Art-chitects Daniel Mihalyo and Annie Han of Lead Pencil Studio discuss their building-in-a-gallery project at UT’s Visual Arts Center’s Vaulted Gallery in a new promo video produced for Glasstire, below.…
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Endless Comment on Possible LACMA-MOCA Merger Fills Art News Void This Weekend
by Bill Davenport 0 commentWith newsy artworld tidbits slowing to their usual weekend trickle, the potential merger between the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the critically acclaimed but financially unsound Los Angeles…
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Chingozine Shopping Party at Treasure City Thrift Promises Free Everything Tonight (Maybe?)
by Bill Davenport 0 commentPuro Chingon Collective has organized their first ever “Shopping Party” at Treasure City Thrift, 2142 E 7th St. in Austin. Boasting free caricatures by Chingozine artists, free gift with every…
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art Bids to Take Over Los Angeles’ Imploding Museum of Contemporary Art
by Bill Davenport 0 commentPerhaps forming the Los Angeles County Museum of Contemporary Art, LACMOCA, and saving two letters!? Talk about merging the two institutions has bobbed to the surface before, most recently in…
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Carrie Schneider and Alex Tu: The Human Tour 2013
by Regina Aguby Regina Agu 0 comment“It is hoped and anticipated that this simple act of driving through different parts of the city will bring about a greater awareness to the challenges facing Houstonians and initiate…
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Set your DVR or make plans to watch the world television premiere of Art Car: The Movie. Co-directors Ford Gunter and Carlton Ahrens traveled across the country talking to artists…
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Why Pay Tuition? Dallas Contemporary’s New dcU Lectures Offer Art Ed À La Carte
by Bill Davenport 0 commentdcU, a new program from the Dallas Contemporary, is bringing professors from North Texas colleges to speak on their topics of expertise at their monstrous Glass St. warehouse. Tickets are…
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Interview with contemporary artist Alan Reid
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The third annual Houston Fine Art Fair will move back to the George R. Brown Convention Center this fall, after being bumped to the Reliant Center in 2012. In HFAF’s…
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Quantification Guru Randy Cohen Makes the Case for the Arts in Houston Today, and Tomorrow
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Houston Arts Alliance is bringing in Randy Cohen, vice president of research and policy at American For the Arts, an advocacy org, to spread the gospel of quantitative surveys…
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The Art Guys vs. Little York: The Longest Street in Houston
by Otis Ikeby Otis Ike 33 commentsOn Tuesday, February 26, beginning at 7 a.m., The Art Guys walked the 29.6 miles of Little York Road, the longest street in Houston. Otis Ike, director of the upcoming…
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On March 7, Douglas Steel, founder of the iE Collective, will be lecturing at UT El Paso’s Rubin Center on the use of LED lighting as “an artistic approach to…
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The Houston Fringe Festival has just announced an open call for fringey performers and companies of all stripes for its 6th annual event in October. Describing the festival’s mission as…
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In light of Houston’s apparent difficulty with the nexus of trees and art, it was refreshing to attend a timely and thought-provoking performance-art event involving a tree in Guadalupe Plaza…
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Sometimes Even Trees Get the Blues – With a Little Help From Their Friends
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Houston art Alliance is looking for an army of volunteers to take part in their upcoming “social art action,” Konstantin Dimopoulos’ Blue Trees, at locations around Houston and Galveston.…
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Visual artist and songwriter Terry Allen has a new CD out- titled “Bottom of the World,” his first musical release since “Salivation” in 1998. Andrew Dansby had a detailed track-by-track…
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Passing by The Breakfast Klub last week, I did a double take at Reginald Adams’ newest mural of President Obama. As a community art project, a target of vandalism and…
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The art historian and scholar Thomas McEvilley died yesterday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering hospital in New York. He was 73 years old. A national figure and author of numerous monographs, essays…
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Architect and art collector Bill Stern died Friday, of pancreatic cancer. He was 66. Stern moved to Houston in 1976, immediately finding a place in the booming city’s cultural crust.…
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Twenty Questions: David McGee, What I’d Change About the Artworld
by Glasstireby Glasstire 11 commentsHouston Artist David McGee wishes artists felt less dependent on accpetance by institutions and audiences as a measure their success.