Beginning July 14, The Lullwood Group, “an artist collective that encourages participation, fosters exploration and promotes art discovery in many forms,” will curate monthly exhibitions at the 107 Gallery, formerly …
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The Glasstire exhibition listings for East Texas, already thin, are going to get thinner: P’s Gallery, one of the few art venues in Longview, is closing at the end of…
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Famous Monsters Mutate in Summer Heat: New Mural Emerges at Lawndale
by Bill Davenport 0 commentA new mural, or rather an extension of the current one, is underway at Houston’s Lawndale Art Center. Last weekend, Daniel Anguilu, painter of the 2011-2012 “Famous Monsters” mural, began…
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On Saturday, June 16, eight galleries located in the Deep Ellum and Expo Park kick off the Summer together with East Dallas Gallery Day. Barry Whistler, The Public Trust, Kirk…
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I’d seen Bret Slater’s work before, in his studio, just prior to all of it getting zipped into a big duffle bag and schlepped across the Atlantic for Art Brussels by…
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WOAH, IAC!-Suchu Dance Inaugurates Houston’s Biggest Alterna-Venue at West Oaks Mall
by Bill Davenport 3 commentsIndependent Art Collaborative, move over! The new West Oaks Art House, the crazy-ambitious scheme to turn a 100,000 square foot former department store into a massive art venue in west…
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Fighting indifferent crowds, hot sun, and $7 beer, intrepid blogger and conoisseur of low-budget public art Robert Boyd checks out the art components of Free Press Summer Fest on his…
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Radcliffe Bailey “Memory and Medicine” and Tropical Storm Allison
by Kelly Klaasmeyer 0 commentRadcliffe Bailey’s show “Memory as Medicine” opened at the McNay last week. I first saw Bailey’s work in “The Magic City,” his ill-fated show at the Blaffer Gallery in 2001.…
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El Paso native Jake Erlich (1906-1952), for decades known as the tallest man in the world, was also an artist. Twelve of his paintings are featured in a new exhibition,…
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Houston artist Emily Sloan is taking her Southern Naptist Convention on the road to Venice CA next weekend. Sloan, also noted for being the curator of The Kenmore, and “exhibition…
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Thursday, June 14 at 8:23 p.m., Twilight Epiphany, Rice University’s James Turrell Skyspace fires up for its public debut. After a few delays, the piece’s website has gone live, listing…
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Breakfast of Duchampians: “It is what it is. Or is it?” at the CAMH
by Hesse Caplinger 2 commentsIt’s possible of course that Marcel Duchamp did not invent the readymade—after all, artists have prized random objects since cave painters first stumbled upon bison-shaped driftwood in the streams near…
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Sicardi Gallery opened up their new building last night and it’s pretty amazing. Sicardi finally has a space that lives up to the ambition of its program which includes…
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Flower of the iPad: Geroge Grosz in Dallas: DMA’s First e-Catalog on iTunes
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Dallas Museum of Art Has launched it’s first e-catalog, an app devoted to the George Grosz in Dallas show currently on view. The interactive book/app is available from iTunes,…
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Menil Picks Drawing Institute Architect: Johnson Marklee Solution Light-Filled (But Not Too Much)
by Bill Davenport 0 commentCulturemap‘s Tyler Rudick reports on the selection of Los Angeles architects Johnson Marklee as the designers for the new Drawing Institute and Study Center on the Menil Campus in Houston.…
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350 Words: “City Zoo” at Brand 10 Art Space, And X Art Space
by Colette Copeland 4 commentsFeaturing seven artists’ work in two galleries, the exhibition City Zoo marks the debut of Brand 10’s new space—And X. Conveniently located on the I-30 service road, And X’s mission…
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Dallas Gallerist Frankie Garcia III Reported Missing, Email Plea For Help Broadcast
by Bill Davenport 7 commentsFrankie Garcia III, partner in Dallas’ Rising Gallery, is apparently missing. In an emotional broadcast email Glasstire received at 11:14pm June 6, from Audra Sewell-Noblique, Social Media and Membership Chair…
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Muckrake Update: Artists Win $100,959.20 Judgment Against Houston’s H Gallery
by Bill Davenport 3 commentsA comment posted yesterday on Glasstire by artist Claire Richards contains the results of a lawsuit filed last year in Houston against H Gallery and its owners: according to Richards,…
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It’s really difficult to talk about foreignness. I really discovered this in 2006 when I returned to live in Austin after living in Mexico City preceded by a research…
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Houston’s Joe Furman Explodes Across Cyberspace with Snake Slurping Video
by Bill Davenport 0 commentHouston artist/reptile hunter Joe Furman has hit the big time on YouTube- “Clelia Eats Bothrops,” one of the seventy or so reptile and amphbian videos he’s posted, has gone viral,…