Under Pressure: Diagnosing Dallas’ Artistic Illness
I had an email correspondence about Dallas with a friend this week — I’ll call him Toojerstraap. You may know him. Dallas, and its particular insufficiencies – art-wise and all-wise, really — is a subject we hash out regularly, attempting to land on the sources of its problems mainly, and sometimes drafting could-be solutions to them. [...]
Big Show Sneak Peek
It’s the BIG Show, the annual smorgasbord of Houston art at Lawndale Art Center! Here are a few highlights of this massive open-call hodgepodge: Patrick Turk’s work is currently on view in Collage, at the Bank of America building.
Houston in NY: That’s Houstoun not Houston
For the next couple of months I will be in New York and will post of a few blog posts called “Houston in New York”. So let’s start it off with the difference between Houstoun and Houston. I always thought that folks in New York constantly mispronounced Houston street (pronounced How-ston). But that was because, [...]
Daniel Adame
Glasstire audio slideshow profiling sculptor, dancer, performer and seamster Daniel Adame. Photographs by Will van Overbeek.
Brown Foundation Fellows at Dora Maar: new crop of artists in the South of France
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has announced the next ten Brown Foundation Fellows who will take up residence at the Dora Maar House during the Fall 2011 term (July to November): visual artist Jane Boyd; composer David Chaillou; visual artist Lisa Corrine Davis; composer Chia-Yu Hsu; writer, director and media artist John Jesurun; sculptor [...]
Texas Contemporary Art Fair: new dribble of info: artist projects and online auction
A new dribble of press info from the Texas Contemporary Art Fair! Two things stick out as really new: 1.They’re “currently in the process of accepting applications from galleries and Texas-based artists for exclusive showcase in solo booths,” reviewed by fair co-directors Max Fishko and Jeffrey Wainhause in collaboration with Kerry Inman of Inman Gallery [...]
Bernar Venet: The Artist That Wouldn’t Go Away, Now On Film!
The monumental sculptures of French artist Bernar Venet, brought to Hermann Park by the Texan-French Alliance for the Arts last year, are still here! Moved to Oyster Creek Park in Sugar Land, just south of Houston, the rusty iron french fries are the subject of a documentary film: Monumental Endeavors: Venet and Houston, to be [...]
MFAH to upload massive Latin American art archives
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston has announced plans to digitally archive 10,000 pieces of primary source material on Latin American art and make it available online. The ten year, $50 million project will be directed by the museum’s newish International Center for the Arts of the Americas and the MFAH’s star curator Mari Carmen [...]
Blinky Palermo: A Retrospective
Have you ever noticed than when people look at abstract paintings they’re always peeking around the edges? Clearly the painter has left some secret nugget of wisdom on the sides of the canvas that must be ascertained in order to arrive at a place of complete understanding. Clement Greenberg did hammer the importance of flat [...]
Glasstire Headline Contest: Are You Punny Enough to Win These Tickets?
Here at Glasstire, we are all about visual art in Texas. But every once in a while we venture off of our own site to see what else is going on in the world. On such occasions we naturally turn to those esteemed pillars of journalistic integrity, namely, The Onion and The New York Post. [...]
Adair Margo Gallery closing, really! Margo to stump for Tom Lea
Adair Margo Fine Art in El Paso is closing again, this time for good, on June 30, 2011. Founded in 1985, Adair Margo Gallery exhibited over 200 individual artists from a dozen countries and hosted over 200 exhibitions of drawing, painting, sculpture, photography and installation. It celebrated its 25th anniversary in December, 2010. Margo will [...]
Furry suit alert: Renowned artist Nick Cave to serve as UNT’s artist-in-residence
Renowned performance artist Nick Cave (not the renowned Australian alt-rocker), will be artist-in-residence at the University of North Texas Institute for the Advancement of the Arts in the 2011-2012. Cave, who went to UNT in the 80′s, will visit twice in the fall and twice in the spring, and has been commissioned to create a [...]
Boyd adds 10% to Skydive Many-Mini donations, putting the grass in grass-roots
Houston art fan Robert Boyd, whose The Great God Pan Is Dead blog enlivens the art scene here, is enlivening it in a more direct way by offering to add 10% to donations for Skydive’s upcoming Many Mini Residency program. The proposed mini-residencies, all crammed into a couple of days, have their own Kickstarter campaign, [...]
Nick Cave to serve as UNT’s artist-in-residence 2011-2012
Renowned performance artist Nick Cave (not the renowned Australian alt-rocker), will be artist-in-residence at the University of North Texas Institute for the Advancement of the Arts in the 2011-2012. Cave, who went to grad school at UNT for a while in the 80′s, will visit twice in the fall and twice in the spring, and [...]
The Houston Fine Art Fair and The Texas Contemporary Fair: Twice the fairs equals twice the drama
So you may have heard, Houston is getting an art fair. Um, actually two art fairs. There has been a ridiculous amount of controversy surrounding these fairs, a classic tempest in a teapot involving leaked email, competing fair organizers and collectors and galleries picking teams and various board members from the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, [...]
The Pop-Up MoP SHoP at Goss-Michael Foundation
You can wear ugly clothes sort-of designed by Damien Hirst’s baby momma! You are so lucky! Remember buying that Peter Max t-shirt at Dillard’s in Plano in 1986? I know I do! And this is even better since these clothes cost hundreds of dollars! Thank you, Goss-Michael Foundation, for taking me back to the Dillard’s [...]
2011 Glasstire Virtual Residency: Call for Application
What is it? The 2011 Glasstire Virtual Residency is a $2000 award toward the production of a web-based art project. The artist will retain all rights but gives Glasstire the right to link to and promote the project. The project may be hosted on Glasstire’s server or on the artist’s. The project must be completed [...]
Mirror Mirror #5: Ariel Evans and Pastelegram
With an economy that is closing many galleries, combining institutions, affecting artists’ practice and curtailing art publications it is encouraging to find someone willing to swim against the stream. Ariel Evans came to Texas in the fall of 2006 to start an M.A. in Art History at UT. After completing her degree she spent two [...]
TX Contemporary Fair’s IT List out: Glasstire’s on board!
The most recent press release from Max Fishko of the upcoming Texas Contemporary Art Fair lists the fledgling fair’s participants, sponsors and friends so far: Moody Gallery, Sicardi Gallery and Wade Wilson Art have joined Inman Gallery and the Texas Gallery to participate in the show. They will be joined by ACME Gallery from Los [...]
New mix of charity, commerce and chutzpah: Austin artist Jennifer Chenoweth launches GenerousArt.org
Austin artist Jennifer Chenoweth, has launched Generousart.org, the latest permutation mixing charity giving, cold cash commerce, online promotion, and art. Here’s the deal: sales from the site’s online gallery are split between the artist (40%), a nonprofit charity of the buyer’s choice (40%), and Generous art itself (20%). An event celebrating the soft launch of [...]
