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Have you seen the Voodoo Man? American Folk Artist Felix “Fox” Harris acquired his nickname, the Voodoo Man, because of the mysterious totems that filled his yard and surrounded his home.   His remarkable gift for sculpture allowed Harris to transform found items into serendipitous sculptures.   Harris’ work now resides at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET) in Beaumont, Texas. Experience AMSET’s new semi-permanent gallery   Somethin' Out of Nothin': the Works of Felix "Fox" Harris .

The Grace Museum & Abilene Christian University collaborate for A Night at the Museum

The Gallery at University of Texas at Arlington is pleased to present a two-person exhibition of work by Margarita Cabrera and Billy Hassell. The exhibition opens Monday, January 22 and runs through Saturday, March 3, 2007.  There will be an opening reception from 6 – 8:30 pm on Friday, January 26 with both artists giving brief gallery talks beginning at 6:30 pm that evening.

hush, hush: the power of a secret was an art project conceived of and created entirely by teens participating in Club Arthouse at Arthouse at the Jones Center. hush, hush was inspired by PBS's award-winning contemporary art show, Art:21. After watching the episode, the students decided to concentrate on the power of communication and the control of that power through the action of keeping secrets. Over several weeks, the students collected anonymous secrets on tape from both their peers and the general public. They then transcribed the secrets, and each student chose one secret to interpret in a piece of visual art.

Faces of Battle: Japanese Prints from the Permanent Collection
An installation at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art explores the themes of samurai virtue in conflicts ranging from legends of pre-history to epic moments of civil war in the late 19th century. The thirty woodblock prints from the installation are also presented online in this interactive feature with stories of the protagonists, zoom screens enabling close inspection of the images, and a brief biography of the influential printmaker Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-92).

The University of Maryland, Baltimore County's Albin O. Kunh Library Gallery displays art and artifacts from all over the world, including occasional traveling exhibitions and works from its Special Collections Department. An exhibit on the photography of David Seymour runs September 11-December 10, 2006 and includes both black and white and color imagery. The following description is from the gallery's website:

Curated by Tom Beck and organized by the Library Gallery in collaboration with the Corcoran Museum of Art and the George Eastman House, the project provides the first real critical examination of imagery by the pioneering photojournalist David Seymour (Chim). This project will elevate the significance of work by Seymour, the least well-recognized master among the founders of Magnum Photos, and will better familiarize viewers with the symbolism and artistic roots of his imagery. A major publication on Seymour authored by Beck and published by Phaidon Press, Ltd. will accompany the show.

The show is also accompanied by a podcast and a Flash presentation created in Pachyderm, which features ten images by David Seymour and audio commentary by curator Tom Beck.
The Flash presentation Reflections from the Heart is available at http://streaming.umbc.edu/seymour/

The Detail of Japanese Woodblock Prints
This short presentation for The Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas allows for detailed viewing of four prints from the recent exhibition, News from Abroad: Woodblock Prints from Yokohama, Japan.