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 [...]
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By Rachel Hooper on December 9, 2012
We arrived at Blue Star Thursday night to a performance of Justin Randolph Thompson’s Tossin’ the Rag as part of his exhibition Meet Me in the Bottoms. A rag doll was being thrown in the air from a blanket while the artist performed with a group of collaborators. They were accompanied by a small band facing [...]
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By Bill Davenport on November 28, 2012
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman announced yesterday that Artpace San Antonio is recommended for a $60,000 NEA Art Works grant to support its core International Artist-in-Residence program. Artpace is one of 832 recipients nationwide. “The Endowment’s grant provides crucial support for Artpace’s core residency program,” says Artpace Executive Director Amada Cruz. “The [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged amada cruz, Artpace, international artist in residence program, NEA, Rocco Landesman |
By Garry Reece on September 26, 2012
One Ordinary Day of an Ordinary Town, Mimi Kato’s current exhibition on view at Conduit Gallery, is a continuation of the hybrid digital landscapes she first presented at ArtPace in 2009. Kato takes subject matter and format from traditional Japanese art history and then creates stylized illustrations within the context of her contemporary world. [...]
Posted in Article, Review, Uncategorized | Tagged Artpace, Conduit Gallery, japanese theater, mim kato, ukiyo-e |
By GT contributors on September 6, 2012
Glasstire contributors offer up their picks for Fall 2012! AUSTIN Emily Roysdon: Pause Pose Discompose Visual Arts Center September 21 – December 8, 2012 Super smart curator and art historian Andy Campbell invited New York- and Stockholm-based artist Emily Roysdon to take over the VAC’s Vaulted Gallery for the fall semester. I first heard of Roysdon in [...]
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By Bill Davenport on August 15, 2012
Amada Cruz has been appointed Executive Director of San Antonio’s Artpace. She will assume her post in November 2012. For the past seven years, Cruz has been the Program Director at United States Artists; from 2004-2006, she was the Executive Director of Artadia. She received the Peter Norton Family Foundation Curator’s Grant in 1994, and [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged amada cruz, Artpace |
By Claire Ruud on June 27, 2012
There’s been a lot of management turnover within top tier Texas museums over the past year. [Quick recap: Just 13 months ago, Simone Wicha replaced Ned Rifkin as Director of the Blanton Museum of Art after Rifkin had spent only two years in the post. Five months later, Maxwell Anderson became the new Director of [...]
Posted in Blog, Claire Ruud | Tagged amoa-arthouse, Artpace, blanton museum of art, cost of turnover, Dallas museum of art, diverseworks, Elizabeth Dunbar, employee turnover, gary tinterow, leadership transition, management turnover, maxwell anderson, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, museums, ned rifkin, nonprofit executive search firms, nonprofit management, peter marzio, regine basha, simone wicha, succession planning |
By Bill Davenport on May 8, 2012
Artpace’s Board of Directors announced today that Regine Basha has resigned as Executive Director to address a medical issue, effective immediately. Basha said, “A few months into the new position, I’ve had to deal with a back problem that now requires surgery and a lengthy rehabilitation. After discussion with the Board of Directors, I decided [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged Artpace, mary heathcott, regine basha |
By Margaret Meehan on February 15, 2012
A few months back while at Artpace I saw the work of Scottish artist Graham Fagen and connected with his installation. Teeth have been a constant in my own work and seem to always upset, surprise and confuse viewers. They are loaded with emotion and power whether it be visual or in written phrases such [...]
Posted in Melba Toast | Tagged Artpace, friends, Graham Fagen, jack nicholson, Senalka McDonald |
By Claire Ruud on February 9, 2012
Julieta Aranda, Hills Snyder and Regine Basha at Sala Diaz Regine Basha was recently appointed Executive Director of Artpace, San Antonio, a position she’ll assume less than a month from now on March 1, 2012. In anticipation of her return to Texas, Claire Ruud caught up with her to ask about her plans. Claire Ruud [...]
