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By Bill Davenport on January 16, 2013
Staff at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas arrived this morning to find outdoor pieces in the center’s sculpture garden dusted with a fine, powdery white substance they termed “snow.” Representatives of the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System have not commented.
Posted in Newswire | Tagged dallas police and fire pension system, museum tower, Nasher Sculpture Center |
By Janet Tyson on December 31, 2012
My first and likely only prediction for visual art in 2013: thanks to the retrospective that was organized by and debuted at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Ken Price will lose his cult status and be embraced by the unwashed masses, and perhaps even by Michael Kimmelman. As a result, the legacy of [...]
Posted in Blog, Reading Room, Uncategorized | Tagged Fredrik Nilsen, Green Dragon Office, ken price, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center, sculpture, Stephanie Barron |
By Bill Davenport on December 11, 2012
The 5th Texas Biennial, taking place at multiple venues across the state September 5- November 9, 2013, has chosen a long list of curators: Bill Arning Director, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston René Paul Barilleaux Chief Curator/Curator of Art after 1945, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio Christian Gerstheimer Curator, El Paso Museum of Art K8 Hardy [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged Bard College, Bill Arning Director, Claremont Graduate University, College of Visual Arts and Design, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston René Paul Barilleaux Chief Curator/Curator of Art after 1945, Dallas Clint Willour Curator, Dallas Jeremy Strick Director, Denton David Pagel Art critic and Associate Professor, El Paso Museum of Art K8 Hardy Artist, Fort Worth Dario Robleto Artist, galveston arts center, Houston Noah Simblist Associate Professor of Art, Los Angeles Bárbara Perea Independent curator, McNay Art Museum, Meadows School of the Arts, Mexico City Christina Rees Curator of the Galleries, Nasher Sculpture Center, New York and University of Texas at Austin Annette Lawrence Artist and Professor, New York Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler Artists and Faculty, San Antonio Christian Gerstheimer Curator, Southern Methodist University, Texas Biennial, Texas Christian University, university of north texas, Virginia Rutledge |
By Bill Davenport on December 6, 2012
In a reply to Nasher Director Jeremy Strick’s public calls pressing the “louver solution” to the ongoing Museum Tower glare dispute, Tower spokesperson Rebecca Shaw told CultureGrrl that a “recalibrated oculi treatment” in the Nasher’s roof is a better answer, or, if not that, the Tower’s researchers were looking at “very sophisticated nanotechnology” that might [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged culturegrrl, jeremy strick, lee rosenbaum, museum tower, Nasher Sculpture Center |
By Bill Davenport on October 25, 2012
Tom Luce,the lawyer asked by Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings to act as mediator between the Nasher Sculpture Center and the Museum tower in their tug of was over the ongoing glare problem, has resigned after public remarks made Tuesday October 23 by representatives of the Dallas Fire & Police Pension System, dismissing a suggested “louver” [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged dallas police and fire pension system, mike rawlings, museum tower, Nasher Sculpture Center, Renzo Piano, tom luce |
By Bill Davenport on October 13, 2012
The Cultural Landscape Foundation, a Washington D.C. based org that aims to raise awareness of historically important landscapes like The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Burlington, Vermont and the White House, has included the Nasher Sculpture Garden on its annual list of “Endangered Landscapes,” causing the Nasher to issue a public statement of surprised [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged dallas police and firefighters pension fund, museum tower, Nasher Sculpture Center, the cultural landscape foundation |
By Bill Davenport on September 29, 2012
Dallas’ controversial Museum Tower began its uphill marketing struggle on Friday, with an open letter to “to our future residents, neighbors, art lovers and citizens of Dallas” in the Dallas Morning News. In the letter, the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System, the Tower’s owner, acknowledges the Tower’s glare problems saying, “it’s not uncommon for [...]
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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 Bill Davenport on August 29, 2012
The glare controversy between the Nasher Sculpture Center and the neighboring Museum Tower in Dallas goes on and on. Meetings between the parties have been productive- solutions to the problem have been discussed in a “collegial and professional” manner, but they’re two different solutions: The Dallas Police and Fire Pension System, owner of the Museum [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged dallas police and fire pension, museum tower, Nasher Sculpture Center, Renzo Piano, tomasovic |
By Bill Davenport on July 5, 2012
The Texas Instruments Foundation recently approved grants of $1.5 million to 12 North Texas arts and culture organizations, among them the Dallas Museum of Art ($200,000) and the Nasher Sculpture Center ($20,000).
