My (partial) Experience of Design District Gallery Day
This past weekend CADD hosted another effort to get people into galleries, called Design District Gallery Day. I did not, I’ll admit, spend the day [...]
Rachel Cook Returns to Houston As Diverseworks Assistant Curator
Curator, writer, and onetime Glasstire editor Rachel Cook is returning to Houston with a n MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College [...]
Dispatches from Documenta: Apples and Conspiracies
Every five years, the German town of Kassel is transformed into Documenta, a sprawling, intellectual exhibition considered a must-see by curators, collectors, and critics the [...]
Art on the Llano Installs Third Roadside Art Project in Lubbock
The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reports that Sky Drill, by Austin artist Brent Baggett will be installed August 2 by the roadside where Spur 327 meets the [...]
Formula One Racing Brings Glittering Crowds To Austin, Artists’ Plans to Cash In Lagging
Austin’s funky college-town ambiance will be shattered by the (distant) screams of Formula One racing in November. 300,000 visitors are expected for the US Grand [...]
Fort Worth Modern Turns Ten, Opens Presents at Party in December
The Fort Worth Modern is celebrating ten years in its fancy Tadao Ando building by acquiring some big, fancy new art: Wall Drawing #50A, 1970, [...]
Bill’s European Vacation 2012: Jenny Saville & Olympic Opening Ceremony
Popped into the Oxford Modern Art Museum to see some of Jenny Saville’s paintings in person- they’re based on photographs, so in reproduction you miss [...]
Dear Young DFW Whippersnapper Artists
The new normal should be anything but. Time to fuck shit up. Dear Young DFW Whippersnapper Artists, Whatever the last “up” economy may have [...]
Laura Lark Loves You #3: Something About Mary
Questions? Comments? Opinions? Send them to Laura Lark Loves You: lauralark@glasstire.com (or leave your message below) Mary asks, If you could describe and suggest [...]
Olympic Update From London: Minute Texas Art Connection Unearthed
Ex-Houston artist Duncan Ganley will be taking part in the televised Olympic opening ceremony. Although all details of the elaborate show, months in the planning, [...]
Should Texas Museums Have Artist Board Members?
Noting the flap over the departure of the artist-members of LA MOCA’s board of directors, D Magazine‘s Peter Simek asks if the Dallas museums ought [...]
Pecos Rock Art Decoded: SHUMLA School’s Boyd Sees Shamanic Stories
Texas anthropologist Carolyn Boyd, founder of t SHUMLA (Studying Human Use of Materials, Land, and Art), an education and research center in Comstock, Texas, has [...]
David Shelton moves to Houston
Breaking news: this September, David Shelton will move his eponymous gallery from San Antonio to Houston. The new gallery will be located in the iconic [...]
Houston Arts Resource Fair Saturday!
On Saturday, July 28, a consortium of Houston arts orgs have organized the first ever Houston Arts Resource Fair, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. [...]
Pantheon Still Matters in Wall St. Journal, But The Romans Lacked Astroturf
Wall Street Journal Leisure & Arts features editor Eric Gibson, in a fit of summertime art history 101, re-explains why the Pantheon, built in the [...]
Trensdspotter: Biennial Backlash in LA Times
Nearly a year after the Dalllas Un-biennial, The Los Angeles Times‘ Jori Finkel spots a trend against biennials’ “supersized display of art objects.” Elisabeth Sussman, [...]
Nasher Makes Sexy with Ernesto Neto: Cuddle on the Tightrope
Ernesto Neto (pronounced NEH-toh) may have created the world’s cleverest aphrodisiac: it takes a while to realize Cuddle on the Tightrope is a journey into [...]
Herb Vogel, Famous Low-budget Art Collector, Dies at 89
Postal worker Herbert Vogel who, along with his wife Dorothy, a reference librarian, amassed a monumental collection of apartment sized works by a who’s-who of [...]
See it before it closes!: Yasuaki Onishi at Rice Gallery
Yasuaki Onishi’s reverse of volume RG is the latest great installment in Rice Gallery’s 16-year-run of site-specific installation work. Onishi has used hardware store plastic [...]
