Houston’s Lawndale Artist Studio Program Picks New Residents
Lawndale Art Center has announced its new crop of resident artists for 1012-2013: Domokos Benczédi, Nancy Douthey and Patrick Turk will each get studio space [...]
Stephen Kwok: Walled Garden
I’ve never met Stephen Kwok, but I was drawn into the work on his site enough to go visit his solo show, “Walled Garden” at [...]
What the White Hides, It Also Reveals: David Aylsworth at Inman Gallery
David Aylsworth has debuted a subtle and beautiful new group of canvases, in which the color white carries paradoxical tensions of opaqueness and translucency, form [...]
Barbara Perea First Casa Chuck Curatorial Resident, Supported with Recycled Art!
This September Sala Diaz will be hosting Barbara Perea, an accomplished Mexico City-based curator, critic and lecturer with a concentration in emerging media, sound and [...]
Louis Grachos Named AMOA-Arthouse Director, Starts Next Year!
Louis Grachos, Director of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY has been named as Executive Director of AMOA-Arthouse after seven month search. He’s easing [...]
Lights On at the Light Garden: Tim Glover’s Steel Trees to be Illuminated at WOW Roundabout June 19
On June 5, Tim Glover’s “Light Garden”, two 25-foot tall sculptures with multi-colored lighting displays, were “planted” in the Washington On Westcott Roudabout to [...]
Show and Tell: Chupacabrona (semi-) undocumented
There’s been a grave interruption in my tour reporting, I realize. Rigoberto Gonzalez Facebooked me thusly the other day: WTF? (I’m paraphrasing). Here’s what happened: from [...]
Cinema 16: Short Art Films in Oak Cliff Film Fest
Amos Vogel, founder of Cinema 16, courtesy Northwest Chicago Film Society I’m not sure when the guys that run the Texas Theater sleep, they [...]
Dallas Artist John Wilcox Has Died
Dallas artist John Wilcox has died, after a long battle with HIV. During the late 80′s Wilcox lived in New York, experiencing firsthand the AIDS epidemic [...]
New 107 Gallery in SA: Lullwood Collective to Take over Second Saturdays at Former LoneStar Studios
Beginning July 14, The Lullwood Group, “an artist collective that encourages participation, fosters exploration and promotes art discovery in many forms,” will curate monthly exhibitions [...]
P’s Gallery to Close in Longview: East Texas Art Venues Wanted
The Glasstire exhibition listings for East Texas, already thin, are going to get thinner: P’s Gallery, one of the few art venues in Longview, is [...]
Famous Monsters Mutate in Summer Heat: New Mural Emerges at Lawndale
A new mural, or rather an extension of the current one, is underway at Houston’s Lawndale Art Center. Last weekend, Daniel Anguilu, painter of the [...]
East Dallas Gallery Day Saturday
On Saturday, June 16, eight galleries located in the Deep Ellum and Expo Park kick off the Summer together with East Dallas Gallery Day. Barry [...]
Bret Slater at Marty Walker Gallery
I’d seen Bret Slater’s work before, in his studio, just prior to all of it getting zipped into a big duffle bag and schlepped across [...]
WOAH, IAC!-Suchu Dance Inaugurates Houston’s Biggest Alterna-Venue at West Oaks Mall
Independent Art Collaborative, move over! The new West Oaks Art House, the crazy-ambitious scheme to turn a 100,000 square foot former department store into a [...]
Boyd Blogs: The Art of Free Press Summer Fest
Fighting indifferent crowds, hot sun, and $7 beer, intrepid blogger and conoisseur of low-budget public art Robert Boyd checks out the art components of Free [...]
Radcliffe Bailey “Memory and Medicine” and Tropical Storm Allison
Radcliffe Bailey’s show “Memory as Medicine” opened at the McNay last week. I first saw Bailey’s work in “The Magic City,” his ill-fated show at [...]
El Paso Museum Exhibits Paintings by World’s Tallest Wine Salesman
El Paso native Jake Erlich (1906-1952), for decades known as the tallest man in the world, was also an artist. Twelve of his paintings are [...]
Southern Naptist Convention II: Taking It To The Beach
Houston artist Emily Sloan is taking her Southern Naptist Convention on the road to Venice CA next weekend. Sloan, also noted for being the curator [...]
Awesome Rice Skyspace Goes Public Thursday Evening
Thursday, June 14 at 8:23 p.m., Twilight Epiphany, Rice University’s James Turrell Skyspace fires up for its public debut. After a few delays, the piece’s [...]
