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By Kelly Klaasmeyer on December 3, 2012
I headed down to Galveston last Friday to see “The Drawing Room, Part 2,” yet another fine offering from curator Clint Willour at the Galveston Art Center and to check out the old Sam Maceo house. Galveston is always full of surprises, I stumbled across a brothel along the way. Organized crime boss Salvatore “Sam” [...]
Posted in Bless Their Hearts, Blog, Uncategorized | Tagged artadia, brothel, Clint Willour, Debra Barrera, free state of galveston, galveston, Galveston Art Center, hunting prize, Hurricane Ike, Jillian Conrad, katie maratta, Laura Lark, Leigh Anne Lester, Neva Mikulicz, organized crime, sam maceo |
By Bill Davenport on October 20, 2012
In conjunction with Lawndale Art Center, Glasstire is luring some interesting people to warm the stools at our art fair bar: yesterday we learned how to crack a coconut the island way (using a 2×4), from Lawndale director Christine West; that former Diverseworks director Diane Barber is programming the art scene in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged barfly, christine west, Clint Willour, Seth Mittag, texas contemporary art fair |
By Clint Willour on March 16, 2012
In honor of the FotoFest 2012 Biennial, we’re republishing this 2008 classic from the inimitable Clint Willour… Just in in time for FotoFest‘s Meeting Place, veteran portfolio reviewer, curator and collector Clint Willour has: Some Advice on Portfolio Management Do your homework and know who I am and why I’m doing this. Don’t show me [...]
Posted in Article, The Ten List, Uncategorized | Tagged Clint Willour, FotoFest, meeting place, portfolio tips |
By Bill Davenport on August 13, 2011
The Insperity helium balloon, a popular attraction at Houston’s Discovery Green Park in 2009, sprung a leak in Chicago. So park program director Susanne Theis asked curator Clint Willour to round up 10 artists to build playable mini-golf holes on the park’s Sarofim Picnic Lawn instead. Thus was born The Insperity Golf Experience, opening September [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged Clint Willour, discovery green, insperity mini golf, suzanne theis |
By Kelly Klaasmeyer on June 21, 2011
I love Galveston. But, like Houston, it’s an acquired taste. It’s got lovely old buildings in various states of decay interspersed with not-so-lovely and downright crappy structures. It’s gritty, with a deserved air of melancholy and if it were located on a less hurricane prone coast it would have been wholly gentrified and cutesified by [...]
Posted in Bless Their Hearts, Blog | Tagged Alex Irvine, art, Clint Willour, Galveston Art Center, Hurricane Ike, Hurricane Katrina, michael guidry |