Toby Kamps, director and chief curator of University of Houston’s Blaffer Art Museum, is heading to London to take the job of director of external projects at the commercial gallery White…
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For all the controversy that comes along with using Toby Kamps as juror, the payoff is huge.
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When Houston really begins to believe in its own artists and puts more of its money where its heart is, Gulf Coast art might just light up like flaming oil on the surface of dirty water.
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Today Blaffer Art Museum and the University of Houston announced that Houston’s own Toby Kamps is named its new director at Blaffer, after a long international search. Kamps — onetime curator…
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Lawndale Art Center‘s annual very big Big Show in Houston is now open for applications (which is free nowadays); this is its umpteenth year, and every artist from the region you’ve…
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The undeniable truth is that Copley’s paintings, in spite of their humor and limited formal charms, are not very good.
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On February 19 in Houston, the Menil Collection’s long-awaited exhibition William N. Copley: The World According to CPLY opens as the first U.S. museum retrospective of this odd and prolific artist’s work. It’s…
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Frieze has announced that Menil Curator Toby Kamps will serve as its new curator of the fair’s Spotlight section, according to ARTnews. The Frieze Art Fair is an international contemporary…
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The Menil Collection‘s Byzantine Fresco Chapel has been empty since 2012, when the Menil deintstalled and sent back to Cyprus the 13th-century Greek Orthodox frescos it was built to house in 1997. The…
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If you are in search of a show that gets a little gritty and echoes a profound darkness and pessimism, you have come to the right museum. Even the philanthropic goodwill of the Menil's founders is questioned.
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What was it about Wols and this brief, vague period in art history that gave me the impression I was looking at religious icons?
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The Brony Fan Fair is well underway in Austin this weekend, but there’s still time to catch the activities and excitement at the convention of fans of the animated series…
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Josef Helfenstein, Director of the Menil Collection, announced Friday that independent curator Cuauhtémoc Medina has been chosen as the sixth recipient of the biennial Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement.…
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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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Laura Lark Loves You #2: Quake That Thing; California Uber Artists; Where’s a Man to Go?
by Laura Larkby Laura LarkQuestions? Comments? Ideas? Send them to: [email protected] (or leave your message below) Dear Readers, Welcome back to Laura Lark Loves You! Please excuse the lack of an umlaut in the…
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Everyone’s favorite Houston art provocateur appeared in the NY Times, interviewed by Randy Kennedy: artist Mark Flood stuck up for Houston, the willful rich, and the American way, but declined…
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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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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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On Saturday, May 7th, 2011, Glasstire and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presented a panel in celebration of our 10th anniversary. “Regionalism in the 21st Century” featured Robert…
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This year, Glasstire turns 10, making it one of the oldest (and best) art websites in the country. We’re celebrating with a star-studded panel discussion at the Fort Worth Modern…