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…
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Christina Patoski explores the jam-packed world of Julie and Bruce Webb, owners of Webb Gallery, an outsider art wonderland in Waxahachie. Christina Patoski is a journalist and photographer who…
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“How much does your house weigh?” – R. Buckminster Fuller The late American architect and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller was famous for seeing the world through an uncommon lens, a…
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From July 2 – August 1, Northpark Center is displaying an exhibit of various buildings in Downtown Dallas made entirely of Legos. These are HUGE models, many of which focus…
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I recently attended a press preview for The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. I especially wanted to see this show because it reminded…
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During the ten years that I was with Aurora Picture Show, I hosted at least 300 visiting artists, and gave almost that many tours of Houston. Like an old cabbie,…
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In the five years since the graduate school gates closed behind me with a tinny clatter (I’d like to say resounding clang, but really, it was more like a tinny…
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How could murderous African buffaloes have been cajoled into cow evolution? This steak shaped country where I was born even has a steer on its escudo [coat of arms]! How…
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It’s one thing to know that there are places on this planet that never get dark at certain times of year. It’s quite another thing to actually be somewhere where…
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Matthew Bourbon populates his paintings with figures handpicked from a variety of sources; viewing them is akin to channel surfing through the vast array of human folly available on late…
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Wura-Natasha Ogunjiis an Austin-based artist working in both tiny hand-stitched images on paper and giant mural-sized paintings. She was born in 1970 to a Nigerian father and an American mother. Ogunji…
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Where’s Maurizio? might be a more appropriate title for the Maurizio Cattelan exhibition at the Menil Collection. For the show, the Italian artist worked with the (recently-departed-for-LACMA) curator Franklin Sirmans…
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Dallas Artist Chapman Kelley, who asked the Dallas Museum of Art to sell his work back to him because he didn’t like the way it was displayed, sued the Chicago…
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When curator Alicia Ritson first watched Carta Abierta a Dr. Atl (An Open Letter to Dr. Atl) at the 2007 Venice Biennale, she knew right away she wanted to show…
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A friend sent me a youtube video What am I supposed to say to this? Am I to lament the unfortunate crossover appeal of black music and style creating a…
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“Tell your own story, and you will be interesting…”-LB I came to art pretty late in the game. As an undergraduate I transfered into the University of Washington and became…
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I come from a young family. I’ve been lucky enough to grow up with my mother’s parents playing a significant role in my life. When I was very young my…
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Jack Gron’s macabre, medieval-looking cast-metal toys include a wheelbarrow heaped with skulls, the chilling curves of a hydrogen bomb and a grinning death’s head that make three-dimensional the folly and…
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The great skill of The Yes Men, the political activist artist duo of Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum, lies in their capacity to deceive the deceivers by mimicking their dress,…