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 [...]
Posted in Article, Feature, Uncategorized | Tagged 1117 Garland, 500X, Adam Putnam, Alison Kuo, amset, Andrew Douglas Underwood, andrew wyeth, angela kallus, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Artpace, Ben Shahn, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, brett bloom, Charles Burchfield, Charles Sheeler, colette copeland, Colorful Food, Dave HIckey, Day Wheeler, designated drivers, Diego Bianchi, diverseworks, Edgardo Aragón, Edward Hopper, Fernando Brito, FotoFest, Gary Simmons, George Tooker, Gunilla Klingberg, Interactive Records, Into the Wild Meaning, Ivete Lucas, J. Parker Valentine, Jennifer Ward, Jimmy Peña, Jorge Arreola Barraza, Joseph Cornell, K Space Contemporary, Keri Oldham, kirk hopper fine art, Man Ray, marc fischer, Marcela Rico, Marty Walker Gallery, mckinney avenue contemporary, McNay Museum of Art, miguel aragon, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Okay Mountain, Paul Cadmus, Pedro Reyes, Philip Guston, rice gallery, Roberta Harris, salem collo-julin, sally chandler, Scott Martin, Sterling Allen, Susie Kalil, Suzanne Cotter, Tala Madani, temporary services, terri thornton, Texas State University Galleries, The Jung Center Gallery, The Reading Room, tony feher, UNLV, VAC, Visual Art Center, Yves Tanguy |
By Bill Davenport on September 24, 2012
Arts educator Glenn Bailey has joined Fotofest as the new manager of their acclaimed Literacy Through Photography program. Bailey, who has put in five years in the nonprofit sector in Pittsburgh and in Washington D.C. where he did school outreach for the Kennedy Center, and has a BFA in in Digital Arts and Photography from [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged FotoFest, glenn bailey, literact through photography |
By Bill Davenport on September 10, 2012
Next Friday and Saturday, representatives from Houston area schools and big local arts orgs confer to create successful partnership programs that aim to elevate student achievement through art. The two-day conference will highlight best practices for such collaborative programs, share research and describe successful partnerships. The keynote Speaker this year is Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser. On [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged FotoFest, houston arts partners, meca, tim lautzenheiser |
By Sebastien Boncy on April 23, 2012
Let’s talk Deadwood. David Milch’s superlative television show was quite good at putting his audience just outside of a given situation. The characters often spoke and behaved in ways that were perfectly crystal within their world, but may have seemed murky to the audience. That is, until the code was broken. It’s an [...]
Posted in Blog, Monocular | Tagged Alexander Gronsky, Alexander Slusarev, Andrey Chezhin, Art Photography, Belarus, Boris Mikhailov, David Milch, Deadwood, Evgeny Yufit, FotoFest, fotofest biennial, Galina Moskaleva, Liberalization and Experimentation, Mestnost, Nikolay Bakharev, Nikolay Kulebyakin, Perestroika, photography, Roman Pyatkovka, Russia, Sergey Chilikov, Ukraine, Vladimir Kupriyanov |
By Bill Davenport on March 21, 2012
Tyler Rudick of Houston’s Cuturemap reports on a bevy of international reporters in town for Fotofest, including “journalists from publications like The Economist, The Moscow Times and Die Zeit.” They were reportedly toured thorugh the “Perestroika” portion of Fotofest’s Russian photography extravaganza by curators Irina Chmyreva and Evgeny Berezner.
Posted in Newswire | Tagged FotoFest, Irina Chmyreva and Evgeny Berezner, perestrioka |
By Bill Davenport on March 18, 2012
Did you know that the City of Katy has granted the Katy Culture & Arts Alliance $6,059 to help support the town’s first biennial of photography, Fotofest Katy 2012? Scheduled in conjunction with its bigger counterpart in Houston, Fotofest Katy begins on Friday, March 23. 25 area photographers are included in 11 Katy-themed exhibitions, including [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged and Kevin Douglas West, Christopher Lee, Craig Moseley, FotoFest, fotofest katy, ken osborne, Marguerite Baldwin, Mark Linder, Ray Salazar, Ronnie Conlin, Sandy Buller, Sundaresh Ramanathan, Tom Haymes |
By Clint Willour on March 16, 2012
In honor of the FotoFest 2012 Biennial, we’re republishing this 2008 classic from the inimitable Clint Willour… Just in in time for FotoFest‘s Meeting Place, veteran portfolio reviewer, curator and collector Clint Willour has: Some Advice on Portfolio Management Do your homework and know who I am and why I’m doing this. Don’t show me [...]
Posted in Article, The Ten List, Uncategorized | Tagged Clint Willour, FotoFest, meeting place, portfolio tips |
By Bill Davenport on March 14, 2012
The 14th edition of Fotofest the Houston photo-art biennial is something special this time around: featuring three massive exhibitions of sometimes overlooked historical Russian photography from the 1950′s to today, in addition to the usual scads of shows at associated spaces both official and unofficial, all celebrating lens-based art. This year, fest founders Fred Baldwin [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged Evgeny Berezner, FotoFest, fred baldwin, olga tobreluts, wendy watriss |
By Rachel Hooper on March 13, 2012
Choreography a collaboration by Jim Nolan and Linda Post. Documentation of opening night performance featuring: Daniel Adame, Shanon Adams, Tina Shariffskul and Prudence Sun. Documentation by Lillie Monstrum. For their exhibition at Lawndale Art Center, Jim Nolan and Linda Post have gathered institutional props, mellow sounds, and documentation of the exhibition’s installation as their [...]
