UT vs. Ryan O’Neal: Warhol Fawcett Tabloid Slugfest Gains Sideshow
Actor Ryan O’Neal is going to be allowed to sue Craig Nevius for defamation. Nevius told the Star tabloid and Good Morning America that O’Neal [...]
Roberta Smith Shakes the Snow Globe in Sunday’s NY Times
On Sunday, NY Times critic Roberta Smith issued a call for museum curators to “shake up the snow globe” and mix folk art into the [...]
Forgers, Thieves and Fumblers: Recent Art News Roundup Corrals Juicier Bits
The juiciest art-related headlines are about everything but art: this week professional conservators shame amateur art restoration in the Art Newspaper in the wake of [...]
Tuesday Art Market Report: Richter/Clapton Celebrity Sale Sets Record, Warhol Market Flabby Fearing Foundation Sell-off
From the Wall St. Journal: Eric Clapton’s painting by Gerhard Richter, “Abstract Painting (809-4),” sold at Sotheby’s contemporary art evening auction in London on Friday [...]
THE MENIL CONNECTION
Celebrating the legendary de Menil years of the Rice Museum and Rice Media Center. The Menil Collection’s 25th anniversary this year has had me thinking [...]
Warhol Museum to Release San Diego Surf, 40+ Years Later
Filmed in 1968 in La Jolla California, Andy Warhol’s previously unfinished film San Diego Surf will be released by the Andy Warhol Museum. The movie [...]
Life Imitates Art Imitating Life: Warhol-Inspired Soup Cans On Sale at Target
Campbell’s began selling a new limited-edition line of Warhol-themed cans of tomato soup on September 2 at most Target stores across the country. The cans, [...]
Everybody Loves Andy- And Now Everybody Can Help Pay For Him!
Houston’s CAMH is branching out into crowd funding: a new indiegogo campaign to raise $32,000 to bring glitter-panda painter Rob Pruitt’s shiny statue of Andy [...]
Laura Lark Loves You #3: Something About Mary
Questions? Comments? Opinions? Send them to Laura Lark Loves You: lauralark@glasstire.com (or leave your message below) Mary asks, If you could describe and suggest [...]
Make it Houston: notes on street art
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, [...]
what is there to see?
In his written interviews, Warhol often ceded control completely to the interviewer. A prominent example of this is his most quoted interview, Gretchen Berg’s 1966 [...]
Art Marketing Pioneer Thomas Kinkade Dies Unexpectedly at Age 54
Thomas Kinkade, the marketing pioneer who discovered that, with proper context, reproductions of paintings could be sold for original painting prices without actually breaking the [...]
uh, no
The blank “uh” we hear before Andy Warhol’s responses was typical of his interview style but hardly ever appears in his published interviews as it [...]
The Singularity of his Absence
Statements made by artists are often regarded as the key to understanding their work. Art critics look to artists to set the theoretical framework surrounding [...]
Similar but Different #27: Glitter!
“In a world where proving yourself is everything”… I present Similar but Different #27: Glitter! Mariah Carey Oliver Herring “After its scheduled run, Meulensteen (formerly [...]
Another Warhol squabble goes to court: portrait of Texas art dealer Shaindy Fenton in tug of war
A squabble over a $350,000 Warhol painting has entered a Philadelphia courtroom, pitting dentist Neil Balick against his nephew over the ownership of a portrait [...]
