“How much does your house weigh?” – R. Buckminster Fuller The late American architect and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller was famous for seeing the world through an uncommon lens, a…
July 2010
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Three of the The Buffalo Bayou Partnerships’ boats were cast adrift Tuesday night by vandals, after an arson fire that destroyed the Osprey, the nonprofit’s pontoon tour boat and damaged…
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Wants a new dress for Needed Fabulousness, a piece which will be included in Unveiled, the inaugural show at at UT’s new Visual Arts Center in Austin on September 24. …
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Lawndale’s Big Show has been the first line item on many a Houston artist’s resume. It’s the one time every year that Lawndale sets aside its curatorial authority in the…
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ArtHouston 2010, the annual dog-day art afternoon, with shows at more than 30 galleries opens Saturday, July 10. Venues along Colquitt, in the Museum District, the Heights and everywhere else…
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Peter Doroshenko has been named as the new executive director of the Dallas Contemporary, replacing founding director Joan Davidow, who stepped down in 2009. Doroshenko is remembered in Texas for…
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Oh lord won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz… – Janis Joplin You ever watch an awesome commercial and not remember what it was advertising? That’s how I felt about…
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San Antonio arts patron Catherine Halff Edson died Friday at 71. Daughter of radio station owner Hugh A.L. Halff, Edson “methodically built one of the finest private collections of Japanese…
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Corpus Christi City Council unanimously agreed to maintain arts funding, despite cuts in other areas. The city’s $668 million budget must be approved by the end of this month and…
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Midland gallerists Richard and Mary Folger were two of the five victims of a small plane crash in Brewster County Saturday night. Mr. Folger started selling art out of his…
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In Vanity Fair’s latest architectural survey, Renzo Piano’s 1987 Menil Collection in Houston is the world’s second best building since 1980. The poll of 52 leading architects and critics chose…
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The Beer Can House’s fame is spreading spreading, too. The familiar Houston attraction was featured yesterday in a short travelogue in the Toronto Sun which tells the story of John…
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Welcome to No Country For Old Interns, Glasstire’s new blog focusing on visual art in West Texas—specifically Marfa. Every blog worth reading has a FAQs or an “About Me” page, right? So form demands…
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The 25th anniversary edition of Kaboom Town, the major-league fireworks display in Addison, Texas, went off as planned yesterday, despite intermittent rain and everpresent mud. The event cost the town…
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Recent heavy rains in Houston have delayed Staten Island artist Scott LoBaido‘s giant American flag painting, just finished atop the roof of the Lamons Gasket Company near Hobby airport. Although…
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From July 2 – August 1, Northpark Center is displaying an exhibit of various buildings in Downtown Dallas made entirely of Legos. These are HUGE models, many of which focus…
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The five films in Matthew Barney’s "Cremaster" cycle will be shown in Austin’s Dobie Theatre July 9-16 along with the premiere of Barney’s latest film ‘De Lama Lamina.” Not avaliable…
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Born on July 3, 1738, in Boston, early American painter John Singleton Copley left his native land to pursue fame back in England, leaving behind charming and bizarre paintings like…
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I recently attended a press preview for The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. I especially wanted to see this show because it reminded…
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Advocatcy org Americans for the Arts has published its 2010 Public Art in Review, which annually features noteworthy public art projects from across the US and Canada. In this year’s…