Apologising for the spate of recent obituaries, Robert Boyd has interesting bios of gallerist Dianne David, patron Toni Beauchamp and artist Mark Aguhar, who represent three generations of Houston artworld…
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Jeanne Clair Van Ryzin of the Austin American Statesman has a mini review of the Arts of Palm, a clever re-use of an abandoned public swimming pool as a one-night…
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Ace art blogger Judith Dobrzynski penned a neat summary of how a dedicated acquisitions fund ups a collecting museum’s cachet and opportunities in last week’s NY Times. Such funds are…
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Existing somewhere between visual poetry, scientific investigation and environmental loss is the work of Katie Paterson. It is quiet and blue (sometimes in color and sometimes in emotion) and seems…
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Did you know that the City of Katy has granted the Katy Culture & Arts Alliance $6,059 to help support the town’s first biennial of photography, Fotofest Katy 2012? Scheduled…
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The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and the MIT List Visual Arts Center are sharing a major award from the International Art Critics Association (AICA/USA) for their co-organized 2011 exhibition Stan…
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No Ketchup On the Cragg! MFAH Sculpture Garden to Host Outdoor Eats
by Bill Davenport 0 commentCafe Express is no longer the only food option! Beginning March 12, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston has arranged for a different food truck to park alongside their under-used…
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The Ten List: Your Portfolio and You (Redux for FotoFest 2012)
by Clint Willour 5 commentsIn honor of the FotoFest 2012 Biennial, we’re republishing this 2008 classic from the inimitable Clint Willour… Just in in time for FotoFest‘s Meeting Place, veteran portfolio reviewer, curator and…
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There are few times where I am genuinely homesick, and even fewer times that I miss my birth country. That said, the hardest part of expatriating has always been missing…
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DMA New Broom Keeps Sweeping: Three New Job Titles, But Only Two New Faces
by Bill Davenport 1 commentThe appointment of Robert Stein in the new Deputy Director spot at the Dallas Museum of Art has engendered three more new positions: Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs, Associate Director…
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Texas Christian University in Fort Worth has a new horned frog sculpture. The bronze reptile (technically, a lizard, mind you) by sculptor Joe Spear, is an amagalam of species, and…
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The future is an incredibly difficult thing to talk about. How is it possible to sustain a relevant conversation about something as hypothetical and non-existent as what has not happened…
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Houston Students Visualize a Tolerant Society; Unveil Mural at MOCAH
by Bill Davenport 0 commentA two-month mural project aimed at visualizing “a religiously and culturally tolerant society” made by 24 students from Houston area middle and high schools was unveiled last week at the…
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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…