Some weeks, in the sun-beat end of the Texas summer, you can count really good shows on one hand, with some fingers left over to scratch. But this week, the drought is over.
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The group Urban Yarnage is set to yarn-bomb (with permission) the new GreenStreet area as the center celebrates the start of construction to transform the property, formerly Houston Pavilions, into…
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Bells and Conversations on 50th Anniversary of a Dream
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentMore than 300 sites in nearly every state will ring their bells at 3 pm today (either local time or EDT), the hour when Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his…
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Geniuses Receive Cost of Living Adjustments at MacArthur Foundation
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe MacArthur Foundation has just announced that it will increase to $625,000 (from $500,000) the stipend given to winners of its fellows program. Since 1981, the program has awarded 873…
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Dallas Home Razed: Nasher Almost Finished With XChange Announcements
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe Nasher Sculpture Center announced its ninth of ten projects to be commissioned for the Nasher XChange exhibition coming this fall in celebration of its tenth anniversary. The project by…
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Feral hogs nudging and nosing constructivist sculptures as if they were ponderous smartphones for creatures lacking fine manipulative skills.
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Those mourning the final loss of any remnant of Hannah Montana (as in Doc-Martins-stomping-out-a-cigarette final loss, as in the-wood-chipper-getting-rid-of-all-the-evidence final loss) may have missed the real newsworthy appearance in the…
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The Modern to Import Contemporary Mexico for Lecture Series
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth has announced its Fall lecture series, packing every single Tuesday evening with speakers. Most of the series is in conjunction with the upcoming…
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A Way Of Seeing: Jem Cohen’s Museum Hours to Screen at MFAH
by Peter Lucasby Peter Lucas 0 commentThe film’s succession of vignettes—from bar conversations to poetic studies of Vienna, great works of art, and museum visitors—is a deftly constructed story of the connections of strangers and a sublime rumination on life and art.
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The University of Houston-Clear Lake’s Art Gallery is bringing together Texas comic book artists together for a one-day symposium, comiCulture: From Creation to Consumption, on Saturday, September 21. The event…
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The Texas Biennial's Greatest Hits show opened yesterday at Big Medium in Austin. Glasstire was there, and If you were watching our Instagram feed last night, this is what you would have seen.
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There are those who would like to learn more about Latin American art and then there are those who would like to give it all a big old bear hug.…
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James Franco Probably Really Not Coming to UH Creative Writing Program Now, Too Busy Exploring the World of Art
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentRemember when James Franco was coming to the University of Houston’s doctoral program in creative writing? It seemed absurdly silly, but a little bit cool, and so it was disappointing…
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Boom Town whispered, “Here we are, look what we are capable of.” On the last day, when the roar of POST COMMUNIQUÉ and the Dallas VideoFest had lessened, the works in Boom Town were given the chance to scream this message out loud.
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As if anyone needs to be reminded of the temperature, the Aurora Picture Show has titled its screening of short films and videos “Houston Is So Hot!” Or maybe the…
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With its first unveiling in June of this year, the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center launched its ARTboard program, putting up art billboards in the “spirit of keeping art accessible, approachable,…
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Bowdoin delivers a load of allusions, imagery, medieval references and heady constructs with minimal clues as to how they should be deciphered.
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Austin Sculptor Wins Design Award for Art Installation
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 1 commentMargo Sawyer has won the CoD+A (Collaboration of Design+Art) Award for best residential art installation (with project partners Lawrence W. Speck, architect, and Wendy Dunnam Tita, interior designer). The first…
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DMA Appoints New Assistant Curator of the Arts of the Americas
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 1 commentKimberly L. Jones has been appointed Assistant Curator of the Arts of the Americas at the Dallas Museum of Art, announced today by Director Maxwell L. Anderson. Dr. Jones will…
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The trajectory of my work for the past 25 years has been questioning the veracity of the photographic image. Could I make a fake photograph look totally real?