The first meeting to organize Countercrawl, an alternative warehouse art event in Houston, is brewing, and it’s a potluck. Prospective countercrawlers will assemble at the Houston Foundry on Saturday May…
May 2011
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The Amon Carter Museum of Fort Worth has been awarded a $75,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for its educational programs. The “Picturing America School Collaboration Project…
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‘So, what do you do?’ Gulp, do I say artist, professor, writer, lawyer? One of these things is not like the other. Faced with this inevitable question I typically squirm.…
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The McKinney Avenue Contemporary has moved quickly to confirm interim director Lisa Hees as its new Director. Hees has newly-minted (2009) BA in Art History from UT Arlington. Liliana Bloch,…
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Without the fanfare and pared down in budget, projects like Mary Ellen Carroll’s much-hyped house moving art piece Prototype 180 are gaining traction as a popular pastime! Houston neighborhood blog…
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Child with Mother, White marble, 1972 (BH 544), Hepworth Estate Yesterday at the Glasstire panel discussion on regionalism at the Modern in Fort Worth, Art Guy Michael Galbreth repeated over…
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A new art class titled “Land Arts of the American West” combines the study of “geomorphology and human construction” through a field program including visits to minimal/conceptualist land art monuments…
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The National Endowment for the Arts has replaced it’s old “arts on radio and television” grants with new, wide-ranging “arts in media” program, which funds media projects about the arts,…
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Today I present Similar but Different #16 in honor of mothers everywhere who come in many shapes, sizes, species and even genders. I’ll start with the story of one son’s…
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Dozens, perhaps hundreds of art lovers, intellectuals and Glasstire supporters gathered yesterday at Dallas’ Rachofsky House to celebrate Glasstire’s 10th anniversary, along with panelists Michael Galbreth, David Pagel, Christina Rees,…
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A free screening of photojournalist Tim Hetherington’s feature-length documentary Restrepo, about soldiers in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, has taken on a new poignancy with news of Hetherington’s death in Libya. The…
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Curator Jeffrey Grove selected Fergus Feehily and Matt Connors for Concentrations 54 (both enjoy their first museum exhibition here at the DMA) because of the quiet little trail the two…
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Artists generally can’t afford to be too materialistic, but they can be counted on to come up with creative responses to tough economic times. Director Patty Ortiz has assembled…
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Those web-savvy folks over at the Houston press have assembled an interactive map of current street art in Houston by wheat-pasters Eyesore, Dual, Garro, Cutthroat, Shreddi, and the legendary Give…
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Bonnie Pitman, soon-to-be ex-director of the Dallas Museum of Art, has been recognized by the American Association of Museums with its Award For Distinguished Service to Museums for 2011. She…
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The latest exhibition at brand 10, Fort Worth’s smart, cozy and newest kunsthalle, On Wheels is equal parts kitsch and high politics. In this show, plain-faced middle-American falderal meets something…
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The Linda Pace Foundation has acquired, Sunset song, a 2003 sound piece by Scottish artist Susan Philpsz, and they’re going to play it outdoors, over a horn-shaped loudspeaker from noon…
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At last, 25 years of Art Guys shenanigans in a convenient 2-DVD set! The Art Guys: Home On The Range, just out, includes selections from the The Art Guys’ live…
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Artists Annette Lawrence an Mike Smith have been elected to the board of directors of Arthouse, the embattled Austin art venue. The vacant spots on the board resulted from a…
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Black Hole Coffee House in Houston’s Montrose neighborhood is planning “the Supernova Project,” the first of a series of quarterly soup dinners aimed at raising money for Montrose-based creative projects…