interview with contemporary artist Todd Kelly
February 2013
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Cadillac Ranch, the iconic panhandle art installation sponsored by eccentric art patron and accused sex offender Stanley Marsh 3, may be in danger of the bulldozer, according to Anthony G.…
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From satirical newspaper, The Onion, on Feruary 2: TERRIBLE ARTIST THINKS LATEST PIECE REALLY REPRESENTS A CULMINATION OF EVERYTHING HE’S BEEN WORKING TOWARD ALL HIS LIFE Burlington, VT—Citing a lifetime…
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A while back I bought some fancy sunscreen in Rice Village and then went to the nearby Starbucks for an iced tea. My credit card company put a hold on…
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Alana Coates reports on Lady Base, a new gallery in San Antonio’s South Flores Arts District, in the most recent issue of Artmagazine SA. Run by artist Sarah Castillo, the…
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When British artist Damien Hirst split with Gagosian Gallery last December, the “insanely wealthy” artist was reported to be worth $215 million, making him the world’s richest artist. Living artist,…
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Infinite Perfection, the latest show at Tiny Park Gallery in Austin, is a solo exhibition of Joseph Phillips‘ work. There’s not much to say about the show that hasn’t already…
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After nearly sixty years of collecting, the Dallas Museum of Art has the publication of “The Arts of India, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas“, surveying 140 pieces from the Museum’s…
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Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches is gearing up for the 19th Annual Texas National Art Competition, a juried show open to artists nationwide, this time judged by art…
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News
Latino Arts Advocate in Washington: NALAC Director María López De León Appointed to NEA Council
María López De León, Executive Director of NALAC, the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, heaquartered in San Antonio, has been appointed by President Obama to the the 18-member…
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Austin artist Nick Miller and students in his collaborative mural class at AMOA/Arthouse’s The Art School at Laguna Gloria have finished a new mural at the corner of Congress Ave.…
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I’m glad to see Laguna Gloria being used as an art spot within the AMOA-Arthouse dialog, but there still seem to be some issues to flesh out and aspects…
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In advance of the opening of Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective at the Nasher Sculpture Center on February 9th, Glasstire is rerunning David Pagel’s review for Glasstire Southern California. Pagel…
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Slinging Ink, a live-action war of words at Houston’s Diverseworks, is back! A blind panel winnows through submitted texts, fiction, nonfiction or “kitchen sink”, choosing finalists who will read their…
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My week of exhibition openings began at Rice Gallery with Gunilla Klingberg, who was kind enough to do an interview with me for Glasstire. We began the interview before the…
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The Chinati Foundation in Marfa is looking for a new executive director, again. The job description includes some interesting basic facts about the once-mysterious desert art-mecca: their endowment is currently…
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Houston artist Bert Long has died. A Houston native, Long gave up a career as a chef for art in 1979, eventually becoming one of the city’s best known and…
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Last Tuesday night, Kiki Smith headlined the 2013 UNT Nasher Lecture Series to an adoring sold-out crowd that was hushed, reverent, and wearing mostly black. Working primarily in printmaking…
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News
Prehistoric Lion Man Re-dated: World’s Oldest Figurative Sculpture Shows Cave Dwellers Had Some Imagination
The Löwenmensch, or “Lion Man” of Ulm (it might be a woman, but it was named during the “golden age of archeology”), a 30cm figurine carved from a mammoth tusk,…
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On Sunday, NY Times critic Roberta Smith issued a call for museum curators to “shake up the snow globe” and mix folk art into the enervating canonical narratives found in…