Holliday for the Defense: Culturemap Calls UT Prof to Rebut Perot Museum Thrashing
Culturemap Dallas’ Jonathan Rienstra won’t take Christopher Hawthorne’s roasting of the Perot Museum lying down- after the LA Times architecture critic laid into the new [...]
Theres’ a New Grant in Town: SWAMP Inaugurates Houston Short Film Fund
The Southwest Alternative Media Project has been helping aspiring Houston filmmakers for decades; now, with start-up money from an anonymous donor, SWAMP has announced a [...]
Depth/Flatness: Surface Tension at MASS Gallery
Surface Tension, the current show at MASS Gallery, is a quiet and considered study of the work of three artists. The photography and paper works [...]
To All the Single Ladies (and LGBT’s Too): Lady Base Gallery Opens its Doors in the Lone Star Arts District
Even as we tip our Miss CAM crowns to all of those who have shown, celebrated, inebriated and contemplated contemporary art in San Antonio this [...]
Leonardo Shakes the Dallas Money Tree, New Endowment Falls in DMA’s Lap
The Dallas Museum of Art’s splashy failed bid for Leonardo Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi last year has given the money tree a hearty shake; even [...]
Family Values at UP Art Studio
UP Art Studio, an artist-run space managed by Noah Quiles and Elia (Margaret) Quiles, is off the beaten path, a burst of energy and color [...]
When is a Movie not a Movie? Homecoming Committee Contest Celebrates the Animated GIF
Dallas art collective HOMECOMING! Committee wants your GIF. They’re collecting animated GIF files, those little jerky almost-movies beloved by the colony of retro-technologists and self [...]
Mollie Lucinda Rehmet Cannady 1942-2013 Houston Art Dealer, Collector
Mollie Cannady died at her home in Houston on March 23, 2013. In the late 1960′s Cannady was director of Kiko’s Gallery in Houston and [...]
Tête-à-Tête 3: Interview with Matthew Metzger
Former North Texas artist Matthew Metzger recently responded to Tête-à-Tête, offering some insight into his calculated and beautifully detailed paintings. Matthew lives and works in Chicago. He received his BFA [...]
Perot Museum Bashed as “Bullhorn Urbanism” by LA Times Hawthorne
Los Angeles Times’ architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne comes down hard on the showy new Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas in today’s paper, [...]
Controversial Tree Removed from Menil’s Permanent Collection as Supreme Court Mulls Gay Marriage
In a low-profile acknowledgement of a de-facto situation, the Menil collection’s Board of Trustees has approved the de-accession of Art Guys Marry A Plant, the [...]
The Artist’s Palette: Primary Colors on Paper
A twister sweeps across a sepia-toned Kansas and suddenly Dorothy enters Technicolor. In Victor Fleming’s 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz“ Dorothy, opening the [...]
The Fourth Pyramid – Galveston Artist Residency
Does Galveston need another pyramid? Driving daily past the inverted glass ashtrays of the Moody Gardens, Sallie Barbee and Eric Schnell, co-directors of the Galveston [...]
New Liliana Bloch Gallery Opens in Dallas on April 6
Liliana Bloch, former director of the McKinney Ave. Contemporary and later gallery director for Kirk Hopper Fine Art, has announced the opening of her own [...]
Davenport Named Glasstire Texas Editor: Noted Artist Makes Mag His New Project
After a month-long search, Bill Davenport has been named Texas Editor at Glasstire.com. Davenport has been serving as interim editor since the departure of award-winning [...]
Rice Gallery Opens New Video Cubicle, Azaleas Just Plain Open
RG Cubicle, Rice University Art Gallery’s new dedicated video-viewing space is now open. Located just around the corner and down the newly painted bright green [...]
Cocksucker Blues: Robert Frank’s Infamous Rolling Stones Doc Hits the Screen 40 Years Later
I cannot overstate the rarity of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s upcoming screenings of Cocksucker Blues (1972), nor my excitement about it. This [...]
The Ten Best Contemporary Art Galleries in Dallas
As part of their “Best of Everything Series” Culturemap got contributor Kendall Morgan to list the ten best contemporary art galleries in Dallas; despite having [...]
Twenty Questions: Beth Secor’s First Art Memory
Houston artist Beth Secor recalls her first taste of artistic fame: “My father said,”Hey gordy! Come on over here- it looks just like you!”
New Studio Enertia Residency Kicks off with Art League Party for Nii Narku
The Art League of Houston hosted a kickoff celebration for Studio Enertia’s Inaugural Residency featuring an artist talk, viewing and reception for Ghanaian painter Nii [...]
