Fotofest creates virtual BRIDGE MOSCOW>HOUSTON with Teleconference Today
Houston’s FotoFest joins the Iris Foundation, RIA Novosti and the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow to organize a bi-continental media event connecting Moscow [...]
Similar but Different #21: Art Schoolin
Yes it’s still 105 degrees in Austin and while it may be hard to believe, the students and traffic are back signaling that Fall Semester [...]
Midtown auction house blaze near popular galleries and clubs
A fire gutted Simpson Galleries, a fine art and antiques dealer on Main and Isabella in Midtown just after midnight last Friday. The building, which [...]
Big Steel Scorpions Stake out Turf in El Paso’s Northeast Regional Park
Actually, it’s a scorpion and a vinegaroon, a scorpion-like arachnid of the order Thelyphonida. The pair, titled Rivals and designed by El Paso architect Lars [...]
Hunting Art Prize: it’s baaaa-aaack!
Like a rich uncle with bad teeth, the Hunting art prize is back to spread dreams of avarice, politely understated criticism, and dump a truckload [...]
I know you are, but what am I? Spongebob artist Todd White, sued by gallery owner Howell alleges massive forgery scheme
Margaret Howell of HB Gallery in Huntington Beach, CA has sued Todd White, former SpongeBob character artist, and his “henchmen”, for $7.5 million in damage [...]
Free museum days just around the corner; some orgs are naturally free, others become free, and some have free-ness thrust upon them!
The various Smithsonian museums in Washington D.C. are always free (and federally funded!); once a year, Smithsonian magazine’s Museum Day twists the arms of other [...]
On the Boards: Hills Snyder’s Three Minutes
Hills Snyder, artist, Glasstire contributor, and director of small non-profit gallery Sala Diaz, made a short speech at the City of San Antonio Office of [...]
CONTEM?ORARIES Group Show at Fort Worth Central Library
Painting is to Art History as Jesus is to Easter Sunday – you can count on celebrating resurrection at least once a year. Painting never [...]
Suburban Art Edu-tainment Watch: Art Class and Wine Glass Fulfills Hickey’s Prophecy of “The Return of Social Space.”
Critic Dave Hickey subtitled his seminal UltraLounge show of 1998 as “the return of social space (with cocktails).” A new Houston business melding art instruction [...]
Border artist seeks haven in El Paso: Mago Gándara leaves Juarez studio after threats
Today’s El Paso Times profiles 82-year old muralist Margarita “Mago” Gándara, who recently abandoned her Juarez studio of 40 years to take up a new, [...]
Mind Games, Museums and Suggested Donations
Pricing strategy. In the for-profit world, business school classes spend semesters on the topic, entire books are written on its nuances and staff positions—even departments—are [...]
Will Michels’ Made by Will released by HCP and nominated for Blurb people’s choice award
Made by Will: Selections from Four Portfolios recently published by Houston Center for Photography has been nominated for BLURB’s 2011 Photography Book Now People’s Choice [...]
Art Museum of South Texas goes green with new solar-power array from Green Mountain
The Art Museum of South Texas has sprouted a $140,000 solar array courtesy of Green Mountain Energy Co.The array was funded by customer donations to [...]
Penny wise and pound foolish: without an arts commission, Kansas loses federal NEA money. Could Texas be next?
Kansas governor Sam Brownback vetoed funding for the Kansas Arts Commission recently, substituting a non-governmental foundation he hoped would be able to distribute Kansas’ share [...]
Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Tapanga Jansen
This is Tapanga Jansen, a San Antonio video and social networking artist. I’m a big fan of her idiosyncratic, deliberately lo-fi, subversively sophisticated [...]
Stranger than fiction: a close look at the McNay’s Milkmaids with Liz Lloyd
Henri Rousseau, the first outsider artist to make it big, didn’t always paint lush foliage, ripe fruits and riper women; in 1906 he painted Landscape [...]
Amnesia Houston blog gathers steam, vintage tweets, old maps and a fat slice of preservation advocacy!
The preservation advocacy blog, perversely named Amnesia Houston, by “James Glassman, Houstonian” is gathering steam: from one post in 2006, another in 2007, he’s gone [...]
Kurt Mueller: Living Still at Artpace
Every December I wait anxiously for The Lives They Lived edition of The New York Times. It’s not because I am morbidly wanting to see [...]
Another Warhol squabble goes to court: portrait of Texas art dealer Shaindy Fenton in tug of war
A squabble over a $350,000 Warhol painting has entered a Philadelphia courtroom, pitting dentist Neil Balick against his nephew over the ownership of a portrait [...]
