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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; [...]
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By Rachel Hooper on October 20, 2012
Last year, the Houston art fairs were the talk of the town, and most people were dubious that two fairs would be able to survive. Well, not only did both return this year, but a third satellite project has been added– The Pan Art Fair. Organized by Robert Boyd, author of the blog The Great [...]
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By Bill Davenport on November 24, 2011
ArtMrkt productions’ managing partner Max Fishko has announced that the the Texas Contemporary art fair will return to the George R. Brown Convention Center October 18-21, 2012, the first of Houston’s two competing art fairs to stake out a prime early fall date. As before, the opening preview will benefit the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston.
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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 [...]
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By Glasstire on October 22, 2011
BLOG CONTINUOUSLY UPDATED!!! The Texas Contemporary Art Fair is open! The Glasstire staff will be live-blogging the fair through Sunday. Come by and see us at our booth, with Art Fair Mad Libs with exciting prizes (i.e. t-shirts) throughout the weekend. And, just like the Houston Fine Art Fair, we’ll be asking readers for their [...]
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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 Bill Davenport on August 26, 2011
The show has taken shape with a wonderful group of dealers and excellent contemporary programs; Coming from NYC will be Lennon Weinberg, P.P.O.W., DCKT, Susan Inglett Gallery, Fredericks & Freiser, Gering & Lopez, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Dean Project, and Tally Beck Contemporary along with Brooklyn’s Like the Spice Gallery and Muriel Guepin. We are pleased [...]
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By Bill Davenport on August 9, 2011
The latest update on the Texas Contemporary Art Fair has an expanded list of participating galleries: New York galleries Gering & Lopez, Fredericks & Freiser, DCKT, Susan Inglett Gallery & Lennon Weinberg will join Houston locals Texas Gallery, Inman , Sicardi , Betty Moody, Wade Wilson and San Antonio’s David Shelton gallery. ACME, Steve Turner [...]
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By Bill Davenport on July 8, 2011
The first art I’ve seen about the upcoming Houston art fair mayhem hit the web last week: Brian Piana’s battle-droid interactive graphic casts the fairs as opposing techno-organisms in an apocalyptic duel to overpopulate the Houston skyline. Click away until the city is completely obliterated!
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By Bill Davenport on July 3, 2011
I’m sure you’re already heard, but The Houston Fine Art Fair, inevitably to be known as “the first fair” arrives at the George R. Brown Convention Center from September 15-18. Pipping its rival, the Texas Contemporary art fair, at the post by a month. Like TXC (I’m abbreviating the names of both fairs to save [...]
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By Bill Davenport on June 30, 2011
A new dribble of press info from the Texas Contemporary Art Fair! Two things stick out as really new: 1.They’re “currently in the process of accepting applications from galleries and Texas-based artists for exclusive showcase in solo booths,” reviewed by fair co-directors Max Fishko and Jeffrey Wainhause in collaboration with Kerry Inman of Inman Gallery [...]
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By Bill Davenport on June 24, 2011
The most recent press release from Max Fishko of the upcoming Texas Contemporary Art Fair lists the fledgling fair’s participants, sponsors and friends so far: Moody Gallery, Sicardi Gallery and Wade Wilson Art have joined Inman Gallery and the Texas Gallery to participate in the show. They will be joined by ACME Gallery from Los [...]
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By Bill Davenport on May 3, 2011
The Texas Contemporary Art Fair has been officially announced. The fair will arrive at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston on October 20-23, just as the first Houston Fine Art Fair art fair is sweeping up the last pesky bits of foil from all those champagne bottles. Complete with VIP preview party, and [...]
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