The inaugural Suzanne Deal Booth Art Prize was announced in 2016, naming the recipient as Rodney McMillian, who received a cash prize of $100,000, an exhibition at the Contemporary Austin,…
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McMillian’s elegiac works remind us that America’s current situation stems directly from unresolved original sins that go back generations, even to the country’s founding.
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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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Project Row Houses Launches Fellowship Program with UH McGovern College of the Arts
by Glasstireby GlasstireProject Row Houses (PRH) in Houston and the University of Houston Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts (CotA) are teaming up to launch a pilot fellowship program that (via PRH)…
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Shortly after Dana Friis-Hansen left the Austin Museum of Art (now known as The Austin Contemporary The Contemporary Austin), where he spent nine years as executive director, he headed to…
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UMLAUF Announces Prize Winners: Artists Get an Exhibition, a Lecture, and Cash
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonWhile the yearly UMLAUF Prize usually honors one outstanding art graduate student from the University of Texas at Austin with an exhibition at the UMLAUF Sculpture Garden & Museum, a…
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You Don’t Have to be Rich to Rule My World, (But it Helps): Alumni Collectors to Speak at Blanton Museum 50th Anniversary Show
This Saturday, UT’s Blanton Museum in Austin is hosting a panel discussion among three major collectors (and potential donors . . .) who have loaned works the Blanton’s Through the…
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Art-chitects Daniel Mihalyo and Annie Han of Lead Pencil Studio discuss their building-in-a-gallery project at UT’s Visual Arts Center’s Vaulted Gallery in a new promo video produced for Glasstire, below.…
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The Nasher’s James Turrell Skyspace piece may be shuttered, but Houston is Turrell territory: his third major piece in the city, an outdoor music venue/skyspace/Mayan mound temple is getting the…