Aurora picture show has promoted former intern Sinai Tirado to Membership and Administrative Associate. Sinai will be part of Aurora’s public face as office and screening greeter, as well as…
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Actors Playing Artists: Will The Real Andy Warhol Please Stand Up?
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 1 commentIn response to the record heat, I am trying to move as little as possible. Even body heat is the enemy. Therefore, engagement in anything cultural becomes problematic, so I…
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Arthouse teen programs recognized at national convening; Austin teen artists go to Boston
by Bill Davenport 0 commentOutstanding teen education programs at Austin’s Arthouse have earned that org an invitation to the National Convening for Teens in the Arts organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA)…
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Barrett Bingo, round 2: Blanton Museum gets 12 works in DMA lottery
by Bill Davenport 0 commentUT’s Blanton Museum drew the short straw and won twelve works by celebrated Texas artists through a lottery organized by the Dallas Museum of art to distribute some of Richard…
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Big Tex, the iconic tall Texan that towers over Fair Park in Dallas, was given a new suit of clothes yesterday in preparation for the upcoming Texas State Fair, and…
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Coiled paper baskets: gotta have ’em! Summer fiber workshop, at A&M can help!
by Bill Davenport 0 commentNext Sunday, August 7, The University Art Galleries Department at Texas A&M is hosting a free workshop on Paper Coil Basket Making for youth ages 8 – 14, facilitated by…
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Multimedia retrofit: peripatetic singers Cantare in MFAH galleries, MURAL at Rothko Chapel
by Bill Davenport 2 commentsIn a twist on the upsurge of multimedia approaches in contemporary art, the Houston Museum of Fine arts is retrofitting the classics to work together to create a new gallery…
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Darke Gallery update: Kathy Kelley open studio days; Bourbon, Wagner solo shows announced
by Bill Davenport 0 commentBox 13’s Kathryn Kelley will be the first artist in residence at Houston’s Darke gallery this summer. Kelley will have the gallery to use as a studio, along with a…
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Film Salon, a new course offered by the MFAH’s Glassell School of Art this fall, will sample a broad swath of classic movies on Saturday afternoons and Monday nights, dissecting…
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Zimmerman named new editor of Might Be Good; Vogel resides in Bad Ems
by Bill Davenport 0 commentItinerant, yet New York-based artist and writer Eric Zimmerman, an occasional Glasstire contributor, has been named editor of Fluent Collaborative’s journal . . .might be good, replacing Wendy Vogel, who,…
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Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910-1912 at the Kimbell Art Museum
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 0 commentThere is a popular myth that Genius Is Born Of Suffering. The idea is so pervasive and pretentious it demands every word be capitalized when written. Yet the Kimbell Art Museum’s Picasso…
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A mosaic-covered caterpillar sculpture by Houston artist Reginald Adams and students at YES prep academy was moved into place Thursday, part of the caterpillar-turning butterfly theme of Buckboard Park as…
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Arts philanthropist Nancy B. Hamon died Saturday at her home in Dallas. She was 92. Her gifts included a $20 million donation in 1988 to fund the 140,000-square-foot Nancy and…
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Before the era of car bombs and IEDs, Icelandic-born sculptor Gudjon Bjarnason began using high explosives to create unorthodox shapes and forms in his work. He was looking for unexpected…
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Trash Project encore: Allison Orr choreographs solid waste resources in Austin on August 27-28
by Bill Davenport 0 commentJeanne Clair Van Ryzin of the Austin 360 blog announced an encore performance of “The Trash Project,” choreographer Allison Orr’s weirdly successful 2009 spectacle using trash trucks and City of…
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rdAGENTS’ Charette Shop on Aug. 6 to mastermind planned remodel for Workshop Houston
by Bill Davenport 0 commentWorkshop Houston is bursting at the seams: the Scholar Shop, Beat Shop, Bike Shop, Chopper Shop, and Style Shop, each focused on nurturing students’ practical and creative skills, have grown…
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I have to admit it’s been a hard year. Since last July Art and I have had a rocky relationship. After 2 decades of unconditional love I began to question…
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Theater school without the university: TBH’s new Expressarte program auditioning now!
by Bill Davenport 0 commentTalento Bilingüe de Houston is launching Expressarte, a comprehensive theater program for youth and adults. The youth program offers classes in acting, voice, movement, and prop-making, make-up, costume, sound and…
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Under the black Umbrella: museum disaster forum meets to discuss the unthinkable at the MFAH
by Bill Davenport 0 commentWith tropical storm Don bearing down on Corpus Christi, three hundred museum professionals are meeting with experts from the National Archives, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the Harris and Galveston…
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The concept behind this group show (also called S/Twist or S…/Twist, depending on where you’re looking) derives from Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality. Curator Liliana Bloch had the idea swimming in her head for years—visual representations…