There are few times where I am genuinely homesick, and even fewer times that I miss my birth country. That said, the hardest part of expatriating has always been missing…
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DMA New Broom Keeps Sweeping: Three New Job Titles, But Only Two New Faces
by Bill Davenport 1 commentThe appointment of Robert Stein in the new Deputy Director spot at the Dallas Museum of Art has engendered three more new positions: Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs, Associate Director…
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Texas Christian University in Fort Worth has a new horned frog sculpture. The bronze reptile (technically, a lizard, mind you) by sculptor Joe Spear, is an amagalam of species, and…
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The future is an incredibly difficult thing to talk about. How is it possible to sustain a relevant conversation about something as hypothetical and non-existent as what has not happened…
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Houston Students Visualize a Tolerant Society; Unveil Mural at MOCAH
by Bill Davenport 0 commentA two-month mural project aimed at visualizing “a religiously and culturally tolerant society” made by 24 students from Houston area middle and high schools was unveiled last week at the…
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The 14th edition of Fotofest the Houston photo-art biennial is something special this time around: featuring three massive exhibitions of sometimes overlooked historical Russian photography from the 1950’s to today,…
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A friend and I used to have an ongoing joke about writing a blog titled Double Feature. In this fantasy blog we’d review films that seemingly had nothing in common…
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Robert Pruitt – artist, founding member of Otabenga Jones & Associates, TSU visiting professor and sometime Glasstire contributor – will speak at 5:30 pm, March 14 at Rice Media…
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One of the best things I saw while in Los Angeles was Ming Wong’s Making Chinatown at REDCAT. The Singapore-born, Berlin-based artist turned the gallery space into a fake studio…
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Houston arts patron Toni Beauchamp died March 9 from ovarian cancer. A steadfast presence on the Houston art scene for decades, Toni served as the assistant director at Blaffer Gallery…
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As Frescoes Lift Off, De Menil Posits New Uses for the Menil’s Second Chapel of Emptiness
by Bill Davenport 0 commentOn March 6, workers unscrewed the conveniently removable lid of theMenil’s Byzantine Fresco chapel to remove the sacred bits and Culturemap’s Tyler Rudick was on hand, with a photographer, to…
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LOW IMPACT (RESISTANCE TO FLOW / THISISBOBDYLANTOME) SUBJECT TO CHANGE at Lawndale Art Center
by Rachel Hooper 2 commentsChoreography a collaboration by Jim Nolan and Linda Post. Documentation of opening night performance featuring: Daniel Adame, Shanon Adams, Tina Shariffskul and Prudence Sun. Documentation by Lillie Monstrum. For…
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Abstraction Triumvirate: Richard Serra, Joel Shapiro, Jules Olitski
by Joshua Fischer 8 commentsWhen Richard Serra’s drawing retrospective opened at the Menil Collection, it was SERRAPALOOZA. Throngs of people congregated at the Menil, many of us on the outside lawn in festival fashion,…
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“One Big Misunderstanding”: Artists, Vietnam War Reenactors and Real Conflict
by Diane Barberby Diane Barber 7 commentsThe exhibition could not have been more aptly titled. One Big Misunderstanding, photographs and video by Austin-based Otis Ike and Ivete Lucas exploring the subculture of Vietnam War reenacters, opened…
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Paint by Pucker: College Times Interviews Texan Lip Artist Natalie Irish
by Bill Davenport 0 commentHouston-born artist Natalie Irish makes paintings by smooching and mouthing color onto canvas- she happens to be young and attractive, and the images she happens to kiss into being tend…
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Diverseworks to Give Away Free John Waters Tickets to Filthiest Facebook Fans
by Bill Davenport 1 commentAre you the ultimate John Waters fan? Have you fantasized about rubbing shoulders with The Pope of Trash? If so, then thank your yucky stars because a very generous DiverseWorks…
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The big news this weekend is the arrival of Michael Heizer‘s “big rock” at LACMA, attended by hundreds of onlookers lining Wilshire Boulevard with their camera phones at 4:30 a.m.…
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The Social Network, Arts and Culture Edition: Robert Stein Named DMA Deputy Director
by Bill Davenport 0 commentMuseum internet guru Robert Stein has been announced as the new Deputy Director of the Dallas Museum of Art. Stein is currently Deputy Director for Research, Technology, and Engagement at…
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This just in: “For the safety of our artists, attendees and organizers, Luminaria 2012 is postponed due to the inclement weather. The organization committee involved with producing Luminaria will be…
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Smithsonian’s Sheryl Kolasinski to be New Menil CEO and Deputy Director
by Bill Davenport 0 commentAfter a national search, Josef Helfenstein, director of the Menil Collection, has named Sheryl Kolasinski to fill the institution’s newly minted position of Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer. Kolasinski…