Did you go to this thing? Houston’s Art Ball — aka Disaster Ball, a fundraiser for this here publication, it was. I went all the way from San Antonio. I…
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“Robert Pruitt: This Rejection of the Conqueror” at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas
by Robert Boydby Robert BoydW.E.B. Du Bois created the term “double consciousness” in 1897 to describe the way African Americans split themselves into two personas, one for each side of the color line. The…
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Russian-born Mark Cheikhet is a master violinist who also paints, seeking to fuse the arts into something that Wassily Kandinsky called “Gesamtkunstwerk,” or the total work of art. With a…
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When I ask Mark Goodman, Graduate Academic Advisor in the Department of Art at the University of Austin, what he wishes he could tell his 25-year-old self about a career…
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“The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991” at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
“The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991” on view at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston through April 15 is a rare opportunity to see some of…
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Last Friday night, “The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991 opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. In it were some of my favorite Guerrilla…
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Last weekend I went with a friend to a string of local openings. Some of the shows I saw I don’t even remember looking at, although I distinctly remember every…
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Long gone are the days when a CEO could simply cut a company check to his favorite charity. Now that it has become clear that companies can get the social…
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Wherein your narrator is roped into a dangerous collaboration in NYC, by dint of being from Texas.
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“El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You About Africa” at The Blanton Museum of Art
El Anatsui has been a superstar in the art world ever since the 2007 Venice Biennale, where he received international acclaim for his large-scale sculptures made from thousands of discarded…
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DEAD MEDIA A bibliophile: A lover or collector of books. A bookophile: A person who has sex with books, usually with the gaps between pages. WTF Dead Media is…
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“The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk” at the Dallas Museum of Art
I was prepared to hate the Gaultier exhibition at the DMA. I have a complicated relationship to fashion. I studied fashion design and merchandising at Pratt Institute in New York.…
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With the New Year comes a time for reflection. This year my annual reflection comes straight off the heels of a two-week trip to Austin. It’s always exciting to…
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A few weeks ago, my girlfriend and I began binge viewing art documentaries. We started with Herb and Dorothy (2008), the story of an elderly middle-class couple whose private collection…
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Gold is on people’s minds a lot lately—more than usual, what with inflation worries, “End the Fed” protests and calls to return to a gold standard. People fear their dollar…
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Providing a behind-the-scenes peek at the work of San Antonio artists, Donna Simon, a retired Brackenridge High School art teacher, conducts guided tours of the city’s studios, artist-run spaces,…
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350 Words: Jeff Shore and Jon Fisher’s “Reel to Reel” at McClain Gallery
by Amy Davisby Amy DavisComposed of wall-mounted sculptures, sound and film, Reel to Reel, Jeff Shore and Jon Fisher’s current installation at McClain Gallery, holds small revelations about the nature of machinery, art, music—and…
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Glasstire’s contributors suss out the season’s most promising shows. AUSTIN Evidence of Houdini’s Return Arthouse/AMOA January 4 – March 4, 2012 Arthouse and AMOA are officially conjoined twins and, as…
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End-of-2011 recommendation: Justin Boyd’s boids at Artpace
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischYou have until the 31st to be enchanted and freaked out by Justin Boyd's magnificent sound sculpture, “Natural Black, Sprinkled With Cosmic Iridescence" at Artpace. It's a Window Works visual/sound installation, so all you have to do is park out front and listen. "Open" 24 hours a day. Particularly enchanting at night. Don't miss this crazy thing.
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Back in 2001, our founder Rainey Knudson named this site in honor of Robert Rauschenberg’s cast glass tire sculptures. The glass tires were made at UrbanGlass, a nonprofit glass…