The Ed Wilson Interviews
Rainey Knudson interviews the crowd at the opening of Ed Wilson: A Survey, at the Art League Houston. Visitors comment on Wilson's work, the Houston art scene, and the ongoing controversy.
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Moving and Unmoving
For Loris Gréaud's show at the Dallas Contemporary, is the destruction of the work meant to be our release from all that industry? If so, I might have welcomed more destruction and less burden. -
Top Five: Jan. 15, 2014
Bill and Rainey wag the Chin in Houston, while Christina Rees reports on sheep butchering videos in Dallas and the mysterious, big-budget Gréaud spectacle. -
In the Caverns of Your Mind: Ian James at Self Actualization Gallery
An empty office building in midtown Houston is the last place for a spiritual awakening. -
The Determined Growth of Austin’s Co-Lab
Despite a public-funding disappointment, Co-Lab is set to expand with a little help from its friends.
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State of Museums: Artpace in San Antonio
With many Lake|Flato buildings, a principled range of materials — stone, steel, concrete, wood — are recruited to create airy, boxy forms that provide unambiguous continuity between outside and in.
Houston First Corporation: George R. Brown Convention Center Request for Qualifications for Exterior Commission (Phase 2)
Houston area artists, artist-led teams and team members are strongly encouraged to apply.
After Some Reflection at Grayduck Gallery, Austin
On the whole the show is about different kinds of identity, from mind to body to culture.
Top Five, Jan. 22, 2015
Rainey, Christina and Bill all together at the Glasstire office in Baltimore to discuss some of the week's most intriguing art events.
Roger Beebe’s Flicker Circus Comes To Town
This week, film artist Roger Beebe is touring Texas with his multiple–projector presentation, Films For One To Eight Projectors, with stops in Houston, Austin, and Dallas.
Monet on Ice: How Spectacular Art is Ruining the PR Stunt
If Olafur Eliason proposed Monet on Ice to the MFAH, it would have been done right. visitors would skate down a virtual frozen Seine, winding through the galleries past real paintings.
Moving and Unmoving
For Loris Gréaud's show at the Dallas Contemporary, is the destruction of the work meant to be our release from all that industry? If so, I might have welcomed more destruction and less burden.
And then there’s this
Serendipity, or something more?
Free Beer: A New Austin Art Podcast
Caitlin G McCollom: Why is your promo almost content-free?
Free Beer: There is a pile of content, just no context. Yet.
In the Caverns of Your Mind: Ian James at Self Actualization Gallery
An empty office building in midtown Houston is the last place for a spiritual awakening.
Big Eyes, Little White Lies
Some call the film a healthy departure, others say it’s a triumph simply because Burton didn’t call Johnny Depp to play dress up.
The Palace
Everyone accepts the rules once they enter the castle. If you've gotten past any of the gates consider yourself a good politician or a lucky fool but not necessarily a real artist because there are millions more with their massive egos bruised, their outlooks bitter, in millions of art worlds.
The Determined Growth of Austin’s Co-Lab
Despite a public-funding disappointment, Co-Lab is set to expand with a little help from its friends.
How the Light Gets In
It isn’t uncommon for Core Fellows to be accused of being heady, overly conceptual, inscrutable.
Lauren Woods at Zhulong Gallery, Dallas
Although the work spans the past ten-plus years of Woods' work, all the political content still resonates. To say that her work is about race, or even race relations, overly simplifies her conceptual rigor.
And You May Find Yourself Living In a Shotgun Shack
Not because they were better painters or the paintings were better, but because of who and what they were, when they lived, what they ate, how they dressed, how they sat. All these things… .
