This afternoon, Houston’s boldly colored, but usually vacant, Central Library Plaza is the site for the kick-off festivities for the Texan French Alliance for the Arts’ Open the Door project,…
March 2013
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BlogGlasstire
Infinite and Repeating: An Interview with Morgan Rush Jones
by Katie Gehaby Katie GehaMorgan Rush Jones grew up in Ohio, moved to New York to study photography and then arrived in Austin two years ago to make work on his computer while exploring…
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The Spare pARTS Public Art Initiative, the DIY public art program of the Fort Worth Avenue Development Group that brought the curious Mobius Bench by Glissman & Horn to West…
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On April 10, Austin’s Gallery Shoal Creek will move into new quarters in the Flatbed Building at 2832 E. MLK Blvd. The gallery will keep its name and continue to…
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shit | sh it| vulgar slang verb (shitting; past and past part. shitted or shit or shat | sh at|) [ intrans.] expel feces from the body. • (shit oneself)…
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Among the many details of new Pope Francis I’s past life and attitudes that are being sifted today is his involvement in one of those art scandals that are meat…
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On Friday, March 15, The Art League of Houston will celebrate the life of Cholla Kepner with a memorial service from 6-7:30 p.m. Cholla was an instructor at the League…
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Two new works by artist Sol LeWitt have been installed at the Bill & Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex and Dell Computer Science Hall at UT. Circle with Towers, at…
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Recently I had a chance to talk with Nina Hassele, director of Contemporary Art Month (CAM), and CAM Board Member Leigh Baldwin; both told me all about CAM past and…
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The Galveston Artist Residency and Bill Davenport (that’s me!) are collecting all kinds of things found on beaches near Galveston into one room on April 19, for a regional show…
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Last September, two enormously visible pieces of street art rebranded Houston as a more hopeful city, at least to users of the I-45 freeway through downtown, effectively everyone. Two phrases,…
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Picasso Black and White has all the ingredients of a blockbuster exhibition. The featured artworks are historically significant examples from the best known periods of the artist’s work installed chronologically.…
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News
A Rose Is A Rose, but San Antonio’s Blue Star Contemporary Art Center is now the Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum
After 27 years, The Blue Star Contemporary Arts Center is going museum. The Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum‘s programming won’t change- the primary motive appears to be adding the fillip…
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Retroregionalism: Reaves Gallery Teams With Regional Museum For Weekend Texas Art Sale in Marathon
The San Angelo Museum of Fine Art is partnering with William Reaves Fine Art, a Houston gallery specializing in historical Texas art, to hold an art sale and fundraiser at…
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Asia Society Texas Center reports that Martha Blackwelder has announced her plans to step down as Executive Director after overseeing six years of expansion. Blackwelder will be leaving her post…
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Glasstire distance educator and motivational speaker Cody Ledvina tells it like it is in Lesson 1.1 of his Pedagogical DVD. Feel free to use this information for your own class. …
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I’d rather not point fingers at specific artists, but I am concerned that there is a lack in much of contemporary art of what I perceive as… Passion. A couple…
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Art-chitects Daniel Mihalyo and Annie Han of Lead Pencil Studio discuss their building-in-a-gallery project at UT’s Visual Arts Center’s Vaulted Gallery in a new promo video produced for Glasstire, below.…
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With newsy artworld tidbits slowing to their usual weekend trickle, the potential merger between the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the critically acclaimed but financially unsound Los Angeles…
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Puro Chingon Collective has organized their first ever “Shopping Party” at Treasure City Thrift, 2142 E 7th St. in Austin. Boasting free caricatures by Chingozine artists, free gift with every…