In conjunction with The Black Guys: Robert Hodge and Phillip Pyle the Second, currently on view at Art League Houston (ALH) through January 3, Hodge and Pyle staged an interpretive…
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This is timely. The Museum of East Texas in Lufkin, in conjunction with its current exhibition Citizens At Last: The Women Suffrage Movement in Texas, will host a panel discussion…
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The Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) may not be inspiring a lot of confidence within the local arts scene as of late, but they’re now looking elsewhere to make new friends.…
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The Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens is a satellite collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Bradley C. Brooks is its new curator. Bayou Bend Collection, which is 14 acres…
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As usual, the Hunting Art Prize folks have announced this year’s jury shortly after the deadline for submissions (which was November 30), so that entrants wouldn’t waste time trying to…
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BlogEssayGlasstireOp Ed
I wonder if this is the worst time to be an artist in decades, or maybe ever.
I don’t think what’s going on out there is really art anymore, anyway. It’s showbiz. And most artists aren’t born with a disposition to play that game.
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The big annual student expo at 500X in Dallas is often one of the best places to see, under one roof, what Texas art undergrad and grad students are getting…
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Video: Ex-Texan Paul Slocum answers Glasstire's questions about post-internet art, Spirit Surfers, and his gallery's chapter in Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century.
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News
Jed Perl, Art Critic for The New Republic, Resigns in Protest After 20 Years
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonJed Perl recently quit his job as art critic of The New Republic, and his elegant resignation has been getting reposted in Twitter and Facebook in the last couple of…
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The Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth has announced a four-month renovation project, designed to improve the museum’s climate control. New windows and air conditioning will make the art last…
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In the same way that Kentridge’s lines don’t completely disappear as his drawings progress: even though Apartheid is ended, the tension and strife remains, both in memory and in daily life.
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Both San Antonio and El Paso announced instructions and deadlines for established and emerging artists to pre-qualify for consideration for the next few years’ worth of their public art projects . The…
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BlogGlasstirePhoto Essay
The Almost-Complete List of Texas Holiday Arts and Crafts Fairs
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonHoliday shoppers, rejoice! No need to regret skipping Cyber Monday or fighting huge malls when there are tons of fairs and markets offering handmade items from artists, artisans, and other…
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The Contemporary in Austin–all three of its locations–will play host to the first-ever institutional show of Tom Sachs works in Texas. Beginning in January, Boombox Retrospective 1999-2015 will spread out…
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News
The Surreality of the Art World: Staten Island, Ferguson, and Miami
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonRecently, the national news has been overflowing with stories of African-American men (and boys) killed by police officers and the ensuing frustration at the lack of accountability for the deaths.…
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Border art, lawn art, border art, sandwiches, mentors and art from the border. Bill and Christina talk over the week's top five art events in Texas.
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The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth is going to start renovations on its facade in early February and construction is expected to take about five months. The museum has…
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Can we call Texas’ smattering of outward-looking, wealth-built institutions in semi-rural and rural places “regional,” and if not, what should we call them?
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In the midst of all the HAA public art controversy, the Houston arts community may not have noticed a more private art addition to the city. Art League Houston (ALH)…
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Mark Flood will have a mighty presence during this week’s giant international art shenanigan, Art Basel Miami Beach, which opens to the public Dec. 4. His work will not only show up…