Watered Down at K Space Contemporary
If you’ve been paying attention lately, you know Texas has a bit of a water problem. If you’ve been out of the loop, start with [...]
Congratulations to Houston’s Six Big Show Winners
Congratulations to six artists selected for awards by Big Show guest juror, Marco Antonini. Kassandra Bergman, Celia Butler, Hogan Kimbrell, Alexander Larsen, Angel Oloshove, Lucia [...]
Texas Spawns Homegrown Giant Flag Painter
On July 4th, Allen, TX artist and motivational speaker Tanner Lawley began a new effort to paint the “largest oil painting of the United States [...]
Lawndale Big Show Highlights!
Lawndale’s annual and much-anticipated Big Show opens tonight (Friday the 13th) from 6:30 – 8:30. Curated by Marco Antonini, gallery director of Brooklyn’s NURTUREart, it’s [...]
Model City for the New Face of America Gets $50,000 for Transit Stop Engagement Process
The NEA has selected UTSA’s College of Architecture for a $50,000 grant to develop a transit stop near the redeveloped Tobin Center for the Performing [...]
Suffer a Sea Change: Art in Galveston, 2012
Let’s take a moment to check in with Galveston. Poor old Galveston, right? The city has its great old Victorian mansions and brick streets and [...]
Laura Lark Loves You #1: Hatin’ ‘n Spankin’
Questions? Comments? Ideas? Send them to: lauralark@glasstire.com (or leave your message below) Dear Readers, Thanks for the overwhelming number of responses! In this first post, [...]
MFAH Gets $100K Silver Polishing Grant from IMLS; UT Dress Conservators Get the Lead Out
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston will get seventeen new airtight, sulfur-free cabinets to store it’s 898-piece collection of silver alloy items, taking them out [...]
The Ten List: Art Loves Baseball
It’s the All Star break, a time when the very best professional baseball players have to travel for work and the rest get a four-day [...]
Francesca Woodman
I was a late-comer to Francesca Woodman‘s pictures but liked them right away. That was around 2003, and Woodman’s surrealism provided me with a lyrical counterpart to [...]
Deitch/ Broad’s New Populism: LA MOCA Planning Disco Show
L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art is planning an exhibition that will examine the cultural impact of disco music, reports the LA Times.
Battleship Texas Band Aids: Leaks Plugged With Glue and Tinfoil
The venerable Battleship Texas, moored in a cubbyhole off the Houston ship channel is back in action after alarming leaks in her rusty 99-year old [...]
Museums Protest Exhibition-Killing Copyright Ruling By US Court
The Dallas Museum of Art has joined the Association of Museum Directors, LACMA, MOCA, MOMA, the Getty, and many other museums in opposing a recent [...]
Upcoming Surls Dinner Proves It’s Easier to Move Big Collectors than Big Sculptures
James Surls is cropping up in unexpected places: Garden and Gun magazine features an informative feature on James Surls’ contributions to the Houston art scene [...]
Laura Lark Loves You: Art Advice Column Debut!
Laura Lark launches her new advice column: Laura Lark Loves You… “Good, good for you and a terrific distraction from that suck-ass job.” “Words so [...]
Museum Outreach or Overreach? Backlash Sets in Over LA MOCA Schimmel Firing
Art philanthropist Eli Broad defended Jeffrey Deitch and the Los Angeles MOCA’s new direction, in an op-ed piece in the LA Times on Sunday, sparking [...]
Glass Houses 24: Geoff Hippenstiel
Geoff Hippenstiel is a Houston-based painter whose work was recently featured in a solo exhibition at Devin Borden Gallery, two years after receiving his [...]
MFAH Photo Fellowships Awarded to Ph.D. Candidates With Curiously Similar First Names
Ileana Selejan and Iliana Cepero, two Ph.D. candidates studying photography at oppsite end of the continent have received the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s [...]
Brushed with Greatness: Mark Flood in NY Times, Beyoncé in Menil
Everyone’s favorite Houston art provocateur appeared in the NY Times, interviewed by Randy Kennedy: artist Mark Flood stuck up for Houston, the willful rich, and [...]
When life imitates art
First, because of a three day texting exchange with Ben Aqua. These reminded me of… …this: Then I received an email from Armando [...]
