No alcohol, and no shoe-throwing: eighteen sweaty people listened as Geoff Hippenstiel talked teaching at the first Narrative Process at Alabama Song.
August 2013
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Randall Kallinen, flamboyant civil-rights attorney and part-time gallerist, is combining his two worlds: he’s holding a press conference tonight with the victim of an alleged police beating at his office/gallery,…
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Not So Bueno: Houston East End Public Art Project Irritates Some Spanglish-Speaking Grammar Sticklers
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonAs part of a grant-funded revitalization project, the Greater East End Management District has commissioned functional art installation projects with words in English, Spanish or some combination of the two…
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Nasher Reveals Final XChange Project and Site, With Some Unintended Irony
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe Nasher Sculpture Center has revealed the plans for the final project to be included in its Nasher XChange exhibition to open mid-October in celebration of the Nasher’s tenth anniversary.…
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In 1962, only a few years after the founding of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the NASA Art Program was launched “in an effort to present NASA’s discoveries…
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In the small West Texas town of Stamford, artist Johnny Anders has been able to successfully bridge the sometimes conflictual worlds of art and institutional bureaucracy. He does so by being the mayor.
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MFAH Snags Art Institute CFO in Time for Expansion Project
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has found a replacement for recently retired Associate Director Gwen Goffe. Eric O. Anyah has been lured away from the Art Institute of Chicago and…
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Some weeks, in the sun-beat end of the Texas summer, you can count really good shows on one hand, with some fingers left over to scratch. But this week, the drought is over.
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The group Urban Yarnage is set to yarn-bomb (with permission) the new GreenStreet area as the center celebrates the start of construction to transform the property, formerly Houston Pavilions, into…
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More than 300 sites in nearly every state will ring their bells at 3 pm today (either local time or EDT), the hour when Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his…
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Geniuses Receive Cost of Living Adjustments at MacArthur Foundation
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe MacArthur Foundation has just announced that it will increase to $625,000 (from $500,000) the stipend given to winners of its fellows program. Since 1981, the program has awarded 873…
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Dallas Home Razed: Nasher Almost Finished With XChange Announcements
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe Nasher Sculpture Center announced its ninth of ten projects to be commissioned for the Nasher XChange exhibition coming this fall in celebration of its tenth anniversary. The project by…
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Feral hogs nudging and nosing constructivist sculptures as if they were ponderous smartphones for creatures lacking fine manipulative skills.
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Those mourning the final loss of any remnant of Hannah Montana (as in Doc-Martins-stomping-out-a-cigarette final loss, as in the-wood-chipper-getting-rid-of-all-the-evidence final loss) may have missed the real newsworthy appearance in the…
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The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth has announced its Fall lecture series, packing every single Tuesday evening with speakers. Most of the series is in conjunction with the upcoming…
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A Way Of Seeing: Jem Cohen’s Museum Hours to Screen at MFAH
by Peter Lucasby Peter LucasThe film’s succession of vignettes—from bar conversations to poetic studies of Vienna, great works of art, and museum visitors—is a deftly constructed story of the connections of strangers and a sublime rumination on life and art.
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The University of Houston-Clear Lake’s Art Gallery is bringing together Texas comic book artists together for a one-day symposium, comiCulture: From Creation to Consumption, on Saturday, September 21. The event…
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The Texas Biennial's Greatest Hits show opened yesterday at Big Medium in Austin. Glasstire was there, and If you were watching our Instagram feed last night, this is what you would have seen.
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There are those who would like to learn more about Latin American art and then there are those who would like to give it all a big old bear hug.…
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James Franco Probably Really Not Coming to UH Creative Writing Program Now, Too Busy Exploring the World of Art
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonRemember when James Franco was coming to the University of Houston’s doctoral program in creative writing? It seemed absurdly silly, but a little bit cool, and so it was disappointing…