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By Matthew Bourbon on March 27, 2013
Former North Texas artist Matthew Metzger recently responded to Tête-à-Tête, offering some insight into his calculated and beautifully detailed paintings. Matthew lives and works in Chicago. He received his BFA [...]
Posted in Blog | Tagged art, contemporary art, matthew bourbon, painting, Tête-à-Tête |
By Matthew Bourbon on March 7, 2013
Alan Reid was one of my first students when I arrived to teach at the University of North Texas. Since he graduated, many years ago, [...]
Posted in Blog, Matthew Bourbon, Uncategorized | Tagged alan reid, art, artist's interview, contemporary art, italo calvino, matthew bourbon, Monica Vitti, Moritz von Oswald, painting |
By Matthew Bourbon on February 7, 2013
Todd Kelly and I once had studio spaces next to each other in graduate school. With the passing years I have watched his paintings [...]
Posted in Blog, Matthew Bourbon | Tagged abstract painting, art, contemporary art, matthew bourbon, painting, Tête-à-Tête |
By Janet Tyson on December 5, 2012
Dave Hickey recently announced his retirement from art criticism, citing his disgust with the circus that the art world—particularly the world of contemporary art—has become. He [...]
Posted in Reading Room, Uncategorized | Tagged art market, christianity, contemporary art, dave, Dave HIckey, hickey, religion |
By Rachel Hooper on July 6, 2012
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to assist with the jurying of Lawndale Art Center’s annual Big Show. I have volunteered for this event [...]
Posted in Blog, Wax by the Fire | Tagged art, contemporary art, Houston, Lawndale Art Center, lawndale big show, marco antonini, NURTUREart, Texas, Walter Hopps |
By Claire Ruud on June 19, 2012
About a year ago now, I published a series of articles introducing readers to some of the financial metrics consultants, academics, and others have used [...]
Posted in Blog, Claire Ruud | Tagged amoa-arthouse, art and business, attachment, austin, CAC New Orleans, contemporary art, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, emotional attachment, financial crisis, financial stability, fundraising efficiency, Louis Grachos, mismanagement, negligence, nonprofits, operating activities, rental income, revenue from investments, revenue sources, stability, turnover costs |
By Sarah Fisch on March 6, 2012
Basketball season brings out the aggrieved San Antonian in me. I am a Spurs fan, of course. Not a basketball enthusiast, necessarily, but a Spurs [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona, Uncategorized | Tagged amanda alejos, au naturale, Chupacabrona, chupacabrona tour, contemporary art, douglas clark, Glasstire, marilyn careen, mass media texas, mcallen, phillip field, rio grande valley, San Antonio, san antonio spurs, Sarah Fisch, south texas college, south texas identity, tom matthews, university of texas pan american |
By Rachel Hooper on February 24, 2012
In many ways, Nancy Zastudil was the inspiration for this series of interviews about sustainable practices. We worked together at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center [...]
Posted in Wax by the Fire | Tagged A+C Houston, andrea polli, Ariane Roesch, art, blaffer art museum, contemporary art, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, ISEA2012, nancy zastudil, pland, residency, sustainability, the lightning field |
By Rachel Hooper on February 19, 2012
There is a proliferation of exhibitions featuring abstract painting in Houston right now. Gallery Sonja Roesch, Sicardi Gallery, and Hiram Butler Gallery have group exhibitions [...]
Posted in Wax by the Fire | Tagged art, camh, contemporary art, devin borden gallery, G gallery, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, mfah, Moody Gallery, Sicardi Gallery, Wade Wilson Art |
By Rachel Hooper on February 11, 2012
It takes a lot of creativity to make a new idea happen and quite a bit of sacrifice to keep it going. Inspired by Glasstire’s [...]
Posted in Blog, Wax by the Fire | Tagged art, art criticism, contemporary art, robert boyd |
By Rachel Hooper on February 9, 2012
Josh Bernstein‘s exhibition “Man Corn” is the third exhibition in Rice University’s newest art venue– EMERGEncy Room. Located on the second floor of Sewall Hall, [...]
