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By Bill Davenport on January 15, 2013
Mimi Swartz of Texas Monthly has been busy since Friday, when Glasstire published the Art Guys’ announcement that their controversial piece, The Art Guys Marry a Plant, was to be removed from the Menil Collection’s lawn, where it has been planted since 2011. On Friday, Swartz was CC’d a scathing email from artist James Surls [...]
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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 John Aasp on August 13, 2012
After visiting James Surls and two outdoor fairs (one local and one commercially organized) in part 1, it was time to hit the big wig affair at the Aspen Ice Garden — the third annual Art Aspen preview party. Organized by the Hamptons Expo Group (which also does ArtHamptons and the new Houston Fine Art [...]
Posted in Blog, John Aäsp, The Open Blog | Tagged Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Art Aspen, ed ruscha, james surls, richard prince |
By John Aasp on August 7, 2012
Colorado is where a lot of Texans are (or wish they were) during the summer. It’s a heavenly cool yet rugged place. I too followed the terrible wildfires and the Aurora movie theatre shooting. Like Texas (like everywhere unfortunately), Colorado isn’t immune from natural and moral evils. But Colorado is robust and smart. The towns [...]
Posted in John Aäsp, The Open Blog | Tagged Aspen Art Festival, Carbondale, Carbondale Mountain Fair, colorado, james surls, The Art Guys, The Flatlanders |
By Bill Davenport on July 15, 2012
Dallas art writer and collector June Mattingly’s new e-book The State of the Art: Contemporary Artists in Texas, is out-available for Nook, Kindle and iPad. Mattingly, a Dallas artworld fixture best known as owner/co-founder of Mattingly Baker Gallery in the ’80s, says she has “been working on it forever, I don’t know how long. Probably [...]
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By Bill Davenport on July 10, 2012
James Surls is cropping up in unexpected places: Garden and Gun magazine features an informative feature on James Surls’ contributions to the Houston art scene as founder of the Lawndale Art Center and his larger-than-life career and personality. Last year, Surls radically restructured the way he does business, firing all six of his national dealers, [...]
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By John Aasp on June 4, 2012
Glenn Downing was Texas-born and raised “alongside men with little or no formal education; men who grew up using their hands and got where they were in life by just working themselves to death.” Downing’s pursuit of art led him to UT Austin, Virginia Commonwealth, then to New York where he became an assistant for [...]
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By Kelly Klaasmeyer on January 25, 2012
Last Friday night, “The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991 opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. In it were some of my favorite Guerrilla Girls posters. It was nice to see them but it was also kind of ironic. 2011 was the (unofficial) “Year of the Guy” at the [...]
Posted in Bless Their Hearts, Blog | Tagged camh, clifford owens, Guerrilla Girls, james surls, mary heilmann, The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, year of the guy |
By Bill Davenport on November 26, 2011
The Rockport Center for the Arts unveiled James Surls’ “White Walking Flower,” on November 14. Carted in by U-haul, the piece is smaller, and white, but otherwise similar to Surls’ polished steel piece sited in front of Houston’s CAMH. The Fort worth Modern’s steel-tree-lawn-sculptor of choice was the ubiquitous Roxy Paine. As I see it, [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged camh, fort worth modern art museum, james surls, jesus moroles, rockport art center, roxy paine |