Posted in Blog, Wax by the Fire | Tagged dance, FotoFest, jim nolan, Lawndale Art Center, linda post, music, performance, photography, post-minimalism, video |
By Bill Davenport on January 25, 2012
Every other March, swarms of photographers and photo-related exhibitions swamp Houston’s art scene, and 2012 is one of those years: Fotofest’s 2012 Biennial focuses on Contemporary Russian Photography, blanketing the city with 200 Russian artists in seventy exhibitions. Globe-trotting FotoFest founders Wendy Watriss and Frederick Baldwin are collaborating with Russian curatorial team of Evgeny Berezner [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged Evgeny Berezner, FotoFest, fred baldwin, Irina Tchmyreva, Natalia Tarasova, Perestroika, wendy watriss |
By Bill Davenport on November 16, 2011
Artcrawl, Houston’s 19th annual open studio event takes place next weekend, on Saturday, November 19. More than 180 artists and studios, will be participating this time around, so I’ll leave the list out of this post- just assume any vaguely art-related object or person anywhere near Houston’s warehouse district is going to have something going [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged artcrawl 2011, bike scramble, FotoFest, mother dog studios, pedal houston |
By Bill Davenport on July 10, 2011
On June 22, 36 digital cameras were stolen from Houston’s Literacy Through Photography program. Forty students who were using them in a class at Project Row Houses’ Summer Arts Enrichment Camp are now using the four remaining cameras. Teacher Ben Tecumseh DeSoto will continue the classes twice a week, but Literacy Through Photography needs $4000 [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged ben de soto, desoto ben, FotoFest, literacy through photogrphy, project rowhouses |
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, [...]
Posted in Article, Feature | Tagged 29-95 blog, ACME Gallery, Adelaide de Menil, Alejandra von Hartz Gallery, Amory Show, Anya Tish Gallery, Arevalo Gallery, Art Basel Miami Beach, Art in America, Art League Houston, Art Nouveau Gallery, Art Palace, Art Palm Beach, ArtAspen, Arte Consultores, artMRKT, Artpace, Babcock Galleries, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, Ballroom Marfa, Baltimore, Barbara Davis Gallery, Barcelona/Palma de Mallorca, Berlin, Bill Arning, Bogota, Brazil, bryan miller gallery, C. Grimaldis Gallery, carpetbagger, Catharine Clark, Champion Gallery, Charlie James Gallery, Charlotte, Chicago, Christophe de Menil, Christopher French, City of Houston, Community Artists' Collective, Contemporary Arts Museum, dallas, David Lusk Gallery, David Shelton Gallery, DCKT, Dean Project, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, DiverseWorks Art Space, Dot Fiftyone Gallery, douglas britt, Douglas Dawson Gallery, Dusseldorf, fair organizers, Ferran Cano Galeria, fluent~collaborative, FotoFest, Fran Kaufman, fredericka hunter, Fredericks & Freiser, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Galerie Caprice Horn, Galleri Urbane, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Gering & Lopez, Ginocchio Galeria, Glassell School of Art Core Program, Hamptons Expo Group, Hardcore Contemporary Art Space, Havana, Hiram Butler Gallery, Hollis Taggart Galleries, Hong Kong, Hotel Occupancy Tax, Houston, houston arts alliance, Houston Chronicle, houston fine art fair, Houston Museum of African American Culture, Hurricane Ike, inman gallery, Jack Fischer Gallery, John Cleary, Jonathan Glus, kerry inman, La Casona Galería, Latin American, Lawrimore Project, Lennon Weinberg, LewAllen Galleries, Like the Spice Gallery, Los Angeles McCormick Gallery, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Magnum Photos, Manneken Press, Marfa/Dallas, María Ines Sicardi, Marshal Lightman, max fishko, McClain Gallery, Melberg Gallery, Memphis, Meredith Long and Company, Mexico DF, Misako & Rosen, Moody Gallery, Muriel Guepin, museum of fine arts, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NYC, Oscar Cruz Galería, P.P.O.W., palmbeach3, Pan American Art Projects, Paris, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, Peter Fetterman Gallery, peter marzio, Project Row Houses, Prospect New Orleans, Prospect.1, Rena Bransten Gallery, Richard Levy Gallery, Rick Friedman, Robert Wilson, Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, Ruiz-Healy Art, Samuel Freeman, Santa Fe, Santa Monica, São Paulo, Schuebbe Projects, Seattle, Seine 51, Servando Galería, Sicardi Gallery, Skydive, Soros Foundation, St. Louis, Steve Turner Contemporary, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Susan Inglett Gallery, Tally Beck Contemporary, Terry Sultan, Texas Contemporary, texas contemporary fair, Texas Galleries, Texas Gallery, Thatcher Projects, The Art Newspaper, The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, The Orange Show, Tokyo, Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Vincent Vallarino Fine Art, Wade Wilson Art, William Shearburn Gallery |
By Sarah Fisch on June 17, 2011
Here’s an interesting cross-section of San Antonio arts news. Now that I look at it, though, “escena” looks a little too much like “eczema” so I’m gonna call the next roundup something else, like maybe roundup. Me, I’ve been completely distracted from my usual howdoyoudo due to grant application fever, writing about how there’s art [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona | Tagged Anjali Gupta, Beto Gonzales, Blue Star, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, cactus bra SPACE, food writing, FotoFest, Guy Hundere, Hunting Art Prize, Jennifer Ward, jung hee mun, Leigh Anne Lester, Luminaria, Mantecatron, Reverend Seymour Perkins, Robert Gonzales, San Angel Folk Art, San Antonio, San Antonio contemporary artists, San Antonio film, Southtown, Texas art networking, Texas Monthly, Vinod Hopson |