Houston’s DiverseWorks has announced the appointment of independent curator Ashley DeHoyos as its new assistant curator. She will begin her new position on May 14. She comes to DiverseWorks from Baltimore,…
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Back in the early aughts, Dave Bryant and Peat Duggins co-founded one of Austin’s more memorable and active art collectives, called the Fresh Up Club. (The other active collective at…
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Jerry Saltz has won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, reports ARTnews, among other publications. The New York magazine senior art critic won for his article “My Life as a…
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Going forward, what if Vignette moved away from the regionalized survey, and curators worked together on a conceptual theme, and artists proposed site-specific projects? We need to go a lot more rogue.
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Creative Capital and The Andy Warhol Foundation announced today that applications for their annual Arts Writers Grant are now active. Open to both emerging and established writers, the grant features awards ranging…
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Houston-based artist Anthony Sonnenberg, who has been producing a lot of excellent work lately (with shows at Conduit Gallery in Dallas, both Art Palace and Lawndale in Houston, and the…
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Those kids in Florida who survived the recent school shooting have inspired youth (and older folks) throughout the nation. It seems that they have also touched students at Houston’s High…
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Here’s what I think. I think the fair is, this year, powered along by its own momentum. I think it’ll take a couple of years to feel the impact of new directors and a fair without Chris Byrne.
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Kristen Visbal, the artist who a year ago created and installed her Fearless Girl statue squaring off with the iconic Wall Street bull, has announced that she will be making and…
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A conversation with guests Felicia Johnson and Stanford W. Carpenter: "The way the character was originally created, he was basically Sidney Poitier with a mask on."
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San Angelo National Ceramic Competition Enters Its 22nd Year
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentEvery other year the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts hosts The San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and this year’s event opens with a reception on Friday, April 20, 2018 from…
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Highlights from UH’s 40th Annual Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
by Brandon Zechby Brandon Zech 0 commentEvery year, the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston hosts the school's exhibition of graduating MFA candidates. Here's some of the things I liked.
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Three years ago the Dallas Museum of Art launched its Dallas Art Fair Foundation Acquisition Program. Each year the museum’s curators/directors walk patrons around the Dallas Art Fair to pick…
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Houston’s Sawyer Yards has announced that it is opening another building. The former Halliburton manufacturing plant has been converted to Sabine Street Studios, adding to the complex’s warehouses which include…
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Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on the Dallas Fire Marshal's War On Art, the Texas artist every museum should own, and masturbation. In art.
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Round Rock, Texas will serve as this year’s annual SculptFest location, put on by the Texas Society of Sculptors (TSOS). The free event will take place Friday, April 27 through…
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Vignette Art Fair Will Host Two Panel Discussions About Women in the Arts
by Glasstireby Glasstire 2 commentsThe Vignette Art Fair, a still-quite-new addition to Dallas Arts Month and something of a satellite fair to the Dallas Art Fair, is hosting a couple of panel discussions this…
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Quarm's paintings speak to cultural excavation and sustained self-discovery.
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The Fine Arts Library (FAL) at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) will put a stop to transferring its collection off site, reports Hyperallergic. Glasstire has followed the dismantling…
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New Artist Residency Opens in South Austin; Applications Due Soon
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentThe St. Elmo Arts Residency, a new program offered by the University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Art and Art History in conjunction with the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower…