Jack Boynton, an artist long associated with the Houston art scene, died Monday from lung cancer. He was 82. Born in 1928 in Fort Worth, he graduated from Houston’s Lamar High School and attended undergraduate and graduate school at TCU. A Texas phenom during the 1950s and 60s, his largely abstract paintings were included in [...]
Edmund "Ted" Pillsbury, director of the Kimbell Museum from 1980 to 1998, died Thursday of an apparent heart attack after visiting a client on behalf of Heritage Galleries, where he worked at the time of his death. According to the Dallas Morning News, the death is under investigation. Pillsbury became director of the Kimbell at [...]
"Leaps into the Void: Documents of Nouveau Realist Performance" at the Menil Collection is a show you won’t see anywhere else in Texas, or most of the U.S. for that matter. There just isn’t a collection with the same quirky focus on rare moments in the French avant-garde elsewhere in this country. The show’s objects, [...]
Here’s a taste of the opening weekend of Fotofest: My favorite show was easily RE: groups – American Photographs Before 1950 from W.M. Hunt´s Collection Blind Pirate at Houston Center for Photography: NYC dealer Bill Hunt (no relation to the Texas Hunt family) has amassed a remarkable collection of vintage photographs of groups [...]
Hey everyone: this Friday, Dec. 4 is Be the Ball, our annual holiday shindig co-hosted by Fresh Arts Coalition! Our legendary anti-gala this year celebrates Caddyshack and all things tasteless 80s/preppy/country club. We put together a fantastic, invitation-only auction of Texas artists and you can preview it (and pre-bid on it) here. Join us this [...]
Gallery Sonja Roesch in Houston has a great show up right now. Roesch is a German native, and she likes minimalism, which admittedly is not everyone’s cup of tea. But Berlin-based Dieter Balzer‘s constructions hit all the right spots. For one thing, they are impeccably constructed — and by impeccably, I mean as clean and [...]
Michelle White’s been promoted to associate curator at the Menil Collection, which means 1) a much-deserved promotion for a talented young curator (currently working on a show of Richard Serra drawings for the Menil’s Drawing Institute); and 2) in case anyone thought they might, they will not be tapping the late 20-something to fill the [...]
Preview the new season of Art:21, the PBS series about artists, this weekend and next at the MFAH’s Brown Auditorium! Saturday, Oct. 3, will be a screening of "Compassion," and Saturday, Oct. 10 will be "Systems" (both at 1 pm, followed by panel discussions.) Today’s talk will be moderated by MFAH curator Alison de Lima [...]
We are pleased to announce that our editor Kelly Klaasmeyer has been awarded the USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship for 2009. Kelly joins arts writers from the LA Weekly, NPR and The Australian, among others, in this prestigious honor. Congratulations, Kelly!
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The Dallas Contemporary has announced the winners of their self-described "Dallas Art World Oscars" – a.k.a. the legend awards, awarded annually to an artist, arts professional and patrons. Congratulations to Vernon Fisher, Nash Flores, and Arlene and John Dayton, who join the pantheon of past honorees!
Hey everyone: the "Favify" button on our homepage is the first installment in A Feverish Dream, by Houston artist and 2009 Glasstire Virtual Resident Brian Piana! Click on Favify and see what happens to our hompage — it’s fun! (To undo it, just hit the refresh button.) Piana explains the origin of the Favify button on the Feverish [...]
Austin artist and UT prof Robert Dale Anderson died unexpectedly on Sunday at his home. Here is the Austin Chronicle’s post. Anderson was very active in the Texas art scene: he showed regularly at dBerman Gallery in Austin, and had a large solo show, The Land Remains, at Conduit Gallery in 2007. As fellow Austin [...]
Jeffrey Grove of the High Museum has been named the first Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the DMA. He’ll start in September.
PBS goobs like us get all fired up when something like this comes across the wire: the Amon Carter has an 1847 painting by James Henry Beard currently on view that was discovered… yes, on the Antiques Roadshow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The museum has the work on long-term loan from the DFW-based owner.
At first blush, the current show at the Kimbell doesn’t excite much in the way of anticipation. But although "Art and Love in Renaissance Italy" does include some of the ho-hum portraits and mediocre, jewel-encrusted objects one associates with "Treasures of…" shows, its bright spots are weirder, more wonderful and far more funny than one [...]
Lawndale Art Center has been on something of a roll lately. Their curatorial process hasn’t changed: all shows are decided by open submission to a curatorial board, so there’s no one "vision" driving the thing. In the past, this has made for lukewarm shows sometimes, but they seem to be getting (or maybe hustling) good [...]
The Armory this year was solid. Pulse and Volta, on the other hand, felt mostly like the art world slinging the same hash we’ve been chowing down for the past decade. For example: A mechanical bull decorated with cut-up Budweiser cans and bling, by Kristian Kozul with TZR. If that weren’t enough, check out Kozul’s [...]
The Armory this year is solid: the art on view is good, and there’s very little nonsense. Here are some snapshots: (l-r) Menil Collection associate curator Michelle White; Patrick Reynolds and Kerry Inman of Inman Gallery Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil’s cut photographs… Houston artist David Fulton did this exact thing 10 years ago. This enormous [...]
UT Press has just published a handsome catalog of Lance Letscher‘s collage work. Like any good catalog (or solo exhibition), it enriches one’s appreciation of the artist, especially if you haven’t been paying much attention to him previously. The number of galleries (3 in Texas) that show Letscher’s art reflects how popular and highly sellable [...]
