Picasso Vandal Sentenced to Two Years
Houston art student Uriel Landeros, who faced up to ten years for felony graffiti and criminal mischief charges, was sentenced to two years on the [...]
The 7% Solution: New Bill May Revive Resale Royalties for U.S. Artists
In the United States, the first-sale doctrine prevents artists from profiting from resales of their work, but Europeans have granted droit de suite (French [...]
Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible
Forrest Bess (1911-1977) lived a hermit’s life in a cabin in Chinquapin, Texas. In the catalog for the exhibit Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible, Robert Gober writes, [...]
Menil, Surls Comment on Art Guys Marry A Plant Removal
Mimi Swartz of Texas Monthly has been busy since Friday, when Glasstire published the Art Guys’ announcement that their controversial piece, The Art Guys Marry [...]
Michael Findlay Speaks Sanity: Connoisseurship in our Commodity Culture
Culturemap interviewed art dealer Michael Findlay about his new book, The Value of Art, which de-myhologizes some of the current hype surrounding contemporary art prices [...]
Dispatches from Documenta: Part III, Can art change the world?
For Part I, click here. For Part II, click here. Why do certain artworks have such a lasting impact? To stay with me, artworks usually [...]
’bout sound and vision
Experimental Eye and The Sounds of Silence. The next 6 weeks bring Houstonians rare opportunities to see some of the most dynamic experimental films in [...]
Glass Satire: Serras Interruptus
Bryan Miller launches his new series, Glass Satire, with scenes from Richard Serra at the Menil.
Interview with Stephen Vitiello
Stephen Vitiello is a sound artist who teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has exhibited around the world and collaborated with artists such as [...]
Laura Lark Loves You #2: Quake That Thing; California Uber Artists; Where’s a Man to Go?
Questions? Comments? Ideas? Send them to: lauralark@glasstire.com (or leave your message below) Dear Readers, Welcome back to Laura Lark Loves You! Please excuse the lack [...]
Picasso Vandalized at Menil Collection
Pablo Picasso’s Woman in a Red Armchair (1929) was vandalized last week when a man in a dark suit approached the piece and stenciled the [...]
A better world is a small thing to ask for: Danny Lyon at the Menil
You need to go see Danny Lyon’s brilliant photographs while they’re up at the Menil. The words that follow contain praise, but also doubt, disappointment [...]
Midtown Arts Fest Vies with Menil Community Arts Festivals to Blanket Houston with Art This Saturday
It never rains (or let’s hope not), but it pours: The 13th Midtown VISIONS Cultural Arts Tour returns on Saturday, April 14. From noon to [...]
Menil Gets Bank of America Grant to Restore Chamberlain Sculptures
The Menil Collection has been granted an unspecified, but “generous” amount of money to restore 12 sculptures by the American artist John Chamberlain through Bank [...]
Saturday! Sources and Echoes at Richmond Hall Celebrate a Decade of Nameless Sound
This Saturday, a 5-hour marathon of improvised music will fill complement Dan Flavin’s sideshow lighting at the Menil’s Richmond Hall. Eighteen graduates of the Nameless [...]
As Frescoes Lift Off, De Menil Posits New Uses for the Menil’s Second Chapel of Emptiness
On 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 [...]
Smithsonian’s Sheryl Kolasinski to be New Menil CEO and Deputy Director
After 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 [...]
Happy Queue Year
A few weeks ago, my girlfriend and I began binge viewing art documentaries. We started with Herb and Dorothy (2008), the story of an elderly [...]
Britt-Darby Guerrila Action On YouTube: Art Guys Plant Piece “Sucks”
Houston Chronicle art Critic and “Art Guys Marry a Plant” dissenter Douglas Britt-Darby Darby-Britt Britt-Darby has a posted a new YouTube video. Filmed on Thanksgiving [...]
Menil Launches Online Artists Documentation Program Archive, with Whitney and Harvard
Former Menil chief conservator Carol Mancusi-Ungaro began interviewing artists, in the presence of their works of art in 1990, recording their attitudes and feelings toward [...]
