Houston Chronicle art critic Douglas Britt relates his efforts to create a critical piece of counter-art in response to the upcoming Art Guys Marry a Plant dedication at the Menil…
November 2011
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The wordless rewards at the end of Over, Under and Through: Margaret Meehan at Women and Their Work
Look. We have a problem here that creative people are learning to circumvent. The economy is awful, and while auction-house prices are staying weirdly 1%-er high, the rest of the…
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The other night I was having a kind of tepid argument with friends about art. It ended with a friend saying to me, “Well, you are a critic.” It didn’t…
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Over October 26 – November 1, I visited New York to trudge through an early snowstorm (and the resulting slush and sludge) to see a round of recently opened gallery…
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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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This Wednesday evening, the third annual Cinema Arts Festival Houston launches five days of film screenings, multimedia performances, video installations, and artist talks in venues around the city. CAFH is…
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This just in from PR firm Giant Noise: “Sunglass Hut, the premier shopping location for high quality fashion and performance sunglasses, is pleased to announce the fourth annual Sunglass Hut…
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Quilts and quilting are big business for Karoline (Karey) Bresenhan, founder and president of Quilts, Inc., which organizes three big public quilt shows, including the recently concluded International Quilt Festival…
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Amon Carter’s John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisRugged individuals call for rugged environments. John Marin (1870-1953) does not render the mythological status in art history of Picasso or Pollock, but his work might be a missing link…
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Applications for artist projects for the upcoming edition of San Antonio’s street-art blowout, Luminaria, will go online on November 7. San Antonio’s adaptation of Paris’ “White Nights”, which happens on…
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Ex-Texas artist Jacinda Russell, now teaching at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana recently had a portfolio of her work Nine Fake Cakes and Nine Bodies of Water published in…
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Setting a high-water mark for art-dealer niceness, Moody Gallery has sent out an open letter asking for help for artist (and Glasstire contributor) Michael Bise, who, as you may have…
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“Tony Cragg: Seeing Things” at the Nasher Sculpture Center
by Lucia Simekby Lucia SimekTony Cragg’s work in Seeing Things at the Nasher reminded me of the iconic Old Man in the Mountain—a perfectly natural, perfectly uncanny male profile formed in a cliff face…
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War/Photography: Photographs of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath the much anticipated mega-show that is scheduled to open next November (2012) in Houston, has announced a touring itinerary, making it one…
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Thomas Feulmer and Christina Rees are at it again with Modern Ruin: Quick and Dirty, a second edition of their popular bank-intervention show last year, minus the economic crisis tie-in,…
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According to Douglas Britt of the Houston Chronicle, the search for a new director for the Museum of Fine Arts Houston is entering its final phase: the field of candidates…
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Houston’s fledgling Center for Recycled Art, an educational nonprofit that brings crafty activities featuring re-purposed materials to schools, hospitals and daycare centers, has been granted nonprofit status. This means that…
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Video, Stoners, and Yo Gabba Gabba!
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisH.R. Pufnstuf’s legacy is alive and thriving and hitting the bong. Yo Gabba Gabba!, the children’s television show that airs on Nickelodeon’s Nick Jr. channel, is gaining fans among an…
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Citing attendance of over 10,000, positive feedback from participating galleries, and solid sales, Texas Contemporary co-promoters Max Fishko and Jeffrey Wainhause of Brooklyn-based artMRKT Productions were delighted with the outcome…
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Queer State(s) at the UT Visual Art Center: Out of Nowhere
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischA generation after coming-out stories, AIDS and activism, and LGBT and transgender media celebrities, what does contemporary Queer art mean now?