“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Disaster Time Last fall, the artist Jonathan Schipper made Cubicle, an installation at Rice Gallery of a nondescript office…
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Fired up at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, April 31. Chris Burden's 'Metropolis II' at LACMA A post shared by Texas Visual Art (@glasstire) on Apr 3, 2017 at 12:09pm PDT
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Just after World War II, German author Erich Kästner published the children’s book Die Konferenz der Tiere (The Animals’ Conference) as call for World Peace. The illustrations were done by Walter Trier,…
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Sometimes we encounter things in the world that look like they should be (and could be) art. And sometimes, even, they are better than art. Cue the #betterthansculpture hashtag on Instagram. While…
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Charles Bukowski was a great writer, great lover, and a great drunk. The following passages are from the 2015 collection of his letters titled “On Writing,” edited by Abel Debritto. Bukowski…
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The compelling Nancy Grossman (b. 1940) is perhaps best known for her meticulously hand-made leather masks and torsos. She made these two in the late 1960s, well before Pulp Fiction,…
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Being the exclusive US partner to Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio sends every year four lucky artists from Bexar county to Berlin. The artists are staggered and follow each…
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The Unicode Consortium has unveiled its candidates for the next round of available universal Emoji (Emoji 5.0). It’ll be a couple of months before we learn which ones make the…
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Something to Watch: Weekly Sculpture Poems from Elaine Bradford & Sara Cress
by Glasstireby GlasstireThroughout the year, artist Elaine Bradford and poet Sara Cress are working together to create weekly “sculpture poems” for their collaborative site Routine Fables. For the project, Bradford creates a sculpture that Cress then responds to.…
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Despite the fact that the majority of deficit spending comes from two sources, 1) the military and 2) entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security, President Trump wants to raise military…
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The death of truly fantastic illustrator, film designer, and comics creator Bernie Wrightson was announced yesterday, after his long battle with brain cancer. He was 68. While perhaps best-known for co-creating…
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If you would like to receive more than just bills and credit card offers in the mail, sign up for Uneasy Houston. Eric Pearce, a long-time fixture in Houston’s printmaking community,…
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Sometimes museums use billboards to advertise art, and sometimes billboards are the art:
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Some current or recent Texas curators: Google image search results for “museum curator stock photo”:
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In a thoughtful new essay in The Baffler titled “The Revolution Will Not Be Curated,” Thomas Frank makes the argument that curators have taken the place of what is curated, that…
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Ehren Tool at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft A post shared by Texas Visual Art (@glasstire) on Mar 12, 2017 at 5:11pm PDT
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: House Paint The New York Times recently reported on First City Project, a graffiti-covered mansion from 1810 on…
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We enjoyed this piece in the New Yorker about all their covers that have poked fun over the years at the socializing and art-ignoring that goes on at gallery openings.…
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Lubbock-based artist Andrew Martin has found a way to lean in to our society’s obsession with personalized viewing experiences. His exhibition, observer effect, on view at Redbud Gallery in Houston,…
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