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NEA Spring Grants Announced: Texas Visual Arts Orgs Share $382,000

NEA Spring Grants Announced: Texas Visual Arts Orgs Share $382,000

By Bill Davenport on May 8, 2013

The National Endowment for the Arts has announced it’s Art Works Grants, and 31 Texas nonprofits have benefited, to the tune of $788,500, total. Among [...]

Posted in Newswire | Tagged amoa/arthouse, big thought, cite magazine, dallas arts, diverseworks, fresh arts, houston arts alliance, Jillian Conrad, Nasher Sculpture Center, NEA, rice university, spacetaker, theaster gates, University of houston, ut permian basin, womenand their work | Leave a response

Clay Conversation

Clay Conversation

By Jed Morse, C.D. Dickerson and Olivier Meslay on April 5, 2013

Three exhibitions currently on view in DFW highlight work in clay by three artists spanning four centuries.  C.D. Dickerson is Curator of European Art at [...]

Posted in Blog, Uncategorized | Tagged bernin fort worth, binnie pittman, c.d. dickerson, chagall, Dallas museum of art, gianlorenzo bernini, jed morse, ken price, kimbell art museum bernini, Nasher Sculpture Center, olivier meslay | 2 Responses

The late Ken Price at work. © Ken Price. Photo © Fredrik Nilsen

Interview: Stephanie Barron, Curator of “Ken Price Sculpture” at the Nasher

By Betsy Lewis on February 21, 2013

  As senior curator of modern art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Stephanie Barron catalyzed the Nasher Sculpture Center’s current exhibition, [...]

Posted in Feature, Uncategorized | Tagged frank gehry, ken price, LACMA, metropolitan museum of art, Nasher Sculpture Center, Stephanie Barron | Leave a response

For All the World Like an Urban Toreador

For All the World Like an Urban Toreador

By Christina Rees on February 20, 2013

In what feels like a direct answer to detractors of Dallas’ very centralized and compacted (and rarified) still-new Arts District, the Nasher Sculpture Center has [...]

Posted in Blog | Tagged alfredo jaar, charles long, chritina rees, Nasher Sculpture Center, public art dallas, Rachel Harrison, Rick Lowe, Xchange | 8 Responses

“Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective”

“Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective”

By David Pagel on February 3, 2013

In advance of the opening of Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective at the Nasher Sculpture Center on February 9th, Glasstire is rerunning David Pagel’s review [...]

Posted in Article, Blog, Review, Uncategorized | Tagged david pagel, ken price, Nasher Sculpture Center | Leave a response

The Quotable Kiki Smith

The Quotable Kiki Smith

By Betsy Lewis on February 1, 2013

   Last Tuesday night, Kiki Smith headlined the 2013 UNT Nasher Lecture Series to an adoring sold-out crowd that was hushed, reverent, and wearing mostly [...]

Posted in Blog, Don't Look. Okay Look., Uncategorized | Tagged kiki smith, Nasher Sculpture Center, Tony Smith, university of north texas, unt | Leave a response

Photo by Julius Pickenpack, via Twitter

New Environmental Phenomenon Threatens Nasher Sculpture Garden

By Bill Davenport on January 16, 2013

Staff at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas arrived this morning to find outdoor pieces in the center’s sculpture garden dusted with a fine, powdery [...]

Posted in Newswire | Tagged dallas police and fire pension system, museum tower, Nasher Sculpture Center | Leave a response

My favorite work from the book: 'The Pinkest and the Heaviest' (1986) in two parts. Fired and painted clay from the collection of Betty Lee and Aaron Stern.

The year of Ken Price?

By Janet Tyson on December 31, 2012

My first and likely only prediction for visual art in 2013: thanks to the retrospective that was organized by and debuted at the Los Angeles [...]

Posted in Blog, Reading Room, Uncategorized | Tagged Fredrik Nilsen, Green Dragon Office, ken price, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center, sculpture, Stephanie Barron | Leave a response

Unkillable Texas Biennial Sprouts 14 Hydra Heads for 2013

By Bill Davenport on December 11, 2012

The 5th Texas Biennial, taking place at multiple venues across the state September 5- November 9, 2013, has chosen a long list of curators: Bill [...]

Posted in Newswire | Tagged Bard College, Bill Arning Director, Claremont Graduate University, College of Visual Arts and Design, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston René Paul Barilleaux Chief Curator/Curator of Art after 1945, Dallas Clint Willour Curator, Dallas Jeremy Strick Director, Denton David Pagel Art critic and Associate Professor, El Paso Museum of Art K8 Hardy Artist, Fort Worth Dario Robleto Artist, galveston arts center, Houston Noah Simblist Associate Professor of Art, Los Angeles Bárbara Perea Independent curator, McNay Art Museum, Meadows School of the Arts, Mexico City Christina Rees Curator of the Galleries, Nasher Sculpture Center, New York and University of Texas at Austin Annette Lawrence Artist and Professor, New York Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler Artists and Faculty, San Antonio Christian Gerstheimer Curator, Southern Methodist University, Texas Biennial, Texas Christian University, university of north texas, Virginia Rutledge | Leave a response

No Louver Lovers, Museum Tower Pokes Nasher in the Oculi

No Louver Lovers, Museum Tower Pokes Nasher in the Oculi

By Bill Davenport on December 6, 2012

In a reply to Nasher Director Jeremy Strick’s public calls pressing the “louver solution” to the ongoing Museum Tower glare dispute,  Tower spokesperson Rebecca Shaw [...]

