the rough “smooth”, the unpalatable “chic”, the homeless “homey”. - Michael Corris on Dallas’ institutional brotherhood weighs in on Dallas’ art scene at DMA State of the Arts   back to top   Robert Boyd of the revered blog The Great God Pan is Dead reviews Robert Pruitt’s show at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas. Pruitt seems to be part of a movement of African American artists and intellectuals who proudly proclaim their nerd-hood. back to top  Colette Copeland attends the Shepard Fairey talk at the Dallas Contemporary. The last audience question was “What happens to the rebellion when the rebels win?” Smiling, Fairey adroitly replied “Power always corrupts. I’m such a bastard now.” back to top  Rachel Hooper launches her blog Wax by the Fire on Glasstire. “[It’s] sort of a love letter to Houston and the intelligent, diverse, and friendly community of creative people who live here.” back to top  Lucia Simek attends the Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas mystery dinner - and likes it. When people started dancing, and I looked back at Barry Whistler – one of Dallas’ most respected gallerists of twenty-five years – drumming away on the stage, I wondered where I was for a moment. It was like an odd dream of Dallas where suddenly all of the pretenses about money and status and culture and success were banished. What was left was something far more essential — delight. back to top  Claire Ruud discusses UT’s new MFA course Professional Practices: Staying in the Game. To me, it sounds a little bit like a splash of cold water in the face. How will you develop and maintain a flourishing network of curators, gallerists, artists? How will you find time to read Art Power and Empire after work? How will you sustain a practice when no one’s watching you, when you have a day job, when your studio is a closet? back to top  Betsy Lewis visits “Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrences/ Documented Assignments” at the DMA. In “Nocturnal Garden Scene,” the most talked about work in the exhibition, a black cat is cut in half as if in a magic trick, the gap between its front and back parts loosely marked by a rope tied from two upright bottles. back to top  Rachel Hooper remembers the origins of the Houston alt space… Four years ago, Sasha Dela and Ariane Roesch opened a studio on an upper floor of an outdated and slightly ominous looking office building across from Montrose Krogers and the Chinese Consulate… back to top Austin Museum of Art-Arthouse Curatorial Assistant
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