El Paso street artists Silver IsReal and Carlo Mendo have formed a new nonprofit, the “Urban Art Fitters League of El Paso” to paint downtown alleys with uplifting murals. Begun…
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Thank you for being a part of this, Glasstire’s very special 11th Anniversary Year!! We’ve had a banner year and we’re very grateful to all of our readers and supporters.…
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M’Kina Tapscott’s installation New Soil: Tessellations of Dark Matter is part of STACKS, a group show at Art League Houston curated by Robert Pruitt. Tapscott’s installation is refreshingly immersive and…
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People used to gather around the “electric fireplace” at this time of year for Christmas variety shows. These boasted sing-along medleys, unlikely collaborations, corny jokes and often over-the-top clothes and…
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Oh how we long for the End! Is there not something slightly disappointing about waking up to an unchanged world after everything was supposed to be snuffed out? That small…
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City of El Paso Invites Artists to Decorate the Central Business District
by Bill Davenport 0 commentOn Wednesday, January 9, The City of El Paso Museums and Cultural Affairs Department’s Public Art Program is inviting local artists to an informational session on their upcoming Central Business…
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Austin hosted its second International Film Festival Summit December 3 – 5, bringing together film and music festival organizers and industry folks from coast to coast. Staff from Sundance, The…
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D Magazine’s Peter Simek sums up the dramatic occurrences in the Dallas Art scene for 2013 without resorting to tiresome to write , but love-able to read end-of year lists,…
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North Texas E-Publishing Service Offers Christmas Art Book Giveaways
by Bill Davenport 0 commentKen and Barbara O’Toole, of Irish Lion Media and Marketing in Ft. Worth have e-published five monographs/artist books by North Texas artists via Amazon’s Kindle platform, and are offering them…
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As the holiday season arrives, we all have a little reprieve from the busy slate of art openings, lectures, performances and other events. I have used this mini-break to do…
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Houston’s BOX 13 ArtSpace is currently accepting proposals for exhibitions to fill its many gallery spaces for 2013-2014. Artists and curators are invited to submit recent or proposed works, ideas…
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Attention High School Teachers! AMOA-Arthouse is now accepting applications for our annual, juried teen exhibition, Ahead of Their Time. Contact Kate Wurtzel 512.453.5312 x104.
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It’s here, finally, the end of the world. It snuck up so quickly that I’d forgotten about it altogether. As the cycle of the Mayan calendar comes to an end,…
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In October, the Nasher Sculpture Center installed a meandering serpentine sculpture by the Irish-born, London-based artist Eva Rothschild for its current Sightings exhibition, a series which focuses on the work…
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The Dallas Museum of Art has announced the inaugural DMA Art Ball Graduate Student Prize, sponsored by the Dallas Art Fair. Maxwell L. Anderson (Director, DMA), Frances Colpitt (Chair…
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HCP Fellowships Announced: Lauren Marsolier and Marie d’Arcy Get Shows, $3000
by Bill Davenport 0 commentHouston Center for Photography has announced its 2013 fellowship winners: Los Angeles-based Lauren Marsolier won the HCP Fellowship and Houston’s Anne Marie D’Arcy won the Carol Crow Memorial Fellowship. Each…
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In Houston, recycled art-parts warehouse Texas Art Asylum is consolidating its locations: closing their retail store at 1320 Houston Avenue and moving everything (and that’s a lot!) to 1719 Live…
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Art on Fifth, “Austin’s First Contemporary Art Gallery” won’t be on Fifth much longer- a new parking garage is forcing the gallery to relocate after 15 years to 3005 South…
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ZZzzzzzz by Nathaniel Donnett was the result of his one-week residency at Art League Houston as part of the group show/mini residency STACKS, curated by Robert Pruitt. On opening night for STACKS,…
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On Black Friday, while millions were buying iPads for their six-year-olds and guns for their holsters (handgun sales broke an all-time record this year), I was staring at art in…