Public art rarely expresses public feelings, but two temporary works on Houston’s streets capture the spirit of the moment with disturbing clarity. September 11 left us all shocked and horrified,…
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The genius of Bernard Brunon and Jade Dellinger’s To The Trade exhibit at DiverseWorks is in adapting the trade show genre, designed to display information on business products and services,…
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The music we listen to defines our shared identities even more poignantly than the books we read. There is no more challenging question than the seemingly casual “what music do…
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Even from behind, I couldn’t mistake the stringy, leather-jacketed silhouette of Hills Snyder, watching the World Series at a bar in Terminal D. Turns out we were taking the same…
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Mixture, the new gallery owned by Dan Fergus of Brasil coffeehouse fame and directed by Paul Arensmeyer of Diverseworks fame, opened its inaugural show on Friday with flowers. Chuck Ramirez‘s…
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In East Gloucester, Massachusetts there is a shelf nailed to a telephone pole. A sign above it reads: TRADE HERE / NO CRAP. When I passed by last summer, there…
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Conceived in the placeless, idealized world behind the screen of a computer monitor, Engelstein’s works are closer in spirit to the harsh grid-based constructivism of Burgoyne Diller or Georges Vantongerloo…
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one saw; the other saw by Jennifer Steinkamp scintillates at the front of Rice Gallery like the portentous monolith in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Alaska, by Justin Kidd and Jeffry Mitchell is a low-budget theme park which uses Styrofoam, mirrored Plexiglas, and polyester batting to simulate a stage-set version of an icy wonderland.
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By occupying one main gallery and four quadrant galleries at the Dallas Museum of Art, the Wolfgang Laib exhibition involves a physical journey as much as the spiritual qua intellectual…
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Nobody cares about an artist’s personal troubles unless the artist makes them care. With Trenton Doyle Hancock’s work, I begin to care in late 1999, and care a lot by…
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As someone who builds a lot of stuff, poorly, I have a technical interest in Jeff Shore’s works.
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Introducing Orilage by Monica Vidal rings Lawndale’s mezzanine gallery with a row of 6 cut paper swatches in gay floral colors. The unbroken line of similar pieces, all at eye…
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Ironically, I ran into Mark Flood at the SUITS show, like the ghost of Banquo turning up at supper to remind the Art Guys where the body’s buried. In 1991…
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Review
Piet Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings, Dallas Collects, Color in Space, America Responds
by Bret McCabeby Bret McCabeWhen artists migrate to the United States from whatever country and for whatever reason, inevitably the move precipitates a change in their work. Whether that is due to a change…
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Ludwig Schwarz is an unabashedly phenomenal painter working in his strongest voice to date for Rentown at Angstrom Gallery in Dallas. Rentown pairs nine of Schwarz’s new paintings with furniture,…
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As usual, I spent last Saturday looking at art. First, I went to the MFAH to see the Cos Cob Art Colony show, because my great-grandfather ran a boatyard there…
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Note from the eds: This was the first “thread” of discussion on Glasstire responding to something we published, and inspired us to launch the longstanding Message Boards. – January 2007…
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It’s a good-looking show.
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Moody’s glass-walled back room is perfect for Hilary Harnischfeger’s kooky, glitter-laden installation, Ni Chomei. Named after a street in Japan where she lived as a child, the show mixes the…