There’s one week left to see Native American Works on Paper at the El Paso Museum of Art. After five months of display, the exhibition in the museum’s first floor Gateway Gallery closes…
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In his spatial intervention at Artpace, New York artist Corey McCorkle used air conditioning vents to connect his second floor artist’s apartment to his first floor studio, emphasizing the…
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Our best guesses for Fall 2010… Albany The Old Jail Art Center Harry Geffert September 25, 2010 – January 23, 2011 Harry Geffert is arguably the granddaddy of all those…
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You’ve come to expect insightful commentary and hard-hitting reporting from No Country for Old Interns on Glasstire.com, and this post is no exception. The Chinati Foundation may house permanent installations…
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To create Timelapse: 54 Days, Lincoln Street, Marfa-based artist Martha Hughes completed 54 paintings of the same subject—her kitchen table. Over the course of a year, Hughes photographed the…
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For some reason, the administration at Texas Southern University recently painted over two really beautiful murals. They were created by Harvey Johnson, a long time professor and my own drawing…
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Maybe you watched the reality TV show “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist.” Maybe you enjoyed it, or maybe you want Bravo to give you those years of your…
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The free summer programs for children offered by Ballroom Marfa and the Chinati Foundation make me wish I were a kid again. The programs involved absolutely no pipe cleaners or Popsicle sticks, and no…
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Like so many I know, whenever I find myself in a foreign land, another state, or even another neighborhood, I get that Golly, wouldn’t it be neat to live here…
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Retrospectives are more often than not reserved for famous artists. Like the recent Luc Tuymans exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art, these exhibitions are usually organized for large institutions…
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Mona Garcia is exactly what non-Texans expect a Texan to be. A native Houstonian, she comes from oil and ranching families. She’s polite, but unafraid to speak her mind. And…
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Dallas artist Lizzy Wetzel has a very strong personal iconography that draws on notions of the spiritual and supernatural from a variety of cultures. In addition to her intensely detailed…
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For those of you who watched Bravo’s Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, Peregrine Honig needs no introduction. If you didn’t watch, check out Keith Plocek’s weekly recaps on Hustletown, his Glasstire.com blog.…
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…what living in the country means: It’s sitting in a little bitty restaurant, looking out the window at a cow, but you only have powdered creamer for your coffee. —…
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The shaped canvas in contemporary painting has always irritated me. Simply because, for the most part, it seems to cry, “look! I’m making painting interesting and current and trying to…
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Dharma Bummed, But No Harm Done In the midst of the words he was trying to say In the midst of his laughter and glee He silently and quietly vanished…
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Essay
Iles & Rizzoli & Isles or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love TV
by Laura Larkby Laura LarkI am a lazy person. I get lazier. But I decided, a while back, that I would bravely go where many have gone before (Dallas) to see what many have…
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In Luc Tuymans’ 1997 painting Der Architekt, a man wearing skis has fallen in the snow. Almost monochromatic, the image is rendered in frosty blues that lean to black. The…
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In an attempt to convey the stunningly wide editorial berth Glasstire has given me regarding subject matter for this blog, I decided to go with the standard Hollywood naming convention…
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Weird, dreamlike forms that seem to be melting or vibrating, extreme color and kaleidoscopic space are characteristic of psychedelic art, which has usually been seen as the product of popular…