Michelle White, who curated such fascinating, unexpected shows as Imaginary Spaces: Selections from the Menil Collection; Leaps into the Void: Documents of Nouveau Realist Performance, and the recently opened Seeing…
October 2011
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The Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth has gifted itself with Mary Cassatt’s Standing Woman, Holding a Fan (1878-79), a transitional work in distemper (chalk-and-glue paint used for architectural decoration)…
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SMU’s Meadows Museum is looking for North Texas artists with ten years of professional exhibitions and a proven track record as a community advocate for the visual arts for their…
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“Jennifer Rubell: Nutcrackers” at Dallas Contemporary
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisTo anticipate Nutcrackers, Jennifer Rubell’s freakily constructed mannequin brothel of an exhibition, you might expect to go into an early phase of ribald amusement or something more outright disturbing and…
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In addition to Glasstire’s erratic artfair coverage, varying with the signal strength of the GRB’s wi-fi jamming, a number of other people had something to say about the first contemporary…
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Houston art car apostle Rebecca Bass is in Chattanooga, Tennessee this weekend, leading a workshop for educators, artists and the curious as they transform a 1974 Toyota Chinook Camper into…
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Look, these are all gonna be iPhone photos. I’m sorry about that. Soon as I can, I plan to purchase a real camera, but meanwhile, this is what I’ve got…
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In his site-specific installation Plexus No. 9, Gabriel Dawe layers a subtly shifting palette of rainbow-colored thread with mind-boggling precision.
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BLOG CONTINUOUSLY UPDATED!!! The Texas Contemporary Art Fair is open! The Glasstire staff will be live-blogging the fair through Sunday. Come by and see us at our booth, with Art…
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Potter Belmar Labs in SA and Aaron Forland’s guerrilla public art: Goodbye to all that (fer now)
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischAaron Forland, San Antonio visual artist, SA’s unofficial DIY/underground/punk rock historian and creator of the “Keep San Antonio Lame” meme, has been and continues to extol the paradoxical and…
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Organized on October 16, presented on the 17th, the Occupy Houston Art Show was an outdoor, all day event, and featuring live art, music, and fun provided by “anyone interested…
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The Dallas Museum of Art has announced that Dr. Maxwell L. Anderson has been appointed as its new Eugene McDermott Director. Anderson is currently Director and CEO of the Indianapolis…
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Lucky has been anything but. A 46-year resident of the San Antonio Zoo, the sixtyish, female elephant became a cause célèbre for animal rights activists after her longtime companion Alport…
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Enormous aisles, enormous booths, enormous art, all surrounded by a fortification of shipping containers: the TX Contemporary Fair promises already to be a whopper. From a warren of bare bones,…
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Crystal Lara Andrus, an art teacher at Morton Ranch Junior High School in Katy, TX was fired Wednesday after an incident in which she, enraged over students rowdiness, allegedly threw…
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“Doga,” yoga with your dog, a “Pawcasso Photo Shoot”, and the “Dog Day Afternoon” guide to the DMA’s Collections are just three of the activities at the upcoming Dallas Arts…
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Sources confirm the booking of Pepe, the Glasstire Pony for the opening of the TX Contemporary Art fair this Thursday evening. Although Pepe, (or Trigger, we’re not sure which) is…
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Overhaul, Transmission Failure, Near-Sinking: Shrimp Boat Project Nets a Boatload of Good Stories, and A Few Shrimp.
After six months of non-stop work during the longest and hottest summer in decades, the intrepid fishermen/trans-media artists at Shrimp Boat Projects were finally able to launch their refitted vessel,…
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It. Is. On! A heated battle is brewing on the big screen as two big, new dance films come to Houston theaters. In one corner, the new remake of ‘80s…
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Recent confidential email between Glasstire founder Rainy Knudson and Heather Wagner of Juice Consulting, the PR firm handling the TX Contemporary Art Fair, reveals that the “Glasstire Pony,” as it…