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By Kelly Klaasmeyer on March 5, 2012
Last December, before my visit to Crystal Bridges, I wrote about the challenges of being a museum funded by Wal-Mart money and located in Bentonville, Arkansas. I had interviewed the museum’s director, Don Bacigalupi, and I was taken with his brand of populism — which did not equate inclusion with dumbing down content and pandering [...]
Posted in Article, Feature, Uncategorized | Tagged arkansas, branson, crystal bridges, don bacigalupi, Kelly Klaasmeyer, precious moments chapel |
By Sarah Fisch on February 6, 2012
Did you go to this thing? Houston’s Art Ball — aka Disaster Ball, a fundraiser for this here publication, it was. I went all the way from San Antonio. I was impressed by the breadth and inventiveness of the costumes, the tipsy friendliness of the crowd, and the funky hauteur of the Colombe D’Or. There [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona | Tagged Apocalypse Ball, art auction, Bar F, Chupacabrona, cockroaches, costume party, gay bars, Kelly Klaasmeyer, La Palm d'Or, Michael Jackson tribute band, people dressed as Aztecs, rainey knudson, Sarah Fisch |
By Sarah Fisch on October 23, 2011
Look, these are all gonna be iPhone photos. I’m sorry about that. Soon as I can, I plan to purchase a real camera, but meanwhile, this is what I’ve got to work with. Also, I’m posting this as fast as I can because it’s timely. Part 2 will come this evening, as I have to [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona, Uncategorized | Tagged champion contemporary austin, david shelton, David Shelton Gallery, Houston, jules buck jones, Kelly Klaasmeyer, miniature horse, Sarah Fisch, sonia dutton, texas art fair, Texas Contemporary, vincent valdez, western wear, white people, working animals |
By Laura Lark on September 20, 2011
Big cities with vibrant art scenes have big art fairs, right? Sure. So it stands to reason that Houston, home of lots of great art, should have one as well. In fact, Houston should have two of them. Oh, that’s right! They do! Since I didn’t really pay any attention to the scuffle concerning the [...]
Posted in Blog, I'm with stupid, Uncategorized | Tagged Armory Show, Art League, austin, bad art, Bill Davenport, Brick Tamlind, crack house, dead squirrel, distressed, Donald Sultan, drag queen, Dubuffet, fiberglass insulation, food, food art, funky, gentrified, George R. Brown Convention Center, hellhole, Houston Antique Dealers Association, houston fine art fair, inane chitchat, Insperity Golf Experience, invisibility, Kelly Klaasmeyer, Manhattan, marshall lightman, miniature golf, minimalist, Montrose, neighborhood, painful social interaction, painting, parking, Pulse Fair, Ron Burgundy, rustic, Scope Fair, slutty, soulless jerks, SUV, taco truck, Veronica Corningstone, Victoria Lightman, Volta Fair, weird |
By Bill Davenport on July 14, 2011
Despite a $2000 award, despite resume-building new-media cachet, despite the popularity of past residents‘ online projects, the storied connectedness of the social media continuum has failed so far to draw ambitious artists to apply for Glasstire’s 2011 Virtual Residency. “Okay folks, so far we have ONE, count ‘em, ONE virtual residency application!” squawked Glasstire Editor [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged Abinadi Meza, Brian Piana, glasstire virtual residency, Kelly Klaasmeyer |