Menil, Surls Comment on Art Guys Marry A Plant Removal
Mimi Swartz of Texas Monthly has been busy since Friday, when Glasstire published the Art Guys’ announcement that their controversial piece, The Art Guys Marry a Plant, was to be removed from the Menil Collection’s lawn, where it has been planted since 2011. On Friday, Swartz was CC’d a scathing email from artist James Surls [...]
Renner Funnel Tunnel Coming
Construction of Patrick Renner’s 185-foot Funnel Tunnel begins on February 1. The public art sculpture/installation will be made of reclaimed wood and will snake through the trees on the Montrose Blvd esplanade opposite Art League Houston. The piece is Funded by a City’s Initiative Program Grant from the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA).
Thirty Seconds
The average viewer spends around thirty seconds in front of an artwork. Seems unjust considering how long the artist likely spent making the thing. But I will admit that my first visit to any exhibition is spent quickly looking over every artwork, and there is something to be said for works that grab my eye [...]
Texans at Sundance 2013!
In his latest link-filled newsletter, Bart Weiss of the Dallas Video Festival takes note of Texans participating in this years Sundance Film Festival happening January 17-27 in Park City Utah : “Lone Star projects headed to the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Some Dallas VideoFest alumni include A Teacher by Hannah Fidell, whose short films, The [...]
Artist Profile: Aisen Caro Chacin
Sensory Substitution, Devices, Perception, Alternative Displays, Bone Conduction Hearing, Parametric Sound, Tactile Visual Displays, HipHop, Gastronomy, Echolocation, Accessibility, Hardware, Physiology, Bionics, Tongue Display Unit, Electrode Vibrotactile Stimulation These are the keywords listed in Aisen Caro Chacin’s MFA thesis on sensory substitution. In the year and a half since she left Houston for The New School, [...]
The Epitome Institute: New San Antonio Jeu d’Esprit to Open in March
San Antonio artists Meg Langhorne and Donna Pardue have announced a new endeavor, The Epitome Institute: “Esteemed Artists, Art Patrons and Dissertators: “We wish to introduce you to our new endeavor: a jeu d’esprit, artist-run exhibition space, think tank, cultural repository and aesthetic research organization. We welcome culture bearers and curators from many varied fields [...]
Wheels, Squeak Now! Texas Arts Advocacy Day is Coming up on Thursday, January 31
Book your reservations now to attend the third biennial Texans for the Arts Arts Advocacy Day in Austin. The day’s events include a breakfast rally, advocacy training, and Capitol visits to elected officials. Contact your representatives’ staffers and schedule your visits that day between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Texans for the Arts will provide [...]
RO2 Adds Magnolia Theater Gallery to Catalog of Far-Flung Projects
Dallas mother-and-son gallerists Susan Roth Romans and Jordan Roth of RO2 Art are taking over the curation of the Magnolia Theater Gallery upstairs, inside the Magnolia theater at 3699 McKinney Ave. from Scott Horn and Nicole Cullum Horn, who are focusing on other projects. The Roth’s first show, Alisa Levy: Culmination of a Gesture, opened [...]
Birding as Art? For Sanity’s Sake: Yes
Lynn Barber lives in Rapid City, South Dakota. She has degrees in microbiology and law, and intermittently works as a patent attorney. She enjoys playing the hammer dulcimer and the concertina. She’s married to a shy guy named Dave, who holds advanced degrees in meteorology and theology. Both are members of the ACLU and are [...]
The Rush is On: El Paso’s Art-Buying Spree Ends Feb 14!
The city of El Paso is looking to build a public collection of artwork by local artists to be displayed in City buildings, and they’re in a hurry. Approximately $200,000 is available to purchase existing artwork from professional artists over 18, living and working in El Paso, who are invited to offer artworks for sale [...]
On Institutional Cowardice: The Menil Collection
[Disclosure: I am married to one of The Art Guys. I am not an impartial bystander. Read the following with that in mind.] It was announced yesterday that the Menil Collection is removing the artwork The Art Guys Marry A Plant from its collection. Practically speaking, this means digging up a small tree and removing [...]
BREAKING NEWS: Art Guys say Menil is removing “The Art Guys Marry A Plant”
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 [...]
Remembering Ruth: Ruth Carter Stevenson, President of the Amon Carter Museum, is Dead at 89
Amon G. Carter was a man of iron will, blunt charm and big ideas. Her father’s daughter, Ruth Carter Stevenson, inherited his intractibility and vision but thinly cloaked it with her own brand of old-school femininity. Her death on January 6 almost completely severs Fort Worth’s last links with the larger-than-life figures who made it [...]
Museum Tower, in Need of Louvers, Gets New Salesmen
Museum Tower, the embattled “42-story luxury residential high-rise located in the heart of the Dallas Arts District”, has announced an alliance with Sotheby’s International Realty as its new marketing partner. Steve Sandborg, Vice President, Sales and Marketing for Museum Tower, called the reinforcements “a natural transition that dramatically expands the capabilities of our in-house sales [...]
Stephen Lapthisophon Gets Meadow Museum’s Moss/Chumly award for 2012
The Meadows Museum has announced that Stephen Lapthisophon is the recipient of the 2012 Moss/Chumley Artist Award. The award is given annually to an outstanding North Texas artist who has exhibited professionally for at least ten years and has a proven track record as a community advocate for the visual arts. Lapthisophon received the award [...]
Ruth Carter Stevenson, Art Patron and Amon Carter Museum Founder, 1923-2013
Ruth Carter Stevenson, Philanthropist and President of the Board of Trustees of the Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth, daughter of oilman, newpaper publisher and fierce Ft. Worth booster Amon G. Carter Sr. (1879–1955), died at her home in Ft. Worth on January 6. She was 89. Stevenson was solely responsible for seeing that her [...]
Interview with Lauren Kelley
Lauren Kelley creates animated videos that often feature Barbies altered by clay and confectioner’s sugar and that evoke a complex commentary on race, youth and desire. Kelley’s works also engage materiality and the craft of making miniatures. Her show True Falsetto is currently up at Women & Their Work through January 17th. I sat down [...]
Landeros Surrenders!
Alleged Menil Picasso vandal Uriel Landeros surrendered himself to federal marshals at the at the international bridge near McAllen, Texas on the US/Mexico border. His lawyer, Emily DeToto, brokered the surrender, which she sai was prompted by urgings from Landeros family. He is expected to be brought to Harris county in a few days to [...]
Artistic Inns of Texas: New Fayetteville Red and White Gallery Hosts Moroles Show
There’s a new gallery in Fayetteville, TX, and it’s starting out with a bang: Joan and Jerry Herring of the new Red and White Gallery will host ubiquitous monumentalist Jesis’ Moroles “Rings of Granite,” opening January 12 at their space at 102 West Main. It’s their second show: the gallery opened in December 2012 with [...]
Art Mag San Antonio’s 2012 Wrap Up: Shrinking Galleries Need Collectors, Artist-Run Spaces Carrying the Load
Haydeé Muñoz De la Rocha of Art Magazine San Antonio has a detailed wrap-up of the state of the art in her city, noting the gallery closings at the newly-commercialized Blue Star Art Complex (which is still undergoing traffic-snarling renovations), the sprouting of new artist-run spaces which she calls the “core of San Antonio’s art [...]
