On March 7, Douglas Steel, founder of the iE Collective, will be lecturing at UT El Paso’s Rubin Center on the use of LED lighting as “an artistic approach to…
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The Houston Fringe Festival has just announced an open call for fringey performers and companies of all stripes for its 6th annual event in October. Describing the festival’s mission as…
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In light of Houston’s apparent difficulty with the nexus of trees and art, it was refreshing to attend a timely and thought-provoking performance-art event involving a tree in Guadalupe Plaza…
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Sometimes Even Trees Get the Blues – With a Little Help From Their Friends
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Houston art Alliance is looking for an army of volunteers to take part in their upcoming “social art action,” Konstantin Dimopoulos’ Blue Trees, at locations around Houston and Galveston.…
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Visual artist and songwriter Terry Allen has a new CD out- titled “Bottom of the World,” his first musical release since “Salivation” in 1998. Andrew Dansby had a detailed track-by-track…
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Passing by The Breakfast Klub last week, I did a double take at Reginald Adams’ newest mural of President Obama. As a community art project, a target of vandalism and…
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The art historian and scholar Thomas McEvilley died yesterday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering hospital in New York. He was 73 years old. A national figure and author of numerous monographs, essays…
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Architect and art collector Bill Stern died Friday, of pancreatic cancer. He was 66. Stern moved to Houston in 1976, immediately finding a place in the booming city’s cultural crust.…
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Twenty Questions: David McGee, What I’d Change About the Artworld
by Glasstireby Glasstire 11 commentsHouston Artist David McGee wishes artists felt less dependent on accpetance by institutions and audiences as a measure their success.
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I recently had the chance to get into the studio of artist and friend Michael Anthony García. Our conversation about his most recent work for People’s Gallery at the City…
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Twenty-six venues across Corpus Christi are participating in that city’s month-long event, Organized by K Space Contemporary and K Space Board Member Lynda Jones. While the fest’s website is still…
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Dallas Contemporary Taps Local Street Artists For Two Mural Projects: Sour Grapes and JMR to Paint Belmont Hotel
by Bill Davenport 5 commentsThe Dallas Contemporary has announced that it will commission Dallas-based street artists JMR and SOUR GRAPES to each paint 60+ feet of an existing wall at the Belmont Hotel as…
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Houston multimedia artist Wendy Wagner, who, for the past year, has been in a very public battle with brain cancer, (her show, Wendy Wagner: Look to the Left, on view…
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“What is the name of that landscape painter. You know the one I’m talking about; the one who painted atmosphere like uh…like Corot. If I call his name, you’ll know…
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Houston’s David McGee was the the first artist put on the spot in a new Glasstire video series by John Carrithers. Carrithers asks each of his guests twenty questions about…
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Currently on exhibit at the Fort Worth Modern is a focus exhibition on the work of Nigerian/British artist Yinka Shonibare. Shonibare’s work is usually categorized by themes of colonialism/power and…
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Orange Show Adopts 70-Foot Blue Saxophone: Long-time Richmond Avenue Icon Moving to Houston’s East End Today!
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Orange Show Center for Visionary Art has acquired Bob Wade’s “Smokesax,” the much-beloved 70’ tall blue saxophone that for the past 20 years has made its home at 6025…
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Cloaked in blue tarps, the wood piles behind our house shrink daily as we burn the stuff to stay warm. There is one—our shelter-magazine centerfold stack—which we haven’t touched.…
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Texas Biennial Announces a Clean Well-Lighted (and Free!) Place at SXSW, Last Call for Biennial Artists
by Bill Davenport 1 commentThe organizers of the Texas Biennial have announced a series of free public readings in a street-level storefront on Congress Ave. in Austin, amid the hubbub of music and media…
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Suitcase Wheel by Houston’s Art Guys was installed Friday at the San Antonio International Airport (where else?). A project of Public Art San Antonio (PASA), the 16-foot wheel of vintage…