It’s possible of course that Marcel Duchamp did not invent the readymade—after all, artists have prized random objects since cave painters first stumbled upon bison-shaped driftwood in the streams near…
June 2012
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Sicardi Gallery opened up their new building last night and it’s pretty amazing. Sicardi finally has a space that lives up to the ambition of its program which includes…
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The Dallas Museum of Art Has launched it’s first e-catalog, an app devoted to the George Grosz in Dallas show currently on view. The interactive book/app is available from iTunes,…
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News
Menil Picks Drawing Institute Architect: Johnson Marklee Solution Light-Filled (But Not Too Much)
Culturemap‘s Tyler Rudick reports on the selection of Los Angeles architects Johnson Marklee as the designers for the new Drawing Institute and Study Center on the Menil Campus in Houston.…
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Featuring seven artists’ work in two galleries, the exhibition City Zoo marks the debut of Brand 10’s new space—And X. Conveniently located on the I-30 service road, And X’s mission…
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Frankie Garcia III, partner in Dallas’ Rising Gallery, is apparently missing. In an emotional broadcast email Glasstire received at 11:14pm June 6, from Audra Sewell-Noblique, Social Media and Membership Chair…
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A comment posted yesterday on Glasstire by artist Claire Richards contains the results of a lawsuit filed last year in Houston against H Gallery and its owners: according to Richards,…
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It’s really difficult to talk about foreignness. I really discovered this in 2006 when I returned to live in Austin after living in Mexico City preceded by a research…
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Houston artist/reptile hunter Joe Furman has hit the big time on YouTube- “Clelia Eats Bothrops,” one of the seventy or so reptile and amphbian videos he’s posted, has gone viral,…
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co.Design chimes in on the Mexic-arte museum’s proposed new building, noting the “dream of Bilbao:” the usefulness of an eye-catching structure as a fundraising and branding tool. The article also…
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In the big art car city, it had to happen: art car theft. The Houston Chronicle reports on the loss and recovery of Shelley Buschur’s award-winning art car titled “Make…
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Michael Peranteau New Art League Houston Director: Lightning Appointment Follows Weiss’ Lightning Departure
The Houston Art League, the city’s oldest arts organization, has moved swiftly to appoint Micheal Peranteau, one of the city’s most experienced arts organizers, as their new Executive Director.…
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After 5 years of one-night art events, performances and live music, Sean FitzGibbons is retiring from LoneStar Studios Second Saturdays. In an email announcing his final event, which collects all…
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BlogThe Open Blog
Glenn Downing, Nam June Paik, and Jackelope (an Interview)
by John Aaspby John AaspGlenn Downing was Texas-born and raised “alongside men with little or no formal education; men who grew up using their hands and got where they were in life by just…
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You need to go see Danny Lyon’s brilliant photographs while they’re up at the Menil. The words that follow contain praise, but also doubt, disappointment and resentment. Should my feelings…
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Dan Eakins of the McKinney Courier-Gazette-Star reports on a new Municipal Arts Commission in the Dallas suburb that has landed numerous public works in various unsuspecting locations: Sculptures recently placed…
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This past Saturday independent curator Cynthia Mulcahy and artist Robert Hamilton had a public picnic and reception to celebrate the planting and subsequent bloom of seventeen hundred Aztec Gold sunflower…
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In addition to the piles of bands, gallons of sweat, and acres of pizza, 26 art projects compete for attention along the shores of Buffalo Bayou at this year’s Free…
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Citing the foundation’s big cash cushion, substantial oil and gas income, and an experienced management team, Fitch Ratings has affirmed the ‘AA’ rating on $60.8 million in outstanding revenue bonds…
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In collaboration with HEC Montréal and Bocconi University Graduate School of Management, SMU’s Arts Management and Arts Entrepreneurship program will finalize an agreement on May 30 to launch a new…