In some ways the late closing date of this group show elongates the casualness of summer, which I appreciate. Summer in Texas should officially last until around September 27th. It could be our consolation for enduring the pitiless heat.
August 2014
-
-
There is a new roving art space in Houston called Self Actualization; it will stage its shows and events in various “vacant commercial real estate spaces,” and opens at 2800…
-
After seven years with Houston’s Rothko Chapel, Executive Director Emilee Dawn Whitehurst will be leaving to accept a position as Senior Vice President at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast. Whitehurst, who…
-
Normally, Houston's esplanades are winding islands of no-man's land. True North adds public sculptures aimed at pleasing regular folks out for a jog or on their way to Walgreens.
-
If you’re in North or Central Texas, mark your calendar for August 22: The always-cool Old Jail Art Center in Albany is hosting journalist-performer Gene Fowler as part of its…
-
The race is officially on! Yesterday, the oil services company Hunting PLC announced the call for entries for the 35th annual Hunting Art Prize in which Texas artists vie for…
-
Via CultureMap Dallas: The long-awaited announcement that the associate exhibitions director at the Dallas Contemporary is opening her own commercial gallery in Dallas came today. Erin Cluley, a graduate of…
-
Red Bull has added Houston as one of its stops on the tour of “Red Bull Curates: The Canvas Cooler Project,” in which they invite 20 local artists to make…
-
BlogGlasstireOp EdReview
Uncreative Writing: Kenneth Goldsmith and Christian Bök
by Betsy Hueteby Betsy HueteEmploying strategies of plagiarism, cut-and-paste, and a general denial of authorship, uncreative writers are less interested in actual writing than in curating words that are usually not their own. Because of this, most uncreative writing is, Goldsmith proclaims, unreadable.
-
Helen Ann Rasplicka, a founding member of the San Antonio Calligrapher’s Guild died on July 23, 2014. Rasplicka moved to San antonio in 1975. She learned calligraphy from Kitty Maguire,…
-
Art In The Metroplex, one of the oldest annual open-call visual art shows in the state, took a three-year break after a 28-year run at Texas Christian University, but now…
-
Lubbock art collector E. Jay Matsler has left his entire 125-piece collection of Texas and New Mexico regionalist art to the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, “because of their …magnificent…
-
Steyerl and Henrot layer and expose the internal machinery of how we produce and access visual knowledge: the green screen, computer monitor, and browser window.
-
Texas Christian University in Fort Worth has hired a curator for its satellite gallery, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, for the 2014-15 academic year. Sara-Jayne Parsons is coming to Fort Worth…
-
News
The First and/or Second Most Important Photograph to be Displayed in Dallas
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonDallas’ Photographs: Do Not Bend Gallery (PDNB) will exhibit what it believes to be the most important photograph made since the famous View from the Window at Le Gras (c.1826),…
-
If anything, this show makes abundantly clear that the long history of civilization’s relationship to dogs and cats is troubled, mutually exploitative, purely functional (if not dysfunctional), and ambivalent.
-
News
Part Two (continued from yesterday): Texas Artist Populations. How Many Working Artists Are There in Texas?
Following its massive “Artists in The Workforce” report from 2008, the National Endowment for the Arts kept collating and gathering and cross-referencing all the info it could get from the…
-
Read this week's list here, or watch as Glasstire Editor Bill Davenport and Founder Rainey Knudson discuss it on video.
-
News
They Could’ve Just Asked Some Artists: Researchers and Businesses Discover That Doodling Makes Us Smarter
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonA recent Wall Street Journal article reports that neuroscientists and other researchers have now discovered that doodling can “help people focus, ease impatience, vent emotions and even generate bursts of…
-
Rosenberg crafts laborious replicas of everyday objects then relentlessly ruins them with glops of glue, foam fragments, paint, and trash in his manic, scattershot show.