This is how I learned this story, on Saturday mornings in the ’70s. Certainly one of the catchier Schoolhouse Rock tunes. (“That’s called taxation without representation, and it’s not fair.”) Happy…
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Bruce Nauman, 1973. “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” – Edmund Burke
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During my recent trip to Los Angeles, I was able to see the dazzling Jizzy Lizzy‘s (aka Liz Toonkel) new work-in-progress performance at PAM, a one to two-month performance residency program…
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Where: Club Pro, Los Angeles Who: Gracie Devito Title: Jazz Rollercoaster, La Bonheur “Devito has created a large-scale track engineered specifically for the blueprint of the gallery interspersed with sculptural…
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It’s June 27. H-Town represent.
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Although selfies with artworks have been a thing on social media, the phenomenon hadn’t really hit me till my recent visit to The Broad Museum in Los Angeles. One super-sized…
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Wondering what environmental changes have occurred in modern Texas history? Wonder no more: Texas A&M Press has a new book out from the Texas Landscape Project with hundreds of maps and…
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Last night I put on my brother’s basic Oculus headset and was quite convincingly and disconcertingly surrounded by sharks. Up, down, in every direction they were circling me in the…
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As with his other books: funny, pithy, full of entertaining aphorisms. His newest is about what happens to romantic love long after the glowy, early “falling in” part. His protagonist…
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Most of the Glasstire staff watches Orange is the New Black and has been awaiting the show’s fourth season, which premiered last Friday. If you haven’t ever seen OITNB, now…
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Good news: now you don’t have to travel 5700 miles to Italy to see Michelangelo’s monumental frescos. Instead, you can go to Mexico City where Antonio Berumen has created a full-sized replica…
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The San Antonio Museum of Art opens today “Highest Heaven: Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Art from the collection of Roberta and Richard Huber”. At 116 works – ranging from painting and…
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The first issue of EXU, a full-color, tabloid-like magazine created by longtime Houston-based art writer Robert Boyd, is currently on sale for a measly $3! EXU is a tabloid. EXU is…
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Yesterday Jalopnik’s Jason Torchinsky posted a perceptive and funny little breakdown of car headlight design; he coined the term “Late Cold War-Era Default Car Face,” and he made an entertaining graphic to go…
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I shot this week’s Top Five video with Houston Airport System Curator Tommy Gregory. Before the shoot, he took me on a tour of the airport’s art collection. See a few of…
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via The Browser
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The Kazbrella is just what we need in Texas. A complete redesign of the traditional umbrella, the Kazbrella opens inside out to keep you and your valuables dry! Watch the…
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The Galveston Artist Residency (GAR) is currently exhibiting the work of its 2015-2016 residency artists – Zachary Moser, Diana Puntar and Michael Waugh. Zachary Moser‘s bell responds to #allswell. It…