Ex-Glasstire contributor Jennifer Jankauskas has been named curator at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. since her stint in Texas, she held posts as both an independent and institutional curator,…
February 2012
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The MFAH’s Glassell School of Art is again looking for a new crop of CORE Fellows for its ever-more-prestigious residency program. Residents receive a stipend, health insurance, and private studio/office…
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The Second Annual Caroline Collective Print Sale happens Saturday, February 4, when the co-working venue will transform itself into a bazaar filled with ephemera and works on paper from local…
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has selected Steven Holl Architects to develop plans for their highly anticipated new building art after 1900. Holl was selected from among thre finalists,…
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My blog, Wax by the Fire, is sort of a love letter to Houston and the intelligent, diverse, and friendly community of creative people who live here. Now that the…
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Russian-born Mark Cheikhet is a master violinist who also paints, seeking to fuse the arts into something that Wassily Kandinsky called “Gesamtkunstwerk,” or the total work of art. With a…
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Michele Monseau is holding a one night studio liquidation sale tonight at Three Walls in San Antonio; the pop-up sell off, titled “Take Me, Please”, or “Let’s Swap (Some Spit)”,…
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Mike Kelley, a major figure in the “pathetic aesthetic” of the 1990’s was found dead in his home in Los Angeles on Tuesday night by police, called in by a…
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Frieze Art Fair, scheduled for May 4-7, 2012 on Randall’s Island, Manhattan, has announced the names of eight artists commissioned to create pieces for the inaugural show. John Ahearn, Uri…
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News
New Asia Society Building in Houston Reflects Either “Shared Future” of “Different Balance of Power”; Grand Opeining in April
Citing an more interconnected world, and the growing role of Asia in international affairs and commerce, the Asia Society, founded in 1956 by John D. Rockefeller to explain Asia to…
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Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrences/ Documented Assignments at the Dallas Museum of Art
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisThe vertical lines of factories electrify the sparse mechanical sensibility of Mark Manders, even as the DMA’s gallery space is drained of color to fit this factory’s demand for the…