Growing up in Austin, the Blanton was our reference during high school art history classes. Even spread across campus from the Harry Ransom Center to the Art Building, the collection…
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As of February 8th, I am stepping down as editor of Glasstire to pursue other projects. Some are creative and include more writing, some are (hopefully) lucrative. I love Glasstire…
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There has been a lot of excitement about painting in Houston this year, with Aaron Parazette’s In Plain Sight at McClain Gallery and a big exhibition planned for the CAMH’s…
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I headed down to Galveston last Friday to see “The Drawing Room, Part 2,” yet another fine offering from curator Clint Willour at the Galveston Art Center and to check…
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Drawings by eight Texas-based women artists, featuring drawings by Debra Barrera (Houston), Jillian Conrad (Houston), Bethany Johnson (Austin), Laura Lark (Houston), Jayne Lawrence (San Antonio), Leigh Anne Lester (San Antonio),…
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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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Helmut Newton at the MFAH: It’s Pretty…Pretty Vacant
by Laura Larkby Laura LarkI generally try to be objective and somewhat professional when writing an art review. I probably don’t do a very good job of it, but I try. I decided to…
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When I officially embarked upon YESQUEST 2011 (Where I’d say Yes! to everything), I just didn’t think…well, I just didn’t think. As I’ve spent the last few years in front…
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Lawndale Art Center presents four exhibitions featuring the work of Josephine Durkin, The Bridge Club, Hollis Cooper, and Mark Aguhar. Durkin investigates how materials and objects can be manipulated to…
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As Edgar Arceneaux and Nery Gabriel Lemus point out, the “Seventh House is…significant in astrology as the house of cooperation and opposition.” With this in mind, they co-curated Project…
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Patricia Hernandez’s Parody of Light opened last Friday at DiverseWorks. The show, an elaborate Thomas Kinkade spoof, got a ton of advance press, including a pick in GT’s Spring Preview.…
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Here they are, the shows we think you need to see, sorted by city. New Year, New Art — these are our picks for the best of the Spring. Enjoy!…
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On my first visit to Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage at the Menil Collection, I overheard a man behind me whispering to his companion. “You know,” he hissed, “this stuff…
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The pursuits of a contemporary artist, particularly one whose work is largely conceptual or not lucrative—often both—is a subject about which the general public has little understanding. Many MFA recipients…
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The Worst Piece of Art I Ever Made: The Best Piece of Art I Never Made
by Laura Larkby Laura LarkSince 1992, I’ve lived around the corner from a convenience establishment called Al Quick-Stop. It’s owned by Zak El Saadi, a rather handsome Lebanese man of whom I’ve always been…
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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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Celebrate the long-awaited release of BUFFET DVD #1, a compilation of video work organized around the theme of “Houston” by Sasha Dela, Kara Hearn and Kelly Pike, at DOMY Books…
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Houston-based artist collective BUFFET DVD launches its first video compilation! 16 video and performance artists from the likes of Lauren Kelley, Hilary Wilder, Laura Lark, Jonathan Durham, Cody Ledvina and Rachel Cook…
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“Buffet” Whets the Appetite “There’s slime in the ice machine” is a Houston saying made popular by the late TV personality Marvin Zindler, a white-suited, surgically-enhanced, makeup wearing investigative reporter…
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You don’t view a Marlene Dumas painting; you are confronted by it. Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave, her first North American mid-career survey (organized by MOCA LA in association…