Read All About It: Art Guys and Menil Given a UK-Style Thrashing in HuffPost, UK Way Back in 2011!
In case you missed it, (as I did!) a piece titled “Homophobia and the Arts” co-written by blogger James Payne and artist Michael Petry appeared in the Huffington Post, UK in late December, 2011. In the strongly-worded piece, Payne and Petry mention misleading signage downplaying Rauschenberg’s same-sex relationships at several exhibitions as an example of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
2013 Will Be The Year of the Art Guys: 30 Years Celebrated in only 12 Events!
In celebration of the new year, their 30th in partnership, Houston’s Art Guys have planned a busy, performance-a-month schedule for 2013. Centered around the city as canvas and their collaborative history on it, many of the promised “12 Events” combine typical Art Guys geography lessons and endurance trials: crossing and re-crossing a busy intersection all [...]
Upcoming Surls Dinner Proves It’s Easier to Move Big Collectors than Big Sculptures
James Surls is cropping up in unexpected places: Garden and Gun magazine features an informative feature on James Surls’ contributions to the Houston art scene as founder of the Lawndale Art Center and his larger-than-life career and personality. Last year, Surls radically restructured the way he does business, firing all six of his national dealers, [...]
CSAW Lives! (well, on Facebook, anyway)
To get yourself in a properly industrial mood for the upcoming Lone Star Performance Explosion, take a look at Facebook group CSAW Lives! True Stories of Commerce Street Artists Warehouse, dedicated to rehashing tales of one of Houston’s first and longest running alterna-venues.
Art Guys Tree-Bride Chopped: Vandals Deface Controversial New Menil Installation
The Art Guys controversial piece, Art Guys Marry a Plant, installed on the Menil lawn , has been damaged. The bent tree was reportedly discovered this morning around 8 am by Menil security. The police have been notified and it is being handled as a vandalism to an artwork in the Menil’s collection. UPDATE: Devon [...]
Married But Two Years, the Art Guys Plant Spouse in Menil Lawn, Alive Yet!
In a ceremony officiated by National Book Critics Circle Winner Lawrence Weschler, Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities, the Art Guys will officially dedicate the tree from their 2009 piece “Art Guys Marry a Plant” at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, November 19th in Menil Park in Houston. The piece, originally created for No [...]
Times Square’s Glen Weiss New Director of Art League Houston
Public art manager Glen Weiss has been named as the new Executive Director of the Houston Art League, arriving fresh from NY, where he was the fonding manager of the Times Square public art program. He starts work on November 1. Working for the Times Square Alliance, a business-booster organization, Weiss organized over 30 arts [...]
Glasstire’s Rachofsky reception
Dozens, perhaps hundreds of art lovers, intellectuals and Glasstire supporters gathered yesterday at Dallas’ Rachofsky House to celebrate Glasstire’s 10th anniversary, along with panelists Michael Galbreth, David Pagel, Christina Rees, and Toby Kamps, in town for today’s discussion of regionalism at the Fort Worth Modern (11am, be there!) If you’ve got a little spare time [...]
Art Guys: the DVD
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 stage performances, conceptual events in public, original video art works, and the ZenFilm documentary of “Nothing To It: The Art Guys in Concert.” Two Guys, [...]