The Satellite Art Show, an art fair aimed at fostering the careers of young dealers, artists, non-profits and artist-run spaces, has told Glasstire that it will make its Texas debut in Austin…
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Early this year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art changed its admission fees to a complicated mess, but mainly it started a mandatory fee for non-New Yorkers, instead of its longtime…
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SMU Releases “Arts Vibrancy Index” and Texas Doesn’t Fare as Well as it Thought it Would
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe National Center for Arts Research (NCAR) at Dallas’ Southern Methodist University (SMU) released its fourth annual Arts Vibrancy Index, which ranks more than 900 communities across the country, examining…
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Two-day Public Gathering in El Paso and Cd. Juárez Will Explore Art Along the Border
by Glasstireby GlasstireThe El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA) has announced its upcoming two-day gathering, titled La Frontera: Art + People + Place, that invites the public to El Paso (and Juárez,…
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What Happened to All Those Old Artist Spaces? A Call for Texas Artists to Remember
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonArt F City has published a zine which charts the history of artist run spaces in Washington DC from the 1970s through to the present, from garage galleries to traditional…
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Toby Kamps, director and chief curator of University of Houston’s Blaffer Art Museum, is heading to London to take the job of director of external projects at the commercial gallery White…
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Don’t know Dallas’ Bath House Cultural Center? Here’s a description from Wikipedia: “The Bath House (one of the first Art Deco buildings in the southwest) is a Dallas landmark and…
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One of the under-appreciated highlights of many Texas institutions and non-profits is their ongoing education programming. From free events open to the community to art schools and classes, our state…
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The inaugural Suzanne Deal Booth Art Prize was announced in 2016, naming the recipient as Rodney McMillian, who received a cash prize of $100,000, an exhibition at the Contemporary Austin,…
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San Antonio Artist Justin Boyd Receives 2018-2019 Emerging Arts Administration Fellowship
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechThe Southwest School of Art has announced that its academic director, San Antonio artist Justin Boyd, is a recipient of the 2018-2019 Emerging Arts Administration Fellowship from the National Council of Arts…
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Fresh Arts Announces Final Winter Holiday Art Market Set for November; Applications Open Through August 26
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechFresh Arts, a Houston-based non-profit organization aimed at helping artists advance their careers and make a living doing what they love, announced this week that this upcoming Winter Holiday Art Market…
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In March, Glasstire reported on the current Creative Time project called Pledges of Allegiance, a serialized commission of sixteen flags, which was launched on Flag Day, June 14, 2017. Every month,…
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In conjunction with its current exhibition Hyperobjects, organized by Ballroom Marfa’s director and curator Laura Copelin in collaboration with philosopher and Rice University professor Timothy Morton, Ballroom has organized three programs…
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Saint Arnold’s New Beer Hall & Garden Features Art Cars & Commissioned Murals by Six Houston Artists
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechLast week, Saint Arnold Brewing Co. in Houston opened a new beer garden and restaurant next door to its brewing facility on Lyons Avenue, just north of the city’s downtown. As opposed…
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Rabkin Foundation Announces Winners of 2018 Prize for Arts Writers
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechThe Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation, based in Portland, Maine, has announced the winners of its second annual Rabkin Prize for Arts Journalism, an award given to eight U.S.-based arts writers. The…
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Now on View: A Mural by Angel Quesada Addressing Gentrification in Houston’s East End
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechEarlier this month, a new mural by Angel Quesada, an artist also known by his moniker “ARTKUNGFU,” went on view in Houston’s East End. Commissioned by the Morales Funeral Home and executed on…
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If you’re a Texas-based artist interested in exhibiting at Artpace in San Antonio, we have important news for you: August 1st is the deadline for Artpace’s Texas Open Call, the…
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Earlier this month, the Austin non-profit organization Big Medium announced that applications for the 2018 East Austin Studio Tour (EAST) will be open to artists from July 10th through August…
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San Antonio’s Hello Studio to Close After Seven Years of Programming
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechHello Studio, an artist-run venue in San Antonio, has announced that it will close after seven years of programming. Founded in 2011 by artist Amada Miller after she moved to San…
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In recent years, works by the New York-based feminist collective the Guerrilla Girls has reemerged in group shows across the North Texas region: the group was represented in the Dallas…