The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is being sued by two of its members who claim that the museum intentionally makes it difficult to understand that the $25…
-
-
News
HAA Crowd-Funding Site Online in Time For the Holidays: Power2give.org Makes One-Stop Giving Easy
by Bill Davenport 0 commentHouston Arts Alliance’s crowd-funding site is up and running. Months in the making, the site allows web users to browse through projects proposed by Houston non-profits, and make online donations,…
-
Cody Ledvina visits the studio of Seth Alverson. Sort of.
-
Everyone knows The San Antonio Museum of Art has a great collection of Chinese ceramics, but over the past couple years they’ve been acquiring a respectable selection of new contemporary…
-
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft has added newly-minted University of Georgia grad Kathryn Hall to their staff as their new Curatorial Fellow. The three-year position that offers experience in curating…
-
News
Mom O’Twins, Assistant Curator Lady, and Wannabe Hoofer Nicole Atzbach Promoted to Curator at Meadows Museum
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Meadows Museum has promoted Nicole Atzbach to the position of Curator, from Assistant Curator, a position she has held since 2010, when she joined the museum from the Kimbell…
-
In Toronto, a panel of five city staffers with backgrounds in “the arts, urban design, architecture and other relevant disciplines” has been officially set up to decide on issues of…
-
It’s a common complaint that the major art centers and cities in Texas are simply not connected with each other, have little dialog, and generally just don’t share the…
-
News
Kellianne Vallee Named Interim Director of the Galveston Arts Center
by Bill Davenport 0 commentKellianne Vallee has been named Interim Executive Director of the Galveston Arts Center. Ms. Vallee will lead GAC in it’s efforts to return to the historic 1878 First National Bank…
-
The Dallas Museum of Art has received a grant of $94,681 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to…
-
I had an eyeball exhausting fun-filled weekend at this year’s Cinema Arts Festival. Because there was so much of it, and because I don’t have credentials to know much more…
-
News
AMSET Gets $2 million Endowment from the Late Wesley W. Washburn M.D. and Lulu L. Smith, M.D
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Art Museum of Southeast Texas in Beaumont has received a $2 million gift. The Wesley W. Washburn M.D. and Lulu L. Smith, M.D. Endowment Fund was established by the…
-
News
Cuauhtemoc Medina Wins Menil’s 2012 Walter Hopps Award For Curatorial Achievement
by Bill Davenport 0 commentJosef Helfenstein, Director of the Menil Collection, announced Friday that independent curator Cuauhtémoc Medina has been chosen as the sixth recipient of the biennial Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement.…
-
News
Chicano Batman rides again: Nac Film Theory Releases “Caballero,” Episode 6
by Bill Davenport 2 commentsNac Film Theory, a group of filmmakers based in Nacogdoches, Texas has released the sixth episode of “Caballero,” in which a lone hero tackles human trafficking and the sometimes deadly…
-
Emily Roysdon is an artist who lives in Stockholm and New York, when she’s not traveling around the globe, mounting collaborative and site-specific projects. Roysdon was an artist in residence…
-
Google has outfitted cars, vans, trikes and snowmobiles to collect imagery of places like Antarctica, the Amazon and the Great Barrier Reef, and, a few weeks ago, sent a team…
-
News
San Anto Cultural Arts Welcomes Another New Executive Director, Community Arts Org Seen to be Stabilizing after Founder’s Death in 2009
by Bill Davenport 0 commentSan Anto Cultural Arts has a new Executive Director: Harvey Mireles, former board treasurer for the San Antonio Community arts organization, and former Associate Director for The Society of St.…
-
Forget iPhone 5. Instead of buying the latest Apple gadget, I’ve added Magritte VI to my credit card bill. Nothing Apple sells stirs my covetousness like a book on Magritte–and…
-
News
Gagosian Lawsuit Turns Over Art Market Rock: Mega-Dealer Admits Double-Dealing is Frequent
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe New York Times reports that in a recent lawsuit mega-dealer Larry Gagosian revealed that he frequently represented both the seller and buyer in multimillion dollar art deals without disclosing…
-
BlogGlasstirePreview
SLICING UP THE CINEMA ARTS FEST (Part 3: Texas Connections)
by Peter Lucasby Peter Lucas 0 commentOK, well, the Houston Cinema Arts Festival has begun, so its a little late for me to still be slicing up the programming. But I’ve got one more. My final…