Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson discuss this week's art news.
July 2017
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This week, Discovery Green and Houston First Corporation announced that they have commissioned a site-specific work by Dallas artist collective The Color Condition (Sunny Sliger and Marianne Newsom). Set to open August 17…
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I’m going to stop right there. Please stop reading and go.
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Take part in the coolest study abroad program: Semester at Sea. You take classes on a boat (12-15 credit hours) while logging 20,000+ nautical miles and exploring world. The Institute for Shipboard…
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Earlier this week, Abilene residents noticed unusual decoration on a man’s backyard shed, reports BigCountryHomepage. Tacked up in a salon-style, detective crazy wall fashion on the side of the building and…
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The City of Houston has launched an artist residency program. It’s seeking three artists for this round, “…a new, 16-week community-impact artist residency will pair Houston artists with city and partner agencies…
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My silly prodding created an opportunity for a profound and provocative response from the museum.
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Sugar Land’s Clements High School celebrates after incoming sophomore Adrian Pacini wins top filmmaking honors at the 2017 International Thespian Festival for his short film “Beyond” (below). For almost 80…
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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on art you can drink from, art you can sink into, and a museum of toilet seats.
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A house in Richmond, Texas (30 miles southwest of Houston) has come up for sale and the pictures of its interior have gone viral. Several websites have reported the owner…
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Review
Why this Year’s Galveston Artist Residency Exhibition is Different
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechFor three artists so deeply tapped into the cultural consciousness to collectively experience an event as monumental as the election of Donald Trump, bonding and the sharing of a common sense of urgency seems inevitable.
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Hector Rodriguez is an elementary school teacher and the creator of the El Peso Hero series of comics, which has recently gained much attention for its Latino superhero who fights…
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Two weeks ago the Dallas Museum of Art hosted a Guinness Record costume contest for the most people dressed like Frida Kahlo. It was a bit controversial, but popular, too. It’s…
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Art is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes by Artists is a collection of punchy and pithy quotes by big-name artists. It’s a Phaidon coffee-table book (toilet-reading book?) the…
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Southern Living, the magazine that focuses on Southern cooking, Southern homes, and Southern hospitality, has expanded its definition of Southern life to focus on the upcoming third annual HUE (Houston…
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I wondered if the house was merely unfinished, or if the entire premise had become unresolvable.
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Today, The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation announced that Christina Rees, Glasstire’s Editor-in-Chief, has been awarded the new Rabkin Prize for Arts Journalism. For its inaugural year, sixteen arts writers were…
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An Austin funeral home, Distinctive Life, has installed a sculpture of the letters, “L,” “V,” and “E,” leaving room for selfies to finish the word “LIVE.” It has been displayed…
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For all the controversy that comes along with using Toby Kamps as juror, the payoff is huge.
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Curtis may have achieved the impossible, but the project broke him physically, mentally, and romantically.