Would your art be better, worse, or not exist without social media?
Op Ed
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I don’t know what’s going to happen. It’s a new feeling — fear with some glimmer of the unknown, actual change like light diffusing off the bend of a mountain tunnel.
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For the time being, museums won't be considered a boring outing, a field trip, or an on-the-fly pleasure: the effort behind donning a mask and going through the timed-ticket rigmarole will make museum visits purposeful. It will make them special.
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The Chinati Foundation is the gem of the town and the ultimate lure that will effectively draw people to this “safe space.”
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If you are driven to do work, if you are the agent and servant of the work, if artistic practice is unavoidable, then you are busy right now whether you are actively making things or not.
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A lot of people don’t want things to go “back to normal” because “normal” sucked.
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2020: Art in the Age of Pandemic. Death and Beginning-a-new.
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I'm writing this on my phone in a car, with a kid in the backseat, while I wait in a Walmart curbside pickup stall.
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Not getting to see art in person has gone from feeling like a temporary and honorable discomfort to a kind of psychic pain I didn’t predict.
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I hope we are all Captain Kirks, stepping out of the program to find a different way to the other side of this thing.
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Hell, I’m flocking everything.
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"What should we be doing with all these time in isolation? What should we not be doing? What are we actually doing?"
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We do what we do at Glasstire because we believe that art is a critical part of life. Our staff eats, breathes, and sleeps art, and that isn’t going to stop just because we can’t go to museums.
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You can see some of John Forse’s other comics by visiting his Glasstire author page. Some of the artist’s past comics have poked at themes of small town living, the absurdities and contractions in the art world, Hurricane…
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Artists are responsive, and survivors, and will make art. For the sake of our own wellbeing and humanity, we need to see that art. Glasstire can and does show it.
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500X's lease termination comes on the heels of its recent provocative group exhibition “Queer Me Now,” which was ordered shut down by the landlords shortly after opening.
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As Gil Scott-Heron put it in 1976, it's “partial deification of partial accomplishments, over partial periods of time.”
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Today, let’s celebrate art's penchant for the longing heart.
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Art is great, but so is nature, and food, and movies, and books.
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You can see John Forse’s other comics by visiting his Glasstire author page.