A new mural by ACK! has appeared on top of Jenni’s Noodle House in Houston Heights. The 14 foot rooftop billboard is semi-advertising, featuring a drooling boy offering noodles…
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Boyd Blog Draws Galveston Stump Map, Calls for Houston Tree Carvers
by Bill Davenport 2 commentsNew-car owner and art blogger Robert Boyd has decided to break in his wheels by cruising Galveston and compiling an online map of dozens of stump carvings, leftover Ike-killed trees…
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Glasstire’s contributors suss out the season’s most promising shows. AUSTIN Evidence of Houdini’s Return Arthouse/AMOA January 4 – March 4, 2012 Arthouse and AMOA are officially conjoined twins and, as…
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Carvers Take Chainsaws and Blowtorches to Blocks of Recycled Rainwater at for 4th Ice Sculpture Showdown
by Bill Davenport 0 commentDiscovery Green’s 4th annual ice sculpting competition features a dozen acclaimed ice artists from around the country using chainsaws and blow torches to battle for total domination this Saturday, January…
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US Congress Considers Resale Royalties for Visual Artists in New Equity for Visual Artists Act
by Bill Davenport 0 commentAlong with the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, which aims to protects copyrights by cracking down on internet service providers, US legislators are likewise considering steps towards a “droit de…
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The University of Texas at El Paso is now offering a minor in Museum Studies, preparing students to compete for jobs in the underpaid museum industry. The 18 credit hour…
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Van Dyke in St. Louis: New Pulitzer Director Still a Curator at Heart
by Bill Davenport 0 commentFormer Menil curator Kristina Van Dyke is settling into her new role as director of the Pulitzer Foundation; in an interview with Nancy Fowler of the St. Louis Beacon, she…
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For those of you just joining us, here’s a resume of choice newsy bits for 2011: We’ve lost a crateful of old Texas artists this year: Dick Wray, Scott Gentling,…
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Keith Carter: From Uncertain to Blue at PDNB Gallery
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 10 commentsPDNB (Photographs Do Not Bend) Gallery isn’t letting a few decades sideline its taste in contemporary photography. Keith Carter: From Uncertain to Blue revisits Carter’s eye on the common folk of small town Texas in…
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Eva Zeisel was a ceramic artist and designer who revolutionized tableware. She died yesterday at 105 after an amazing life that included being falsely accused and imprisoned for 16 months…
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It’s not technically over yet, but Elda Silva of the San Antonio Express-News has wrapped up the visual arts in her city for 2011 in yesterday’s paper, highlighting a catholic…
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A bill under consideration in the US House of Representatives could, if passed, have far-reaching effects on the use of copyrighted material on the web, and on artists rights to…
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End of year lists allow a critic to consider the past year and tally up the most exciting cultural moments. I decided to take a less introspective approach and gave…
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Artist and Advocate Frances Bagley Receives 2010 Moss/Chumly Award from Meadows Museum
by Bill Davenport 0 commentFrances Bagley is the winner of this year’s Moss/Chumley Artist Award, recognizing a North Texas artist who has been important as an arts advocate. The annual award is handed out…
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The NY Times (via Texas Monthly) briefly profiles six Texas women who are continuing the tradition of Ima Hogg and Velma Kimbell by making important contributions to the Texas art…
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Seminal postpainterly expressionist Helen Frankenthaler died on December 27 at age 83, after a long illness, reports Art Daily. Since her first solo exhibition at NY’s Tibor De Nagy gallery…
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FOCUS: KAWS at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 2 commentsBrooklyn artist KAWS hurls the onlooker into a cartoon’s daytime nightmare with effectively targeted film and television favorites, calling forth a sense of the unexpected that is fun and funny but also…
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What’s New News: Interactive Racks Hit the Streets for Donnett’s Idea Fund Project
by Bill Davenport 0 commentNathanniel Donnett’s What’s The New News project has hit the streets of Houston’s Third Ward, placing eight customized newspaper racks at neighborhood sites, reinterpreting original news stories at these sites…
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End-of-2011 recommendation: Justin Boyd’s boids at Artpace
by Sarah Fischby Sarah Fisch 4 commentsYou have until the 31st to be enchanted and freaked out by Justin Boyd's magnificent sound sculpture, “Natural Black, Sprinkled With Cosmic Iridescence" at Artpace. It's a Window Works visual/sound installation, so all you have to do is park out front and listen. "Open" 24 hours a day. Particularly enchanting at night. Don't miss this crazy thing.
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If you need something to read during the dead week between Christmas and New Year’s, Daniel Grant has written a lengthy, and slightly technical dissection of the developing morass of…