Posted in Article, Interview, Uncategorized | Tagged Artpace, Claire Ruud, matthew drutt, regine basha |
By Bill Davenport on January 18, 2012
Powerhouse curator Regine Basha has been appointed Executive Director of Artpace in San Antonio, beginning March 1. From 2002-2007, Basha was Adjunct Curator at Arthouse in Austin, where she oversaw the first Arthouse Texas Prize, and co-founded fluent collaborative. Some Texas Exhibitions she’s curated include the upcoming Pfieffer at The Blanton in Austin (Fall 2012); [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged Artpace, regine basha |
By Sarah Fisch on December 27, 2011
Justin Boyd’s Window Works installation at Artpace is called “Natural Black, Sprinkled With Cosmic Iridescence.” This title struck me as maybe unnecessarily long when I first heard it, but after “seeing” the installation several times and talking to Justin Boyd about it, it’s won me over. Because not only does ”Natural Black, Sprinkled With [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona, Uncategorized | Tagged art, Artpace, Artpace Window Works, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, Chupacabrona, field recordings, Glasstire, grackles, hills snyder, Justin Boyd, San Antonio artists, Sarah Fisch, sound art, Soundcloud interview, Texas wildlife |
By Margaret Meehan on November 29, 2011
Visual AIDS began Day With(out) Art on December 1st, 1989 as a national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis. It was meant to inspire positive action and make the public aware that AIDS can affect everyone. That first year some 800 U.S. art and AIDS groups participated by shutting down [...]
Posted in Melba Toast | Tagged AIDS, amoa, arthouse, Artpace, Contemporary Arts Houston, creative time, Day without art, Fort Worth Contemporary, SMU Dallas, Texas, Visual AIDS |
By Bill Davenport on November 23, 2011
Along with symphonies, dance companies, and theater groups, visual arts projects in Texas got a share of the 863 National Endowment for the Arts Grants in various categories announced last week: In Houston, The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston received $21,000 for the group exhibition Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, organized by CAMH Senior [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged amon carter museum, Artpace, artworks I grants, austin film festival, Ballroom Marfa, core residency program, lubbock arts alliance, NEA, project rowhouses, voices breaking boundaries |
By Sarah Fisch on October 27, 2011
So, the Texas Contemporary Art Fair is over. (Which gives me an excuse to post the above image. This particular Rachel Hecker piece is impactful and funny in-person, too.) So I’m still processing everything I saw, PLUS I’m recovering from a bout of dog-days writer’s block, which I blame on 9/11, heatstroke and having watched [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona | Tagged art, Artpace, austin, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, chandeliers, crochet, Glasstire, Houston, impenetrable narrative, monofilament, San Antonio, Sarah Fisch, taxidermy, texas contemporary art fair, Texas Gallery, wolves |
By Margaret Meehan on August 17, 2011
Every December I wait anxiously for The Lives They Lived edition of The New York Times. It’s not because I am morbidly wanting to see who died so much as I am curious to see the potential of a life well lived and the way they will be remembered. That being said it could be [...]
Posted in Melba Toast | Tagged Artpace, Chus Martinez, Kurt Mueller |
By Bill Davenport on August 14, 2011
According to Artpace’s August 12 email blast, the San Antonio org has a “new” blog! After “testing the waters for quite some time now,” Artpace has begun publishing APB (Art Pace Blog?). Written by the staff in their moments of lucidity and institutional zeal, the new blog’s “test” posts go back as far a April [...]
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By Bill Davenport on July 21, 2011
Real Clear Arts applauds what it sees as the NEA’s back-door efforts to get public money into the hands of individual artists through residency programs, after their direct grants fell victim to Jesse Helms and the culture wars of the 1990′s. NEA chief Rocco Landesman has said that he would like the agency to once [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged Access to Artistic Excellence, and Glasstire, Anna Journey, Artpace, Ashley Capps, Blue Lapis Light, Chinati Foundation Project Row Houses, Inc., Jesse Helms, Judith Dobrzynski, NEA, real clear arts, Rocco Landesman |
By Kelly Klaasmeyer on June 27, 2011
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, [...]
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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 |