Sometime later this year, a professional conservator will spend two days assessing the state of the Art Museum of Southeast Texas‘ collections and identifying the museum’s conservation priorities. It’s all…
August 2011
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La Reunion TX, the nascent artists’ residency program in west Oak Cliff near Dallas, will add a new contingent of male Art Chicos to its highly successful Art Chicas mentoring…
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When it comes to art, using the word ‘crisis’ is always a massive overstatement. Between the crises in painting, criticism, and photography you’d think that art was in some real…
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Dallas billionaire Republican philanthropist Charles Wyly was killed Sunday, August 6 when his car was hit by an S.U.V. near the airport in Aspen, Colorado. He and his brother and…
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The Washington Post reports a second art-bashing at the National Gallery of Art by serial art basher Susan Burns, the woman arrested for assaulting Gauguin’s Two Tahitian Women in April.…
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In the slack summer news season, sometimes nothing’s more exciting than moving a big, weird object from one place to another. Local news outlets report the airlift of Buck Winn’s…
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According to Artpace’s August 12 email blast, the San Antonio org has a “new” blog! After “testing the waters for quite some time now,” Artpace has begun publishing APB (Art…
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Annual MAC Membership Exhibition – “Meltdown”
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisThe membership show. It has one hundred eighty-something pieces of artwork and no curator. Any member can bring one work of their choosing that expresses the year’s central theme. This…
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One of my favorite writers, the poet Donald Hall, speaks often of gardens and nature in his work, recounting his farmstock lineage, his beloved dead wife’s care of her New…
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The Insperity helium balloon, a popular attraction at Houston’s Discovery Green Park in 2009, sprung a leak in Chicago. So park program director Susanne Theis asked curator Clint Willour to…
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Check out the new Amon Carter website: in addition to the usual exhibitions currently on view, the museum shop link, the event notices, and workshop sign-ups, there is a searchable…
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Fred Adickes, Hot Wheels co-creator and brother of monumental sculptor David Adickes dies at age 80 in Huntsville
Fred Adickes, brother af notorious Texas monumentalist David Adickes, died Sunday in Huntsville at age 80. The lesser-known (in Texas) Adickes was equally creative: he spent most of his career…
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(All photos by John D. Fisch except where noted. Click high res gallery to view full images.) Dear readers of Glasstire, San Antonio prides ourselves (read: economically relies) on our…
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The first accounts of dissident Chinese artist Ai WeiWei’s detention on April 3 of this year are coming out. Reuters carried this story by Sui-Lee Wee detailing the intense pressure…
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A $120,000 grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) will enable the Chinati Foundation to enhance its education, public program, and outreach efforts to benefit Marfa…
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Peter Max popping up all over: renowned illustrator and huckster to appear at pop-up gallery in San Antonio
From iconic illustrator of the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine to purveyor of endless signature art products at shopping malls, Peter Max is popping up all over. He’ll be appearing in person…
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Houston artist Patrick Palmer has been promoted to Faculty Chair/Dean of the Glassell School of Art Studio School and Art History department. Palmer, who has taught classes at the museum…
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The Majestic Ranch Arts Foundation, housed on 500-acre ranch southwest of Boerne in the Texas Hill Country, is moving, and needs to de-accession furniture, art supplies, a printing press, books…
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The latest update on the Texas Contemporary Art Fair has an expanded list of participating galleries: New York galleries Gering & Lopez, Fredericks & Freiser, DCKT, Susan Inglett Gallery &…
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Steven Thomson discusses Kristina Van Dyke’s move to the Pulitzer Foundation, the Menil’s role as a training ground for hot young curators, and the future of African art at the…