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…
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Trenton Doyle Hancock Wins $30,000 Greenfield Prize, Performing in Houston Thursday
by Bill Davenport 0 commentHouston artist Trenton Doyle Hancock has been named winner of the Greenfield Prize, awarded to a natinally recognized artist whose work is undergoing significant changes. Along with the money, the…
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Why It Will Be Difficult for Peter Doroshenko to Make Up for His “Stupid Mistake”
by Casey Stranahan 12 commentsThe website of Austin’s Flatbed Press is offering a limited edition aquatint by noted Texas artist Melissa Miller for $1,500. If, however, you were surfing eBay on January 3 of…
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New prints of classic films at the MFAH
by Peter Lucasby Peter Lucas 0 commentMovie-lovers and image-makers should be extremely excited about the upcoming opportunity to see some of the best movies ever in the best way possible. In recent conversations, I’ve realized that…
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This week’s theme was: overwhelming. Many of the artworks and exhibitions I saw were so ambitious and large-scale that I felt consumed by the artist’s vision. In others, it was…
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The Southwest School of Art in San Antonio has been forced to delay the start of its much-anticipated BFA program due to a procedural goof in their application to the…
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The Third Ward Bike Shop, the original program of Workshop Houston, begun ten years ago by social entrepreneurs Seth Capron, Katy Goodman, Benjamin Mason, and Zach Moser, has been spun…