Looking heavenward
Turrell fans and Quakers rejoice, James Turrell’s Skyspace in the Live Oak Friends Meeting House is open again after a more than two year closure. [...]
Bright Lights. Big City. It’s Going to be Okay.
It’s official. With almost a full month under my belt I now live in Austin and so I guess it is time I [...]
Stuff to See
Yes, it’s a 1000 degrees outside but if you can just make it through the parking lot, these Houston spaces have great air conditioning – [...]
“Luc Tuymans” at the DMA
In Luc Tuymans’ 1997 painting Der Architekt, a man wearing skis has fallen in the snow. Almost monochromatic, the image is rendered in frosty blues [...]
Echt Adams?
Whether or not the $45 trove of glass photographic plates bought at a California garage sale is worth $200 million is still being debated. Some [...]
Momma, don’t take my…
The last roll of Kodachrome film Kodak produced was developed this July. If you’ve still got some exposed Kodachrome in a drawer somewhere, one of [...]
De-installing 101 Spring Street
Last month I took a break from Marfa and traveled to New York to volunteer for a week at 101 Spring Street. The Judd Foundation recently finished de-installing [...]
Tonight in Dallas
D Magazine‘s Front Row blog launches its monthly film series addressing the question “What film do you believe people living in Dallas today need to [...]
Cantanker Call
Austin-based Cantanker Magazine has issued a call for entries for its catalog and exhibition titled "The Ambiguous Object." Jurors for the project are Cook & [...]
No Naked North Koreans
As questions about the competition arise, the Guggenheim’s YouTube video art Biennial has announced its panel of judges, which will include the likes of Laurie [...]
Father Knows Best
In her blog, Regina Hackett takes on Donald Kuspit’s claim that "artists create but need the intelligence of critics to animate that creation" as she [...]
FUDGE KNIVES SWIMWEAR LEATHER
In an attempt to convey the stunningly wide editorial berth Glasstire has given me regarding subject matter for this blog, I decided to go [...]
Spill CSI
Tar balls and sludge pools from the BP disaster are hard to miss but now black light is being used to find much more subtle [...]
Trash Talking
In March, April and May, Brooklyn-based artist Bill Saylor lived and worked in Marfa as a Chinati artist in residence. Saylor took full advantage of the cavernous studio [...]
Museum of Old and New Art stinks
With a subterranean building and an excess of controversial art (heavy emphasis on the scatological) Tasmanian mathematician and professional gambler David Walsh is opening the [...]
Ancient Arabia
"Roads of Arabia" at the Louvre is, according to a New York Times review, filled with startling revelations. Containing hundreds of artifacts never before seen [...]
Similar but Different #6: Books and Magazines
I am finally thinking about putting together my summer reading list (yes I know it’s already the end of July). I started by looking for [...]
Mocking BP
Geekdom is skewering BP’s "incredibly amateur" Photoshopped spill response photos. Gizmodo has a detailed review of all the moronic errors (half a boat and a [...]
Needs all the help it can get…
If you are actually still watching Bravo’s "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist" you may have noticed that the challenges, well, suck. Paddy Johnson [...]
Sesquipedalian
Paddy Johnson at Art Fag City takes on jargon-y art writing in "The Problem With Academic Language Isn’t Big Words." Her post got some great [...]
