Happy Holidays and Merry 2013 from All of Us at Glasstire!
Thank you for being a part of this, Glasstire’s very special 11th Anniversary Year!! We’ve had a banner year and we’re very grateful to all of our readers and supporters. Mostly we thank the teeming mass of the Texas art scene for remaining so interesting a subject. Now for some exciting news: Something is coming [...]
M’Kina Tapscott’s New Soil
M’Kina Tapscott’s installation New Soil: Tessellations of Dark Matter is part of STACKS, a group show at Art League Houston curated by Robert Pruitt. Tapscott’s installation is refreshingly immersive and cohesive, so much so that this post can’t do it justice: it is meant to let you step in and be saturated. It’s a shame [...]
YuleTube: Ghosts of Christmas TV Past
People used to gather around the “electric fireplace” at this time of year for Christmas variety shows. These boasted sing-along medleys, unlikely collaborations, corny jokes and often over-the-top clothes and décor. The format didn’t really survive through the 1980s, but in that decade a few Christmas music videos appeared and “Pee Wee’s Playhouse” did a [...]
Apocalypse: Desire for the End
Oh how we long for the End! Is there not something slightly disappointing about waking up to an unchanged world after everything was supposed to be snuffed out? That small sense of dread, the apocalypse has not arrived and our daily routines resume as if nothing at all happened (because nothing at all did happen). [...]
City of El Paso Invites Artists to Decorate the Central Business District
On Wednesday, January 9, The City of El Paso Museums and Cultural Affairs Department’s Public Art Program is inviting local artists to an informational session on their upcoming Central Business District Streetscape Public Art Project. The city’s $30,000 effort to make downtown El Paso more pedestrian friendly needs artists to devise “artistic elements for the [...]
The Film Festival Summit
Austin hosted its second International Film Festival Summit December 3 – 5, bringing together film and music festival organizers and industry folks from coast to coast. Staff from Sundance, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and distributors like Warner Brothers rubbed shoulders with directors and programmers of small to large-sized festivals, cross-pollinating and [...]
Simek Sums Up
D Magazine’s Peter Simek sums up the dramatic occurrences in the Dallas Art scene for 2013 without resorting to tiresome to write , but love-able to read end-of year lists, or at least not until after he’s made concise analyses of the DMA’s new director and the Nasher Glare Controversy, praises the burgeoning of exciting [...]
North Texas E-Publishing Service Offers Christmas Art Book Giveaways
Ken and Barbara O’Toole, of Irish Lion Media and Marketing in Ft. Worth have e-published five monographs/artist books by North Texas artists via Amazon’s Kindle platform, and are offering them as free downloads for a few days before Christmas. The O’Toole’s offer a package of basic editing and design services and uploading to Amazon for [...]
Food: Mostly Outside the Loop
As the holiday season arrives, we all have a little reprieve from the busy slate of art openings, lectures, performances and other events. I have used this mini-break to do something I started this past summer, which is to branch outside of my immediate Montrose/Rice Village area. My trips started with an attempt to work [...]
Box 13, Home of Many Galleries, Needs Many Proposals
Houston’s BOX 13 ArtSpace is currently accepting proposals for exhibitions to fill its many gallery spaces for 2013-2014. Artists and curators are invited to submit recent or proposed works, ideas and experiments not previously shown in Houston. The fine print: “All proposals must be submitted in digital format. No snail mail, please. Send proposal(s) and [...]
AMOA-Arthouse Needs Teen Art
Attention High School Teachers! AMOA-Arthouse is now accepting applications for our annual, juried teen exhibition, Ahead of Their Time. Contact Kate Wurtzel 512.453.5312 x104.
Ink Tank/Co-Lab: Let the World End
It’s here, finally, the end of the world. It snuck up so quickly that I’d forgotten about it altogether. As the cycle of the Mayan calendar comes to an end, we prepare to say goodbye to the tumultuous 2012; to the latest tumultuous 52-year Mayan century cycle, and it can’t come a moment too soon. [...]
Interview with Eva Rothschild
In October, the Nasher Sculpture Center installed a meandering serpentine sculpture by the Irish-born, London-based artist Eva Rothschild for its current Sightings exhibition, a series which focuses on the work of contemporary sculptors. Rothschild’s piece, called Why Not You (Dallas), is made of painted aluminum and bends its way around the main corridor of the [...]
DMA Offers New Art Ball Prize For Grad Students: $1500
The Dallas Museum of Art has announced the inaugural DMA Art Ball Graduate Student Prize, sponsored by the Dallas Art Fair. Maxwell L. Anderson (Director, DMA), Frances Colpitt (Chair of Art History, TCU), Annette Lawrence (Professor, UNT), Gabriel Ritter (Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, DMA), and Jeremy Strick (Director, Nasher Sculpture Center) will select [...]
HCP Fellowships Announced: Lauren Marsolier and Marie d’Arcy Get Shows, $3000
Houston Center for Photography has announced its 2013 fellowship winners: Los Angeles-based Lauren Marsolier won the HCP Fellowship and Houston’s Anne Marie D’Arcy won the Carol Crow Memorial Fellowship. Each will receive $3000 and an exhibition at the Center next Summer. The Fellowship winners and finalists were selected by New York-based collector, curator, and consultant, [...]
Moving Day: Houston’s Texas Art Asylum Movin’ On Up
In Houston, recycled art-parts warehouse Texas Art Asylum is consolidating its locations: closing their retail store at 1320 Houston Avenue and moving everything (and that’s a lot!) to 1719 Live Oak, East of downtown. The new, larger space will house the retail operation, storage and the asylum’s twin charity organization, Center for Recycled Art‘s Teacher [...]
Moving Day: Austin’s Art on Fifth Gets New Space for the New Year
Art on Fifth, “Austin’s First Contemporary Art Gallery” won’t be on Fifth much longer- a new parking garage is forcing the gallery to relocate after 15 years to 3005 South Lamar Blvd., where the familiar Dr. Seuss gallery, framing shop and film poster store re-opens on Feb 1.
Nathaniel Donnett: ZZzzzzzz
ZZzzzzzz by Nathaniel Donnett was the result of his one-week residency at Art League Houston as part of the group show/mini residency STACKS, curated by Robert Pruitt. On opening night for STACKS, the five participating artists—Phillip Pyle II, Nathaniel Donnett, Jamal Cyrus, M’kina Tapscott and Autumn Knight—were clad in gray hazmat suits while they inventoried, announced, axed [...]
Black Friday in LA
On Black Friday, while millions were buying iPads for their six-year-olds and guns for their holsters (handgun sales broke an all-time record this year), I was staring at art in Los Angeles. Since most major galleries were closed that weekend, I visited the Geffen Contemporary, LA MOCA and LACMA and ate local fare including frozen [...]
Krisanne Frost (1951-2012), San Antonio Artist, Blue Star Gallery Liason
From the San Antonio Current: “Krisanne Frost, well-known local artist and gallery liaison at Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, died December 6 from cancer at age 61 after being diagnosed just weeks ago. Born in Houston and raised in the Hill Country, she was an early resident in the Blue Star complex, and ran a [...]
