Like a lot of people who work in the arts, University of Texas Art History Professor Ann Collins Johns was a little perturbed at President Obama when he dissed art…
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Seven Topics No Artist Town Hall Meeting Should Miss
by Bill Davenport 10 commentsI'm using my Glasstire soapbox to jumpstart the discussion by putting a few on the table ahead of time.
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Artists Unite! It’s Tonight! Houston’s Artist Town Hall Meeting
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentHouston artists should be finishing up their lists of hopes, dreams, and gripes because this evening is the “Artist Town Hall Meeting,” organized by Fresh Arts and Art League Houston.…
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On Sunday, a visitor walked into the Ai Weiwei: According to What? exhibition at the new Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), picked up a vase and, when approached by security,…
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A Call for Artists for Austin’s New Public Art Project
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 1 commentThe City of Austin is looking for a professional artist, or artist team, to design and fabricate artwork for the city’s Montopolis Neighborhood Center. Through its Art in Public Places…
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Bianconi entered a black duct-taped box. The box started jerking, being punched or kicked from the inside. Crisply folded white paper airplanes launched from within began peppering the wine-plied room.
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To draw attention to its current exhibition Made for Magazines: Iconic 20th-Century Photographs, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) is holding an old-fashioned photo contest. Of the 80 works…
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Lacoste, LeTigre and Louis Vuitton are his imaginary friends in the Hundred Acre Wood.
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Louise Blouin seems to be in trouble these days. Her reputation as an employer is so clouded that when the CEO of Blouin Media, publisher of Artinfo.com and Art +…
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Interns on Video: Daniel Bertalot
by Albert Sosaby Albert Sosa 0 commentWho are these people? Where do they come from? What are they hoping to get? Videographer and animator Albert Sosa finds out in his new video series on artworld interns.
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Keep Love Alive with Protein Painting and Glowing Jewelry!
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThose still scrambling for a unique Valentine’s Day experience might consider contacting Brightwork CoResearch to see if there is still space in this evening’s “Sweet on Science” workshop (6-8 pm).…
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Blogger Transcribes Sheet Music from Tiny Butt in Hieronymus Bosch Painting
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 2 commentsYes, this is LITERALLY the 600-year-old butt song from hell.
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After the successes of the scrappy East Austin Studio Tour (EAST), WEST has been picking up steam. May 10-11 and 17-18 will mark the third incarnation of the West Austin…
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The McNay Celebrates 60 Years with a Flurry of Activity and Birthday Cake
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentAt her death in 1950, Marion McNay left more than 700 works of art, along with her house, surrounding 23 acres, and an endowment to establish the first museum of…
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He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven: Remington’s Night Paintings
by Rainey Knudson 13 commentsSeek out these strange and wonderful paintings of a fleeting, uneasy world that embodies a darker side of our state identity.
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We are pleased to announce that Alecia Harris has been appointed as Glasstire’s Associate Publisher, a newly created position. Formerly the Membership and External Relations Associate at the Blaffer Art…
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As a big museum with a lot of objects, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) has maintained a small conservation studio for the last 30 years, but recently it kicked…
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Hawk was lying, facedown, on the concrete floor in a pool of clear fluid as if he had passed out on the sidewalk in front of a club, or fallen off his skateboard. Barefoot, he was Everyman, from Brooklyn.
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Few people look forward to funerals, but a lot of people look forward to the annual rodeo. So this year, the National Museum of Funeral History is hoping to jump…
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Is Dumb Starbucks an Art Project, a Comedy Stunt, or About to Get Seriously Sued?
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentMost people who have been on any social media site in the past few days have read about Dumb Starbucks, the coffee shop that opened a few days ago in…