The 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…
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Anthony Palasota, Omnipresent Fixture on the Houston Gallery Scene, Has Died
by Bill Davenport 33 commentsAnthony Palasota, tireless Houston arts supporter, has died after a brief illness. Familiar to everyone as a fixture at Houston openings, for years Palasota religiously put together a weekly email…
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US News and World Report‘s new rankings for Graduate School of art and Design are out. Selected by polling deans and other academics in 2012, there were no Texas schools…
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Dallas Blog Magnet: Robert Boyd Tools Around, Sees Some Stuff, and Tells All
by Bill Davenport 0 commentLike Glasstire blogger Leslie Castro, non-Glasstire blogger Robert Boyd recently took a rambling trip through Dallas. Though he formed no conclusions, he saw a lot of art, a life-sized bronze…
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The original “TRON” movie, PC gaming in the early ‘90s and the struggles of high school geometry came to mind when I first saw Houston artist Jonathan Leach’s sleek-lined paintings…
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“Stuffed”: Hillerbrand + Magsamen at Brand 10 + andX
by Lucia Simekby Lucia Simek 0 commentI have a longstanding daydream that my house will burn down. I’d pull in the driveway one day to a pile of smoldering cinders that had once been my home,…
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The Progress of Love at the Menil Collection is an ambitious group exhibition that takes on the broad topics of love and African contemporary art with simultaneous exhibitions at the…
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We Open Art Houses (WOAH), Sharsten Plenge’s art-venue-in-a-shopping-mall project in west Houston, is looking for tenants for it’s “affordable, project-ready space” at its new West Oaks Art House at West…
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Years ago, an artist and I were discussing humor as a device in art. I expressed the opinion that, while there seemed to be a wide-spread acceptance of humor when…
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Occupy LMFA: Artist Puts Himself on Display in Month-Long Live-In Exhibition in Longview
by Bill Davenport 0 commentArtist Charles Arnold will move into and occupy the front window of the Longview Museum of Fine Arts for the entire month of March. According to the stunt’s Facebook page,…
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Frida Kahlo’s Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird returned to UT’s Harry Ransom Center on February 14. The homecoming of one of the center’s most in-demand works for a six-month…
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New Eleanor Friedberger 7-inch record (that’s vinyl!) from Ballroom Marfa
by Bill Davenport 0 commentWhen Eleanor Friedberger drove from Austin to the Big Bend for a residency at Ballroom Marfa, she ended up sick on her first night, but then things took a turn…
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Interview: Stephanie Barron, Curator of “Ken Price Sculpture” at the Nasher
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 0 commentAs senior curator of modern art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Stephanie Barron catalyzed the Nasher Sculpture Center’s current exhibition, Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective.…
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In case you’re curious, Otis Ike has posted a photo album of theotis Ike/ Joanna’s recent Mardi Gras at Numbers with Christeene on his website. Sweat, booze, and various slimy…
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Happy Birthday, Dallas! Nasher Announces 10 Ambitious Public Art Projects
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Nasher Sculpture Center today announced an ambitious series of commissions for public art pieces by local, national and international artists in honor of its tenth anniversary. The program, called…
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In what feels like a direct answer to detractors of Dallas’ very centralized and compacted (and rarified) still-new Arts District, the Nasher Sculpture Center has made a major move toward…
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Glasstire asked Houston artist Beth Secor to talk about her current show at Inman Gallery, and she tells how drawings of Texas trees are tangled up with her father’s death…