It’s the countdown to Christmas, and this Saturday, there are a slew of opportunities in Houston to make those last minute art purchases: the East End Studio Gallery Holiday Market,…
December 2011
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The catalog for last summer’s Menil exhibition Ancestors of the Lake: Art of Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay, New Guinea has won the third annual Prix International du Livre d’Art…
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Don't Look. Okay Look.Glasstire
The Index Cards: Vincent Falsetta at The Reading Room
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisWhile others swoon over Vincent Falsetta’s distinctly abstract paintings, The Reading Room’s Karen Weiner swoons over his handwriting, archiving, and documentation. Her small, noncommercial Exposition Park gallery is devoted to…
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Walking through the first floor of Matias Faldbakken’s exhibit, Oslo, Texas, at the Power Station is an exhilarating hazard — spent bullets are strewn all over the floor like a Wiley Coyote…
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News
Barrel Bottom in Sight: Last 100 Copies of Catherine Anspon’s “Texas Artists Today” Signed in Houston Tonight for Lawndale
After a year-long odyssey of statewide book signing events and tireless promotion, the last 100 of the 3000 copies of the first edition of Texas Artists Today, Catherine Anspon’s Texas-sized…
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Road Sign USA, a billboard exhibit space organized by by June Woest is hosting Four Lilys by Lisa Qualls. The sign, #7 in the series, is next to Little Woodrows…
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That void-within-a-void that is the Winter Holiday Break in Marfa has a new bright spot: Chinati invites all students Pre-School (3 and 4 years) through 8th grade to our FREE…
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Video exhibitions tend to be hit or miss. As someone who makes, curates and writes about video, I have seen my share of mediocre video work. Most recently I wrote…
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The San Antonio Museum of Art’s new director, Katy Luber, has been lobbying for the new climate control system the museum needs to stay accredited. Blue Star Art Center board…
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News
Outsourced and Upmarket, Sayeg Continues to Cover the World with Yarn (and Newspaper Clippings)
Austin artist Magda Sayeg’s back in the news- the Wall Street Journal profiles the former Houston yarn-bomber turned global celebrity in a short piece in today’s paper. Sayeg’s meteoric rise…
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Fort Worth Contemporary Art’s exhibit of Angus Fairhurst’s bronze gorilla sculpture entitled A Couple of Differences Between Thinking and Feeling pays homage to the YBA artist who tragically died in…
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This Sunday evening there will be a benefit for Houston artist and Glasstire contributor Michael Bise, who is awaiting a heart transplant he can’t afford, and can’t postpone. The cover…
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The Idea Fund, the re-granting program that funds ideas too weird for anyone else has announced the awardees for its 2012 grants: Scott Gleeson & Dane Larsen (Dallas) Carrie Schneider…
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Lawndale Art Center is hosting Boston Davis Bostian, Jay Mays, and Robin Mack, founders of the GENDER Book Project, for a community editing party TONIGHT from 6-8PM, Thursday, December 8.…
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Three years ago when I returned to Houston from art school, I went to a talk for Project Row Houses’ Summer Studios. While there, I saw this tortilla press for…
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Blog
Back of the Envelope: Speculation on the Economic Impact of an Art Fair
by Claire Ruudby Claire RuudIn the wake of Miami, it seems an appropriate moment to address the economic impact of the art fair. Just before Art Basel and its myriad satellites opened last week,…
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Nibble, Nibble, Little Mousie, Who’s That Nibbling at my Housie? Houston’s Third Gingerbread Build-Off Market Square
Ice the eaves, bust out your spatulas and floorplans, round up the elves, and let the merry making begin! this Saturday, 36 teams of architects, designers, students, enthusiasts, doctors, lawyers,…
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Sonya Clark, whose exhibition opens TONIGHT at the Southwest School of Art in San Antonio, has just received a $50,000 grant from United States Artists, a national grant and advocacy…
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Jet on out to Marfa this weekend, Dec 9-11; LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) is hosting a celebration of its citywide exhibition Nothing Beside Remains, a suite of eight commissioned…
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News
Slick Texas-Based Art/Yoga/Lifestyle Mag Spreading Nationwide: Origin Magazine National Launch Parties w/ DJ Spooky
The December/January issue of Origin, Maranda Pleasant‘s art/yoga/lifestyle magazine, is going to have national distribution through Whole Foods markets; to celebrate, she’s holding National Launch Parties in Dallas (Dec 8,…