Posted in Newswire | Tagged dalas museum of art, Nasher Sculpture Center, texas instruments foundation |
By Bill Davenport on May 2, 2012
There’s nothing like dirty laundry to attract publicity, or as Dallas Observer columnist Jim Schutze put it, “nothing takes our minds off this misery we call middle-class survival in America like a rich kids art fight.” Renzo Piano is reportedly “furious,” Scott Johnson, the architect of the tower’s current form is conciliatory, but insists that [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged dallas arts district, mike rawlings dallas, museum tower, Nasher Sculpture Center, new york times, raymond nasher, scott johnson |
By Bill Davenport on April 23, 2012
As early as 2009, there was concern over whether proposed construction next door to the Nasher Sculpture center in Dallas would impact artist James Turrell’s Tending, (Blue), which depends on an unobstructed view of a little square of sky from the foot of the Nasher’s Sculpture garden. In 2009 D Magazine’s Willard Spiegelman and accomplices [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged james turrell tending (blue), museum tower, Nasher Sculpture Center |
By Bill Davenport on April 23, 2012
The ongoing confrontation between Dallas’ Nasher Sculpture Center and the new Museum Tower next door continues to flood the Dallas press with ink, some of it must-read material: Tim Rogers has an especially detailed and well-researched background of the problem in How Arrogance And Greed Made Museum Tower a Threat to The Heart of Dallas [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged criswell, john sughrue, museum tower dallas, Nasher Sculpture Center, Renzo Piano, tim rogers |
By Bill Davenport on April 10, 2012
Make sure to visit the Nasher next weekend while you’re in Dallas for the Dallas Art Fair to check out the glare. Reid Singer of Artinfo reports on trouble brewing between the Nasher Sculpture Center and developer John Suhgrue’s new Museum Tower next door. It seems the new building is too tall, and sometimes casts [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged jeremy strick, john sughrue, museum tower, Nasher Sculpture Center |
By Bill Davenport on April 6, 2012
The Nasher Sculpture Center is bringing actress, model, filmmaker and wildlife activist Isabella Rossellini will be the featured speaker at The Nasher Sculpture Center’s NasherSALON, on Tuesday, April 10 at 8pm in the “intimate”, 200-seat Nasher Hall auditorium. Tickets are $65 ($50 for Members); after the evening salon is sold out, tickets will go on [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged isabella rossellini, nasher salon, Nasher Sculpture Center |
By Glasstire on November 21, 2011
Wherever we go in Texas, we always make time for the museum gift shops. Our museum shops reliably have some of the most fun, unique and affordable gifts (for yourself and others) to be found. We’ve rounded up some of the best of them this year. For more shopping delight, be sure to check our [...]
Posted in Article, Feature | Tagged amon carter museum, art gifts, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, blanton museum of art, camh houston, Dallas museum of art, holiday shopping, houston center for contemporary craft, kimbell art museum, mckinney avenue contemporary, mfah, museum gift guide, Nasher Sculpture Center, webb gallery, Women and THeir WOrk |
By Lucia Simek on November 6, 2011
Tony Cragg’s work in Seeing Things at the Nasher reminded me of the iconic Old Man in the Mountain—a perfectly natural, perfectly uncanny male profile formed in a cliff face in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, where I grew up. Tourists came from everywhere to see the Old Man, ogling it in wonderment from [...]
Posted in Article, Review | Tagged jed morse, Nasher Sculpture Center, Tony Cragg: Seeing Things |
By GT contributors on September 6, 2011
Here they are, sorted by city, our picks for the best shows in Texas this fall! ALBANY Eric Zimmerman: Sixteen Tons The Old Jail Art Center September 24, 2011 – January 22, 2012 Hey North Texas: if you missed Eric Zimmerman’s recent shows at the Austin Museum of Art, Art Palace Gallery, or the Southwest [...]
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By Betsy Lewis on July 24, 2011
I saw STATUESQUE for the second time on Saturday, July 23rd, from 11:15 a.m. until 12:15 p.m. The temperature was 90 degrees at arrival and 94 degrees at departure. The sun was already angry. I went to observe how looking at art outside under a punishing sun would affect how we look at art. Rather [...]
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By Lucia Simek on July 17, 2011
After studying and practicing architecture in the 80s and 90s, working in the clothing industry and studying business management, Adam Silverman couldn’t ignore his deep leanings toward ceramics anymore, a hobby he’d practiced since high school. By 2002, it was time to go all in. Silverman threw off all of his other hats to become [...]
Posted in Article, Feature, Uncategorized | Tagged adam silverman, amon carter, Atwater Ceramics, Boolean Valley, clay, Heath Ceramics, kimbell, Louis Kahn, lucia simek, Malcolm Warner, Nasher Sculpture Center, Renzo Piano, reverse archaeology, Richard Serra, Tadao Ando, The Modern, vortex |