The catalog for last summer’s Menil exhibition Ancestors of the Lake: Art of Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay, New Guinea has won the third annual Prix International du Livre d’Art…
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The Index Cards: Vincent Falsetta at The Reading Room
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 2 commentsWhile others swoon over Vincent Falsetta’s distinctly abstract paintings, The Reading Room’s Karen Weiner swoons over his handwriting, archiving, and documentation. Her small, noncommercial Exposition Park gallery is devoted to…
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Walking through the first floor of Matias Faldbakken’s exhibit, Oslo, Texas, at the Power Station is an exhilarating hazard — spent bullets are strewn all over the floor like a Wiley Coyote…
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Barrel Bottom in Sight: Last 100 Copies of Catherine Anspon’s “Texas Artists Today” Signed in Houston Tonight for Lawndale
by Bill Davenport 1 commentAfter a year-long odyssey of statewide book signing events and tireless promotion, the last 100 of the 3000 copies of the first edition of Texas Artists Today, Catherine Anspon’s Texas-sized…
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Road Sign USA, a billboard exhibit space organized by by June Woest is hosting Four Lilys by Lisa Qualls. The sign, #7 in the series, is next to Little Woodrows…
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Arp Art For Kids: Chinati Fills Winter Break With Children’s Art Classes
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThat void-within-a-void that is the Winter Holiday Break in Marfa has a new bright spot: Chinati invites all students Pre-School (3 and 4 years) through 8th grade to our FREE…
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Video exhibitions tend to be hit or miss. As someone who makes, curates and writes about video, I have seen my share of mediocre video work. Most recently I wrote…
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San Antonio Cultural Insitutions Vie For the Pie at the 2012-2017 Bond Issue Table
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe San Antonio Museum of Art’s new director, Katy Luber, has been lobbying for the new climate control system the museum needs to stay accredited. Blue Star Art Center board…
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Outsourced and Upmarket, Sayeg Continues to Cover the World with Yarn (and Newspaper Clippings)
by Bill Davenport 0 commentAustin artist Magda Sayeg’s back in the news- the Wall Street Journal profiles the former Houston yarn-bomber turned global celebrity in a short piece in today’s paper. Sayeg’s meteoric rise…
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Angus Fairhurst at Fort Worth Contemporary Art: Guerilla Gorilla
by Colette Copeland 4 commentsFort Worth Contemporary Art’s exhibit of Angus Fairhurst’s bronze gorilla sculpture entitled A Couple of Differences Between Thinking and Feeling pays homage to the YBA artist who tragically died in…
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This Sunday: Boom Boom Benefit for Michael Bise’s New (Pre-Owned) Heart
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThis Sunday evening there will be a benefit for Houston artist and Glasstire contributor Michael Bise, who is awaiting a heart transplant he can’t afford, and can’t postpone. The cover…
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To Boldly Fund, Where No One Has Funded Before: Idea Fund 2012 Grantees Announced
by Bill Davenport 1 commentThe Idea Fund, the re-granting program that funds ideas too weird for anyone else has announced the awardees for its 2012 grants: Scott Gleeson & Dane Larsen (Dallas) Carrie Schneider…
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Get Your Hive Mind Workin’: Gender Bookswarming Event at Lawndale TONIGHT!
by Bill Davenport 1 commentLawndale Art Center is hosting Boston Davis Bostian, Jay Mays, and Robin Mack, founders of the GENDER Book Project, for a community editing party TONIGHT from 6-8PM, Thursday, December 8.…
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Three years ago when I returned to Houston from art school, I went to a talk for Project Row Houses’ Summer Studios. While there, I saw this tortilla press for…
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Back of the Envelope: Speculation on the Economic Impact of an Art Fair
by Claire Ruudby Claire Ruud 5 commentsIn the wake of Miami, it seems an appropriate moment to address the economic impact of the art fair. Just before Art Basel and its myriad satellites opened last week,…
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Nibble, Nibble, Little Mousie, Who’s That Nibbling at my Housie? Houston’s Third Gingerbread Build-Off Market Square
by Bill Davenport 0 commentIce the eaves, bust out your spatulas and floorplans, round up the elves, and let the merry making begin! this Saturday, 36 teams of architects, designers, students, enthusiasts, doctors, lawyers,…
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Hair Sculptor Clark Wins $50,000 US Artists Grant; Show Opens TONIGHT at SW School in SA
by Bill Davenport 1 commentSonya Clark, whose exhibition opens TONIGHT at the Southwest School of Art in San Antonio, has just received a $50,000 grant from United States Artists, a national grant and advocacy…
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Marfa: It’s Not Just New York Anymore: LA’s LAND Curates Outpost Exhibition
by Bill Davenport 0 commentJet on out to Marfa this weekend, Dec 9-11; LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) is hosting a celebration of its citywide exhibition Nothing Beside Remains, a suite of eight commissioned…
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Slick Texas-Based Art/Yoga/Lifestyle Mag Spreading Nationwide: Origin Magazine National Launch Parties w/ DJ Spooky
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe December/January issue of Origin, Maranda Pleasant‘s art/yoga/lifestyle magazine, is going to have national distribution through Whole Foods markets; to celebrate, she’s holding National Launch Parties in Dallas (Dec 8,…
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See Art! Get Inspired! Write Poems! (Oh, But No Plagiarism, Use 14 Point Times New Roman and Please Be Appropriate)
by John Pluecker 13 commentsThere’s a new contest for Texas writers called ARTlines: An Ekphrastic Poetry Competition, sponsored by a new reading series in Houston called Public Poetry in conjunction with the Museum of…