Brandon Zech talks with Glasstire’s new Editor-in-Chief, Gabriel Martinez, about what makes a good work of art, how music, writing, and art differ, and why artists should know art history.…
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The first installment in Glasstire's video and audio podcast series, Artist on Artist, in which Glasstire's News Editor Christopher Blay, also an artist, hosts Texas-based artists and art professionals in one-on-one conversations.
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The second installment of a series titled ‘Notes From Alabama Song.’ These are works by writers in relation to a 2018 series of shows appearing at the Houston art space Alabama Song.
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Maureen Penders and her photographs, for me, represent the multitudes that form an ambitious wave of Salvadoreñx/Salvadoran American art that both participates in and establishes a conversation for a Salvadoran American such as myself.
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This is the first post in a series of zine roundups where I pull some zines from my library—some old, some new, some from Texas and some from abroad—and give you the lowdown on who made them and what they’re about.
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Review
‘Friendly Fire’ at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston
by Betsy Hueteby Betsy HueteEven though this show opened three days before the election, it’s as if it anticipated the outcome—and it quietly poses questions about how to exist in this new dystopian paradigm.
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Today, September 17, is the second annual Comix Gauntlet at Houston art space Alabama Song. For seven hours today, a select group of artists will each create a seven-page comic from…
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News
Rauschenberg Foundation Expands SEED Program to Include Houston and Two Groups Win Big!
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe Rauschenberg Foundation’s SEED program is a combination of risk capital and value added support to early stage, groundbreaking projects in ten (non-NYC and L.A.) cities across the United States.…
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Today, April 9, Houston artist-run space Alabama Song and artist Charisse Weston will co-host the first event in their School of Experimental Work: Audio Visual Workshop Series. The series is open to the…
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Today, participation in the art world is akin to auditioning for American Idol; it’s no longer grounded in reality. What difference does it make if you do or don’t have an MFA degree?
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First, the good news about the Houston Fine Art Fair: Robert Pruitt was selected as 2013 Artist of the Year. Otherwise, HFAF came back for its third year—but it did so without some major Houston galleries and some early supporters.
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No alcohol, and no shoe-throwing: eighteen sweaty people listened as Geoff Hippenstiel talked teaching at the first Narrative Process at Alabama Song.
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BD: Did you approach any more formal venues with your idea? MF: They wouldn't have said yes. Why would they?
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BlogGlasstire
Oh Show Me the Way to the Next Blockbuster Show: Two Young Curators to Take Over One Young Art Space
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonOn July 26-27 Alabama Song will present the longest running exhibition ever to take place. 27 Houston artists, and, oh yeah, there will be an ice cream truck, too.
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In today’s installment, Houston artist Gabriel Martinez talks about trespassing, staking a claim for art, and making a scene.