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 [...]
Dance Into The New Year with Artpix
ARTPIX, Houston-based art-magazine-on-a-disc, has released a 3-disc DVD, Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Park Avenue Armory Event 2011, in collaboration with the Merce Cunningham Trust. The DVDs document the final performance of the Cunningham Company at the Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue at 67th St. in New York on December 29-31, 2011. Six performances featuring [...]
Main Street Projects
The windows at 3700 Main Street in Houston have been getting interesting. I live above this building and have grown increasingly curious about the project as I’ve watched the windows fill up with artwork. As I walk to and from my apartment I’ve been witness to photographs by Galina Kurlat, a sculpture by exurb, and [...]
2013 Texas Biennial Announces 5th Roundup of Texas Artists: Submit Now!
The organizers of the 2013 Texas Biennial invite all artists living and working in Texas to submit their stuff from now until February 28 for possible inclusion in the latest, 5th, edition of the sprawling, multi-city showcase. The Texas Biennial will take place September 5 – November 9, with exhibitions in Austin, Dallas, Houston, San [...]
Crow Collection Installs New Outdoor Sculptures
Dallas’ Crow Collection of Asian Art has installed several new works of Asian sculpture over the last few months as their outdoor sculpture garden nears completion: a stone Chinese warrior, used as ballast on cargo ships, a well-weathered, 9th century head of a “makara”, a composite crocodile/elephant beast (sorry, no pic), and The Sweepers (2012) [...]
Bryan Adams “Exposed” at Goss-Michael Foundation (yeah, that Bryan Adams)
The Goss-Michael Foundation’s zesty, celebrity-filled exhibition of Canadian pop star Bryan Adams’s photography embodies the essence of escapist entertainment that Dallas confuses with reality. I have a history of bashing this gallery for pandering to fame, but Adams is a sensational photographer, and I suspect his famous subjects—including Mick, Posh and Amy Winehouse—were all the [...]
2013 Spring Preview
Glasstire contributors offer up their picks for the best spring shows around the state. Think we missed something great? Post it in the comments section below! AUSTIN Alison Kuo: Colorful Food 1117 Garland January 4 – February 14 Former Austin resident and current School of Visual Art grad student, Alison Kuo will present a psychedelic [...]
Bad News From Bert Long, Dark Humor Welcomed
This news just in from Houston artist Bert Long and Joan Batson via Margaret Losinski: “Unfortunately the news about Bert is not good. He has been diagnosed with Stage IV pancreatic cancer that has spread to other organs. He is in good spirits and will undergo some chemo, although not the very aggressive, debilitating type. [...]
Whatever Gets You Through the Night
I thought I just really hated art. Or the art world. Like Dave Hickey does. Maybe I do. Maybe not. Let’s find out together. One month ago, I was officially diagnosed with bipolar disorder not otherwise specified (BD-NOS), or, in less official parlance, bipolar 3. My new psychiatrist describes bipolar 3 as a mixed-mood disorder [...]
X Marks the Art in San Antonio
X Marks the Art, a public/private arts initiative that aims to activate underutilized and vacant downtown properties in San Antonio opened its second round of installations in mid December. Titled “Cut and Paste” and curated by artist Cruz Ortiz, the show features over 15 installations, by 22 artists in 14 vacant downtown properties, loosely linked [...]
AFFA Sets Jan. 25 Meeting to Envision an Austin Folk Art Museum
On June 30, 1988, Austin Friends of Folk Art was formally incorporated as a 501c3 non-profit organization, complete with bylaws, officers and directors, and a mission to promote public appreciation of folk art, which AFFA defines broadly enough to accommodate everything from urban mural art, Feng Shui and Southwest petroglyphs to Moroccan fortune-telling, Oaxacan wood [...]
We Begin With Equality: “Lincoln” and “Django Unchained”
Two recent films made by two very different directors have accomplished something a bit rare for a mainstream Hollywood production: They not only bring to the screen glimpses of American history, they are timely commentary on contemporary American existence. The wizardry of Spielberg and the ridiculously superb performance of Daniel Day-Lewis in “Lincoln” made me [...]
Local Police Statue Ripoff Suit Settled
This just in from lawyer Keith Jaasma of the Houston office of Patterson & Sheridan, LLP: Sculptor Bob Pack’s Pack Sports Bronzes, Inc. of Sugar Land (which has created numerous sculptures of some of the world’s greatest golfers) has settled its copyright infringement suit against Big Statues, Inc. of Provo, Utah over their unauthorized copying [...]
Virginia Billeaud Anderson Interviews Houston Artists on Boyd’s Blog, Ken Price Chimes In
The Great God Pan Is Dead blog has two exceptionally interesting pieces on Houston artists by Virginia Billeaud Anderson. She interviews Performance artist Emily Sloan about her repressed childhood, in the wake of her Funeral for the Living event on New Year’s Day at 14 Pews, and talks to Lynet McDonald about her upcoming show, [...]
Casey Williams, Noted Houston Photographer, Has Died
Noted Houston photographer Casey Williams died peacefully on January 1, after weeks in a coma brought on by complications from West Nile virus. Known for his “found abstractions”, taken on the Houston ship channel, until new Homeland Security rules curtailed his actiivties there in 2008, Williams persistent preoccupation with nuances of light and color led [...]
“Norman Bel Geddes Designs America” at the UT Harry Ransom Center
Norman Bel Geddes’ compass always pointed forward. From his design of the Palais Royal nightclub in 1922 to his plans for a pilot television studio for NBC in 1954, Bel Geddes proved to be a fearless and imaginative dreamer who was convinced that art, design and architecture enriched people’s lives immeasurably. The exhibition I Have [...]
