Glasstire has received the following email from the Art Guys: The Menil Collection has decided to remove “The Art Guys Marry A Plant” from their collection. Tentative plans are to remove the tree and plaque and return them to us soon, perhaps sometime next week, although the specifics have not yet been determined. We offer [...]
I headed down to Galveston last Friday to see “The Drawing Room, Part 2,” yet another fine offering from curator Clint Willour at the Galveston Art Center and to check out the old Sam Maceo house. Galveston is always full of surprises, I stumbled across a brothel along the way. Organized crime boss Salvatore “Sam” [...]
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is the only U.S. venue for Lucian Freud: Portraits. If you haven’t seen it yet, go now. It closes this Sunday, October 28th. It’s a stunning exhibition, covering portraits from the late 1940s until just before his death last year at age 88. Arranged chronologically, the show opens [...]
Everyone was wondering how the Houston Fine Art Fair‘s move to Reliant Center would work out. From what I can tell it was a good idea. It’s a newer space and this year the HFAF organizers sprang for booth walls that were two feet higher that last year. Meanwhile, the walkways between the booths seemed [...]
Galveston Arts Center‘s pop up show of work from Nick Barbee‘s Galveston Artist Residency is at 4411 Montrose through today, Saturday, September 15. It’s in the former Peel Gallery space and definitely worth a trip. These socked plaster feet are a fine example Barbee’s wonky casting agendas. Barbee gives watercolor a good name in his [...]
Yasuaki Onishi’s reverse of volume RG is the latest great installment in Rice Gallery’s 16-year-run of site-specific installation work. Onishi has used hardware store plastic sheeting and black hot glue to create an ephemeral and haunting environment. A horizontal network of fishing line stretches across the gallery ceiling, Onishi propped up the plastic with boxes [...]
Lawndale’s annual and much-anticipated Big Show opens tonight (Friday the 13th) from 6:30 – 8:30. Curated by Marco Antonini, gallery director of Brooklyn’s NURTUREart, it’s one of the smallest and sparest Big Shows in memory and that’s not a bad thing at all. As artist Elaine Bradford sagely observed at last night’s preview, “It looks [...]
Sasha Dela: The Emotional Life of a Spy closes this Friday, July 6th at the Art League Houston so you don’t even have the weekend to catch it. If you haven’t seen it, you should. Using Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps as raw material Dela retells the story, cutting scenes with her own text and images [...]
Radcliffe Bailey’s show “Memory as Medicine” opened at the McNay last week. I first saw Bailey’s work in “The Magic City,” his ill-fated show at the Blaffer Gallery in 2001. Water is a recurring theme for the artist and it is strangely notable that Bailey’s Blaffer show opened during a flood. Tropical Storm Allison was [...]
Sicardi Gallery opened up their new building last night and it’s pretty amazing. Sicardi finally has a space that lives up to the ambition of its program which includes some incredible Latin American artists, from modern masters like Torres-Garcia to avant-garde luminaries like Jesús-Rafael Soto, Carlos Cruz-Diez and Gego to an array of stellar contemporary [...]
The image above and those below were pasted in a document that opened with the following (loosely translated) text: “To all unmarried ones who would like to spend their life by my side and within all the beauties of my home. Please look below at all the magic of my home that I have decorated [...]
I cried all the way home from Care House, Carrie Schneider’s installation and memorial in her childhood home. The house was where Schneider’s mother lived until she died from pancreatic cancer in September of 2010 at age 57. Just a few remnants are left of the home as it was and into these Schneider has [...]
FotoFest 2012 wraps up this weekend and it’s the last chance to see its offerings as well as those at participating spaces. Definitely make time to see Jawshing Arthur Liou’s stunning panoramic video at Poissant Gallery. Poissant may not be on your radar but this show is a must-see. Kora, 2011-2012 is projected cinema scale [...]
At least one person in the crowd at the opening of John Waters’ exhibition “Neurotic” at McClain Gallery appeared to be angling to be the next Divine. Waters was in attendance, wearing a natty blue suit with stripes “painted” across it. The work he presented was as sly and smartass as his pencil-thin mustache. His [...]
The Dallas Art Fair is back and seemed way better than last year. Here are some highlights: Conduit Gallery Dallas’ Conduit brought an interesting range of work. Charlie James Gallery I always love the stuff at this LA gallery. Moody Gallery Houston’s Moody brought a nice piece from Manual’s series of book photographs. CB1 [...]
Robert Pruitt – artist, founding member of Otabenga Jones & Associates, TSU visiting professor and sometime Glasstire contributor - will speak at 5:30 pm, March 14 at Rice Media Center’s Rice Cinema Film Auditorium. Be there!
Last December, before my visit to Crystal Bridges, I wrote about the challenges of being a museum funded by Wal-Mart money and located in Bentonville, Arkansas. I had interviewed the museum’s director, Don Bacigalupi, and I was taken with his brand of populism — which did not equate inclusion with dumbing down content and pandering [...]
Last Friday night, “The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991 opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. In it were some of my favorite Guerrilla Girls posters. It was nice to see them but it was also kind of ironic. 2011 was the (unofficial) “Year of the Guy” at the [...]
More highlights from what’s up around town right now. Check out these shows as you do your holiday shopping, or do your holiday shopping at these shows… Sicardi Gallery “Graciela Hasper: Recent paintings,” through December 24, 2011 It’s bright and exuberant abstraction but it doesn’t feel facile. McClain Gallery “Jeff Shore and Jon Fisher: Reel [...]
When art people ask, “Where did you grow up?” and I answer, “Arkansas,” there is, invariably, an awkward pause. It is usually followed by “Oh.” or “Oh. Really?” and occasionally, “Well, um, I hear it’s really pretty there.” East coasters are the worst. It’s like they asked what your father does and you said, “He’s [...]
