After 27 years, The Blue Star Contemporary Arts Center is going museum. The Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum‘s programming won’t change- the primary motive appears to be adding the fillip…
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Glasstire contributors offer up their picks for the best spring shows around the state. Think we missed something great? Post it in the comments section below! AUSTIN Alison Kuo: Colorful…
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We arrived at Blue Star Thursday night to a performance of Justin Randolph Thompson’s Tossin’ the Rag as part of his exhibition Meet Me in the Bottoms. A rag doll was…
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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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Mind your Ps and Qs: my peeves and qualms about the Texas Contemporary Art Fair.
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Before the era of car bombs and IEDs, Icelandic-born sculptor Gudjon Bjarnason began using high explosives to create unorthodox shapes and forms in his work. He was looking for unexpected…
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Nuevo Laredo performs in San Antonio: Culo de Oro / The Golden Ass
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischMore fun than a Mexican whorehouse, and probably just as awful. I mean that in a good way.
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Escena San Antonio: Leigh Anne Lester rocks on, Cruz Ortiz as auteur, a visit from Houston curators
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischHere’s an interesting cross-section of San Antonio arts news. Now that I look at it, though, “escena” looks a little too much like “eczema” so I’m gonna call the next…
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Funny thing happened on the way to the Texas Biennial opening party at Arthouse. ...No, wait, I meant *at* the party.