It’s springtime and that means a ton of new exhibitions, including high school student shows. Although these student exhibitions are popping up throughout the state, two shows are bound to…
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Another town hall meeting will be held to discuss the state of the arts on Saturday, May 2, at 11:30am at Houston’s El Dorado Ballroom. The City of Houston has…
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Today Bill Davenport announced that he will be stepping down as Editor-in-Chief of Glasstire at the end of April to focus on his work as an artist. A longtime…
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The Guggenheim Fellowships were announced this week and the list includes Houston’s Mel Chin (in the Fine Arts category) and Austin’s PJ Raval (in Film-Video). In its 91st competition for…
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Linda Shearer officially retired on Friday as Executive Director of Houston’s Project Row Houses (PRH) and, on Tuesday, PRH announced a shift in organizational leadership. Rick Lowe, who started PRH…
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The annual one-day festival of “art, words and noise,” which brings together visual, literary and performing arts organizations, returns to the Menil campus this Saturday, April 18, 11am-6pm. The MenilFest…
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The Dallas Art Fair starts up tonight with its Preview Gala Event at the Fashion Industry Gallery from 7-10pm. It benefits the DMA, the Nasher, and the Dallas Contemporary so,…
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This year’s Art Car Parade kicks off tomorrow morning (9am-1pm) with its Main Street Drag, allowing those that may be unable to attend Saturday’s parade an opportunity to preview some…
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Yesterday, the Dallas Contemporary announced that Pop artist Richard Phillips will be joining its board of directors. The New York artist has much history with the city and the museum.…
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C.D. Dickerson, curator of European Art at the Kimbell Art Museum, has been named curator and head of sculpture and decorative arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. The…
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Hyperallergic reported yesterday that the Brooklyn Museum is launching White Male History Month in April, following Black History Month in February and Women’s History Month in March. Seemingly organized at the…
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The San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) is receiving a big gift of 3.5 acres of real estate, reports W. Scott Bailey of the San Antonio Business Journal. The space…
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What’s With this Naked Art Viewing Thing? G Gallery Bares All Tonight!
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonIf you happen to be in Australia this week, you should’ve already registered for the naked art tours of the current James Turrell exhibition at the National Gallery of Art…
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Performance art, dance, experimental sound, comedy, spoken word—if you like those sorts of things and want to get a condensed version of what Houston artists are doing these days, DiverseWorks…
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Houston’s Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs held its Arts and Cultural Plan Town Hall Meeting on Wednesday evening to a pretty packed house at the basketball court-sized Metropolitan Multi-Service Center.…
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Some Houston folks have teamed up to create an art activist/environmental awareness project that they hope will take over the city. In a polite, generous way. Fossilized in Houston is…
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SMU’s School of the Arts and Museum Receive $45M from Meadows Foundation
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe Meadows Foundation, Inc. has pledged a whopping $45 million to SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts and the Meadows Museum, the largest single gift in SMU history. $20 million…
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Austin’s Okay Mountain, the nine-member artist collective, is about to have a busy few weeks. The Blanton Museum of Art announced the acquisition of Roadside Attractions, a 2012 installation by…
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For generations, Italians tolerated the Sicilian Mafia as a fact of life, even as horrible crimes and murders were committed. But, in 1993, a car bomb went off next to…