Those web-savvy folks over at the Houston press have assembled an interactive map of current street art in Houston by wheat-pasters Eyesore, Dual, Garro, Cutthroat, Shreddi, and the legendary Give…
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Bonnie Pitman, soon-to-be ex-director of the Dallas Museum of Art, has been recognized by the American Association of Museums with its Award For Distinguished Service to Museums for 2011. She…
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The latest exhibition at brand 10, Fort Worth’s smart, cozy and newest kunsthalle, On Wheels is equal parts kitsch and high politics. In this show, plain-faced middle-American falderal meets something…
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The Linda Pace Foundation has acquired, Sunset song, a 2003 sound piece by Scottish artist Susan Philpsz, and they’re going to play it outdoors, over a horn-shaped loudspeaker from noon…
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At last, 25 years of Art Guys shenanigans in a convenient 2-DVD set! The Art Guys: Home On The Range, just out, includes selections from the The Art Guys’ live…
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Artists Annette Lawrence an Mike Smith have been elected to the board of directors of Arthouse, the embattled Austin art venue. The vacant spots on the board resulted from a…
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Black Hole Coffee House in Houston’s Montrose neighborhood is planning “the Supernova Project,” the first of a series of quarterly soup dinners aimed at raising money for Montrose-based creative projects…
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This year, Glasstire turns 10, making it one of the oldest (and best) art websites in the country. We’re celebrating with a star-studded panel discussion at the Fort Worth Modern…
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“You’re never gonna make it flat, anyway:” Jung Mun and the Sala Diaz effect
by Sarah Fischby Sarah Fisch 8 commentsSan Antonio artist Jung Hee Mun reaches new heights of technique and conceptual audacity with her Sala Diaz show.
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The Dallas Museum of Art has announced that Charlie Wylie, their curator of contemporary art, will step down in June after 15 years at the museum. Wylie worked on major…
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Every Thursday in May, the Rothko Chapel will offer Tai Chi classes free to the public. Led by instructor Henderson Smith, the slow repetitive movements will be held on May…
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The Texas Contemporary Art Fair has been officially announced. The fair will arrive at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston on October 20-23, just as the first Houston…
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The Houston Arts Alliance has a new Director of Development. John E. Bradshaw Jr. (not to be confused with the prominent Houston motivational speaker, who looks an awful lot like…
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San Antonio artist Leigh Anne Lester has won the $50,000 Hunting art Prize this year. Her pencil drawing, “Mutant Spectre” was chosen from among 110 other finalists’ works at the…
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Developers are eyeing several sites in the industrial East End of Houston as possible cultural destinations. The Houston Maritime Museum, near the Medical Center, and the Houston Railroad Museum in…
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To mark our 10th anniversary, Glasstire is bringing a star-studded group of thinkers to the region to think about regionalism next Saturday. Robert Storr, dean of the Yale University School…
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The implosion of the Austin art world has got me thinking about art world power dynamics, as I mentioned last week in my published correspondence with Rachel Cook. The resignation…
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As the culmination of all the hybridizing, canoodling and commingling going on in Austin at the Fusebox Festival, Texas Biennial, and Art Week Austin, the Art Alliance Austin has organized…
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On Sunday, May 1 Marfa’s Chinati Foundation, unscorched amid the recent wildfires, will open it’s doors for Community Day with free brunch, free tours, free Giant Art Project in the…
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Lee Rosenbaum’s Culturegrrl blog reports that an unnamed conservative congressman went to bat for the Smithsonian’s right to show A Fire in My Belly by David Wojnarowicz, relieving some of…