At 5:30 pm at the October 11 City council meeting, Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell will proclaim October “Austin Creates!” month. The proclamation will be accepted by Cultural Arts Program Manager…
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Deborah L. Roldán Appointed New Assistant Director for Exhibitions at MFAH
by Bill Davenport 0 commentFormerly curator and exhibition coordinator at the Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Ms Roldán was appointed to newly created position aimed at streamlining exhibition planning and management. Roldán was co-curator, with…
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Los Angeles conceptual photographer Uta Barth has been selected to receive one of 23 MacArthur Foundation genius grants, along with photographer An-My Le and others. Each fellow receives a monetary…
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Chupacabrona, California (Two: Grad school confidential)
by Sarah Fischby Sarah Fisch 5 commentsAm I a washout as a modern American thinker if I have trouble learning Photoshop? ...Yes, right? Shit.
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Glasstire Auction Free Public Preview and Catalog Giveaway Wednesday Evening, Oct. 3
by Bill Davenport 0 commentBefore you hunker down for The Second Coming of Lincoln-Douglas this Wednesday, swing by the FREE PUBLIC Glasstire auction preview! Be the first to pick up a complimentary copy of…
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Rice Arts Survey Dissects Houstonian’s Arts Attitudes, Finds Unexpected Hope Amid Bar Graphs
by Bill Davenport 0 commentRice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research released the results of their 2012 Houston Arts Survey, a study of the attitudes of Houstonians towards the arts on Sept 25. The…
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Just a heads up: this week I may end up skipping a pretty large portion of “happenings” on the show in order to vent a little bit on a different…
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In Plain Sight at McClain Gallery, organized by Aaron Parazette, is an exhibition of 40 paintings by 40 Houston artists. Its essential premise, apart from a group photo-op, is…
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MATCH Catches Fire: Former IAC Promised $6.75 Million in Funding for Houston Midtown Arts and Theater Center
by Bill Davenport 1 commentThe MATCH (formerly the Independent Arts Collaborative), has received a $750,000 grant from the Fondren Foundation, and has been promised $6 million from the Houston Endowment Inc. “Beyond grateful,” the…
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Dallas’ controversial Museum Tower began its uphill marketing struggle on Friday, with an open letter to “to our future residents, neighbors, art lovers and citizens of Dallas” in the Dallas…
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On Art, Economic Impact, and the Dark Side of Free Market Capitalism
by Rainey Knudson 6 commentsThree things: 1. Amid the brouhaha following Paul Schimmel’s departure from MoCA this summer, Eli Broad was quoted in the LA Times as estimating the value of MoCA’s exhibits by…
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1988 was a rotten time to be a teenager. During the Reagan-Bush era, you had to put in a lot of work to hear something other than Bon…
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TX Contemporary Spawns First Spin-Off: Pan Art Fair Set for Embassy Suites in Downtown Houston – Book Now!
by Bill Davenport 6 commentsHouston art blogger Robert Boyd of The Great God Pan is Dead is organizing his own art fair to coincide with the Texas Contemporary Art Fair on the weekend of…
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Photography’s long-sought after decisive moment is happening more and more online, as meta-photographers aim their sensitivities at vast databases of machine-collected imagery from Google and other sources. In The Nine…
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Texas legend (and sometime Glasstire contributor) Mark Flood, having just finished successful and controversial gallery showings in Manhattan, is set to take over a Bushwick basement, inaugurating the new Grimm…
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Michael Miller reports in Gallerist NY that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed a bill that makes it a misdemeanor for an art dealer to use funds owed to an artist…
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Mexican artist Yvonne Domenge‘s 13-foot abstracted yellow sphere, “Tabachin Ribbon”, could be heading to Fort Worth in the next few weeks. For the last year and a half, the carbon…
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“Mimi Kato: One Ordinary Day of an Ordinary Town” at Conduit Gallery
by Garry Reeceby Garry Reece 2 commentsOne Ordinary Day of an Ordinary Town, Mimi Kato’s current exhibition on view at Conduit Gallery, is a continuation of the hybrid digital landscapes she first presented at ArtPace…
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A Study in Contrasts: Paul Thomas Anderson and Laurie Anderson
by Katie Gehaby Katie Geha 2 commentsI ended my weekend by going to see the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie The Master. The film is broadly about a Scientology-like group in post-war America who believe, through…
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Houston’s famed folk art envoronment has a famed warehouse, full of stuff that they’ve been storing for many years, including building materials, warehouse equpment, tools, scrap metal, potential art supplies,…