Eleven Seventeen Garland
With the changing of the seasons comes too the changing of the art climate. In the past year in Austin we’ve seen a flourishing of [...]
Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present
Director Matthew Akers screened Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present (2012) before a packed house during his Austin stay as a Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund [...]
Blue Trees for Houston?
Houston Arts Alliance is fixing to hire globe-trotting Australian public artist Konstantin Dimopoulos to install a version of his popular “Blue Trees” in Houston. The [...]
Beast Jesus Meme: Botched Restoration Sparks Worldwide Interest
Cecilia Gimenez’s amateur restoration of a century old fresco at the Sanctuary of Mercy Church in Borja, Spain has legs. Even before Spanish authorities decide [...]
New This, New That: Row Houses Get New Roofs, Hillside Mural Restored
After 80 years, 16 of Project Row Houses original row houses have shiny new metal roofs, replacing their rusty old ones. Some house families in [...]
Goss-Michael Foundation Announces Winners of $5000 Scholarships
Dallas’ Goss-Michael Foundation has announced the winners of four $5,000 annual scholarships for high school seniors, which are applied toward tuition at each winner’s college [...]
‘Gallery Girl’ on “Gallery Girls,” Episode 3
So episode three of “Gallery Girls” starts off with the girls of Eli Klein Fine Art, which is good for the purposes of this blog [...]
Book Review: “The Art Life” by Stuart Horodner
Stuart Horodner may be best known to those of us here in Houston as guest editor of the Art Lies issue on “second acts”—artists, curators, [...]
Dallas Police Propose to Co-opt Street Art as Graffiti Control Measure
Dallas police will try a new co-option policy to control illegal graffiti by giving artists ‘free walls’ and sponsoring artistic competitions in exchange for agreements [...]
Deadlock Over Arts District Glare Still Deadlocked
The glare controversy between the Nasher Sculpture Center and the neighboring Museum Tower in Dallas goes on and on. Meetings between the parties have been [...]
Omni Hotel Turns into Big Screen for 25th Dallas Video Fest
The 25th annual Dallas Video Fest at the DMA begins on September 26, and among the flashier projects commemorating the anniversary is at the Omni [...]
“Whose Kombucha Am I Drinking?”: 24 Hours in Austin
Glasstire intern and University of Houston MFA candidate Lauren Moya Ford heads back to Austin… Domy Books Austin is currently displaying Matt Lock’s “Hammer of [...]
Franco Mondini-Ruiz’s Business Plan in Art Mag SA
Haydee Munoz interviewed Franco Mondini-Ruiz about his art-as-a-business plan on the eve of his recent Franctoberfest show at Bismarck Studios in San Antonio for Art [...]
Four Solo Shows at Lawndale
Though it may still be hot and steamy outside, the fall exhibition season is almost upon us. The next several weekends in Houston look to [...]
Rockport’s Big Crab Returns, Even Bigger
A new weather-resistant fiberglass and aluminum crab by artist David Allgood was installed on August 25 in Rockport, replacing the 50s-era original, made from paper [...]
Austin Yarnbomber Magda Syeg Decorates Hong Kong Shopping Mall
The acknowledged mother of yarnbombing, Magda Sayeg has hit Hong Kong’s most crowded shopping center, Langham Place Shopping Mall in Mongkok. The commissioned piece is [...]
Sightings: Erick Swenson at the Nasher
Before I entered the gallery to see Erick Swenson’s Sightings at the Nasher, a guard politely stopped me at the door and warned me that [...]
UT Department of Art and Art History Welcomes New Chair Jack Risley
Jack Risley, artist, administrator, and art educator, is the newly appointed Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at UT Austin. Risley was [...]
Mobius Bench: First Spare Parts Art Project on Ft. Worth Avenue Unveiling Monday
Mobius Bench, the first public art project by the Fort Worth Ave. Development Group’s Spare Parts Public Art Initiative was installed last week at the [...]
Houston Fine Art Fair Opens Sept 13 With VIP Benefit
The second annual Houston Fine Art Fair opens September 13 with a VIP preview benefiting The Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. [...]