Posted in Wax by the Fire | Tagged art, Cabeza de Vaca, contemporary art, EMERGEncy room, galveston, Houston, josh bernstein, karankawa, man corn, rice university, rice university art, sculpture, woodcut |
By Rachel Hooper on February 4, 2012
Four years ago, Sasha Dela and Ariane Roesch opened a studio on an upper floor of an outdated and slightly ominous looking office building [...]
Posted in Wax by the Fire | Tagged adela andea, Ariane Roesch, art, Brian Piana, carl sudath, chin xaou ti won, chris akin, contemporary art, contemporary art houston, emily sloan, haden garrett, jim nolan, mary magsamen, nancy douthey, rachel hecker, sasha dela, Skydive, stephan hillerbrand, Terrell James |
By Claire Ruud on January 23, 2012
Long gone are the days when a CEO could simply cut a company check to his favorite charity. Now that it has become clear that [...]
Posted in Blog, Claire Ruud | Tagged art, arts organizations, contemporary art, corporate philanthropy, Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, Strategic CSR |
By Sarah Fisch on January 23, 2012
My former landlord in Williamsburg, Brooklyn—a sphinx-like Teutonic manchild who sublet me one of the ad-hoc drywall sleeping lofts in the colossal warehouse he leased [...]
Posted in Art Narc, Article, Feature, Uncategorized | Tagged bad art, Beuys, Chupacabrona, contemporary art, Glasstire, good art, landlord, New York, opossum, possum trap, Sarah Fisch, Stella, warehouse, Warhol, Williamsburg |
By Sarah Fisch on November 15, 2011
Hi again, Glasstire readers! This is what I think y’all look like: And also like this: Hello to you all. This December, I embark [...]
Posted in Blog, Chupacabrona | Tagged arts journalism, austin film festival, chupacabra, chupacabrona world tour, contemporary art, corpus christi, elizabeth avellan, Glasstire, harlingen, mariella sonam perez, multimedia journalism, rigoberto gonzalez, rio grande valley, road trip, roadrunner, Sarah Fisch, south texas underground film, stuf, Texas Art, texas film, USA Projects |
By Sarah Fisch on November 15, 2011
Hi again, Glasstire readers! This is what I think y’all look like: And also like this: Hello to you all. This December, I embark [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged arts journalism, austin film festival, chupacabra, chupacabrona world tour, contemporary art, corpus christi, elizabeth avellan, Glasstire, harlingen, mariella sonam perez, multimedia journalism, rigoberto gonzalez, rio grande valley, road trip, roadrunner, Sarah Fisch, south texas underground film, stuf, Texas Art, texas film, USA Projects |
By Sarah Fisch on November 2, 2011
My friend Rebecca watches ”RuPaul’s Drag U” with her six-year-old daughter, who’s a big fan. The six-year-old, her mother believes, doesn’t understand that Jujubee, Raven and [...]
Posted in Article, Review, Uncategorized | Tagged austin, CHRISTEENE, contemporary art, drag, Glasstire, Heyd Fontenot, Ivete Lucas, jason villegas, K8 Hardy, LGBT, libby black, noah simblist, Otis Ike, queer states, queer theory, Rupaul, Sarah Fisch, University of Texas, Visual Art Center, Wura-Natasha Oganji |
By Sarah Fisch on April 12, 2011
Since I titled this post thusly, I sort of want to write the whole thing in ALL CAPS FOR EMPHASIS. But I won’t. Hello! I’m [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona | Tagged austin, blogging, contemporary art, Glasstire, inferiority complex, Julie Andrews, majority-minority city, manifesto, Mexican culture, Plaza de Armas, rasquache, San Antonio, San Antonio art, San Antonio Current, Sarah Fisch, sharks, taqueria datapoint, Texas, Texas Monthly, the Alamo, the New School, the UNiversity of Texas at Austin, US demographic change, world's biggest cowboy boots |
