TX Contemporary: A Blogthology
In addition to Glasstire’s erratic artfair coverage, varying with the signal strength of the GRB’s wi-fi jamming, a number of other people had something to say about the first contemporary art fair in Houston. Here’s a roundup: Blogger Robert Boyd of The Great God Pan is Dead took time off from the opening festivities of [...]
TX Contemporary Fair Countdown: CAMH Benefit Preview in 2:56
Enormous aisles, enormous booths, enormous art, all surrounded by a fortification of shipping containers: the TX Contemporary Fair promises already to be a whopper. From a warren of bare bones, mostly unpainted walls yesterday morning to a grid of gleaming art-filled cubicles today (with the occasional harried electrician scurrying around overhead). Be sure to visit [...]
Goode Booth One of ArtPlatform’s Best Says Coagula’s Gleason
Speaking of art fairs in secondary cities, Houston’s Texas Gallery was picked out in a bit in the Huffington Post by Matt Gleason as one of the recent Art Platform Fair’s standout booths- the gallery featured semi-destroyed paintings on foam by LA artist Joe Goode, which Gleason felt “beg to have their torn open destruction [...]
Rice Gallery Announces Steve Keene Encore Performance at TX Contemporary Fair
Rice University Art Gallery has announced a special art fair encore performance by human painting machine Steve Keene, whose 1998 performance/installation Fresh Art Daily at Rice caused lines to form outside the gallery as Keene relentlessly painted hundreds of objects, selling them of for bargain prices as fast as (sometimes faster than!) the paint dried. [...]