Deborah Martin reports on the “museum growth spurt” in San Antonio in the Express-News today: May 26 is the Grand Opening of the The Witte Museum’s Robert J. and Helen…
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The surfaces of Ben Brandt‘s sculptures are covered in gray. The objects look like they’re a thousand years old, as if they’d just been pulled from some long-ago construction site,…
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Our Town Southeast Houston, a project of the UH and the National Endowment for the Arts is inviting residents to make their diverse community a more interesting, healthier, and…
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More Prize News: Dallas Video Racers and Houston Core Fellow Awarded
by Bill Davenport 2 commentsThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), has given the 2012 Meredith J. Long Core Program Award to Gabriel Martinez. The $10,000 prize, presented at the Glassell School of Art…
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Congratulations to Austin-based artist Jeff Williams, winner of this year’s $30,000 Texas Prize!! Statewide audiences will perhaps be most familiar with Jeff’s dust-encrusted sculptures from a few years ago (as…
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Sasha Dela moved to Houston about seven years ago as a fellow in the MFAH Core Program and quickly became an important part of the Houston art scene as a…
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The Grady Spikes Memorial Tiger, a 13-foot bronze cat in front of Conroe High School in the north of Houston suburb was painted a brilliant blue overnight in what is…
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No, it’s not your new browser plug-in, or a sluggish ISP, or hidden malware running in the background! Glasstire, like Houston, was buggy yesterday. So much fabulous commentary, fascinating video…
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Mishka Henner, Dutch Landscapes, 2011 So, it’s been about a month since the Dallas Art Fair weekend and all the very good independent shows and events that surrounded it.…
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This just in: after a 5-year run which saw the introduction of some great artists to Houston, the much-loved Bryan Miller gallery in Houston is closing. The current group show,…
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Independent Arts Collaborative Building: New Renderings on Facebook, Architects Invite Conversation
by Bill Davenport 0 commentSince my last “glass box” rant, Lake Flato/ Studio Red Architects have posted new, more comprehensive renderings of the current design for Houston’s Independent Arts Collaborative building on Facebook, with…
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Amon Carter gets $75,000 to Digitize American Photographers from NEH
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Amon Carter Museum in Fort worth has been awarded a $75,000 grant from the National Endowmwnt for the Humanities. The grant will allow the museum to put 22,000 photographic…
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Carol Robbins, The Ellen and Harry S. Parker III Curator of the Arts of the Americas and the Pacific is retiring after forty-seven years of service to the Dallas Museum…
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Crowd-Funding for Award-Winning Artists: USA Projects to Hold Houston Workshop
by Bill Davenport 3 commentsIn 2010, nonprofit grant making org United States Artists launched its own online fundraising platform, USA Projects. Kira Shewfelt, Artist Relations Specialist and Education Coordinator for USA will be giving…
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Art Car Prizes Awarded: Everyone’a a Winner, But Scrapdaddy is Still King
by Bill Davenport 0 commentA quarter century of Art Car parades is over, and Mark “Scrapdaddy” Bradford is still holding the lead, earning this year’s Mayor’s Choice Trophy (and $2000 in prize money) for…
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So I’m bringing back my series Mirror Mirror to Glasstire which was named in honor of its first posting and dedicated to all the multitasking, multi-talented, and multimedia artists who…
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Meat Map, Amazon Expedition, and Art Supplies: DMA Grants to Artists Announced
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThis year’s recipients of Dallas Museum of Arts grants have been announced: ten artists received awards in one of three categories: the Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund (for regional artists…
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Local El Paso Newspaper Hires Arts Journalist and Pajama Entrepreneur to Write About Dressage!
by Bill Davenport 2 commentsCindy Graff Cohen is the new arts and culture columnist for El Paso Inc., writes Wendy White Polk, editor of the local news and lifestyle paper. Cohen, who began writing…
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Dallas Yes Men Infiltrate Trans Pacific Partnership Gala, Hand Out Fake Corporate Power Tool Award to Former Mayor
by Bill Davenport 0 commentAnti-corporate pranksters affiliated with The Yes Men briefly interrupted a gala at the 12th round of talks hammering out the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement in Dallas on Friday. U.S.Trade…
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The image above and those below were pasted in a document that opened with the following (loosely translated) text: “To all unmarried ones who would like to spend their life…