A statue (sculpture?) of a gorilla, which has been in place “for years” has been removed from a playground in Corsicana. This, via NBCDFW: “City officials said they removed a…
February 2018
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A couple of months ago, Glasstire reported that 14 Pews, the art-house cinema space run by Cressandra Thibodeaux since the summer of 2010, was going up for sale when Thibodeaux…
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An interesting fact you may have noticed in the current gun debate: it is illegal to possess brass knuckles in Texas, along with several other states. That’s correct: thanks…
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Reminder: March 1 is the Deadline for Harvey Arts Recovery Fund’s 2nd Grant Round
by Glasstireby GlasstireThe deadline for applications for the Harvey Arts Recovery Fund‘s (HARF) second granting round is fast approaching. Houston-area artists and organizations who are in need of assistance in recovering from the effects of Hurricane Harvey need to…
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Circles, circles, and more circles. The name of the Nasher Sculpture Center’s affinity group for practicing artists in the north Texas area is “Artist Circle.” (Many affinity groups describe themselves…
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The keynote speakers at this year's Texas Sculpture Symposium embrace the gray areas thrown up by human behavior through the wide, long lens of conflict.
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CounterCurrent, the annual performance festival organized by University of Houston’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, has just announced the lineup for its 2018 program, which will run April…
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What’s most moving about the exhibition is the shared lineage of finding something compelling in the natural world, and shaping it to our desires.
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First, Houston’s Nameless Sound teamed up with the Lawndale Art Center for a series of Monday evening performances called “They, Who Sound.” Tonight, February 26, Lawndale’s doors will open at 7pm…
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Live on the Beach & Make Art: Galveston Artist Residency Now Accepting Applications
by Glasstireby GlasstireThe Galveston Artist Residency has announced that it is now accepting applications for the 2018-2019 residency year. As always, the organization will award three artists fully-funded eleven-month residencies. Each artist-in-residence will receive…
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These two shows do not feel 'contemporary' but rather timeless, pondering old things that answer through existing.
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This weekend is your last chance to see the Menil Collection’s main building before it closes for eight months. During the closure, which begins on Monday, February 26th, the institution…
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On March 8 and 9, the Meadows Museum at SMU in Dallas will host an international group of scholars for a symposium titled The Medieval World in a Spanish Context. These talks…
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Houston’s Orange Show Center for Visionary Art—which oversees the Orange Show Monument, the Beer Can House, the Houston Art Car Parade, and Smither Park—is being properly honored by Saint Arnold’s…
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I’m the wet blanket. I’m going to rain on the parade.
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Write a Letter This Sunday to Help Save UT Austin’s Fine Arts Library
by Glasstireby GlasstireIn December, the University of Texas in Austin announced it has moved and continues to move tens of thousands of fine art books, collection materials, periodicals, and music scores from UT Fine…
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Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on a big group show in the Rio Grande Valley, an Unintended Garden in Dallas, and the return of Havel Ruck Projects.
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This Sunday, February 25 at 2pm, the Nasher Sculpture Center will screen the 1984 Academy Award-nominated documentary Streetwise (1h 31min), followed by Streetwise filmmaker Martin Bell in conversation with founding…
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Two strange things occurred in the past week in Picasso world. First, new science has helped to discover the history of the making of a well-known painting. Secondly, a Picasso…
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Contemporary Austin’s Laguna Gloria Phase One Transformation Breaks Ground Next Month
by Glasstireby GlasstireThe Contemporary Austin’s has big plans for improving and revitalizing its 14-acre Laguna Gloria campus in northwest Austin; it has announced it will break ground on Phase I of its…