In case you missed it, (as I did!) a piece titled “Homophobia and the Arts” co-written by blogger James Payne and artist Michael Petry appeared in the Huffington Post, UK…
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Glasstire has received the following email from the Art Guys: The Menil Collection has decided to remove “The Art Guys Marry A Plant” from their collection. Tentative plans are to…
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Forget iPhone 5. Instead of buying the latest Apple gadget, I’ve added Magritte VI to my credit card bill. Nothing Apple sells stirs my covetousness like a book on Magritte–and…
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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 a lot about its importance…
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The Program Will Begin Shortly… Silence is Toby Kamps’ first major exhibition at The Menil Collection since becoming curator of modern and contemporary art two years ago. You should not…
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Glasstire contributors offer up their picks for Fall 2012! AUSTIN Emily Roysdon: Pause Pose Discompose Visual Arts Center September 21 – December 8, 2012 Super smart curator and art historian…
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Deborah Velders, Deputy Director of the New Asia Society Texas Center is leaving Houston to take over as director of the Mobile Museum of Art in Alabama. She will begin…
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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 and resentment. Should my feelings…
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When Richard Serra’s drawing retrospective opened at the Menil Collection, it was SERRAPALOOZA. Throngs of people congregated at the Menil, many of us on the outside lawn in festival fashion,…
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March 4 will be the final day to see the Byzantine frescoes currently nestled in their frosted glass framework at the Menil’s Byzantine Fresco Chapel. The works, which the Menil…
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The catalog for last summer’s Menil exhibition Ancestors of the Lake: Art of Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay, New Guinea has won the third annual Prix International du Livre d’Art…
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In a ceremony officiated by National Book Critics Circle Winner Lawrence Weschler, Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities, the Art Guys will officially dedicate the tree from…
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Michelle White, who curated such fascinating, unexpected shows as Imaginary Spaces: Selections from the Menil Collection; Leaps into the Void: Documents of Nouveau Realist Performance, and the recently opened Seeing…
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On Saturday, September 17, Sixteen museums congregated in southern Montrose are collectively celebrating themselves by offering free admission and nonstop free events, films and activities: everything from tai-chi to Czech…
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Ever since the mid-1970s, I’ve traveled to Houston whenever it was time for a good art fix. Back then, there were just a handful of fine art galleries to visit.…
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America’s first graffiti painter Cy Twombly died in Rome Tuesday at the age of 83. Known for his groundbreaking (or wall breaking) conflation of drawing, painting and writing, he is…