Now with two art fairs under my belt, not only does it really hurts when I sit down, but I have also become the world’s leading authority on ALL THINGS…
October 2011
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Reed’s Not-Too-Creepy Valley Releases Halloween Podcast Narrated by X-Factor Celeb Dermot O’Leary
Austin multimedia artist/illustrator Sarah Green Reed has been collaborating with UK author Matt Brown on The Creepy Valley, a story and activity site about a little monster named Keith and…
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Last week we ran a Mad Lib contest during the Texas Contemporary Art Fair, promising fame and free Glasstire t-shirts to our winners. And here they are, selected by the…
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New York Campout: Alison Ward brings Water Pod Developers to Seguin for Alternative Living Experiment
New York artist Alison Ward, in the papers recently for Water Pod Project, an experiment in collective green living on a barge in Manhattan, threw a Halloween party Saturday in…
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Glasstire Drawing Project #1: Life On the List, Chapter 1
by Michael Biseby Michael BiseThe Glasstire Drawing Project debuts with Chapter 1 of Michael Bise’s “Life On the List,” an autobiographical comic about life on the heart transplant list.
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So, I grew up on this tiny liberal arts college campus that was on an old 18th century farm in almost-rural New Hampshire. There was a legendary ghost, Emma, that…
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Ex-Texan arch-collaborator Andrea Grover formed a “hive mind” with writers Claire Evans, Régine Debatty, and Pablo Garcia, and designers Luke Bulman and Jessica Young of Thumb Projects earlier this year…
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Dan Cameron, Curator and founder of Prospect 1 New Orleans announced last week that he was turning the creative reins of the three-year-old project over to former Menil curator Franklin…
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The City of Austin is looking for local art to fill City Hall for next year’s popular annual People’s Gallery Exhibition. This year the show will run from February 24,…
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Looking at two new books that recently landed in my lap, I’m reminded of Dave Hickey’s description of the therapeutic institution. That would be the museum or ICA or biennial…
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Public art manager Glen Weiss has been named as the new Executive Director of the Houston Art League, arriving fresh from NY, where he was the fonding manager of the…
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Internationally acclaimed painter and sculptor Eric Fischl will present the inaugural Naomi Turner True Lecture at the Glassell School of Art this afternon, Friday, October 28, at 6 p.m. The…
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Aerosol Warfare’s enormous mural, twining its way through the Houston Public Library’s underground parking garage is finished, and will be unveiled TODAY, Thursday, Oct 27 from 3-5 pm at the…
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“In the war, things were in terrible turmoil. What I had learned at the academy was of no use to me and the useful new ideas were still unready… Everything…
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Brooklyn -based Performance Artist Marni Kotak gave birth to a healthy baby boy in New York’s Microscope Gallery on Tuesday. The culmination of her exhibition, The Birth of Baby X,…
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Mind your Ps and Qs: my peeves and qualms about the Texas Contemporary Art Fair.
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You’ve by now heard tell of how this year’s TWO x TWO guest of honor, the artist Mark Grotjahn, got all perschnickered on art-party libations, stumbled off scene just before his…
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In November 2011 the Washington On Westcott Roundabout Initiative (WOW) will break ground on the installation of its newest feature—“The Light Garden,” by artist Tim Glover. In the coming months,…
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The second whoppin’ big art fair has come to a close, and oh! I have so much to say that I doubt, what with today’s average attention span, any one…
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The star-studded Two x Two For Aids and Art benefit, held at the Rachofsky House in Dallas raised a record-breaking $4.8 million for amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, and…