Delicia Harvey, Executive Director of Houston’s Aurora Picture Show is stepping down to take up a new role as Owner/Producer in partnership with her husband’s film and video production business,…
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The Open Blog
James Surls and the Rocky Mountain Art High (Pt. 1)
by John Aaspby John Aasp 3 commentsColorado is where a lot of Texans are (or wish they were) during the summer. It’s a heavenly cool yet rugged place. I too followed the terrible wildfires and the…
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News
Big Projects update: Colosseum Straightened with Billionaire’s Help, Christo Canyon Mired in Legal Mudslide
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe artist Christo appeared in Cañon City, Colorado last week to announce the indefinite postponement of his controversial Over the River project, until lawsuits to stop the proposed artwork are resolved.…
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Former New York gallerist Carolyn Ramo has been named as the new head of Artadia, “the fund for art and dialog” as of July 24. The fund, founded by philanthropist…
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Noting the “almost half dozen features” published in the NY Times about Marfa in the past three years, NPR‘s Neda Ulaby joins the scrum, outlining the tiny town’s makeover as…
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Robotic space probe Curiosity landed safely on the surface of Mars after enduring a successufully dramatized landing sequence, dubbed “seven minutes of terror” by a publicity-conscious NASA, where it will…
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Deborah Velders, Deputy Director of the New Asia Society Texas Center is leaving Houston to take over as director of the Mobile Museum of Art in Alabama. She will begin…
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This piece, just to the right of the door (I always work counterclockwise) was the first thing I looked at at the London Open at the Whitechapel Gallery, and the…
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Bryan Miller launches his new series, Glass Satire, with scenes from Richard Serra at the Menil.
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A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of sitting with artist Christina Sukhgian Houle who is in Mexico City for six weeks as part of the SOMA summer artist…
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BlogShelf Life
Notes from Gotham: What I saw in NYC Galleries
by Lucia Simekby Lucia Simek 1 commentI had 24 hours in NY last month and spent most of it going in and out of the enormous, heavy glass doors of Chelsea galleries (and the confusingly center-hinged…
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After 35 years of service to Houston’s MECA, beloved supporter and communications mananger Emily Zermeno is retiring. MECA is inviting all friends and colleagues of Emily Zermeno to celebrate 35…
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For Part I, click here. Although Christov-Bakargiev’s concepts cohere at the Fridericianum, the most memorable Documenta site is just up the hill at the Hauptbahnhof. There, amidst massive spaces that…
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Dallas painter and SMU professor Bill Komodore has died. He was born in Athens, Greece in 1932, and moved to the United States and received his formal education at Tulane…
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Four San Antonio artists will be chosen by a jury of art professionals (TBA) to work at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin for three-month residencies between July 2013 and June…
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GlasstireReview
“Big Bend” by Jack Ridley at Photographs Do Not Bend
by Christina Patoski 4 commentsIn the not so distant past, being a photographer required more skills than being able to point and shoot. Beginning in the early 19th century, portrait photographers grappled with metal…
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News
Leonardo as Salvator Mundi: Star Power AND Solidity Can the DMA Have it All, For A Price?
by Bill Davenport 1 commentArt in America reports that the Dallas Museum of art is considering the purchase of a painting newly attributed to Leonardo Da Vinci for an estimated $200 million, and actually…
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BlogShelf Life
My (partial) Experience of Design District Gallery Day
by Lucia Simekby Lucia Simek 2 commentsThis past weekend CADD hosted another effort to get people into galleries, called Design District Gallery Day. I did not, I’ll admit, spend the day participating in Gallery Day, though…
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Curator, writer, and onetime Glasstire editor Rachel Cook is returning to Houston with a n MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College as the newly created Assistant…
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Every five years, the German town of Kassel is transformed into Documenta, a sprawling, intellectual exhibition considered a must-see by curators, collectors, and critics the world around. This year, I…