As I prepared for the Texas Contemporary Art Fair I was reminded of a long conversation I had with artist Emilio Rangel. I was sitting in his studio when he…
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In conjunction with Lawndale Art Center, Glasstire is luring some interesting people to warm the stools at our art fair bar: yesterday we learned how to crack a coconut the…
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Moving between Austin, TX and New York City, Andy Coolquitt is an artist whose work is not merely a bricolage of urban compost: severed plunger handles, discarded bourbon bottles, pipes,…
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Last year, the Houston art fairs were the talk of the town, and most people were dubious that two fairs would be able to survive. Well, not only did both…
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Artadia Houston Awardees Announced: Francesca Fuchs, Jang soon Im, and Seth Mittag Win Big, Jillian Conrad and Carl Suddath Win Bigger
by Bill Davenport 0 commentArtadia, the Fund for Art And Dialog, announced the winners of its sixth round of biennial grants to Houston artists at noon today at the Texas Contemporary Art Fair. Two…
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Forgers, Thieves and Fumblers: Recent Art News Roundup Corrals Juicier Bits
by Bill Davenport 1 commentThe juiciest art-related headlines are about everything but art: this week professional conservators shame amateur art restoration in the Art Newspaper in the wake of the “Beast Jesus ” phenomenon,…
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Schedule for the Lawndale/Glasstire Barfly Series at TX Contemporary Fair!
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentIn conjunction with the fabulous Lawndale Art Center, Glasstire presents the Lawndale/Glasstire Barfly series at the Texas Contemporary Art Fair. The Barfly series brings together interesting people from the arts…
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Shift Your Known Position to The Light; Alvin Baltrop at the CAMH
by Sebastien Boncy 0 commentAlvin Baltrop’s photographs, most of them taken at the Hudson River pier between the 70s and 90s constitute the CAMH’ s latest Perspectives exhibition: Dreams Into Glass. They form a…
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The Idea Fund, bank-roller of “new, risk-taking forms that help to define new practices in contemporary art” is still accepting proposals for its next cycle of grants-but hurry! Their deadline…
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Loading dock doors open this morning at 8am at Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center to admit the soon-to-be-fevered installation crews for the second Texas Contemporary Art Fair. In addition…
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MFAH Grand Gala 2012, Re-Chaired by Cornelia Long, Raises Either $1.4 or $1.5 Million,
by Bill Davenport 0 commentPhilanthropists in beaded gowns filled the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s art deco themed halls for the 2012 Grand Gala Ball, chaired once again by Cornelia Long, chairman of the…
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Vincent Valdez: Excerpts for John is the eighth film in a series of short documentaries produced by Walley Films in association with Glasstire. Filmmakers Mark and Angela Walley began documenting…
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Tuesday Art Market Report: Richter/Clapton Celebrity Sale Sets Record, Warhol Market Flabby Fearing Foundation Sell-off
by Bill Davenport 0 commentFrom the Wall St. Journal: Eric Clapton’s painting by Gerhard Richter, “Abstract Painting (809-4),” sold at Sotheby’s contemporary art evening auction in London on Friday for $34.2 million—more than anyone…
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Interview with Hilary Harnischfeger and Tommy White, Part II
by Elliott Zooey Martin 0 commentPART II: Interview with Tommy White (for the Part I interview with Hilary Harnischfeger, click here.) Husband and wife Tommy White and Hilary Harnischfeger are currently featured at Front Gallery…
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Houston artspace Skydive has announced a forthcoming publication: Satellites and Socialists: On the Fringe of Houston Arts, a book of “essays, letters, fictions, floorplans, scandals and more”, to premier in…
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Invasion from San Marcos: Spaceks to Open New BLUEorange Gallery in Houston
by Bill Davenport 2 commentsJacob Spacek and Megan Spacek are opening the new BLUEorange gallery in Houston at 1208 West Gray St., next to Betz Art Gallery. The co-founders, who are both artists, both…
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Interview with Hilary Harnischfeger and Tommy White, Part I
by Elliott Zooey Martin 1 commentHusband and wife Tommy White and Hilary Harnischfeger are currently featured at Front Gallery (brainchild of artist Sharon Engelstein and her artist husband Aaron Parazette). While at first their…
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Dallas Arts District Inter-Fest Fest: Get a GLIMPSE of Next Year’s AURORA on OCT 19
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Dallas Arts District has announced a few details of GLIMPSE 2012; a night of light, video, sound, installation and free public art intended as a preview of AURORA 2013,…
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Will Henry: Nocturnes and High Plains at Hiram Butler Gallery
by Hesse Caplinger 0 commentThe future of painting is smart and sincere, is deft with a brush and a punch line, knows its talking points and keeps to them, asks questions to which…
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“Paper Space: Drawings by Sculptors” at Inman Gallery
by Elliott Zooey Martin 0 commentGiorgio Vasari defined drawing as “the animating principle of all creative processes,” and since the Renaissance, drawing has been seen as the foundation of artistic invention, as the most immediate…