![Idea Fund Announces 2013 Grantees](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130116060808im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/idea-fund-150x150.png)
Idea Fund Announces 2013 Grantees
The Idea Fund has announced the ten Texas-based artists collectives with unusual projects for their 5th round of grants: The Bridge Club – Art and Performance Collaborative (Huntsville); Erin Curtis (Austin); Bill Davenport (Houston); Esteban Delgado (San Antonio); Everything Records / Robert Hodge and Philip Pyle (Houston), Madsen Minax (Houston); Ryan O’Malley, Joe Peña, Dr. [...]
![Cyrus Cylinder Rolls in to Houston: Conqueror’s Ancient Edict Revered For Fairness, Oldness](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130116060808im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/cyrus-cylinder-150x150.png)
Cyrus Cylinder Rolls in to Houston: Conqueror’s Ancient Edict Revered For Fairness, Oldness
The British Museum has announced that the Museum of Fine Arts Houston will be one of the stops for the Cyrus Cylinder, a 9-inch piece of baked clay shaped like an inscribed watermelon, which will tour five major museum venues in the United States. The cylinder was inscribed in cuneiform on the orders of the [...]
![Daily Dose of Dis: Two Bits of Lukewarm Art-Snark in Today’s Headlines](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130116060808im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/beck-150x150.jpg)
Daily Dose of Dis: Two Bits of Lukewarm Art-Snark in Today’s Headlines
Conservative commentator Glenn Beck has made another of his periodic stabs at art criticism, grabbing a little media attention (like this, sigh) for dunking a photograph of President Obama in a yellow fluid he called “pee-pee.” He also shrugs at a tiny reproduction of a Pollack, but without the crazed self-righteousness that sometimes make tirades [...]
![Cody Ledvina: Expierence (Brandon and the Boys)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130116060808im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Untitled-3-150x150.jpg)
Cody Ledvina: Expierence (Brandon and the Boys)
Cody and his puppet pal Brandon visit with Jeremy DePrez, Geoff Hippenstiel and Jonathan Ryan Storm.
![Pedro Alonso and Lilia Kudelia join Dallas Contemporary as Adjunct Curators: Glamour Shots Attached](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130116060808im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/alonso-150x150.png)
Pedro Alonso and Lilia Kudelia join Dallas Contemporary as Adjunct Curators: Glamour Shots Attached
Yesterday, a “press communiqué” from the Dallas Contemporary announced two new adjunct curators: Pedro Alonzo and Lilia Kudelia will joi the org, helping to “enhance the institution’s mission of presenting regional, national and international projects by artists.” Each brings some of the lustre of exotic glam (and the professional publicty photos) that have become the [...]
![San Antonio Sets HemisFair Park Art Plan Community Meeting for Dec. 5](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130116060808im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Mikyoung-Kim.WEB_-150x150.jpg)
San Antonio Sets HemisFair Park Art Plan Community Meeting for Dec. 5
On Wednesday, December 5, the public is invited to talk over the proposals with Mikyoung Kim, consultant for the HemisFair Park Public Art Plan from 6-7:30 pm at the Magik Theatre, 420 South Alamo Street. Ms. Kim and her team are a firm of Boston-based landscape architects working with the Department for Culture & Creative [...]
![Still from the 1969 film "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130116060808im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/MV5BMTQ5Mjk1Mzc5NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODQ5NjQzNA@@._V1._SX328_SY500_-150x150.jpg)
They Shoot Curators, Don’t They?
By the time this is published the new curator of modern and contemporary art at the Blanton Museum may have been announced. I was told last week that an offer has been accepted. I don’t know who the new curator will be, but the director of the Blanton, Simone Wicha, has assured me that, “Curators [...]
![Dallas Museum of Art to Offer Free Membership And Free Admission Starting in January](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130116060808im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/dma_friends_partners-150x150.jpg)
Dallas Museum of Art to Offer Free Membership And Free Admission Starting in January
The Dallas Museum of Art announced yesterday that it will return to free general admission in January 2013 and launch an unusual new free-membership plan. The new program, DMA Friends & Partners, approaches membership as a means of engaging visitors, emphasizing participation over the typical cash-n-carry membership model common among museums. Here’s how it works: [...]
![NEA Awards $60,000 To Artpace For Artist-In-Residence Program](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130116060808im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/artpace-grant-150x150.jpg)
NEA Awards $60,000 To Artpace For Artist-In-Residence Program
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman announced yesterday that Artpace San Antonio is recommended for a $60,000 NEA Art Works grant to support its core International Artist-in-Residence program. Artpace is one of 832 recipients nationwide. “The Endowment’s grant provides crucial support for Artpace’s core residency program,” says Artpace Executive Director Amada Cruz. “The [...]
![Saltz as Low-Budget Collector: If it Quacks like a Richter . . .](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130116060808im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/richter091130_560-150x150.jpg)
Saltz as Low-Budget Collector: If it Quacks like a Richter . . .
