Today Women & Their Work, the 38-year-old kunsthalle in central Austin, opened its annual call for entries for proposals for solo shows for the 2017-2018 Solo Exhibition Series. W&TW is accepting…
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Just as the Dallas Museum of Art opens Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt (members-only preview dates are October 6-8), Istanbul honored one of its most famed felines with a…
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Via The Fashion Law: Dash Snow, the late great-grandson of John and Dominique de Menil (Snow died in New York in 2009 at age 27) is in the news again…
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Don’t bother. They’re here. What’s up with this recent creepy clown situation? Clowns could be considered a form of performance art, but the recent spate of weird, rogue clown sightings…
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For those Houstonians who have never visited the Heritage Society Museum Gallery, now is the time. Its current exhibition, This WAS Contemporary Art: Fine and Decorative Arts in Houston 1945–1965,…
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This is officially a thing. The Dallas Cowboys’ stadium and Jerry Jones certainly kicked off a trend way back in 2009: sporting areas need art these days. Today the New…
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The Houston Urban Experience (HUE) Mural Festival, presented by Houston First, is happening again from Saturday, October 15 to Saturday, October 22. Over 100 artists from around the world, including…
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Last week, Glasstire reported that Texas artists Dario Robleto and Matthew Steinke both made the ArtPrize jurors’ shortlist. (ArtPrize is the international art competition held annually in Grand Rapids, Michigan that gives away more than $500,000…
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Before attending a fundraiser on Friday, Presidential nominee Donald Trump made an impromptu stop at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan, reports MLive.com. Apparently, Trump and…
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The Box Company, a highly anticipated new exhibition space in Dallas, was set to open to the public with a two-person show on Saturday night. It didn’t, because the previous…
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This past week, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art appointed Brett Abbott as the museum’s new Director of Collections and Exhibitions. Abbott comes to Fort Worth from the High Museum of Art in Atlanta where…
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The Austin arts organization Big Medium has announced that it’s gearing up for a 2017 installment of the Texas Biennial, after a four-year hiatus. The Biennial originally grew out of a 2005 gathering of…
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For those hitting the art fairs (the Houston Art Fair and the Texas Contemporary) this weekend—save some energy! Next weekend, the Chinati Foundation is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Chinati’s entire…
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The Box Company, a new art space founded by Jason and Nancy Koen, will open its doors this weekend with a show of new paintings by Dallas’ Francisco Moreno. A…
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Smither Park opened in Houston in 2013 as part of the Orange Show complex of self-taught artist environments. At the time, visionary art collector Stephanie Smither asked Dan Phillips to…
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It was announced this morning that the Hunting Art Prize is no more, at least for the time being. The juried prize, which for each of the past ten years has awarded…
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ArtPrize, the international art competition held annually in Grand Rapids, Michigan, announced its jurors’ shortlist last night. The twenty finalists will be in the running to win their respective $12,500…
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Tonight in Dallas the Nasher Sculpture Center announced that French artist Pierre Huyghe has won the 2017 $100,000 Nasher Prize. (The 2016 recipient, for its inaugural year, was Doris Salcedo.) The Prize…
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The Idea Fund wants to give you money for your offbeat idea or, as they put it, “to provide artists with quick access to substantial financial support for projects that…
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It was announced recently that Christine Gervais has been appointed the new Director of Rienzi, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s off-site museum for European decorative arts. Gervais has worked at Rienzi for the past…