Houston artist Emily Sloan is taking her Southern Naptist Convention on the road to Venice CA next weekend. Sloan, also noted for being the curator of The Kenmore, and “exhibition…
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Thursday, June 14 at 8:23 p.m., Twilight Epiphany, Rice University’s James Turrell Skyspace fires up for its public debut. After a few delays, the piece’s website has gone live, listing…
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Breakfast of Duchampians: “It is what it is. Or is it?” at the CAMH
by Hesse Caplinger 2 commentsIt’s possible of course that Marcel Duchamp did not invent the readymade—after all, artists have prized random objects since cave painters first stumbled upon bison-shaped driftwood in the streams near…
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Sicardi Gallery opened up their new building last night and it’s pretty amazing. Sicardi finally has a space that lives up to the ambition of its program which includes…
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Flower of the iPad: Geroge Grosz in Dallas: DMA’s First e-Catalog on iTunes
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Dallas Museum of Art Has launched it’s first e-catalog, an app devoted to the George Grosz in Dallas show currently on view. The interactive book/app is available from iTunes,…
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Menil Picks Drawing Institute Architect: Johnson Marklee Solution Light-Filled (But Not Too Much)
by Bill Davenport 0 commentCulturemap‘s Tyler Rudick reports on the selection of Los Angeles architects Johnson Marklee as the designers for the new Drawing Institute and Study Center on the Menil Campus in Houston.…
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350 Words: “City Zoo” at Brand 10 Art Space, And X Art Space
by Colette Copeland 4 commentsFeaturing seven artists’ work in two galleries, the exhibition City Zoo marks the debut of Brand 10’s new space—And X. Conveniently located on the I-30 service road, And X’s mission…
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Dallas Gallerist Frankie Garcia III Reported Missing, Email Plea For Help Broadcast
by Bill Davenport 7 commentsFrankie Garcia III, partner in Dallas’ Rising Gallery, is apparently missing. In an emotional broadcast email Glasstire received at 11:14pm June 6, from Audra Sewell-Noblique, Social Media and Membership Chair…
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Muckrake Update: Artists Win $100,959.20 Judgment Against Houston’s H Gallery
by Bill Davenport 3 commentsA comment posted yesterday on Glasstire by artist Claire Richards contains the results of a lawsuit filed last year in Houston against H Gallery and its owners: according to Richards,…
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It’s really difficult to talk about foreignness. I really discovered this in 2006 when I returned to live in Austin after living in Mexico City preceded by a research…
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Houston’s Joe Furman Explodes Across Cyberspace with Snake Slurping Video
by Bill Davenport 0 commentHouston artist/reptile hunter Joe Furman has hit the big time on YouTube- “Clelia Eats Bothrops,” one of the seventy or so reptile and amphbian videos he’s posted, has gone viral,…
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The Dream of Bilbao in Austin: Co.Design on Mexic-Arte’s New Building
by Bill Davenport 2 commentsco.Design chimes in on the Mexic-arte museum’s proposed new building, noting the “dream of Bilbao:” the usefulness of an eye-catching structure as a fundraising and branding tool. The article also…
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Grand Theft Art Car: “Make Out, Not War” Truck Left Abandoned After Boost
by Bill Davenport 0 commentIn the big art car city, it had to happen: art car theft. The Houston Chronicle reports on the loss and recovery of Shelley Buschur’s award-winning art car titled “Make…
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Michael Peranteau New Art League Houston Director: Lightning Appointment Follows Weiss’ Lightning Departure
by Bill Davenport 5 commentsThe Houston Art League, the city’s oldest arts organization, has moved swiftly to appoint Micheal Peranteau, one of the city’s most experienced arts organizers, as their new Executive Director.…
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FitzGibbons Packs Up the Show at Lone Star Studios With Gnarly Art Sell-Off
by Bill Davenport 0 commentAfter 5 years of one-night art events, performances and live music, Sean FitzGibbons is retiring from LoneStar Studios Second Saturdays. In an email announcing his final event, which collects all…
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Glenn Downing, Nam June Paik, and Jackelope (an Interview)
by John Aaspby John Aasp 1 commentGlenn Downing was Texas-born and raised “alongside men with little or no formal education; men who grew up using their hands and got where they were in life by just…
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A better world is a small thing to ask for: Danny Lyon at the Menil
by Sebastien Boncy 1 commentYou need to go see Danny Lyon’s brilliant photographs while they’re up at the Menil. The words that follow contain praise, but also doubt, disappointment and resentment. Should my feelings…
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City of McKinney Beseiged by Public Art: Unsuspecting Dallas Suburb Commissions Master Plan
by Bill Davenport 0 commentDan Eakins of the McKinney Courier-Gazette-Star reports on a new Municipal Arts Commission in the Dallas suburb that has landed numerous public works in various unsuspecting locations: Sculptures recently placed…
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This past Saturday independent curator Cynthia Mulcahy and artist Robert Hamilton had a public picnic and reception to celebrate the planting and subsequent bloom of seventeen hundred Aztec Gold sunflower…
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In addition to the piles of bands, gallons of sweat, and acres of pizza, 26 art projects compete for attention along the shores of Buffalo Bayou at this year’s Free…