W.E.B. Du Bois created the term “double consciousness” in 1897 to describe the way African Americans split themselves into two personas, one for each side of the color line. The…
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Four years ago, Sasha Dela and Ariane Roesch opened a studio on an upper floor of an outdated and slightly ominous looking office building across from Montrose Krogers and…
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Over the River, (not “over the hill”) a canyon-spanning fabric awning planned to begin construction over the Arkansas River in southern Colorado has sparked protest and turmoil; project boosters see…
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Chit Chat with Shepard Fairey and Pedro Alonzo
by Colette Copeland 0 commentFebruary 2, 2012. By 6:30 pm, the line waiting for the Shepard Fairey talk was already a block long. Thankfully, my RVSP and press status allowed me instant entry. After…
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Former GT Contributor Jankauskas Named Curator at Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama
by Bill Davenport 0 commentEx-Glasstire contributor Jennifer Jankauskas has been named curator at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. since her stint in Texas, she held posts as both an independent and institutional curator,…
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CORE Fellowship Applications Open: Submit by April Fool’s for Your Prestigious Residency!
by Bill Davenport 1 commentThe MFAH’s Glassell School of Art is again looking for a new crop of CORE Fellows for its ever-more-prestigious residency program. Residents receive a stipend, health insurance, and private studio/office…
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The Second Annual Caroline Collective Print Sale happens Saturday, February 4, when the co-working venue will transform itself into a bazaar filled with ephemera and works on paper from local…
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has selected Steven Holl Architects to develop plans for their highly anticipated new building art after 1900. Holl was selected from among thre finalists,…
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My blog, Wax by the Fire, is sort of a love letter to Houston and the intelligent, diverse, and friendly community of creative people who live here. Now that the…
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Russian-born Mark Cheikhet is a master violinist who also paints, seeking to fuse the arts into something that Wassily Kandinsky called “Gesamtkunstwerk,” or the total work of art. With a…
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Michele Monseau is holding a one night studio liquidation sale tonight at Three Walls in San Antonio; the pop-up sell off, titled “Take Me, Please”, or “Let’s Swap (Some Spit)”,…
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Seminal Los Angeles artist Mike Kelley Found Dead at 57, Apparently A Suicide
by Bill Davenport 0 commentMike Kelley, a major figure in the “pathetic aesthetic” of the 1990’s was found dead in his home in Los Angeles on Tuesday night by police, called in by a…
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Frieze Art Fair, scheduled for May 4-7, 2012 on Randall’s Island, Manhattan, has announced the names of eight artists commissioned to create pieces for the inaugural show. John Ahearn, Uri…
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New Asia Society Building in Houston Reflects Either “Shared Future” of “Different Balance of Power”; Grand Opeining in April
by Bill Davenport 0 commentCiting an more interconnected world, and the growing role of Asia in international affairs and commerce, the Asia Society, founded in 1956 by John D. Rockefeller to explain Asia to…
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Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrences/ Documented Assignments at the Dallas Museum of Art
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 0 commentThe vertical lines of factories electrify the sparse mechanical sensibility of Mark Manders, even as the DMA’s gallery space is drained of color to fit this factory’s demand for the…
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When I ask Mark Goodman, Graduate Academic Advisor in the Department of Art at the University of Austin, what he wishes he could tell his 25-year-old self about a career…
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It was too loud to talk to her at her at last weekend’s Glasstire/Fresh Arts Disaster Ball at the Colombe D’Or, so Diverseworks is inviting artists to meet and greet…
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The Dallas Observer‘s Anna Merlan visited the site of one of Renowned street artist Shepard Fairey’s murals-in-progress in west Dallas. Fairey is in town at the invitation of the Dallas…
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The Benefits of Eating with Strangers:The CADD Mystery Dinner
by Lucia Simekby Lucia Simek 4 commentsMy husband and I were invited to CADD’s (Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas) latest event this weekend — The CADD Mystery Dinner: Eat Your Art Out, and I have to…
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The Fish Market: Trail of Stolen French Art Leads through San Antonio
by Bill Davenport 0 commentA ceremony was held last Wednesday in Washington to return a Pissarro monotype, Le Marche aux Poissons, to the French ambassador, Francois Delattre. The print had been allegedly taken from…