The Holocaust Museum Houston recently announced plans to renovate and rebuild their campus as part of a $49.4 million expansion campaign. The current 21,000 square-foot building, which sits in Houston’s Midtown district, will be…
June 2017
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In 1938 Nelson Rockefeller commissioned twin works from Fernand Léger and Henri Matisse for his Manhattan penthouse, and this week it looks as though the two works will be reunited…
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There is something jejune in this lack of reality presented in the style of realism.
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The National Endowment for the Arts, in its second funding round for US cities for 2017, is helping with funding on an ongoing Austin initiative called Playable Austin. Playable Austin is…
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Partnering with Houston Arts Alliance, Fresh Arts, and the City of Houston, Elia and Noah Quiles of UP Art Studio’s “Mini Murals” project was greenlit in 2015 and kicked off…
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Christina Rees and guest Arthur Peña on the Amon Carter’s photography game, ceramics in central Texas, and Peña’s recent project with Coach.
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Artpace, the San Antonio artist residency, announced today its inaugural Curatorial Residency program. Set to occur every fall and spring, the six-week program will bring in curators from around the world to conduct…
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The film tends to be categorized as Japanese New Wave, though that label—or really, any label—is inadequate. These Austin screenings provide a rare opportunity to walk into a truly unique, funny, dark, wild, and warped world.
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A couple of months ago, Glasstire reported on the ambitious project of opening the Contemporary Art Museum Plainview (CAMP) in a small town of 22,000. It is scheduled to open…
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Seams ************* No matter how original, innovative or crazy your idea, someone else is also…
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Houston-based FotoFest International has opened up registration for its well-known “Meeting Place” portfolio review sessions, where photographic artists show their work to no fewer than 16 photography professionals per session…
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And the Houston Artist Town Halls Keep Coming! (This One has a Panel, a Performance, Cops, and Beer)
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonAt the last Artist Town Hall, presented by Artists Take Action (ATAHouston) at the Station Museum in early April, breakout sessions led to further meetings, ideas, and activism. They are…
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What was problematic about the art world in 2014 is still a problem, but the larger and deteriorating political environment changes the shape and source of the alarm.
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Last week I was on the road with artist Angela Kallus, in an epic quest to see a lot of things I’d never seen. Two of our days were spent with…
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Earlier today, a court in Madrid ordered that Spanish artist Salvador Dalí’s remains be exhumed to settle a paternity claim made by a woman born in 1956. The woman, Pilar Abel Martínez, has been…
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Mayor Sylvester Turner is calling for Houston’s best ideas to endorse for the national Our Town grant program. Here is the statement from the City’s Cultural Affairs Office: The National…
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One of the best things a super-rich person can do is turn their mansion into a museum when they die.
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Protestors Gathered Yesterday Against the Station Museum’s Andres Serrano Exhibition
by Glasstireby GlasstireYesterday, June 24, 2017, from 4-6 p.m, a group of protestors gathered outside of the Station Museum of Contemporary Art in Houston to protest the museum’s current exhibition of photographs by Andres…
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This mini-retrospective represents a formidable Texas debut for a newly minted local artist. Her labor-intensive process can be seen as a means for calling attention to things too important to be overlooked.
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The Dallas Museum of Art and Dallas’ Latino Center for Leadership Development have partnered on an interesting goal: to set the Guinness World Record for the biggest gathering of people dressed like…