How do Texas cities fund arts and culture when the current model for doing so has collapsed in the face of a pandemic?
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Glasstire’s events and social media editor William Sarradet traveled alone by car to Rockport, on the Texas Gulf Coast, to attend the 14th Annual Rockport Film Festival.
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In spite of the aftershocks of Hurricane Harvey and a global pandemic, the concentrated art community in this coastal town has managed to keep the momentum of culture moving forward.
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This new collection of video transmissions comes from makers in various states of disruption and contemplation, and goes out to a public more receptive than ever to short, immediate, poetic expressions "of our times.”
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Decades ago, I accidentally began collecting stories and images of Texans who carried out unusual activities in the past. I came to see the individuals as outsider artists who engaged in performance and conceptual art. Here are some of their stories.
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Felipe Reyes, Part 3: Struggles in Pharr and San Antonio; Race, Trump, and the 2020 Election
Cordova's final installment in the series covers works by Reyes that address the struggle for political representation and social services in Texas, reviews the “Southern Strategy” and race, and concludes with Trump and the 2020 election.
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This week, On Video spotlights two landmark films by artist Arthur Jafa available online.
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Sure, it’s a little weird to catch half a Bergman film at 3 a.m., or an Italian horror film in the afternoon between Zoom meetings. But these are weird times.
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This week’s picks especially benefit from better sound than your laptop speakers.
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Len Lye and Norman McLaren were the first artists to create “direct animation” films, and both were deeply interested in combining the disciplines of visual art and music to create new experiences of image, sound, and movement.
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This installment of On Video focuses on two very different films by African-American actor and director Ivan Dixon: the 1964 realist drama "Nothing But A Man," and the 1973 political thriller "The Spook Who Sat By The Door."
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Improving one's mental health does not necessarily corrupt one’s connection to their Muse.
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The figures at the center of this week’s two spotlights — John Berger and Marshall McLuhan — are well known, at least in art circles, though these programs don’t seem to be.
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For this first installment, I want to bring your attention to the often-overlooked TV show 'Soul!' of which I’d encountered bootlegs over the years.
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Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out: Billy Woodberry’s ‘Bless Their Little Hearts’
by Peter Lucasby Peter LucasA landmark of African American independent cinema by Dallas-born director Billy Woodberry.
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Blending Mexican History, Bullfighting, Spanish Art, and Opera: Cesar Martinez’s La Malinche As Carmen
La Malinche has long fascinated the San Antonio-based artist Cesar Martinez.
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I recently spoke with a handful of Texas makerspaces to see how shutdowns have affected their spaces, the communities they serve, and the mixed experiences of going fully digital.
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"I tend to think one can decipher how committed an artist is by their website."
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Under the influence of the creative compulsion, the motive is no longer to communicate through the product of our work. Instead, the work becomes a place to hide out.
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Episodes have addressed artists’ day jobs, gentrification and neighborhood displacement, the Alamo in cinema, long gone music venues of San Antonio, Hemisfair 1968, Fiesta Noche del Rio, and UFOs in South Texas.