In Plain Sight at McClain Gallery, organized by Aaron Parazette, is an exhibition of 40 paintings by 40 Houston artists. Its essential premise, apart from a group photo-op, is…
September 2012
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MATCH Catches Fire: Former IAC Promised $6.75 Million in Funding for Houston Midtown Arts and Theater Center
The MATCH (formerly the Independent Arts Collaborative), has received a $750,000 grant from the Fondren Foundation, and has been promised $6 million from the Houston Endowment Inc. “Beyond grateful,” the…
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Dallas’ controversial Museum Tower began its uphill marketing struggle on Friday, with an open letter to “to our future residents, neighbors, art lovers and citizens of Dallas” in the Dallas…
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Three things: 1. Amid the brouhaha following Paul Schimmel’s departure from MoCA this summer, Eli Broad was quoted in the LA Times as estimating the value of MoCA’s exhibits by…
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1988 was a rotten time to be a teenager. During the Reagan-Bush era, you had to put in a lot of work to hear something other than Bon…
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TX Contemporary Spawns First Spin-Off: Pan Art Fair Set for Embassy Suites in Downtown Houston – Book Now!
Houston art blogger Robert Boyd of The Great God Pan is Dead is organizing his own art fair to coincide with the Texas Contemporary Art Fair on the weekend of…
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Photography’s long-sought after decisive moment is happening more and more online, as meta-photographers aim their sensitivities at vast databases of machine-collected imagery from Google and other sources. In The Nine…
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Texas legend (and sometime Glasstire contributor) Mark Flood, having just finished successful and controversial gallery showings in Manhattan, is set to take over a Bushwick basement, inaugurating the new Grimm…
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Michael Miller reports in Gallerist NY that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed a bill that makes it a misdemeanor for an art dealer to use funds owed to an artist…
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Mexican artist Yvonne Domenge‘s 13-foot abstracted yellow sphere, “Tabachin Ribbon”, could be heading to Fort Worth in the next few weeks. For the last year and a half, the carbon…
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“Mimi Kato: One Ordinary Day of an Ordinary Town” at Conduit Gallery
by Garry Reeceby Garry ReeceOne Ordinary Day of an Ordinary Town, Mimi Kato’s current exhibition on view at Conduit Gallery, is a continuation of the hybrid digital landscapes she first presented at ArtPace…
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A Study in Contrasts: Paul Thomas Anderson and Laurie Anderson
by Katie Gehaby Katie GehaI ended my weekend by going to see the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie The Master. The film is broadly about a Scientology-like group in post-war America who believe, through…
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Houston’s famed folk art envoronment has a famed warehouse, full of stuff that they’ve been storing for many years, including building materials, warehouse equpment, tools, scrap metal, potential art supplies,…
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The National Guild for Community Arts Education, a 75 year old grantmaking and advocacy org, will be holding their annual conference in Dallas on November 14-17. The meet-up provides professional…
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Mark your calendar for Glasstire’s first annual Texas Auction! On Friday, November 2 from 6-9pm, Sara Friedlander a vice oresidnet at Christie’s, New York, will auction off a bucket of…
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This week I had the pleasure of watching ‘Gallery Girls’ with my parents. Any hope I had that they might find the show entertaining was dashed when the credits started…
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Arts educator Glenn Bailey has joined Fotofest as the new manager of their acclaimed Literacy Through Photography program. Bailey, who has put in five years in the nonprofit sector in…
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“Champion” Champions Local Film Industry in San Antonio with Help of City’s First $25,000 Local Filmmakers Grant
The first $25,000 Local Filmmakers Grant from the San Antonio Film Commission has been awarded to the feature-length family drama “Champion,” Directed by Kevin and Robin Nations and shot at…
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According to the official press release, the second annual Houston Fine Art Fair (HFAF) exceeded its organizer’s expectations: “12,000 attended, millions of dollars changed hands. Over 2,000 works, from 500…
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Despite all that’s wrong in this society it’s the responsibility of the new artists to occur. The explanation that the times and the society are bad is pointless. Probably they’ve…