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November 2011
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Artcrawl, Houston’s 19th annual open studio event takes place next weekend, on Saturday, November 19. More than 180 artists and studios, will be participating this time around, so I’ll leave…
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On Friday, Houston real estate blog Swamplot ran a story about plans to turn an abandoned J.C. Penny department store in Houston’s declining West Oaks Mall into a “multi-disciplinary, multi-use…
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BlogShelf Life
Qui Anxiong: Animated Narratives at the Crow Collection
by Lucia Simekby Lucia SimekWhen I wrote about the show of Qui Anxiong’s animated films at the Crow Collection for a kids’ blog yesterday, I began with a disclaimer about the sometimes mature themes in…
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Follow Chupacabrona across the Rio Grande Valley, along the border, and into West Texas, and see challenging contemporary work from this under-reported region. You can donate, too.
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The Chupacabrona Tour: One woman, a car, a computer and a camera set out to cover challenging contemporary art in South and West Texas.
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Two-year old web art and print gallery Artmuse.com, out of Austin has redesigned its website and is making another marketing push, trying out a business model based on providing an…
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This Thursday, members of the El Paso Museum of Art gather for a strange ritual: voting on museum accessions! Every year at their Member’s Chioce event, the self-anointed group reviews…
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Gaile Robinson, art critic for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, made the trek to the new Crystal Bridges Museum of Art in Bentonville, Arkansas and turned in a detailed report on…
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ArticleReview
Something This Way Comes: Randy Wallace’s “Postdimensionalman”
by Hills Snyderby Hills SnyderI’m a lucky guy. I’ve already outlived Doc Holliday by twenty-four years and just the other day I came upon a new Randy Wallace piece, Postdimensionalman, at Trinity University in…
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Gonzo247 of Aerosol Warfare has just put the finishing touches on a mural in the second floor of the Saint Arnold Brewery in Houston’s Fifth Ward. Gonzo has become the…
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The Rockport city council voted on November 8th not to accept the Cora Keeler Art Collection after all, despite the efforts of the city’s Keeler Collection Acceptance Committee, which tried…
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The new permanent installation at Montrose’s busiest intersection, Montrose and Westheimer, is a laudable example of public art that truly reflects the ethos of its surroundings as well as trends…
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BlogGlasstire
Life Out Of Balance, Writ Large – Koyaanisqatsi Tonight at the MFAH
by Peter Lucasby Peter LucasI want to call attention to one film in the Cinema Arts Fest that, while nestled quietly and rather buzzless in the schedule between exciting premieres, audiovisual performances, and parties,…
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The Judd Foundation in Marfa has hired a former senior sculpture conservator at the Tate in London to look after their art in the windy West Texas desert. Mette Carlsen…
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The Houston Convention and Visitors bureau is trying a bit of marketing jujitsu: instead of bemoaning the Hotel Occupancy Tax that slaps an added 7% onto your bill, they have…
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News
Austin Merger Mania Strikes Houston Nonprofits: Fresh Arts and Spacetaker Rumored to Tie the Knot
This just in: Houston non-profits Fresh Arts Coalition and Spacetaker are reportedly “in talks” to merge. The Glasstire mission statement match-maker shows that the new couple have many shared interests,…
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One pitfall of installing dreck on your campus is that future webmasters may feature it online, unwittingly delivering backhanded insults to your university’s programs.
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ArticleGlasstireReview
Letter from LA: “Roland Reiss, Personal Politics: Sculpture from the 1970s and 1980s”
by David Pagelby David Pagel“Roland Reiss, Personal Politics: Sculpture from the 1970s and 1980s” at the Pasadena Museum of California Art is not part of “Pacific Standard Time.” The Getty-funded project, advertised as a…
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The world premier of Art Car: The Movie! happens this Sunday evening at the Miller Outdoor Theater, and it’s free! The film, by Del Monte Films, follows a handful of…