Art critic Jerry Saltz has gotten the collecting bug- but, not being able to afford the seven-figure prices of the Gerhard Richter paintings he craved, instead challenged artists to fake one for him. He details his trials and eventual success at commissioning a satisfyingly Richterian abstraction for $155, and the promise and challenge of what [...]
![Visual Artists and Copyright Rights](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130116060808im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/CRI_156642-150x150.jpg)
Visual Artists and Copyright Rights
What & when are your copyright rights? Keep your hands off my image! The other Saturday I wrote a small musing on the art business practices; half the comments in the first two days were on copyright protection rather than gallery representation or sales to consumers. I had thought that this subject would be somewhat [...]
![Casting Call for an Austin Apocalypse: Urban Shield Disaster Exercise Looking For (Fake) Victims](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130116060808im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/urban-shield-150x150.png)
Casting Call for an Austin Apocalypse: Urban Shield Disaster Exercise Looking For (Fake) Victims
On Saturday, December 1, 2012, thousands of volunteer victims are needed to participate in a regional hazardous materials training exercise at the Travis County Exposition Center, 7311 Decker Lane in Austin. The drill is a component of the Greater Austin Area Urban Shield Full-Scale Preparedness Exercise and will include emergency management and hospital personnel, law [...]
![Hive Swarms Towards Reality: Chron Outlines Its History, and Future](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130116060808im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/hive-150x150.jpg)
Hive Swarms Towards Reality: Chron Outlines Its History, and Future
Hive, Nestor Topchy’s “master-planned, artist-centric utopia” is stepping closer to becoming a reality- Lisa Gray reports in the Houston Chronicle that the seven-story dome constructed of shipping containers, housing work space for creatives of every stripe, has submitted a plan to lease/purchase a 10-acre site of bottomland from the Buffalo Bayou Partnership. Gray’s piece outlines [...]
![Organ Rays by Photographer Unnamed by El Paso Times](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130116060808im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/epaa-150x150.jpg)
Paintings, Move Over: New El Paso Juried Photo Show Fills Gap in West Texas Expression
The El Paso Art Association has spun off a new photography show from its annual juried “Arts International” show, which ceased to include photographs last year, due to lack of space. Joyce Ewald, EPAA office administrator saw a hole, and suggested a second show to the EPAA board, and thus “International Eye of the Camera” [...]
![Dallas Art News Asks Meadows Curator Nicole Atzbach Nine Silly Questions, Gets Nine Silly Answers](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130116060808im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/atzbach1-150x150.jpg)
Dallas Art News Asks Meadows Curator Nicole Atzbach Nine Silly Questions, Gets Nine Silly Answers
Dallas Art News founder Michael Roman “spent a few minutes” interviewing new Meadows Museum curator Nicole Atzbach and posted his results yesterday; among a list of less than startling revelations we learn that “people who work in art institutions definitely have the passion for visual and other types of arts,” that both the Meadows and [...]
![Michael Bise: Life On the List, Chapter 2](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130116060808im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/life-on-the-list-ch2-p1crop-150x150.jpg)
Michael Bise: Life On the List, Chapter 2
The Glasstire Drawing Project presents Chapter 2 of Michael Bise’s “Life On the List,” an autobiographical comic about life on the heart transplant list. For Chapter 1, click here. CHAPTER 2 Coverage of Houston artists has been made possible in part by the William A. Graham Fund.
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Artists, Galleries, and Collectors: How the business of the art world works, sometimes…
I appropriately write this on “Small Business Saturday” and artists and galleries are among the smallest businesses around. But, as I say in the essay, few seem to know how this small business works on either the production or marketing sides. In my art education no one ever told me and I’m willing to bet [...]
![Read This, Then Read Not That This!](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130116060808im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/show-and-tell-150x150.jpg)
Read This, Then Read Not That This!
Not That This, a new blog about artistic happenings in Houston features posts on the Stacks exhibition at Art League Houston, street interventions by Cody Ledvina and Brother Kenyah Shabazz, a belated review of last summers Show and Tell event by new (back then) collaborative art organization MF Problem, founded by Robert Pruitt and Autumn [...]
![Michael Findlay Speaks Sanity: Connoisseurship in our Commodity Culture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130116060808im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/findlay-150x150.png)
Michael Findlay Speaks Sanity: Connoisseurship in our Commodity Culture
Culturemap interviewed art dealer Michael Findlay about his new book, The Value of Art, which de-myhologizes some of the current hype surrounding contemporary art prices by putting it in historical context. Findlay spoke at the Menil Collection at a members-only event on Monday, November 19.
![Casey Williams Recovers from West Nile Coma](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130116060808im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/williams-150x150.jpg)
Casey Williams Recovers from West Nile Coma
Houston artist Casey Williams, in a coma due to complications from West Nile virus, missed the opening of his show at Williams Tower Gallery in Houston, but awoke in time for Thanksgiving to the relief of his family and friends. Williams had a high fever with brain swelling; at one point doctors gave him only [...]