Posted in Newswire | Tagged culturegrrl, jeremy strick, lee rosenbaum, museum tower, Nasher Sculpture Center | 1 Response

Tom Luce

Luce Resigns as Nasher/Tower Glare Reduction Mediator: Mayor Interviewed

By Bill Davenport on October 25, 2012

Tom Luce,the lawyer asked by Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings to act as mediator between the Nasher Sculpture Center and the Museum tower in their tug [...]

Posted in Newswire | Tagged dallas police and fire pension system, mike rawlings, museum tower, Nasher Sculpture Center, Renzo Piano, tom luce | Leave a response

Nasher Garden on TCLF’s “Landslide” List of Endangered Landscapes

Nasher Garden on TCLF’s “Landslide” List of Endangered Landscapes

By Bill Davenport on October 13, 2012

The Cultural Landscape Foundation, a Washington D.C. based org that aims to raise awareness of historically important landscapes like The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception [...]

Posted in Newswire | Tagged dallas police and firefighters pension fund, museum tower, Nasher Sculpture Center, the cultural landscape foundation | Leave a response

Sisyphean Marketing: Museum Tower’s Letter to Dallas

Sisyphean Marketing: Museum Tower’s Letter to Dallas

By Bill Davenport on September 29, 2012

Dallas’ controversial Museum Tower began its uphill marketing struggle on Friday, with an open letter to “to our future residents, neighbors, art lovers and citizens [...]

Posted in Newswire | Tagged dallas police and firefighters pension fund, museum tower, Nasher Sculpture Center | 1 Response

2012 Fall Preview

2012 Fall Preview

By GT contributors on September 6, 2012

Glasstire contributors offer up their picks for Fall 2012! AUSTIN Emily Roysdon: Pause Pose Discompose Visual Arts Center September 21 – December 8, 2012 Super [...]

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Deadlock Over Arts District Glare Still Deadlocked

Deadlock Over Arts District Glare Still Deadlocked

By Bill Davenport on August 29, 2012

The glare controversy between the Nasher Sculpture Center and the neighboring Museum Tower in Dallas goes on and on. Meetings between the parties have been [...]

Posted in Newswire | Tagged dallas police and fire pension, museum tower, Nasher Sculpture Center, Renzo Piano, tomasovic | Leave a response

Texas Instruments Grants to DMA, Nasher

Texas Instruments Grants to DMA, Nasher

By Bill Davenport on July 5, 2012

The Texas Instruments Foundation recently approved grants of $1.5 million to 12 North Texas arts and culture organizations, among them the Dallas Museum of Art [...]

Posted in Newswire | Tagged dalas museum of art, Nasher Sculpture Center, texas instruments foundation | Leave a response

Brandon Thibodeaux for The New York Times

Dallas’ Museum Tower Debacle Hits Front Page of NY Times

By Bill Davenport on May 2, 2012

There’s nothing like dirty laundry to attract publicity, or as Dallas Observer columnist Jim Schutze put it, “nothing takes our minds off this misery we [...]

Posted in Newswire | Tagged dallas arts district, mike rawlings dallas, museum tower, Nasher Sculpture Center, new york times, raymond nasher, scott johnson | Leave a response

Turrell Skyspace in Limbo as Museum Tower Shoulders into the Frame

Turrell Skyspace in Limbo as Museum Tower Shoulders into the Frame

By Bill Davenport on April 23, 2012

As early as 2009, there was concern over whether proposed construction next door to the Nasher Sculpture center in Dallas would impact artist James Turrell’s [...]

Posted in Newswire | Tagged james turrell tending (blue), museum tower, Nasher Sculpture Center | 1 Response

Rogers on “How Arrogance And Greed Made Museum Tower a Threat to The Heart of Dallas”

Rogers on “How Arrogance And Greed Made Museum Tower a Threat to The Heart of Dallas”

By Bill Davenport on April 23, 2012

The ongoing confrontation between Dallas’ Nasher Sculpture Center and the new Museum Tower next door continues to flood the Dallas press with ink, some of [...]

Posted in Newswire | Tagged criswell, john sughrue, museum tower dallas, Nasher Sculpture Center, Renzo Piano, tim rogers | Leave a response

Glaring Oversight: Shiny Museum Tower Dazzles Lowly Nasher

Glaring Oversight: Shiny Museum Tower Dazzles Lowly Nasher

By Bill Davenport on April 10, 2012

Make sure to visit the Nasher next weekend while you’re in Dallas for the Dallas Art Fair to check out the glare. Reid Singer of [...]

Posted in Newswire | Tagged jeremy strick, john sughrue, museum tower, Nasher Sculpture Center | Leave a response

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