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 [...]
