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By GT contributors on January 6, 2013
Glasstire contributors offer up their picks for the best spring shows around the state. Think we missed something great? Post it in the comments section below! AUSTIN Alison Kuo: Colorful Food 1117 Garland January 4 – February 14 Former Austin resident and current School of Visual Art grad student, Alison Kuo will present a psychedelic [...]
Posted in Article, Feature, Uncategorized | Tagged 1117 Garland, 500X, Adam Putnam, Alison Kuo, amset, Andrew Douglas Underwood, andrew wyeth, angela kallus, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Artpace, Ben Shahn, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, brett bloom, Charles Burchfield, Charles Sheeler, colette copeland, Colorful Food, Dave HIckey, Day Wheeler, designated drivers, Diego Bianchi, diverseworks, Edgardo Aragón, Edward Hopper, Fernando Brito, FotoFest, Gary Simmons, George Tooker, Gunilla Klingberg, Interactive Records, Into the Wild Meaning, Ivete Lucas, J. Parker Valentine, Jennifer Ward, Jimmy Peña, Jorge Arreola Barraza, Joseph Cornell, K Space Contemporary, Keri Oldham, kirk hopper fine art, Man Ray, marc fischer, Marcela Rico, Marty Walker Gallery, mckinney avenue contemporary, McNay Museum of Art, miguel aragon, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Okay Mountain, Paul Cadmus, Pedro Reyes, Philip Guston, rice gallery, Roberta Harris, salem collo-julin, sally chandler, Scott Martin, Sterling Allen, Susie Kalil, Suzanne Cotter, Tala Madani, temporary services, terri thornton, Texas State University Galleries, The Jung Center Gallery, The Reading Room, tony feher, UNLV, VAC, Visual Art Center, Yves Tanguy |
By Janet Tyson on December 5, 2012
Dave Hickey recently announced his retirement from art criticism, citing his disgust with the circus that the art world—particularly the world of contemporary art—has become. He also, in an article published online by The Guardian/The Observer, noted he’s working on a book that will be a “snarky diatribe on Christianity.” I met Dave in Austin about [...]
Posted in Reading Room, Uncategorized | Tagged art market, christianity, contemporary art, dave, Dave HIckey, hickey, religion |
By Janet Tyson on October 28, 2011
Looking at two new books that recently landed in my lap, I’m reminded of Dave Hickey’s description of the therapeutic institution. That would be the museum or ICA or biennial whose displays were, like nasty tasting medicine, supposed to be “good” for the viewer. In contrast to such visual puritanism, Hickey argued for exhibitions whose visual [...]
Posted in Reading Room, Uncategorized | Tagged Dave HIckey, Fred Wilson, Ken Johnson, Mining the Museum, psychedelic |
By Bill Davenport on October 17, 2011
Ex-Texan Color Field Painter Stephen Mueller died in New York on September 16. The 63 year old artist grew up in Dallas, and got a BFA from UT before moving to NY in 1970. Having family in Dallas, he remained connected to Texas, showing at Dave Hickey’s influential Clean Well Lighted Place gallery in Austin [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged clean well lighted place, Dave HIckey, stephen mueller, Texas Gallery |
By Bill Davenport on August 21, 2011
Critic Dave Hickey subtitled his seminal UltraLounge show of 1998 as “the return of social space (with cocktails).” A new Houston business melding art instruction with socializing and drinking called Art Class and Wine Glass takes an unusually forthright approach to serving the desire for socializing with like-minded hobbyists that drives many part-time art students. [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged art class and wine glass, Dave HIckey, incredibles, syndrome, ultralounge |
By Sarah Fisch on June 24, 2011
Elizabeth Kramer, an arts journalist who writes for the Gannett-owned Louisville Courier-Journal, escaped massive layoffs on Tuesday, when the paper shed ten percent of its workforce. Kramer wrote on Facebook, “Layoffs today at The Courier-Journal were just awful. Out of 50 at the paper, half were from the newsroom, with several in features. I’m still [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona | Tagged American culture, art criticism, Artpace, arts journalism, blogs, Creative Capital, Dave HIckey, economic recession, Glasstire, Great Depression, Hilton Als, iMovie, Jeff Weinstein, Los Angeles theater, louisville courier-journal, media layoffs, NEA, NYFA, print media, Rick Frederick, role of art criticism, Sasha Anawalt, Texas contemporary art, theater criticism, USC-Annenberg Arts Journalism Institute |