Underground video artist makes otherworldly art from where she is, and puts it right where you are. While speaking in lolcats.
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Stranger than fiction: a close look at the McNay’s Milkmaids with Liz Lloyd
by Bill Davenport 1 commentHenri Rousseau, the first outsider artist to make it big, didn’t always paint lush foliage, ripe fruits and riper women; in 1906 he painted Landscape with Milkmaids (and a mighty…
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Amnesia Houston blog gathers steam, vintage tweets, old maps and a fat slice of preservation advocacy!
by Bill Davenport 1 commentThe preservation advocacy blog, perversely named Amnesia Houston, by “James Glassman, Houstonian” is gathering steam: from one post in 2006, another in 2007, he’s gone to nearly one per month…
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Every December I wait anxiously for The Lives They Lived edition of The New York Times. It’s not because I am morbidly wanting to see who died so much as…
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Amarillo philanthropist Mary Ware dies; founder of museum art alliance
by Bill Davenport 0 commentAmarillo philanthropist Mary Ware water-skied and snorkeled until she was 75 and played tennis for another 10 years after that; she died of natural causes Tuesday at age 89. The…
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Assessed by the best: AMSET gets a visit from Heritage Preservation’s Conservation Assessment Program
by Bill Davenport 0 commentSometime later this year, a professional conservator will spend two days assessing the state of the Art Museum of Southeast Texas‘ collections and identifying the museum’s conservation priorities. It’s all…
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Art in the woods: La Reunion TX 5th Art Chicas and now, Art Chicos program
by Bill Davenport 2 commentsLa Reunion TX, the nascent artists’ residency program in west Oak Cliff near Dallas, will add a new contingent of male Art Chicos to its highly successful Art Chicas mentoring…
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When it comes to art, using the word ‘crisis’ is always a massive overstatement. Between the crises in painting, criticism, and photography you’d think that art was in some real…
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Dallas billionaire Republican philanthropist Charles Wyly was killed Sunday, August 6 when his car was hit by an S.U.V. near the airport in Aspen, Colorado. He and his brother and…
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Second art bashing episode earns Susan Burns a place in the crazy art attack toplist
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Washington Post reports a second art-bashing at the National Gallery of Art by serial art basher Susan Burns, the woman arrested for assaulting Gauguin’s Two Tahitian Women in April.…
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Moving art experiences: Jimenez’s Los Lagartos, Winn’s Morning Glories being relocated
by Bill Davenport 0 commentIn the slack summer news season, sometimes nothing’s more exciting than moving a big, weird object from one place to another. Local news outlets report the airlift of Buck Winn’s…
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Artpace’s new old blog, APB, or the Art Pace Blog by any other name
by Bill Davenport 0 commentAccording to Artpace’s August 12 email blast, the San Antonio org has a “new” blog! After “testing the waters for quite some time now,” Artpace has begun publishing APB (Art…
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Annual MAC Membership Exhibition – “Meltdown”
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 0 commentThe membership show. It has one hundred eighty-something pieces of artwork and no curator. Any member can bring one work of their choosing that expresses the year’s central theme. This…
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Momento Mori: A Texas Garden Bites the Dust
by Lucia Simekby Lucia Simek 0 commentOne of my favorite writers, the poet Donald Hall, speaks often of gardens and nature in his work, recounting his farmstock lineage, his beloved dead wife’s care of her New…
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Golf art to the rescue! Insperity Golf Experience coming to Discovery Green.
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe Insperity helium balloon, a popular attraction at Houston’s Discovery Green Park in 2009, sprung a leak in Chicago. So park program director Susanne Theis asked curator Clint Willour to…
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Amon Carter spruces up website in advance of 50 Fest; smiling buffalo unearthed
by Bill Davenport 0 commentCheck out the new Amon Carter website: in addition to the usual exhibitions currently on view, the museum shop link, the event notices, and workshop sign-ups, there is a searchable…
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Fred Adickes, Hot Wheels co-creator and brother of monumental sculptor David Adickes dies at age 80 in Huntsville
by Bill Davenport 12 commentsFred Adickes, brother af notorious Texas monumentalist David Adickes, died Sunday in Huntsville at age 80. The lesser-known (in Texas) Adickes was equally creative: he spent most of his career…
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(All photos by John D. Fisch except where noted. Click high res gallery to view full images.) Dear readers of Glasstire, San Antonio prides ourselves (read: economically relies) on our…
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Ai WeiWei breaks Chinese goverment gag order, details of detention leak out
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThe first accounts of dissident Chinese artist Ai WeiWei’s detention on April 3 of this year are coming out. Reuters carried this story by Sui-Lee Wee detailing the intense pressure…
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A $120,000 grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) will enable the Chinati Foundation to enhance its education, public program, and outreach efforts to benefit Marfa…