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 house and apartment galleries from…
August 2012
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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 juror. While detailing the internationally…
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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 current proposal is to plant…
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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 whether or not to prosecute…
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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 the Young Mothers Residential Program…
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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 in the fall. The Kenny…
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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 because that’s where I have…
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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, and writers who are deeply…
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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 from artists to paint only…
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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 productive- solutions to the problem…
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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 Hotel, whose exterior LED lighting…
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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 Power”. Though the small drawings…
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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 Magazine San Antonio. Mondini mixes…
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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 be busy, busy with much-anticipated…
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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 maché, that finally succumbed to…
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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 a yarn encrusted faux streetscape,…
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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 there was work in the…
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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 most recently Associate Dean for…
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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 corner of Pittman and Fort…
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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. More than 70 galleries, from…