Here are eight artist couples from across the state who've made work for each other, with each other, or about love.
Hillerbrand+Magsamen
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Brandon Zech, Christina Rees, and Christopher Blay walk you through the Texas shows they’re most excited about seeing, in person, this fall art season.
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Because HCCC has been closed since March, resident artists will participate virtually, through live artist talks, interviews, demos, and studio tours.
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Top Five
Top Five: May 7, 2020. Ways Artists Are Creating During The Great Lockdown of 2020
by Glasstireby GlasstireChristopher Blay is joined by artist Colette Copeland to chat about five ways artists, organizations and spaces continue to get their work in front of an audience during the pandemic shutdown.
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Drive By
Make an Entire Tiny Art Show at Big Medium With Hillerbrand+Magsamen
by Glasstireby Glasstire"I, _____ , acknowledge that Tiny Big Medium is a living and growing space which I must nurture and care for."
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Profile
An Interview with Hillerbrand + Magsamen About How to Survive the Coronavirus (One Device at a Time)
"Most recently, our project employs live performance and investigates how we can cope in a world that seems impossible."
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Top Five
Top Five: March 26, 2020. Our Top Five “Five-Minute Tours” (So Far…)
by Glasstireby GlasstireIt feels like it's been a long week! Brandon Zech and Christina Rees get a little meta, and run down their top five "Five-Minute Tour" videos of the past seven days.
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Brandon Zech and Christina Rees on a gorgeous spring show in the Rio Grande Valley, a family of evolving artists, and an intimate show of Luis Jiménez’s work that feels just right, right now.
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Texas women are getting some prestigious grants! (See yesterday’s news post.) The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has announced that Aurora Picture Show Curator Mary Magsamen has received…
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Last week, Glasstire reported that Texas artists Dario Robleto and Matthew Steinke both made the ArtPrize jurors’ shortlist. (ArtPrize is the international art competition held annually in Grand Rapids, Michigan that gives away more than $500,000…
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A deep interest in aliens is so much a part of our culture that we have movie after movie (not to mention television, novels, comic books…) enthralling us with stories of other worlds and extraterrestrial life.
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Rainey Knudson, Christina Rees, and Brandon Zech on the importance of a great installation, reaction shots, and a load of sad-but-gorgeous photographs.
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The University of Houston’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts has just announced the lineup for their third annual CounterCurrent festival, happening April 12-17. There will be multiple projects on…
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News
Just in Time for the Holidays: Art About Anxiety, Stress, and Neuroses
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe Houston Center for Photography (HCP) recently opened what seems to be a holiday show, Somewhere in the Balance (up through January 10th), for folks who have a hard time…
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Another Texas Contemporary Art Fair has come and gone. This one had its fair share of dogs, chairs, and shiny sculptures, but it also had some smart, intriguing work. Here are a…
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Hillerbrand+Magsamen, the Houston-based art couple who mine their house and family life for video and performance material, have installed their newest video work at Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport. The Houston Airport system and the City…
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Video works, installations and filmed performances from artists that both spaces have exhibited over the past few years are much more than a greatest hits montage.
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The Houston Arts Alliance has posted the names of the 24 recipients of it’s 2013 individual artist grants on its website. Chosen from among a field of just 79, the…
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Dallas art writer and collector June Mattingly’s new e-book The State of the Art: Contemporary Artists in Texas, is out-available for Nook, Kindle and iPad. Mattingly, a Dallas artworld fixture…
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Last weekend I went with a friend to a string of local openings. Some of the shows I saw I don’t even remember looking at, although I distinctly remember every…