These two pieces are the most recent in a series of pop-up interventions happening across the city of Houston this summer.
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Austin: Last Chance for Selfies with Ai Weiwei’s Forever Bicycles Sculpture
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechThe 2014 artwork is based on the artist's childhood memories of Forever brand (Yongjiu) bicycles that were popular in China when he was growing up.
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The project, which includes works by Rob Pruitt, Kenny Scharf, Nina Chanel Abney, Tomokazu Matsuyama, FriendsWithYou, AVAF, and André Saraiva, officially launched in New York City in April of 2018.
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Austin's program that commissions and oversees the city's public art recently announced an open call for a mosaic artwork that will be located in south central Austin.
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Landmarks at UT Austin Announces New Public Art Commission by Beth Campbell
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechLandmarks, the public art program at The University of Texas at Austin, has announced its commission of a new site-specific work by New York artist Beth Campbell.
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The Houston edition of the project was the topic of a dynamic discussion initiated by Rainey Knudson's article 'Please Stop Painting The Electrical Boxes (A Public Art Proposal),' which was published in summer of 2017 on Glasstire.
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San Antonio artist Cruz Ortiz is currently installing his Dream Song Tower, a new $360,000 public art project, along the city’s South Side. Inspired by its location as a gateway to the…
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Apparently, the city of Grand Prairie (in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, population 175,396 according to the 2010 census) does not read Glasstire. At least they didn’t read or disagreed with…
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Art Dirt 9: Please Stop Painting the Electrical Boxes (a discussion)
by Glasstireby Glasstire"If you're arguing that it's OK that these things aren't very good, then you're making an argument for mediocrity."
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No artist ever woke up one morning and spontaneously said, “I sure wish I could decorate an electrical box!”
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“I never looked at art as a job...it just seemed like something that just happened."
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"The easy part for me is being in the studio. The hard part is stopping and eating... or going to the grocery store."
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Last year we reported on the opening of Liquid Crystal, a sculpture created for San Antonio’s Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center by London-based Jason Bruges Studio. The sculpture was almost universally…
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Founded in 1966, the University of Houston’s public art program is comprised of about 520 works of art by many national and internationally known artists, including Frank Stella, Carlos Cruz-Diez, and Luis Jiménez,…
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That $4 million we’re planning to spend on public art this year is apparently THE straw that will break the city’s $2.5 billion total budget.
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Universities, along with airports, have become some of the most proficient art collectors around. Back in 1966, the University of Houston decided that with each new building built on its campus, one…
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Via the San Antonio Express-News: a public art sculpture designed and built by a UTSA students has partially collapsed in its park location, either from wind, or being climbed on.…
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Giant art commissions by two Houston-based artists have been selected as among the top public arts projects in the U.S. by the Public Art Network Year in Review. Patrick Renner…
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CBS-DFW ran a story yesterday that brought to light something I hadn’t seen before: North Richland Hills (a small city between Dallas and Fort Worth) has since 2007 taken a…
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Texas Tech University in Lubbock has unveiled the newest piece of public art on its main campus as part of its Public Art Program for the Texas Tech University System.…