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.
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I recently had the chance to get into the studio of artist and friend Michael Anthony García. Our conversation about his most recent work for People’s Gallery at the City…
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Twenty-six venues across Corpus Christi are participating in that city’s month-long event, Organized by K Space Contemporary and K Space Board Member Lynda Jones. While the fest’s website is still…
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Dallas Contemporary Taps Local Street Artists For Two Mural Projects: Sour Grapes and JMR to Paint Belmont Hotel
by Bill Davenport 5 commentsThe Dallas Contemporary has announced that it will commission Dallas-based street artists JMR and SOUR GRAPES to each paint 60+ feet of an existing wall at the Belmont Hotel as…
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Houston multimedia artist Wendy Wagner, who, for the past year, has been in a very public battle with brain cancer, (her show, Wendy Wagner: Look to the Left, on view…
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“What is the name of that landscape painter. You know the one I’m talking about; the one who painted atmosphere like uh…like Corot. If I call his name, you’ll know…
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Houston’s David McGee was the the first artist put on the spot in a new Glasstire video series by John Carrithers. Carrithers asks each of his guests twenty questions about…
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Currently on exhibit at the Fort Worth Modern is a focus exhibition on the work of Nigerian/British artist Yinka Shonibare. Shonibare’s work is usually categorized by themes of colonialism/power and…
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Orange Show Adopts 70-Foot Blue Saxophone: Long-time Richmond Avenue Icon Moving to Houston’s East End Today!
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Orange Show Center for Visionary Art has acquired Bob Wade’s “Smokesax,” the much-beloved 70’ tall blue saxophone that for the past 20 years has made its home at 6025…
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Cloaked in blue tarps, the wood piles behind our house shrink daily as we burn the stuff to stay warm. There is one—our shelter-magazine centerfold stack—which we haven’t touched.…
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Texas Biennial Announces a Clean Well-Lighted (and Free!) Place at SXSW, Last Call for Biennial Artists
by Bill Davenport 1 commentThe organizers of the Texas Biennial have announced a series of free public readings in a street-level storefront on Congress Ave. in Austin, amid the hubbub of music and media…
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Suitcase Wheel by Houston’s Art Guys was installed Friday at the San Antonio International Airport (where else?). A project of Public Art San Antonio (PASA), the 16-foot wheel of vintage…
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Anthony Palasota, Omnipresent Fixture on the Houston Gallery Scene, Has Died
by Bill Davenport 33 commentsAnthony Palasota, tireless Houston arts supporter, has died after a brief illness. Familiar to everyone as a fixture at Houston openings, for years Palasota religiously put together a weekly email…
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US News and World Report‘s new rankings for Graduate School of art and Design are out. Selected by polling deans and other academics in 2012, there were no Texas schools…
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Dallas Blog Magnet: Robert Boyd Tools Around, Sees Some Stuff, and Tells All
by Bill Davenport 0 commentLike Glasstire blogger Leslie Castro, non-Glasstire blogger Robert Boyd recently took a rambling trip through Dallas. Though he formed no conclusions, he saw a lot of art, a life-sized bronze…
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The original “TRON” movie, PC gaming in the early ‘90s and the struggles of high school geometry came to mind when I first saw Houston artist Jonathan Leach’s sleek-lined paintings…
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“Stuffed”: Hillerbrand + Magsamen at Brand 10 + andX
by Lucia Simekby Lucia Simek 0 commentI have a longstanding daydream that my house will burn down. I’d pull in the driveway one day to a pile of smoldering cinders that had once been my home,…
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The Progress of Love at the Menil Collection is an ambitious group exhibition that takes on the broad topics of love and African contemporary art with simultaneous exhibitions at the…
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We Open Art Houses (WOAH), Sharsten Plenge’s art-venue-in-a-shopping-mall project in west Houston, is looking for tenants for it’s “affordable, project-ready space” at its new West Oaks Art House at West…