The National Endowment for the Arts announced an award of $60,000 to support the creation of interactive, site-specific installations that will explore the Southwestern vernacular of the plazita, the traditional…
-
-
Margaret C. Conrads, Ph.D., will join the staff of the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth in September 2012 as its first Deputy Director of Art and Research; she is…
-
News
Luce Mediates Nasher Glare Fiasco: Reasonable Settlement Looms, Threatening Sensationalist Media Circus
by Bill Davenport 0 commentBloomberg reports that representatives of the Dallas Police and Firefighters’ Pension Fund, which backed the disatrously reflective Museum Tower, are negotiating with the Nasher Sculpture Center to resolve the tower’s…
-
Houston’s universities are important incubators of artistic talent, with many artists in the city having taught at and/or graduated from either the University of Houston or Rice University. But the…
-
News
Gerald Peters Returns to Texas: Etherington to Open Contemporary Outpost in Marfa
by Bill Davenport 0 commentGerald Peters Gallery of New York and Santa Fe is opening a branch in Marfa, under the direction of their director of contemporary art, Mary Etherington. The new outpost marks…
-
Tumbleweeds We don’t have New York’s density, or Chicago’s architecture, or Los Angeles’ mythologized spaces. We don’t have San Francisco’s prices, Aspen’s lack of oxygen, Austin’s lack of pigment, and…
-
Houston’s Wade Wilson Art is opening a second gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico this summer. Wade Wilson Art Santa Fe will be at 409 Canyon Road in the lower…
-
News
Devon Britt-Darby Unmarries a Woman to Conclude Art Gay Protest Piece, Party Monday
by Bill Davenport 1 commentDevon Britt Darby, neé Douglas Britt, former Houston Chronicle arts writer, and Reese Darby, his former wife are celebrating their divorce at Leon’s Lounge on Monday May 7 5:30-7:30 pm.…
-
The Frieze Art Fair has opened, amid hubbub that apparently lives up to its pre-show hype! Under the biggest tent in the world, on a rock off Manhattan, the transplanted…
-
News
AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! Scream Most Expensive Piece of Art in History!
by Bill Davenport 0 commentWho paid $119 million for Edvard Munch’s The Scream at auction at Sotheby’s yesterday? The Daily Beast has run a long, content free-speculation discussing various evidence-free theories. Lacking “even crumbs”…
-
Rhode Island glass artist Paul Housberg has just put the finishing touches on a large glass-tile mosaic in Houston’s Chase Center. The big blue wall, comissioned by architect Ken Harry…
-
I cried all the way home from Care House, Carrie Schneider’s installation and memorial in her childhood home. The house was where Schneider’s mother lived until she died from pancreatic…
-
Blog
90s Nostalgia: Lamenting the loss of the mega bookstore while loving the iPad
by John Aaspby John Aasp 2 commentsDuring the 90s, I worked at Hastings. Similar to other major retail entertainment chains (Borders, Blockbuster, Tower, etc.), Hastings sells just about every form of consumable media, and can be…
-
It’s a Phase, curated by Divya Murthy, features work by Lina Dib, Ned Dodington, Tobias Fike, Allison Hunter, Barna Kantor, Gabriel Martinez, Abinadi Meza, Emily Sloan, Annie Strader, Raishad JarBar…
-
There’s nothing like dirty laundry to attract publicity, or as Dallas Observer columnist Jim Schutze put it, “nothing takes our minds off this misery we call middle-class survival in America…
-
News
Romero Museum Building for Mexic-Arte? Another Big Wheel Plan for Austin’s Congress Ave
by Bill Davenport 1 commentJohn Hogg and the Mexic-Arte museum board are hoping to build an “iconic” new building for the museum at Congress and Fifth St. in downtown Austin, and want the city…
-
Every so often we experience an artwork that reminds us of what art can be. A total artwork—- one which transforms or activates the space it is in, and therefore…
-
News
Blind Archer Strikes Again: Michael Bise Wins $50,000 Hunting Art Prize
by Bill Davenport 6 commentsHouston artist, Glasstire contributor and heart transplant patient Michael Bise has been awarded the Hunting Art Prize for 2012. The $50,000 unrestricted prize is the largest in North Amerca, and…
-
News
Houston’s Nameless Sound Awarded National Grants from NEA and NALAC
by Bill Davenport 0 commentHouston creative music org Nameless Sound was named as one of 788 not-for-profits to receive an NEA Art Works grant. Nameless Sound will get $12,500 grant to support its ongoing…
-
The Amon Carter Museum in Fort worth has hired Jenna Madison as their new Interpretation Manager. She will be in charge of developing programs and materials that will help the…