I had an email correspondence about Dallas with a friend this week — I’ll call him Toojerstraap. You may know him. Dallas, and its particular insufficiencies – art-wise and all-wise,…
June 2011
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It’s the BIG Show, the annual smorgasbord of Houston art at Lawndale Art Center! Here are a few highlights of this massive open-call hodgepodge: Patrick Turk’s work is currently on…
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For the next couple of months I will be in New York and will post of a few blog posts called “Houston in New York”. So let’s start it off…
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Glasstire audio slideshow profiling sculptor, dancer, performer and seamster Daniel Adame. Photographs by Will van Overbeek.
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has announced the next ten Brown Foundation Fellows who will take up residence at the Dora Maar House during the Fall 2011 term (July…
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A new dribble of press info from the Texas Contemporary Art Fair! Two things stick out as really new: 1.They’re “currently in the process of accepting applications from galleries and…
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The monumental sculptures of French artist Bernar Venet, brought to Hermann Park by the Texan-French Alliance for the Arts last year, are still here! Moved to Oyster Creek Park in…
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The Museum of Fine Arts Houston has announced plans to digitally archive 10,000 pieces of primary source material on Latin American art and make it available online. The ten year,…
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Have you ever noticed than when people look at abstract paintings they’re always peeking around the edges? Clearly the painter has left some secret nugget of wisdom on the sides…
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Here at Glasstire, we are all about visual art in Texas. But every once in a while we venture off of our own site to see what else is going…
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Adair Margo Fine Art in El Paso is closing again, this time for good, on June 30, 2011. Founded in 1985, Adair Margo Gallery exhibited over 200 individual artists from…
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Renowned performance artist Nick Cave (not the renowned Australian alt-rocker), will be artist-in-residence at the University of North Texas Institute for the Advancement of the Arts in the 2011-2012. Cave,…
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Houston art fan Robert Boyd, whose The Great God Pan Is Dead blog enlivens the art scene here, is enlivening it in a more direct way by offering to add…
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Renowned performance artist Nick Cave (not the renowned Australian alt-rocker), will be artist-in-residence at the University of North Texas Institute for the Advancement of the Arts in the 2011-2012. Cave,…
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Article
The Houston Fine Art Fair and The Texas Contemporary Fair: Twice the fairs equals twice the drama
So you may have heard, Houston is getting an art fair. Um, actually two art fairs. There has been a ridiculous amount of controversy surrounding these fairs, a classic tempest…
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You can wear ugly clothes sort-of designed by Damien Hirst’s baby momma! You are so lucky! Remember buying that Peter Max t-shirt at Dillard’s in Plano in 1986? I know…
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What is it? The 2011 Glasstire Virtual Residency is a $2000 award toward the production of a web-based art project. The artist will retain all rights but gives Glasstire…
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With an economy that is closing many galleries, combining institutions, affecting artists’ practice and curtailing art publications it is encouraging to find someone willing to swim against the stream. Ariel…
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The most recent press release from Max Fishko of the upcoming Texas Contemporary Art Fair lists the fledgling fair’s participants, sponsors and friends so far: Moody Gallery, Sicardi Gallery and…
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News
New mix of charity, commerce and chutzpah: Austin artist Jennifer Chenoweth launches GenerousArt.org
Austin artist Jennifer Chenoweth, has launched Generousart.org, the latest permutation mixing charity giving, cold cash commerce, online promotion, and art. Here’s the deal: sales from the site’s online gallery are…