"If you are dumb and without talent going in you'll still be that way coming out. "
September 2017
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Uncommon Objects, Austin’s go-to shop for funky antiques and other finds, has announced that it will be relocating due to the ever-rising rents on the South Congress strip. The shop,…
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Pete Gershon, the Houston-based author and historian, will be giving a talk tomorrow, Saturday, Sept. 30 at 2 p.m. at Deborah Colton Gallery in conjunction with Colton’s current show as well…
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It’s easy to overlook people being killed in state-sanctioned executions when they are just numbers on a page. It’s much harder to ignore the system when you humanize an inmate and grasp him or her as an individual.
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Glasstire is so excited by the resuscitation of Big Medium’s Texas Biennial after four years that there are a number of articles (do a search at glasstire.com) on its each…
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Last October, Tom Hanks hosted Saturday Night Live’s Halloween show and debuted a character that took the world by storm. Flanked by two dancing skeletons, David S. Pumpkins (the “S”…
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For five years Dallas has been hearing about the development of an ambitious project called the Museum of Street Culture, and this coming Sunday, October 1, it will open its…
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Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson on artists bringing their A-game, the pleasures of the flesh, and the tale behind Trenton Doyle Hancock's retrospective in Houston.
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The City of San Antonio has announced its honorees for the third annual Distinction in the Arts awards, reports MySA.com. They are saxophonist Spot Barnett; visual artist César Martínez; Belinda…
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Each year the the City of Austin’s Cultural Arts Division hosts a big show on the main floors of Austin City Hall; it’s called the People’s Gallery Exhibition. For its…
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Florentin wants to unfix hard distintions between human activity and earth’s own projects: i.e. nature and culture.
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Over the years, Glasstire has reported on Barack and Michelle Obama’s support for the arts, in such articles as “Michelle Obama Awards Blaffer’s YAAP,” “Obama Apologizes to UT Art History…
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Valton Tyler, whose excellent recent retrospective at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth has been a critically acclaimed highlight of museum exhibitions in Texas in 2017,…
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Keasler took a deep breath and dove into this esoteric and unlikely subculture with her eyes and lens wide open.
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Each year, the Fine Arts Diversity Committee at the University of Texas (UT) accepts four to five proposals of guest artists they believed would further diversity and inclusion. Until now,…
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News
The New York Foundation for the Arts’ Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program is Coming to Texas
by Glasstireby GlasstireThe New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) announced today that its Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program is coming to San Antonio, Texas. Since 2007, the New York City program has connected…
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Douglas Doneson sits down with graphic designer Mike Frost to talk about the history of Houston's hip-hop scene through its album covers.
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The City of Sugar Land is hosting an Italian film festival, Umbria in Sugar Land, a multi-day event featuring Italian films from the Festival del Cinema Città di Spello ed…
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The fifth iteration of projects for TEMPO, Austin’s Art in Public Places program featuring temporary outdoor artworks and installations by local artists, are now on view. Funded by Austin’s Hotel Occupancy Tax and…
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You cannot even try to discuss Meads' work without starting with queer life, the death drive, and sex. It is the topic.