I’m glad to see Laguna Gloria being used as an art spot within the AMOA-Arthouse dialog, but there still seem to be some issues to flesh out and aspects…
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“Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective”
by David Pagelby David Pagel 0 commentIn advance of the opening of Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective at the Nasher Sculpture Center on February 9th, Glasstire is rerunning David Pagel’s review for Glasstire Southern California. Pagel…
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Slinging Ink, a live-action war of words at Houston’s Diverseworks, is back! A blind panel winnows through submitted texts, fiction, nonfiction or “kitchen sink”, choosing finalists who will read their…
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My week of exhibition openings began at Rice Gallery with Gunilla Klingberg, who was kind enough to do an interview with me for Glasstire. We began the interview before the…
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Chinati Foundation Seeks New Director, Prepares Plan for a Post-Judd Future
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Chinati Foundation in Marfa is looking for a new executive director, again. The job description includes some interesting basic facts about the once-mysterious desert art-mecca: their endowment is currently…
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Houston artist Bert Long has died. A Houston native, Long gave up a career as a chef for art in 1979, eventually becoming one of the city’s best known and…
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Last Tuesday night, Kiki Smith headlined the 2013 UNT Nasher Lecture Series to an adoring sold-out crowd that was hushed, reverent, and wearing mostly black. Working primarily in printmaking…
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Prehistoric Lion Man Re-dated: World’s Oldest Figurative Sculpture Shows Cave Dwellers Had Some Imagination
by Bill Davenport 1 commentThe Löwenmensch, or “Lion Man” of Ulm (it might be a woman, but it was named during the “golden age of archeology”), a 30cm figurine carved from a mammoth tusk,…
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On Sunday, NY Times critic Roberta Smith issued a call for museum curators to “shake up the snow globe” and mix folk art into the enervating canonical narratives found in…
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Gunilla Klingberg has transformed Rice Gallery, from the building’s entrance to the interior of the gallery, with her signature radiating patterns. The installation, the latest in her series called Brand…
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Juan de Dios Mora’s “Laters” is More Attention-Getting Than a Chancla Slap to the Face!
by Crystal Benavides 2 commentsJuan de Dios Mora‘s exhibition Laters delves into an imaginary sub-reality created on the U.S. and Mexico border. His linocut prints depict mechanical vehicles in a projected Mayan end of…
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If there ever was a dubious listing for art on eBay, this is it: new seller wart1963ray, with no feedback record, and no other items for sale, is offering a…
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Plant Saga Settles: “Hysteria over a somewhat silly piece of art” fades into “one of the more bizarre art world episodes in recent memory.”
by Bill Davenport 0 commentD magazine’s Peter Simek summed up the Art Guys Marry A Plant saga for Salon Magazine Tuesday. No news, but it’s a foreshadowing of how the whole thing’s going to…
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Modern Art is Like Math That You Don’t Understand: Henderson’s 4D Book Reissued by MIT Press
by Bill Davenport 0 commentDr. Linda Henderson’s famous book, The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art, first published in 1983, has been expanded and reissued by the MIT Press, and just in…
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Beginning tomorrow, January 31, The International Museum of Art and Science invites viewers to watch as Donald Williams, Senior Furniture Conservator Emeritus of the Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute and a…
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This just in from the Blaffer Art Museum: “We are sorry to announce that Gregg Bordowitz’s presentation of Testing Some Beliefs has been postponed until further notice due to illness.…
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San Antonio artists Ricky Armendariz, Cathy Cunningham-Little, Karen Mahaffy and Vincent Valdez will be the first set of participants for the new Blue Star Art Museum/Künstlerhaus Bethanien partnership. Thomas Cummins…
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Sometimes I get comments here that remind me of a friend who recently threw a big party. The morning after, reaching for the Lysol kept on the bathroom shelf with…
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Kelly Klaasmeyer, editor of Glasstire for the past five years, has announced that she will be stepping down to pursue her own writing projects in early February. Klaasmeyer has overseen…
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As of February 8th, I am stepping down as editor of Glasstire to pursue other projects. Some are creative and include more writing, some are (hopefully) lucrative. I love Glasstire…