The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and The Landscape Partners have received the Grand Award for the Modern’s landscaping in the 2012 Environmental Improvement Awards Program sponsored by the…
October 2012
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City officials in Carlsbad, CA quickly removed a six-foot wooden fork from a traffic island (at a fork in the road, get it?) last week, but not before CNN got…
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The upcoming Latino Arts Fest in Dallas’ Bishop Arts District includes an open call exhibition for area visual artists juried by Benito Huerta, Director of the Gallery at UTA, conceptual…
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The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is the only U.S. venue for Lucian Freud: Portraits. If you haven’t seen it yet, go now. It closes this Sunday, October 28th.…
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The Dallas Observer reports that Big Tex, the giant, awkward talking cowboy that has been a landmark of the Texas State Fair in Dallas for years, was destroyed by a…
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BlogShelf Life
Heritage’s Modern and Contemporary Art Signature Auction
by Lucia Simekby Lucia SimekSo it’s a mad-crazy art weekend here in Dallas, let me tell you, if the droves of sleek black cars and idle chauffeurs loitering outside art institutions, hotels and private homes didn’t give…
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Saturday, 4 pm Lawndale Artist in Residence Domokos Benczedi (right) is asked to lower the volume on his unscheduled art fair performance by fair director Jeffrey Wainhouse. – B.D.…
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As I prepared for the Texas Contemporary Art Fair I was reminded of a long conversation I had with artist Emilio Rangel. I was sitting in his studio when he…
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In conjunction with Lawndale Art Center, Glasstire is luring some interesting people to warm the stools at our art fair bar: yesterday we learned how to crack a coconut the…
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Moving between Austin, TX and New York City, Andy Coolquitt is an artist whose work is not merely a bricolage of urban compost: severed plunger handles, discarded bourbon bottles, pipes,…
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Last year, the Houston art fairs were the talk of the town, and most people were dubious that two fairs would be able to survive. Well, not only did both…
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News
Artadia Houston Awardees Announced: Francesca Fuchs, Jang soon Im, and Seth Mittag Win Big, Jillian Conrad and Carl Suddath Win Bigger
Artadia, the Fund for Art And Dialog, announced the winners of its sixth round of biennial grants to Houston artists at noon today at the Texas Contemporary Art Fair. Two…
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The juiciest art-related headlines are about everything but art: this week professional conservators shame amateur art restoration in the Art Newspaper in the wake of the “Beast Jesus ” phenomenon,…
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BlogGlass Meets RoadGlasstire
Schedule for the Lawndale/Glasstire Barfly Series at TX Contemporary Fair!
by Glasstireby GlasstireIn conjunction with the fabulous Lawndale Art Center, Glasstire presents the Lawndale/Glasstire Barfly series at the Texas Contemporary Art Fair. The Barfly series brings together interesting people from the arts…
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Alvin Baltrop’s photographs, most of them taken at the Hudson River pier between the 70s and 90s constitute the CAMH’ s latest Perspectives exhibition: Dreams Into Glass. They form a…
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The Idea Fund, bank-roller of “new, risk-taking forms that help to define new practices in contemporary art” is still accepting proposals for its next cycle of grants-but hurry! Their deadline…
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Loading dock doors open this morning at 8am at Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center to admit the soon-to-be-fevered installation crews for the second Texas Contemporary Art Fair. In addition…
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Philanthropists in beaded gowns filled the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s art deco themed halls for the 2012 Grand Gala Ball, chaired once again by Cornelia Long, chairman of the…
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Vincent Valdez: Excerpts for John is the eighth film in a series of short documentaries produced by Walley Films in association with Glasstire. Filmmakers Mark and Angela Walley began documenting…
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News
Tuesday Art Market Report: Richter/Clapton Celebrity Sale Sets Record, Warhol Market Flabby Fearing Foundation Sell-off
From the Wall St. Journal: Eric Clapton’s painting by Gerhard Richter, “Abstract Painting (809-4),” sold at Sotheby’s contemporary art evening auction in London on Friday for $34.2 million—more than anyone…