Dallas painter and SMU professor Bill Komodore has died. He was born in Athens, Greece in 1932, and moved to the United States and received his formal education at Tulane…
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Four San Antonio artists will be chosen by a jury of art professionals (TBA) to work at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin for three-month residencies between July 2013 and June…
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GlasstireReview
“Big Bend” by Jack Ridley at Photographs Do Not Bend
by Christina Patoski 4 commentsIn the not so distant past, being a photographer required more skills than being able to point and shoot. Beginning in the early 19th century, portrait photographers grappled with metal…
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News
Leonardo as Salvator Mundi: Star Power AND Solidity Can the DMA Have it All, For A Price?
by Bill Davenport 1 commentArt in America reports that the Dallas Museum of art is considering the purchase of a painting newly attributed to Leonardo Da Vinci for an estimated $200 million, and actually…
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BlogShelf Life
My (partial) Experience of Design District Gallery Day
by Lucia Simekby Lucia Simek 2 commentsThis past weekend CADD hosted another effort to get people into galleries, called Design District Gallery Day. I did not, I’ll admit, spend the day participating in Gallery Day, though…
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Curator, writer, and onetime Glasstire editor Rachel Cook is returning to Houston with a n MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College as the newly created Assistant…
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Every five years, the German town of Kassel is transformed into Documenta, a sprawling, intellectual exhibition considered a must-see by curators, collectors, and critics the world around. This year, I…
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The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reports that Sky Drill, by Austin artist Brent Baggett will be installed August 2 by the roadside where Spur 327 meets the westbound frontage road off South…
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News
Formula One Racing Brings Glittering Crowds To Austin, Artists’ Plans to Cash In Lagging
by Bill Davenport 1 commentAustin’s funky college-town ambiance will be shattered by the (distant) screams of Formula One racing in November. 300,000 visitors are expected for the US Grand Prix on the weekend of…
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The Fort Worth Modern is celebrating ten years in its fancy Tadao Ando building by acquiring some big, fancy new art: Wall Drawing #50A, 1970, by Sol Lewitt consists of…
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Houston Artletter
Bill’s European Vacation 2012: Jenny Saville & Olympic Opening Ceremony
by Bill Davenport 0 commentPopped into the Oxford Modern Art Museum to see some of Jenny Saville’s paintings in person- they’re based on photographs, so in reproduction you miss her somewhat annoyingly self-conscious painterly…
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The new normal should be anything but. Time to fuck shit up. Dear Young DFW Whippersnapper Artists, Whatever the last “up” economy may have taught you, in your teen…
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Questions? Comments? Opinions? Send them to Laura Lark Loves You: [email protected] (or leave your message below) Mary asks, If you could describe and suggest a daily routine (things to…
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Ex-Houston artist Duncan Ganley will be taking part in the televised Olympic opening ceremony. Although all details of the elaborate show, months in the planning, are subject to a strict…
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Noting the flap over the departure of the artist-members of LA MOCA’s board of directors, D Magazine‘s Peter Simek asks if the Dallas museums ought to consider getting some. Simek…
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News
Pecos Rock Art Decoded: SHUMLA School’s Boyd Sees Shamanic Stories
by Bill Davenport 2 commentsTexas anthropologist Carolyn Boyd, founder of t SHUMLA (Studying Human Use of Materials, Land, and Art), an education and research center in Comstock, Texas, has put forward a detailed interpretation…
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Breaking news: this September, David Shelton will move his eponymous gallery from San Antonio to Houston. The new gallery will be located in the iconic Isabella Court building on Main…
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On Saturday, July 28, a consortium of Houston arts orgs have organized the first ever Houston Arts Resource Fair, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the University of St.…
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News
Pantheon Still Matters in Wall St. Journal, But The Romans Lacked Astroturf
by Bill Davenport 0 commentWall Street Journal Leisure & Arts features editor Eric Gibson, in a fit of summertime art history 101, re-explains why the Pantheon, built in the second century AD by the…