On June 8-10 San Antonio will host Americans for the Arts’ 2012 Annual Convention. A long weekend of speakers and panels will address the convention’s theme, The New Normal, strategizing…
May 2012
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Dozens of Texas museums will offer free admission to active duty military personnel and their families this summer as part of the Blue star Museums Program. Organized by the National…
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Well my issue of The New Yorker Magazine came today and on the cover was my inspiration for Similar but Different #29: The Rainbow Connection. Newsweek went so far as…
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Box 13 ArtSpace on the east side of Houston just opened their first set of summer exhibitions featuring a roster of artists from around the world. At a time when…
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The Blanton Museum in Austin has announced the online launch of a massive digitization project: 17,000 images and attendant info about objects in their permanent collection are now accessible through…
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Jeff West, ubiquitous Dallas Arts consultant and advocate, has died suddenly at age 54. West served as Executive Director of the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas, Managing Director of the Dallas…
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Galveston’s Avis Frank Moves Into Old King Biscuit Space in Houston’s Woodland Heights: Grand Opening June 9
Year-old Galveston gallery Avis Frank is moving to Houston, reanimating the sprawling collection of architectural improvisations that once house neighborhood landmark bar King Biscuit, perched on the edge of White…
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Culturemap Austin has the lowdown on N-Space, Co-Lab’ new downtown venture in association with architects Nelsen Partners. The first show at the new space opened last weekend, in conjunction with…
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Jackie Tileston’s latest exhibition Freefall at Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas includes paintings from 2007 to present. I’ve followed Tileston’s work for the past ten years and I never get…
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Deborah Martin reports on the “museum growth spurt” in San Antonio in the Express-News today: May 26 is the Grand Opening of the The Witte Museum’s Robert J. and Helen…
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The surfaces of Ben Brandt‘s sculptures are covered in gray. The objects look like they’re a thousand years old, as if they’d just been pulled from some long-ago construction site,…
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Our Town Southeast Houston, a project of the UH and the National Endowment for the Arts is inviting residents to make their diverse community a more interesting, healthier, and…
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), has given the 2012 Meredith J. Long Core Program Award to Gabriel Martinez. The $10,000 prize, presented at the Glassell School of Art…
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Congratulations to Austin-based artist Jeff Williams, winner of this year’s $30,000 Texas Prize!! Statewide audiences will perhaps be most familiar with Jeff’s dust-encrusted sculptures from a few years ago (as…
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Sasha Dela moved to Houston about seven years ago as a fellow in the MFAH Core Program and quickly became an important part of the Houston art scene as a…
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The Grady Spikes Memorial Tiger, a 13-foot bronze cat in front of Conroe High School in the north of Houston suburb was painted a brilliant blue overnight in what is…
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No, it’s not your new browser plug-in, or a sluggish ISP, or hidden malware running in the background! Glasstire, like Houston, was buggy yesterday. So much fabulous commentary, fascinating video…
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Mishka Henner, Dutch Landscapes, 2011 So, it’s been about a month since the Dallas Art Fair weekend and all the very good independent shows and events that surrounded it.…
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This just in: after a 5-year run which saw the introduction of some great artists to Houston, the much-loved Bryan Miller gallery in Houston is closing. The current group show,…
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Independent Arts Collaborative Building: New Renderings on Facebook, Architects Invite Conversation
Since my last “glass box” rant, Lake Flato/ Studio Red Architects have posted new, more comprehensive renderings of the current design for Houston’s Independent Arts Collaborative building on Facebook, with…