In today’s Wall St. Journal, Willard Spiegelman rhapsodizes about the Interfaith Peace Chapel in Dallas, a curiously up-to date cement cave that was Philip Johnson’s last project before his death.…
December 2010
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The Houston Arts Alliance is developing an "internationally recognized" temporary art program, just like Austin’s! HAA’s head of Civic Art & Design, Matthew Lennon, will direct the initiative, described in…
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Kaneem Smith: Glasstire.com Artist Profile from Eric Jarvis on Vimeo.
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There are number of shows up in the Design District that feature small, very affordable sculpture. I wondered at first about a nascent trend. Then of course I realized that…
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Glasstire and Fresh Arts coalition are pre-viewing our upcoming silent auction online, allowing holiday-minded arts supporters to make a "preemptive strike and snag an artwork without all that competitive bidding."…
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Need some peace and quiet around the holidays? Or perhaps a place to send out-of-town family and friends? Or maybe a last-minute gift? The Rothko Chapel will be open on…
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The Marfa Book Company’s spare, beautiful installation of works on paper by Ian Hamilton Finlay—a Scottish poet, writer, artist and noted gardener who died in 2006—creates an environment that encourages…
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Like Glasstire, the Dallas Morning News is struggling to corral substantive info this holiday season; today they ran a piece about the Devil’s Rope Museum in McClean,TX. Located in a…
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The most complete skeleton of the pre-dinosaur Dimetrodon to be unearthed in 100 years is being uncovered in North Texas. Favored among kids for its enormous spinal fin and steak-knife…
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Few things are more universally maligned by artists than a canvas full of bluebonnets. I admit I have been guilty of disparaging the shameless embrace of bluebonnet landscape paintings, prominently…
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After and eight-year restoration project, the famed leaning tower of Pisa is somewhat straighter, is less likely to topple over, and is a lot cleaner. Engineers managed to straighten it…
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The Chinati Foundation helps fill those semi-arid school holidays with art activities for kids: Monday it’s Squares, Rectangles, Peanuts; festive light cubes on Tuesday, a scavenger hunt on Wednesday, kites…
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March 2011 will be the 26th annual San Antonio Contemporary Art Month, and their open-ended calendar is open-ended for submissions. Anyone planning on participating (and that can be everyone) can…
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European tax authorities have ruled that light and video projection works by Bill Viola and Dan Flavin are not art under the VAT rules, and are thus subject to a…
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83-year-old uber-kitchmeister David Addickes is packing up his Summer St. studio in Houston, and moving his operations to his former high school in Huntsville, which he bought and will transform…
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The UT-Dallas arts and technology program just got a $5 million anonymous donation to create endowed positions for research faculty. It’s the largest donation in the history of its School…
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For The Trees Matthew Ronay’s Between The Worlds, at the Hudson (Show)Room, Artpace, appears alternately rooted and nomadic. Yurt, grotto, hall of mirrors, night wood, it beckons a walk through…
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The people in Dallas who know about these things have all heard of Dan H. Phillips, but I figure most everyone elsewhere in the state has yet to run across…
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Yesterday morning, reddish-brown mud began welling up from cracks in the concrete floor at Houston’s Inman Gallery in the Isabella Court building. The ooze pooled and spread, eventually covering much…
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Menil Director Josef Helfenstein announced that Adam Szymczyk is the 2011 Recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement. Szymczyk is the director and chief curator of Kunsthalle Basel.…