The works and artists included in this exhibition create a compelling thesis on the specific art historical influences, cultural confluences, and aesthetics of this west Texas city.
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Profile
Matthew Ritchie on his Project at Rice, What Makes Texas Unique, and Why He Keeps Coming Back
by Paul Middendorf 1 comment"The thing I've found about the projects here in Texas is people have a very progressive attitude towards art regardless of their political philosophy."
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News
Blanton’s Curator Emerita Francesca Consagra Has Died
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas (UT) has announced that Francesca Consagra, Curator Emerita at the Blanton, has passed away. Consagra was senior curator of prints…
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News
Fund Your Art Project! CADD FUND 2019 is Just Around the Corner
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentThe evening operates something like a PechaKucha Night for original art-oriented ideas about potential projects.
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Facebook’s disabling of my account in November has led me to examine the history of Facebook’s censorship of art as reported in the press, which I share here in chronological order.
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This is the longest-running film festival at the MFAH and this year’s line up is particularly striking and impressive.
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When is art profoundly true and when is it functioning as a propaganda device? And is there a hierarchy in art to which we should acquiesce?
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News
Houston’s Fresh Arts Offers More Practical Advice for Artists
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentLimited to 25 participants per session, artists gather for one night a week for eight weeks to learn business skills specific to their art practice.
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The award, which takes its name from Virginia Woolf’s 'A Room of One’s Own' and comes with a $25,000 unrestricted grant for each artist, is given annually to female artists over the age of 40 in recognition of their career, their growth, and their potential.
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News
San Antonio Art Historian Ruben Cordova Censored by Facebook
by Brandon Zechby Brandon Zech 5 commentsThis November, San Antonio art historian Ruben Cordova's account was blocked by Facebook.
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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on a show that’s perfect for Austin, the re-emergence of a Marfa-based artist in Dallas, and a group show in Houston that has Zech’s number.
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Friends of the High Line have announced New Monuments for New Cities. Of the five participating sites, two are in Texas.
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Video
Glasstire 4×4: Charlie Kitchen – Who or what has influenced your work?
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 comment"My most significant influence was attending college at Texas State and studying under the professors there who sparked my interest in this large-format process, exposing me to photographers like Jessica Eaton, Hannah Whitaker, and Dan Boardman."
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The Houston Center for Photography (HCP) has announced the winners of the 2019 Fellowships, juried by Britt Salvesen, Curator and Head of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department and the Prints…
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Review
Killer Zines: Bayou Life, Tiger Attacks, & a How-To for the Holidays
by Brandon Zechby Brandon Zech 0 commentThis is the third post in a series of zine roundups where I pull some zines from my library — some old, some new, some from Texas and some from abroad — and give you the lowdown on who created them and what they’re about.
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This past season, New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art presented a year-long exhibition that ended in August 2018, An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940–2017.…
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Review
Into the Great White Sands: Craig Varjabedian at Museum of the Southwest
by Rich Lopezby Rich Lopez 1 commentOne of the reasons to get lost in his photographs is because of their luxuriously reflective qualities.
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The Houston edition of the project was the topic of a dynamic discussion initiated by Rainey Knudson's article 'Please Stop Painting The Electrical Boxes (A Public Art Proposal),' which was published in summer of 2017 on Glasstire.
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News
Blanton Museum of Art Gifted 16 Works by Helen Frankenthaler
by Brandon Zechby Brandon Zech 0 commentGiven as part of a new initiative by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the 10 prints and 6 printing proofs will be accompanied by a $25,000 grant that will go towards research and programming around the works.
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Essay
Glorious Art Nerds and the Lecture, Smecture: Tuesday Evenings at the Modern
by Christopher Blay 3 commentsI’ve been watching the nerds that come to these lectures since 1995.