Artists finding affordable housing has always been a problem, especially when looking at options designed specifically for artists. Alana Semuels writes in The Atlantic about subsidized housing for artists in Minneapolis: “Set on…
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Austin-based artist Jules Buck Jones has designed the official poster for this year’s Austin City Limits. Here’s the full-color version: Here’s the not-really grayscale one: And you can buy one…
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As usual with music, I’m late to the party. Outstanding singer Brittany Howard and co. apparently won a bunch of Grammys this year. This album was number one somewhere. But it’s…
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Seth Alverson’s going away party/show was last Friday at Bill’s Junk/Optical Project in Houston. The event consisted of this video showing a spinning figurine that periodically squirted blood from its mouth. Though the…
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With Mahaffy's work, we experience a sensory shifting that blurs the boundaries between the present and the past, the real and the virtual.
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Architect Alejandro Aravena, the winner of this year’s Pritzker Prize and the executive director of the firm Elemental S.A. in Santiago, Chile, recently released plans to four of his Incremental Housing…
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Like music, art doesn’t allow us to transform our nature or bring us closer to some abstract ideal of what we should be. But both help us shift our perspective and allow more stories to come into view.
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Review
Escaping the Narrative Trap of Video Art: David Politzer and Bradly Brown
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechIf an artist is making a time-based work, it might behoove them to work smart rather than work hard.
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As Texans, we are still waiting for our great student. It may be Linklater.
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Christina Rees and Michael Bise on Midland versus Odessa culture, painters who can actually paint, and a fond farewell to a cranky Houston artist.
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In its sixth year, CineMarfa continued building layers of connections upon its impressive, ongoing program through really smart and playful placement of our media mirrors.
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Jamie Panzer, whose current show is evolving (as we type this) at Big Medium in Austin, has given us an idea of what he would do for love.
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I suppose people can marvel at what a bad boy he is, but I liked Flood’s work a lot more before I saw this show.
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A viewer walks into a stranger’s room and wonders at its contents and guesses at what kind of person lives there and why they choose to live this sad garbage life.
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Christina Rees and guest host Christopher Blay on dubious art prizes, the seduction of immersive installations, and how to fluff your art CV.
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The exhibitions at deadWEST are the result of a curatorial collaboration between artists Winter Rusiloski and Angel Fernandez, and are installed in the artists' own studio spaces.
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Review
Everything is evolving, everything is falling apart: Jamie Panzer at Big Medium
by H.C. Arnoldby H.C. ArnoldPanzer’s work constantly reminds you that the things of the world are unsteady and open to theft. Nothing is safe from subversion.
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Review
Snake Oil: Taraneh Fazeli, Critical Writing Fellow, Core Program
by Michael Biseby Michael BiseFazeli’s valorization of illness as a tool for economic revolution is an example of the kind of fuzzy thinking that too often goes unchallenged in the art world.
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San Antonio sculptor Danville Chadbourne in conversation with Glasstire, in advance of Chadbourne's solo exhibition and the unveiling of three of his acquired outdoor works at the Rockport Center for the Arts.
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Allen creates material boundaries within which his imagination flourishes. He hasn’t completely abandoned his tongue-in-cheek approach—the tendency is there—but it’s diffuse and delayed.