The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced today that it will award $18.6 million in grants to 199 humanities projects across the country, reports Artforum. One of the major…
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A few decades of drab and rapacious suburban planning cannot suppress beauty forever. Let’s take a tour of three of the gems of Sugar Land.
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[SPONSOR] Thin Line Fest Announces Best Documentary Film Lineup in its 11-Year History
by Sponsorby Sponsor 0 commentThis year it's paired with a wide variety of music and impressive photography.
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Art Market Productions, the Brooklyn-based partnership that organizes and runs the Texas Contemporary Art Fair in Houston, announced recently that the fair will return for its seventh edition in the…
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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. ― Leonardo da Vinci Houston’s Writers in the Schools (WITS) have…
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Austin’s Museum of Human Achievement Brings Lawsuit Against Mars Candy and Its SXSW Marketing Companies for Allegedly Plagiarizing Designs
by Brandon Zechby Brandon Zech 5 commentsAustin-based art non-profit organization The Museum of Human Achievement (MoHA) has brought a lawsuit against three companies — Collide Agency, Inc.; Integer Group, LLC; and Mars Wrigley Confectionery U.S. LLC…
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You could publish the most interesting and entertaining article in the history of humanity on Facebook, but if you don’t put money behind it, nobody will ever see it.
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Sarah Fox’s multi-media works are simultaneously unsettling, tactile and elusive, suggesting a childlike fairytale ambience and dark sexual symbolism.
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Learn About the Houston Art Scene of the ’70s and ’80s
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentArt Historian Pete Gershon and author of the upcoming book “Collision: Contemporary Artists Working in Houston, 1972-1985” will present a talk of the same name on Monday, April 9, 9:30am,…
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Early Texas Art Symposium Takes Place This Month In San Antonio
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentThe Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art (CASETA), will hold its annual symposium at the Witte Museum in San Antonio on April 27-29, 2018. The mission…
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The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has named its 2018 fellow reports ARTnews. Austin/Elgin artist Margo Sawyer was one of 175 recipients awarded to scholars, artists, and writers. (For the…
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Unrestricted $10K Awards For Artists: Houston Artadia Applications Now Open
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentArtadia, the national non-profit “that supports visual artists with unrestricted, merit-based awards and fosters connections to a network of opportunities” has opened its Houston-based applications for two $10,000 prizes to…
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Brandon Zech and guest host Julia Claire Wallace on portraits of Houston’s grassroots players, a self-taught painter who fools the eye, and a proliferation of performance art in the coming week.
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CAMH Announces New Lawn Installation by Austin Artist Bucky Miller
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentThe Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) announced today that it will install works by Austin-based artist Bucky Miller throughout its front and back lawns as a continuation of its Art on the…
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The Vignette Art Fair, a satellite fair that runs simultaneously with the Dallas Art Fair, takes place April 10-15, 2018 at the Women’s Museum in Fair Park in Dallas and…
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The Unexpected Art of North Houston’s Auto Shops
by Brandon Zechby Brandon Zech 5 commentsThe painted tires and sculpture-like assemblages fronting the small businesses along North Shepherd are so readily visible because that's their function — they’re signs that can be grasped in a drive-by moment, symbols of the businesses from which they spring.
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Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum is Boss, Rad, Cool, Lit
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum (PPHM), the largest history museum in Texas, is celebrating 85 years with a Founder’s Day celebration from 1pm to 3pm on Saturday, April 14. To honor…
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Art Beef, the Dallas-based artist collective that for years has been operating Beefaus, an art space in Expo Park, has told Glasstire that the space will close its doors this…
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The whole show functions as a gentle commentary on how the movie version of circa-1870 has always been a formalized Hollywood mediation of a much harsher truth.
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Southwest School of Art Finally Has Its First Graduates
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentBack in 2014, San Antonio’s Southwest School of Art (SSA) announced its new BFA program. Now that first class of candidates will receive their degrees with fanfare. On April 29, eleven…