Glasstire talks with six special guests about upcoming exhibitions in Texas, including the much-anticipated "Philip Guston Now" at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, "Ellsworth Kelly: Postcards" at the Blanton in Austin, and a group exhibition of contemporary Indigenous photographers at the Amon Carter in Fort Worth.
Contemporary Austin
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Roberts prefers a candidate with a background in art and knowledge of the art world, but doesn't require it.
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Atoui will receive a $200,000 cash award, and a solo exhibition of his work will debut at The Austin Contemporary's Jones Center in the spring of 2022.
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The opening restriction to members only is indefinite, and the Jones Center location on Congress Avenue will remain closed for now.
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Brandon Zech and guest host Leslie Moody Castro are in Austin this week to run down the best art events across the state.
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Maidenberg succeeds Louis Grachos, who left the institution in June of last year.
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Review
The Sorcerer’s Burden: Contemporary Art & the Anthropological Turn
by Gene Fowlerby Gene FowlerThe curator dates the beginnings of a focus on the “complex relationship” between contemporary art and anthropology to the early 1990s.
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"I have come to realize that my ideas are lodged in my body and the more I move the more my ideas present themselves to me."
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As heir to multiple sculptural and cultural histories, Bhabha operates as a great synthesizer, yet her works never feel derivative of her forebears; they seem to glower with their own aesthetic logic and enigmatic meaning.
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The sculptures themselves are described not as installations, but as three-dimensional paintings, or in some cases, “situations.”
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Warhol Foundation Comes Through Again for Texas Arts Orgs. More at glasstire.com
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Contemporary art enthusiasts Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman of the Manhattan-based FLAG Art Foundation have joined with Contemporary Austin trustee Suzanne Deal Booth to create a new art prize. “It seemed…
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News
Contemporary Austin’s Laguna Gloria Phase One Transformation Breaks Ground Next Month
by Glasstireby GlasstireThe Contemporary Austin’s has big plans for improving and revitalizing its 14-acre Laguna Gloria campus in northwest Austin; it has announced it will break ground on Phase I of its…
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The Visual AIDS website describes Day without Art’s history: In 1989, in response to the worsening AIDS crisis and coinciding with the World Health Organization’s second annual World AIDS Day…
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His work’s jumping-off point is his deep disdain for systems—for the nuclear family, for institutions and communities and religions that we’re all pushed through in an endless gauntlet.
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From growing up in a doomsday cult in Montana to almost accidentally (and deservingly) finding his way into a BFA and MFA from SMU by 2004, the acclaimed Brooklyn-based artist Lionel Maunz will…
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It’s a good time to be a preparator in Texas. Right now, there are six preparator-like jobs available across the state. If you are in (or want to move to) San…
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Visual art has long had a presence at Austin’s SXSW festival and now the SX folks are making it official. They announced their first official Art Program, which will showcase…
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Artist Rodney McMillian has received the Contemporary Austin’s inaugural $100,000 Suzanne Deal Booth Art Prize, reports Artforum. The Prize, which will be awarded every two years, was established this past…
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Well, we’re ashamed to have missed International Cat Day on Monday, August 8, but we’ll try to make up for it by sharing an article from the Austin American-Statesman about…