In doing research for an upcoming exhibition I couldn’t believe the amount of contemporary art based on chandeliers out in the world. For Similar but Different #20 let me illuminate…
July 2011
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Don't Look. Okay Look.Glasstire
Nasher’s STATUESQUE in the sweltering sun
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisI saw STATUESQUE for the second time on Saturday, July 23rd, from 11:15 a.m. until 12:15 p.m. The temperature was 90 degrees at arrival and 94 degrees at departure. The…
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The Amon Carter is looking for photographs that depict museum visitors’ experiences, and is offering a $100 first prize for the best snapshot in three age categories: under 12, ages…
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Four $5000 scholarships for young artists and musicians went to Megan Wainwright and James “Austin” Allen of Dallas Booker T. Washington High School, Isaac Williams from Lancaster High School, and…
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In a sad and troubled world, Port Aransas' imperfections in landscape and art make it of great comfort.
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Who knew? Houston Community College Southeast, is looking for proposals for their Artist-in-Residence Program for Fall 2011. Including a performance or installation at the HCC SE campus, the artist chosen…
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First all-GLBT Fire Island Artist Residency co-founded by ex-Houstonian Evan J. Garza welcomes first residents in August
Sometime Glasstire blogger and ex-Texan Evan J. Garza has co-founded the Fire Island Artist Residency, the first artist-in-residence program exclusively for gay, lesbian bisexual and trans-gender artists (and non GLBT…
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I wrote awhile back about the need for more unsanctioned, free-thinking, button-pushing art to take place in Dallas — things out in the public that recall, maybe, Dallas’ renegade spirit, or at…
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In my younger days, between my divorce in 1985 and my return from Baltimore in 2004, I moved many, many a time. Each time I moved, I would cull through…
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SketchCrawl: network of plein-air artists take over Houston, Dallas, and everywhere else Saturday.
SketchCrawl, the latest of a new breed of trademarked “let’s all be individuals together” events spawned by the instant international communications network, is coming to Houston (and everywhere else) on…
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Lucian Freud, the man who has done more to renew the reputation of figure painting than any other, is dead at 88. Known for his fleshy figures and subtle surrealism, …
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An orchid is dying. Its brown bloom stalk leans over a stacked set of studio monitors resting on the gallery floor. Lionel Richie’s crooning ballad overtakes the quiet buzz of…
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If great cities are measured by their cultural institutions, Fort Worth is extraordinary. Its Cultural District is compact, pedestrian-friendly and internationally famous for the five renowned museums lined up right…
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Covert Ops: blogger’s conspiracy theory has NEA funding individuals through artistic excellence awards
Real Clear Arts applauds what it sees as the NEA’s back-door efforts to get public money into the hands of individual artists through residency programs, after their direct grants fell…
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Cariou vs arch-appropriator Richard Prince: Canal Zone works on the chopping block pending appeals.
Appeals appear to be going nowhere in the copyright infringement lawsuit between photographer Patrick Cariou and wealthy appropriation artist Richard Prince and his even wealthier mega-dealer, Larry Gagosian. After Cariou…
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The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft has signed on three new crew members: artist Miriam Mendoza is the new Education Coordinator, and will manage the center’s artist residency program. New…
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Fort Worth’s Amon Carter Museum, always free to the public, just got freer. A $50,000 grant from the NEA in 2009 is bearing fruit in a new online database of…
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A one-night event merging sweaty bodies, neo-ancestral ritual, and performance art is coming to Houston’s warehouse district Saturday. Called Soulstice, the event is organized by theater theorist Kevin Holden, artistic…
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Austin’s lone standing arts journalist, Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, reports that Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art is one of seven recipients of grants awarded by the Texas Women for the…
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The Art Newspaper reports an intriguing recurrence in California of the ancient practice of making knock-offs of carved stone sculptures. California sculptor Don Wakefield was surprised to discover a copy…