With 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…
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Brian Willey and Thao Votang’s Tiny Park, a new Austin nomadic/house gallery, announces its first exhibition
by Bill Davenport 0 commentAustin artist Brian Willey and writer Thao Votang have announced their first event as Tiny Park, a new nomadic gallery sometimes residing at their house at 607 ½ Genard St.,…
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I am not going to rehash Lynda Benglis’ career, (for that see Roberta Smith’s NYT review of the New Museum Show), but she has been around for a long time,…
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From now until August 30th West Texas-based “multimedia conceptual/sound artist and environmental/social activist” Alyce Santoro is accepting commissions from musicians, designers, architects, collectors to produce personalized, custom-recorded editions of Sonic…
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Seth Mittag, David Politzer, and Anne J. Regan chosen as new Lawndale residents
by Bill Davenport 0 commentHouston’s Lawndale at Center has announced it’s latest crop of residents: Seth Mittag, David Politzer, and Anne J. Regan will each get nine months of studio space, $1500 for materials…
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Fertile (art) ground: What happens next on the other side of The Bridge?
by Lucia Simekby Lucia Simek 0 commentFor half of my life I’ve lived in Oak Cliff — a now hip and cool, but once bad-repped and socially misunderstood place that I’ve long prized for its rogue-ish solitude…
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Its time to pour yourself a cocktail, slather on some sunscreen, and break out that worn copy of Valley Of The Dolls. The art world, having lovingly adopted the academic…
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Nizza Mosaic Studio latest addition to 11th St. arts corridor; grand opening Saturday
by Bill Davenport 0 commentJoining a half-dozen galleries that have settled near the intersection of Studewood and 11th St. in Houston’s Heights neighborhood over the past ten years, the new studio will host classes…
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Arson as art criticism? Suspicious fire at Houston’s Galerie Mado Chalvet
by Bill Davenport 1 commentEarly this morning, the building that houses Galerie Mado Chalvet, that purveyor of impressionist-style “masterpieces” in Houston’s Westheimer strip, caught fire, requiring the efforts of 50 Houston firefighters to arrest…
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Thomson on the Independent Arts Collaborative: will it quash independent arts?
by Bill Davenport 1 commentCulturemap’s Steven Thomson questions whether the upscaling and combining of several of Houston’s important arts orgs into the new Independent Arts Collaborative building, now in the planning stages for a…
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Glasstire founder waves the online arts journalism banner in new NEA blog
by Bill Davenport 3 commentsGlasstire founder Rainey Knudson’s has been invited to blog on the NEA’s website; in her first post she explains the alarming decline among print journalists who have been, like dinosaurs,…
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In doing research for an upcoming exhibition I couldn’t believe the amount of contemporary art based on chandeliers out in the world. For Similar but Different #20 let me illuminate…
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Nasher’s STATUESQUE in the sweltering sun
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis 1 commentI saw STATUESQUE for the second time on Saturday, July 23rd, from 11:15 a.m. until 12:15 p.m. The temperature was 90 degrees at arrival and 94 degrees at departure. The…
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The Amon Carter is looking for photographs that depict museum visitors’ experiences, and is offering a $100 first prize for the best snapshot in three age categories: under 12, ages…
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Goss-Michael Scholarships help send four Dallas high school seniors into creative fields
by Bill Davenport 0 commentFour $5000 scholarships for young artists and musicians went to Megan Wainwright and James “Austin” Allen of Dallas Booker T. Washington High School, Isaac Williams from Lancaster High School, and…
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In a sad and troubled world, Port Aransas' imperfections in landscape and art make it of great comfort.
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$3000 Houston Community College artist residency right in your own backyard needs applicants
by Bill Davenport 1 commentWho knew? Houston Community College Southeast, is looking for proposals for their Artist-in-Residence Program for Fall 2011. Including a performance or installation at the HCC SE campus, the artist chosen…
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First all-GLBT Fire Island Artist Residency co-founded by ex-Houstonian Evan J. Garza welcomes first residents in August
by Bill Davenport 0 commentSometime Glasstire blogger and ex-Texan Evan J. Garza has co-founded the Fire Island Artist Residency, the first artist-in-residence program exclusively for gay, lesbian bisexual and trans-gender artists (and non GLBT…
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Art-sports: Tom Russotti brings levity to Big D
by Lucia Simekby Lucia Simek 0 commentI wrote awhile back about the need for more unsanctioned, free-thinking, button-pushing art to take place in Dallas — things out in the public that recall, maybe, Dallas’ renegade spirit, or at…