The 14th edition of Fotofest the Houston photo-art biennial is something special this time around: featuring three massive exhibitions of sometimes overlooked historical Russian photography from the 1950’s to today,…
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A friend and I used to have an ongoing joke about writing a blog titled Double Feature. In this fantasy blog we’d review films that seemingly had nothing in common…
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Robert Pruitt – artist, founding member of Otabenga Jones & Associates, TSU visiting professor and sometime Glasstire contributor – will speak at 5:30 pm, March 14 at Rice Media…
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One of the best things I saw while in Los Angeles was Ming Wong’s Making Chinatown at REDCAT. The Singapore-born, Berlin-based artist turned the gallery space into a fake studio…
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Houston arts patron Toni Beauchamp died March 9 from ovarian cancer. A steadfast presence on the Houston art scene for decades, Toni served as the assistant director at Blaffer Gallery…
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As Frescoes Lift Off, De Menil Posits New Uses for the Menil’s Second Chapel of Emptiness
by Bill Davenport 0 commentOn March 6, workers unscrewed the conveniently removable lid of theMenil’s Byzantine Fresco chapel to remove the sacred bits and Culturemap’s Tyler Rudick was on hand, with a photographer, to…
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LOW IMPACT (RESISTANCE TO FLOW / THISISBOBDYLANTOME) SUBJECT TO CHANGE at Lawndale Art Center
by Rachel Hooper 2 commentsChoreography a collaboration by Jim Nolan and Linda Post. Documentation of opening night performance featuring: Daniel Adame, Shanon Adams, Tina Shariffskul and Prudence Sun. Documentation by Lillie Monstrum. For…
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Abstraction Triumvirate: Richard Serra, Joel Shapiro, Jules Olitski
by Joshua Fischer 8 commentsWhen Richard Serra’s drawing retrospective opened at the Menil Collection, it was SERRAPALOOZA. Throngs of people congregated at the Menil, many of us on the outside lawn in festival fashion,…
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“One Big Misunderstanding”: Artists, Vietnam War Reenactors and Real Conflict
by Diane Barberby Diane Barber 7 commentsThe exhibition could not have been more aptly titled. One Big Misunderstanding, photographs and video by Austin-based Otis Ike and Ivete Lucas exploring the subculture of Vietnam War reenacters, opened…
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Paint by Pucker: College Times Interviews Texan Lip Artist Natalie Irish
by Bill Davenport 0 commentHouston-born artist Natalie Irish makes paintings by smooching and mouthing color onto canvas- she happens to be young and attractive, and the images she happens to kiss into being tend…
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Diverseworks to Give Away Free John Waters Tickets to Filthiest Facebook Fans
by Bill Davenport 1 commentAre you the ultimate John Waters fan? Have you fantasized about rubbing shoulders with The Pope of Trash? If so, then thank your yucky stars because a very generous DiverseWorks…
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The big news this weekend is the arrival of Michael Heizer‘s “big rock” at LACMA, attended by hundreds of onlookers lining Wilshire Boulevard with their camera phones at 4:30 a.m.…
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The Social Network, Arts and Culture Edition: Robert Stein Named DMA Deputy Director
by Bill Davenport 0 commentMuseum internet guru Robert Stein has been announced as the new Deputy Director of the Dallas Museum of Art. Stein is currently Deputy Director for Research, Technology, and Engagement at…
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This just in: “For the safety of our artists, attendees and organizers, Luminaria 2012 is postponed due to the inclement weather. The organization committee involved with producing Luminaria will be…
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Smithsonian’s Sheryl Kolasinski to be New Menil CEO and Deputy Director
by Bill Davenport 0 commentAfter a national search, Josef Helfenstein, director of the Menil Collection, has named Sheryl Kolasinski to fill the institution’s newly minted position of Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer. Kolasinski…
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CAA Part II: Design, Food, Weegee and Naked Hollywood
by Colette Copeland 1 commentThe College Art Association Conference was a great excuse to play in L.A. for a few days. Arriving at the swanky L.A. Marriott Live hotel, I immediately noticed the…
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The Dallas division of the FBI is crowing over the confession of an Allen, TX couple who used art as the bait for a scheme they used to defraud two…
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Scott Peveto, former McClain Gallery director has set up on his own in the old New Gallery space at 2627 Colquitt Colquitt Street in Houston. Peveto, “A fine art resource management…
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German-born New Yorker Josephine Meckseper traveled to Electra, the self-described “pumpjack capital of Texas” to gather source material for her new installation, Manhattan Oil Project, observing working pumpjacks in the…
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Flex-Us [In Cooperation with Muscle Nation] at Ro2 Art
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 1 commentDanielle Georgiou, Danseuse Privee, 2012 and Willie Baronet, Unseen, 2012. Photo by Alisa Levy. Ro2 Art has two spaces in downtown Dallas within walking distance of each other and a…