"I am really trying to recreate this memory, that moment we just surrender and marvel at the things around us.”
February 2018
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It was announced yesterday that a San Antonio couple, art collectors Steven Alan Bennett and Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt, will begin its inaugural Bennett Prize, the largest prize offered solely…
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Although it is a Hopi gaze that guides the mural, the commonalities of its story invite visitors to consider the corruptions of our past, and pathways to the future.
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On Thursday, February 22nd, the 15th annual No Idea Festival will kick into gear in Austin. Featuring musicians and sound artists from around the world, the four-day festival will take place…
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Glasstire has given Solange Knowles much press this past year (here, here, here, here, and here) because she has been very busy expanding her art to include installation and performance…
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The 16 images in the exhibition offer a compelling view of life for the black residents of Central Texas from the early 1940s to the early 1960s.
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Meadows Museum Acquires Painting in Honor of Late Curator Nicole Atzbach
by Glasstireby GlasstireThe Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas recently announced that it purchased a painting in honor of the institution’s late curator Nicole Atzbach. Atzbach, who had been with the museum…
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Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees discuss the new, $23 million Ellsworth Kelly artwork titled "Austin" at UT, and why the people in charge don't want it to be called a chapel.
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Houston’s “Let Creativity Happen!” Program Has an Exclamation Point
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonTwo years since Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner took office and a year since Jonathon Glus left the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA), the two offices have come together to announce its…
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On Thursday evening, February 22, the Cedars Union presents a panel discussion titled ReFORM: Art & Activism, co-organized and hosted by Kirk Hopper Fine Art in Dallas. Via Cedars Union: “This…
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The problem with the work (and the Moody Center’s declaration of conceptual rigor) is that it relies too heavily on the amount of research and the time it took to make, rather than its result.
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The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation has announced the thirty recipients of its 2017 Biennial Grants, reports Artforum. 156 artists were nominated and a seven-member jury whittled it down to the…
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Hiram Butler Pens Letter to NYT To Set the Record Straight on Kelly’s “Austin”
by Glasstireby GlasstireOn February 8, the New York Times ran a fairly lengthy and glowing article about the new Ellsworth Kelly building (titled Austin but often informally referred to during the run-up…
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Hayley Gillespie, the founder and director of Art.Science.Gallery. in Austin has announced that the space will be closing its current location on February 24, 2018. For the past five years, the…
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Rainey Knudson and guest host Julie Kinzelman on the lure of Looney Tunes, the opening of Ellsworth Kelly's Austin, and the shock of cultural acclimation.
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Happy Valentine’s Day to the NEA! (Donald Doesn’t Really Love You)
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonArtforum recently quoted Americans for the Arts president and CEO Robert L. Lynch: “The nation’s arts and culture industry supports 4.8 million jobs and yields a $26 billion trade surplus…
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The Lawndale Art Center in Houston recently opened up its call for exhibition proposals for the 2018-2019 season. Although Lawndale focuses on showing works by Texas-based artists, the application, which…
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Historic waterways in San Antonio and Austin are the settings of ongoing improvement and restoration projects that include components of contemporary art.
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The official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama were unveiled yesterday at the National Portrait Gallery, marking America’s first African-American first couple which were depicted by the first African-American artists…
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The works that artists make about love can communicate something deeper than a Hallmark-card reflex — they can conjure the earnest, heartbroken, brooding, obsessive, disappointed and joyous — sometimes all at once.