This week, Gulf Coast announced the winners of its inaugural Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing. Named in honor of the late Toni Beauchamp, who was a key supporter of the journal…
January 2018
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Houston artist Trenton Doyle Hancock will join the University of Texas at Austin Department of Art and Art History as the spring 2018 artist-in-residence. The residency will take place from…
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This curated selection of work represents the photographer's personal walk back through the history of his life, his family’s lives, and their deaths.
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According to our president’s campaign promises, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) should be long gone by now. Yet the NEA joined with the U.S. Department of Defense, the…
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News
Dallas Museum of Art Announces New Acquisitions by Blanchard, Mondrian, and Bonnard
by Glasstireby GlasstireToday the Dallas Museum of Art announced three new acquisitions to its collection. The double-sided drawing, Farm Near Duivendrecht (recto) and The Sea (Ocean 2) (verso) (c. 1905–1914) by Piet Mondrian, and the oil-on-paper work, Woman with…
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A good art advisor balances more intricate relationships and knowledge than one would think. (Read artnet News’ article “Art Demystified: What Is The Role of Art Advisors?”) But now, Sotheby’s…
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"How can we reach a community and think about the resources within the community in order to demonstrate that the museum is part of the community?"
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The San Antonio Museum of Art announced this week that it has acquired three works by contemporary African American artists: Kevin Beasley, Rodney McMillian, and Martine Syms. The works by Beasley and McMillian…
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"Where do our avatars hang out when not in use?"
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Was Bush’s work on these soldiers' portraits cathartic for him? Is the show a tribute, or therapy?
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Next Saturday, February 3rd in Houston, Aurora Picture Show, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Center for Visual Music are collaborating on a film program featuring the works of…
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Glasstire has written much about Marizio Cattelan’s solid eighteen karat gold toilet (here, here, here, and here), from its year-long installation in the fourth-floor restroom of the Guggenheim Museum, to…
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William Bryan Jordan Jr. died in Dallas on Monday, Jan. 22 at age 77 of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. He is survived by his husband, Robert Dean Brownlee. Via the Dallas Morning…
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Brandon Zech and Rainey Knudson on an impressive and unexpected permanent collection, masks and monsters, and Austin's new happening ceramics studio.
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As artists and arts organizations are being priced out of Austin, the City Council is studying possible strategies to help them stay in the city, reports Chad Swiatecki of the…
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Review
Ben Livingston’s ‘Spirit Houses’ at San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts
by Gene Fowlerby Gene Fowler"They remind us that our minds are full of ghosts all the time.”
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Proposals are now being accepted for Austin’s TEMPO 2018. Art in Public Places (AIPP), a program of the City of Austin’s Cultural Arts Division will commission ten outdoor projects for…
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Randy Tibbits, cofounder and program coordinator of Houston Earlier Texas Art Group (HETAG), will give a talk on the life and legacy of Emma Richardson Cherry, considered “Houston’s First Modern…
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We had a great night Friday, January 19th, 2018 at the Cherie Flores Pavilion in Hermann Park in Houston. Thanks to everyone who came out to support independent arts journalism in Texas!
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Just as the country recently celebrated its second annual Women’s March, Dallas’ Vignette Art Fair will hold its second annual presentation of work of women from across Texas. And there…