The DoSeum, San Antonio’s newly opened children’s museum, recently announced that Ricky Armendariz will be the museum’s first-ever artist-in-residence. Armendariz lives and works in San Antonio and is currently an associate professor at…
December 2016
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The whole show is a good inside joke about what painting and sculpture are.
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Henry has developed a personal approach to image making that is grounded in the history of landscape painting, and is concerned with contemporary questions about painting’s possibilities as a form of communication.
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Bert L. Long Jr. (1940-2013) still lives on in the Houston art scene, as well as the international art scene. Long’s work, which straddles the worlds of fine art and…
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Today, December 11, from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m., Dan Havel and Dean Ruck are hosting a backyard party for their temporary site-specific project Sharp. The artwork, which is located in the Houston…
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Artist Kader Attia has done today’s This and That for us. We’re sure you can see the similarities.
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I was more exhausted after one day of art viewing in Miami than I was after a full five days at Disney.
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The holiday art buying season reaches its climax this weekend with some one-stop-shopping chances to support Houston’s creative community and get some well-made objects in the process. Events coming up this weekend…
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Yowza. Dallas Biennial Will Feature Hermann Nitsch and Teresa Margolles
by Glasstireby GlasstireThe Dallas Biennial 2016 (DB16) has officially announced that for its third installment, instead of staging a city-wide, months-long survey of regional and international artists (which it did last time), it will…
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The show avoids a decisive position on the role of narrative by offering a selection of works with the potential to tell a story—or to tell a potential story. That potential is elusive.
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For those of an age (somewhat-pre-conspiracy-theory), there were actual heroes to look up to. John Glenn, who died yesterday (December 8, 2016) at the age of 95, was one of…
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The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio announced today, with the support of the Surdna Foundation (a national social justice foundation), its Artist Lab exhibition opening on Friday, December from 6-9…
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A Chicago architecture firm, New World Design Ltd, has proposed an installation of golden flying pigs (place metaphor here) in order to obscure the Trump Tower Chicago’s 20-foot-tall TRUMP sign…
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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on why you don’t even need to leave your house to see some art across the state.
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A recent resurgence of interest in Carpenter's minimal electronic soundtrack music has led to a victory lap around the globe this year that’s perfect for the veteran filmmaker.
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ALH Artists Inspire Latest Version of Debtfair at Whitney Biennial
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonAs reported by Glasstire a couple of weeks ago in “Names Familiar to Texas Will be in 2017 Whitney Biennial,” Occupy Museum’s Debtfair was included in its list because Art…
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The FBI’s Miami field office had a giant commissioned artwork installed inside its big building lobby last year, and the work proceeded to make a lot of employees sick—even sending one…
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'Lawndale Live' is a live show shot weekly this fall in front of a studio audience at Lawndale Art Center, Houston.
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“On December 8, a group of Dallas college students will attempt to destroy the internet… .”
by Glasstireby GlasstireToday Glasstire received a mystery email announcing something called Media Burn 2016—presumably named in homage to (though not associated with) Ant Farm’s Media Burn from 1976—which will live stream from Dallas this Thursday.…
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: We Can Do It The iconic spread featuring Lynda Benglis from the 1974 issue of Artforum has…