My (partial) Experience of Design District Gallery Day
This past weekend CADD hosted another effort to get people into galleries, called Design District Gallery Day. I did not, I’ll admit, spend the day participating in Gallery Day, though it wouldn’t have been a bad way to spend the infernally hot daytime hours. I went in the evening, and only to two galleries, so I can [...]
Art on the Llano Installs Third Roadside Art Project in Lubbock
The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reports that Sky Drill, by Austin artist Brent Baggett will be installed August 2 by the roadside where Spur 327 meets the westbound frontage road off South Loop 289 in front of Home Depot. It’s the third of seven proposed pieces to adorn Lubbock area roads under a project called “Art on [...]
Formula One Racing Brings Glittering Crowds To Austin, Artists’ Plans to Cash In Lagging
Austin’s funky college-town ambiance will be shattered by the (distant) screams of Formula One racing in November. 300,000 visitors are expected for the US Grand Prix on the weekend of Nov 16-18 at at Circuit of the Americas, still under construction in Travis County. The city of Austin is helping businesses prepare with $10 workshops [...]
Fort Worth Modern Turns Ten, Opens Presents at Party in December
The Fort Worth Modern is celebrating ten years in its fancy Tadao Ando building by acquiring some big, fancy new art: Wall Drawing #50A, 1970, by Sol Lewitt consists of hundreds of hand-drawn lines in colored pencil (red, yellow, and blue) stretching across a large wall, overlapping each other, and measuring approximately 11×16 feet; a [...]
Bill’s European Vacation 2012: Jenny Saville & Olympic Opening Ceremony
Popped into the Oxford Modern Art Museum to see some of Jenny Saville’s paintings in person- they’re based on photographs, so in reproduction you miss her somewhat annoyingly self-conscious painterly virtuosity. She’s very good at what she does, too good: large, in-your-face slabs of discolored, bruised and embalmed flesh, which, as you step away, are [...]
Dear Young DFW Whippersnapper Artists
The new normal should be anything but. Time to fuck shit up. Dear Young DFW Whippersnapper Artists, Whatever the last “up” economy may have taught you, in your teen years, about what art is, how it should look in an art fair booth or ad in Artforum, how it’s valued, how famous you can [...]
Laura Lark Loves You #3: Something About Mary
Questions? Comments? Opinions? Send them to Laura Lark Loves You: lauralark@glasstire.com (or leave your message below) Mary asks, If you could describe and suggest a daily routine (things to read, do, act, etc) what would you suggest? Also, what type of resources (advice) would you suggest in trying to figure out how to market [...]
Olympic Update From London: Minute Texas Art Connection Unearthed
Ex-Houston artist Duncan Ganley will be taking part in the televised Olympic opening ceremony. Although all details of the elaborate show, months in the planning, are subject to a strict omerta, it has been revealed that Ganley will be one of many people wearing hats, to the left of the giant bell, after the simulated [...]
Should Texas Museums Have Artist Board Members?
Noting the flap over the departure of the artist-members of LA MOCA’s board of directors, D Magazine‘s Peter Simek asks if the Dallas museums ought to consider getting some. Simek points out that audience-centric museums need not suck, using Nicholas Serota’s Tate Modern as an example, and crediting Serota’s use of input from contemporary artists [...]
Pecos Rock Art Decoded: SHUMLA School’s Boyd Sees Shamanic Stories
Texas anthropologist Carolyn Boyd, founder of t SHUMLA (Studying Human Use of Materials, Land, and Art), an education and research center in Comstock, Texas, has put forward a detailed interpretation of some of the enigmatic rock art of the Pecos region in West Texas by comparing it with modern day Huichol and Yaqui legends. While [...]
David Shelton moves to Houston
Breaking news: this September, David Shelton will move his eponymous gallery from San Antonio to Houston. The new gallery will be located in the iconic Isabella Court building on Main Street, with neighbors Inman Gallery, Art Palace, Devin Borden and Kinzelman Art Consulting. “We are thrilled to welcome David to Houston with the opportunity to [...]
Houston Arts Resource Fair Saturday!
On Saturday, July 28, a consortium of Houston arts orgs have organized the first ever Houston Arts Resource Fair, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the University of St. Thomas’ Jones Hall, 3910 Yoakum St. The free event aims to connect individuals and arts organizations with professional development opportunities like funding, housing, marketing, audience [...]
Pantheon Still Matters in Wall St. Journal, But The Romans Lacked Astroturf
Wall Street Journal Leisure & Arts features editor Eric Gibson, in a fit of summertime art history 101, re-explains why the Pantheon, built in the second century AD by the Emperor Hadrian, still matters. Besides being the only major work of Roman Imperial architecture still intact and the largest masonry dome ever built, the singularly [...]
Trensdspotter: Biennial Backlash in LA Times
Nearly a year after the Dalllas Un-biennial, The Los Angeles Times‘ Jori Finkel spots a trend against biennials’ “supersized display of art objects.” Elisabeth Sussman, who co-curated the Whitney Biennial this year “wanted to make the experience of going to this biennial different than any other.” The Hammer Museum and the Orange County Museum are [...]
Nasher Makes Sexy with Ernesto Neto: Cuddle on the Tightrope
Ernesto Neto (pronounced NEH-toh) may have created the world’s cleverest aphrodisiac: it takes a while to realize Cuddle on the Tightrope is a journey into a vagina, but as soon as you’re done, you know you want to keep entering. By that standard, the Nasher’s new game of mounting sensual, experiential installations, started last year [...]
Herb Vogel, Famous Low-budget Art Collector, Dies at 89
Postal worker Herbert Vogel who, along with his wife Dorothy, a reference librarian, amassed a monumental collection of apartment sized works by a who’s-who of modern artists, has died. The Vogels, immortalized in the 2008 movie “Herb and Dorothy”, stand as an example of how (in the 60′s) big money wasn’t a prerequisite for serious [...]
See it before it closes!: Yasuaki Onishi at Rice Gallery
Yasuaki Onishi’s reverse of volume RG is the latest great installment in Rice Gallery’s 16-year-run of site-specific installation work. Onishi has used hardware store plastic sheeting and black hot glue to create an ephemeral and haunting environment. A horizontal network of fishing line stretches across the gallery ceiling, Onishi propped up the plastic with boxes [...]