Gunilla Klingberg has transformed Rice Gallery, from the building’s entrance to the interior of the gallery, with her signature radiating patterns. The installation, the latest in her series called Brand…
January 2013
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Juan de Dios Mora’s “Laters” is More Attention-Getting Than a Chancla Slap to the Face!
Juan de Dios Mora‘s exhibition Laters delves into an imaginary sub-reality created on the U.S. and Mexico border. His linocut prints depict mechanical vehicles in a projected Mayan end of…
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If there ever was a dubious listing for art on eBay, this is it: new seller wart1963ray, with no feedback record, and no other items for sale, is offering a…
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Plant Saga Settles: “Hysteria over a somewhat silly piece of art” fades into “one of the more bizarre art world episodes in recent memory.”
D magazine’s Peter Simek summed up the Art Guys Marry A Plant saga for Salon Magazine Tuesday. No news, but it’s a foreshadowing of how the whole thing’s going to…
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Dr. Linda Henderson’s famous book, The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art, first published in 1983, has been expanded and reissued by the MIT Press, and just in…
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Beginning tomorrow, January 31, The International Museum of Art and Science invites viewers to watch as Donald Williams, Senior Furniture Conservator Emeritus of the Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute and a…
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This just in from the Blaffer Art Museum: “We are sorry to announce that Gregg Bordowitz’s presentation of Testing Some Beliefs has been postponed until further notice due to illness.…
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San Antonio artists Ricky Armendariz, Cathy Cunningham-Little, Karen Mahaffy and Vincent Valdez will be the first set of participants for the new Blue Star Art Museum/Künstlerhaus Bethanien partnership. Thomas Cummins…
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Sometimes I get comments here that remind me of a friend who recently threw a big party. The morning after, reaching for the Lysol kept on the bathroom shelf with…
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Kelly Klaasmeyer, editor of Glasstire for the past five years, has announced that she will be stepping down to pursue her own writing projects in early February. Klaasmeyer has overseen…
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As of February 8th, I am stepping down as editor of Glasstire to pursue other projects. Some are creative and include more writing, some are (hopefully) lucrative. I love Glasstire…
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Houston artist Trenton Doyle Hancock has been named winner of the Greenfield Prize, awarded to a natinally recognized artist whose work is undergoing significant changes. Along with the money, the…
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The website of Austin’s Flatbed Press is offering a limited edition aquatint by noted Texas artist Melissa Miller for $1,500. If, however, you were surfing eBay on January 3 of…
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Movie-lovers and image-makers should be extremely excited about the upcoming opportunity to see some of the best movies ever in the best way possible. In recent conversations, I’ve realized that…
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This week’s theme was: overwhelming. Many of the artworks and exhibitions I saw were so ambitious and large-scale that I felt consumed by the artist’s vision. In others, it was…
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The Southwest School of Art in San Antonio has been forced to delay the start of its much-anticipated BFA program due to a procedural goof in their application to the…
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The Third Ward Bike Shop, the original program of Workshop Houston, begun ten years ago by social entrepreneurs Seth Capron, Katy Goodman, Benjamin Mason, and Zach Moser, has been spun…
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Everything AND the Kitchen Sink: Historic Houston Opens Its Warehouse for a One-Day Sell-A-Thon Sunday
Historic Houston, a nonprofit dedicated to the salvage and re-use of historic buildings and materials, will open it’s temporary storage warehouse at 4300 Harrisburg Road, this Sunday, January 27th from…
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Last Saturday night I went to a private residence in Travis Heights to see the New Music Co-op‘s performance of Brent Fariss‘ Unitard, a piece that according to Fariss, “explores…
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Sigrid Sandström’s abstract paintings on view at Inman Gallery are a dynamic mix of formal play and precision. Meticulously done in smooth layers of acrylic paint on board or panel,…