I imagine that as a resident it would be difficult not to make work about Galveston. It’s a swirling black hole of beauty and charm and repulsion.
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Cynthia Macdonald, co-founder of the University of Houston’s creative writing program, died earlier this month of heart failure, reports William Grimes in yesterday’s New York Times. Macdonald had a varied…
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"Here's the deal: I'm hopeful that this will be awesome, but it could very well be a couple of people showing up in suits and doing a half-baked performance that's a social critique that doesn't really work.... Yes?"
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We are treated to what feels like an all-nighter fueled by an excessive intake of ecstasy and coke. You start out having fun, you imagine there is no one sexier than you are, and then hours later you’re crying blood.
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If you are in an area that hasn’t been hit by the horrible weather in the past couple of days, count yourself lucky, because the flooding and storms have whipped…
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GOURDS!! And punk's not dead. And despite appearances to the contrary, Christina and Rainey are not on safari.
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Daniel Atkinson is in charge of public programs and artists’ talks at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and tomorrow night at CentralTrak, artists and other interested parties can hear his take…
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As befits a young artist putting together her first museum show, which is also her second solo show, Debra Barrera gives it all she's got.
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Donnett's big, dimly lit black room is populated with objects heavy-laden with symbolism. Ominous and funerary.
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Today marks the beginning of this year’s Texas Contemporary art fair at Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center. For the fancy folks who shell out $100 for a preview pass,…
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At 9:22 a.m. on Friday, August 22, Houston artist and Glasstire contributor Carrie Marie Schneider used her access to Glasstire's website to insert a guerilla article.
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BlogGlasstireOp EdReview
Uncreative Writing: Kenneth Goldsmith and Christian Bök
by Betsy Hueteby Betsy HueteEmploying strategies of plagiarism, cut-and-paste, and a general denial of authorship, uncreative writers are less interested in actual writing than in curating words that are usually not their own. Because of this, most uncreative writing is, Goldsmith proclaims, unreadable.
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Why the phenomenal success of Mexico-City-based English expat Melanie Smith? Because her work approximates perfection.
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It’s been months now since Detroit filed for bankruptcy, provoking art world nervousness as many eyed the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), the second largest municipally-owned museum in the United…
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You may like them. You will see. You may like them in a tree!
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MFAH’s movie jukebox hosts a rarely-seen favorite of CAMH Director Bill Arning.
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GlasstireNews
Kiki Smith to Join UNT as this Year’s Artist-in-Residence
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonInternationally renowned sculptor/printmaker Kiki Smith will come to Denton this fall as the artist-in-residence for the University of North Texas Institute for the Advancement of the Arts in the 2013-14…
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There was something exciting about Houston’s annual Museum District Day and watching people make the ridiculous attempt to visit each and every participating museum in one (usually hot and steamy)…
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Using themselves and their bodies as inception, means and end to art production, Jonas and Pane's work is a precursor of today’s predilection for transforming private aspects of existence into spectacle.
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Crowdsourcing Museums: Can Big Donors, Curatorial Decisions, and Individual Artists Be Replaced?
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonNo one knew what it was until 2006, but now, everyone is getting in on it, even Texas museums.